[dangerousdaneerfan]

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.

But UK is in the SEC!!!! That should get a boatload of recruits to play vs Florida, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, SCar, et al.

I know two former WVU coaches that are available right now. In fact, Rich Fraud had UK on his radar before Barnhart made Joker HCIW.