9 wins sounds good but which losses would you turn into wins?
UCONN, UK?
It certainly wouldnt have been the 55-17 blowout against USF, Wouldnt have been the loss to WVU since we couldnt stop Pat White.
Syracuse whipped us pretty good even though Brohm kept it close and so did Utah with their #2 back having a career rushing day on our defense.
So the close game to UK would have been won by the genius of Petrino?
Any number of things could have caused that game to turn out differently, like on UK's winning drive covering a reciever down the sidelines on a pass play would have helped.
Do you really think that's the position the coaches put those players in?
I'd hardly call a blown assignment a coaching gaff. At some point you have to let the players play the game, cut the cord and occasionally their guys are going to make plays & our guys are going to guess wrong.
Kragthorpe may not be the coach U ofL needs but I think as we can all see Petrino didnt leave Kragthorpe the shiny Bently in the driveway we thought was there.
The defense did make some improvements but it still wasnt a 9-3
Sure we had Brohm, we also had Urrutia who barely showed up this year, he and Brohm sure looked good last year.
Allen scored 13 TD's last year, he seemed to be hurt most of the year. Bolen isnt a feature back to carry our running game.
Our TE's seemed on a fast pace early in the year, they sure got cooled off at the end.
I'd be more willing to give Kragthorpe another year than start a coaching search all over again.
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Last edited by bling49; 11-20-2007 at 02:25 PM.
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