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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 05-16-2015, 09:10 AM:

Stoops has his ducks in a row and will have the Cats ready to start turning the program around this season.

Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said earlier this week that the consistency his team had impressed him more than anything about UK’s recent spring practice.

“I felt like we got a lot of good work in and improved. Excited about moving forward and having a great summer and getting bigger and stronger and getting in shape leading into fall camp,” said Stoops.

He knows it will be “very difficult” to replace first-round NFL draft pick Bud Dupree on defense.

“He was a very good player, very instinctual. For us it's hard to replace right away. We'll have to do that by committee and get some guys going quite a bit,” Stoops said. “Overall, I'm pleased with where we're headed defensively. I think it's fairly well noted that we transitioned from a 4-3 to a 3-4 over the last year and a half and as we settle down and get experience within that system, we're more and more comfortable I think.

"Coach (D.J.) Eliot has done a great job with really settling in on exactly who we want to be defensively and what we want to do and kind of building from that with the personnel we have on our team and overall, I just feel like we're a deeper unit. We're more experienced. I think we're getting better in the secondary.

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[ 05-16-2015, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: catmandoo ]

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 05-20-2015, 09:51 AM:

We just need to upgrade our talent level to the point we can become a force in the SEC.