Pat Washington to Kentucky?

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65YearsAVol

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Washington indeed is the guy. It's difficult to hire top-shelf when the head coach is on the hot seat, and at Kentucky, where football success has been limited. Why take a risk when you're likely only to be there for a year?
 
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BigPapaCat said:
Not that I hate joker. But honestly, if we do bad next year...he's gotta go.
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I understand totally. Kentucky fans are just as passionate about winning as any team in the country. I wouldn't mind seeing you guys win every football game next year except one. :)
 
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The schedule next year works against Joker - the offense needs to show signs of improvement. I'm hopeful that Max Smith will continue to work in the offseason, he and Towels will make each other work and get better and hopefully we can stay relatively injury free in the RB position. The bigger question next year will be on the other side of the ball, losing Guy and Travathen may have bigger impacts than just at their position...I'd be happy with 6 wins next year but it may not happen.
 
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ukvols said:
I heard that Rupp went to the university president and told him the campus wasn't big enough for two hugely successful coaches, so Bear was let go.
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Bryant was not let go. He left on his own. There's no doubt that 2 larger than life personalities on the same campus might have caused friction, but the fact is that they were close friends to the death.

The cigarette lighter/Cadillac story is fiction. Bryant left UK 3 years before Rupp received a Cadillac- a gift from boosters to honor his 25 years of service to UK.

Primarily,

A change in UKAA policy handcuffed Bear's recruiting, stating that he could only recruit 5 out-of-state players every year- which essentially would hamstring his ability to recruit effectively. Most agree that this was a knee-jerk reaction to the basketball scandals of the time, and the UKAA felt that "scaling back athletics" would be beneficial to the athletic culture at UK. I wouldn't blame Bryant for leaving for that reason alone. Kentucky never produced more than a handful of D1-caliber recruits every year.

Then there persists the stories that Bear was a skirt chaser in Lexington, and that he chased the wrong skirt, wife of a politician....
 
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