By: LONNY DEMAREE
Mark Stoops is in a box in terms of coaching better and players playing better. There is a conundrum that they find themselves in of the fact that his offensive is not producing at the level that it takes to win in the SEC. In the previous years Stoops has not been given to hyperbole when expressing the destination of his team or his players. However, this pre-season Stoops put the BBN on 'Cloud Nine' with exemely expectations. Now they have gone from expectation to trepidation. What the next two games tell the BBN as to where and what the future looks like.
Stoops alluded to there being some philosophical things as one reason. He didn't put it to where the goats could could get it, but any football pundit can figure it out. He hired Rich Ssangarello from the San Francisco 49ers who brought the offensive line coach Zach Yenser with him. We think Stoops felt he had made a brilliant hire that could continue the tradition of the Big blue Wall and mix in some NFL passing game with Will Levis at the quarterback helm. Scangarello made some miscalculations on his offensive line thinking the Big Blue Wall would continue. After all he came from a run-heavy offense in San Francisco. He knew about the record setting Benny Snell and Chris Rodriquez on tap to break his record, four game suspension not withstanding.
UK's present situation with a detour from the Big Wall Wall produced questionable scoring opportunity consistensy. Yes, Chris recorded 162 non-chain moving rushing yards. Yards came hard between the tackles. Which brings me to the play calling. After UK having some early success moving the ball between the tackles, in 49er style, Scangarello went to the well to many times between the tackles. Tayvion Robinson ran an end around for 12-yards at the 6: 22 mark of the second quarter, almost breaking it for a much longer play.
The question is, after the halftime adjustments Vandy made to stop the inside runs, why wasn't the end around seen again. Again, the play calling was NFL style. We think Scangarello wasn't aware of how touch the SEC is week to week. If he is around for another year, I'm sure he will fit the offense more to a college style.
There were many things that went ary on this football team this season but we expect Stoops to fix it starting Saturday against Georgia. The Budogs are a 22-pooint favorite and the Cats need to keep the rout off of them.
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