[Stardust]

Firing Joker Phillips won't solve the real problem with UK football. It's hard to win in college football's most competitive and best conference if you're losing recruits to Louisville, Cincinnati, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, and Tennessee, especially in-state recruits.

Second, UK can have a wishlist of coaching candidates, but what makes UK think they can persuade coaches who've turned down offers to coach at Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Florida, and other top-tier football programs to come coach at UK? They need to find a coach that is or was winning at mid-tier programs like Sumlin from Houston, Callahan from Air Force, or as of today, Stoops from Arizona. Either way, they need someone from outside the program.

However, I think Phillips will turn out just fine. Every coach has a bad year sometimes, especially when they just took over a program recently.

Great post. I'm a realist and know that getting a top level coach to come to UK is out of the question, but to settle, and that is EXACTLY what they did with Joker is, well, a Joke! It's selling the program that gets recruits, and that means that you have to put a "Salesman" into the coaching box! Everyone knows that I disdain CAL, but the one thing that you cannot deny is that the man could sell Ice Water to Eskimo's. For the football program, I don't need Urban Meyer, because there is no chance of getting Urban Meyer. But find an individual with a dynamic personality, one who is excited and can LEAD! I don't care about his X's and O's (CAL has none of those traits), let the head coach fill his staff with the brains to put the plan together on the field. We can get those recruits to come to UK that we lose to the school you mentioned, but only from someone who can make those recruits believe that they would be part of something special! Right now, our head coach is so boring that if he didn't have the name Joker, I wouldn't even know his name!