[BlackcatAlum]

Only thing I'm surprised about is the just how soft the defensive line was. All spring and camp we heard about how good that group was going to be. Tonight, they got manhandled all over the field. WKU backs had HUGE holes to run through.

Anyone who has kept up with this team this off-season knew that the secondary was going to be bad, and they where, but those are freshman and a JUCO guy out there against actual D1 players for the first time. Defense missed a TON of tackles tonight also. But that's something that is correctable. May not happen in a week or two weeks, but it's something that can be fixed during the season.

Offensively - Whitlow is not the quarterback we where looking for. Smith is the guy that needs to be running this offense. Using Whitlow as a wildcat formation guy is a good idea, but he can't operate that offense as well as Smith can.

As for the offensive line, they where hit or miss. They did well at times, but struggled with what the WKU defense threw at them at times too, plus the false start penalties were killers.

WKU is really good. Petrino can flat out coach and you could tell that he really wanted this game and that he'd been game planning for this one for quite sometime. His players where much more ready than UK's.

Western also had way more talent than UK. Don't know of one player on UK's roster that could start over someone on WKU's. And that falls on Joker and the previous staff. Brooks left Joker with a foundation to build on and Joker couldn't do anything with it. He was in over his head.

Stoops and company can do something here at UK. They have a laid out plan and it'll probably be a few seasons before UK can actually compete with the likes of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, etc.

BBN just needs to be patient and realize that you can't flip a 2-10 team to a 5 or 6 win team in a conference like the SEC in just 9 months.