Opening Weekend

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yea, but you don't have andre woodson.

That's right, we have Randall Cobb, Locke, La'Rod King and a couple of good back-ups. A greatly improved Hartline, and a couple of new faces on the defense stepping up.

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That's right, we have Randall Cobb, Locke, La'Rod King and a couple of good back-ups. A greatly improved Hartline, and a couple of new faces on the defense stepping up.

Losses at florida, auburn, south carolina, georgia, miss state, and tennessee.

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Losses at florida, auburn, south carolina, georgia, miss state, and tennessee.

Auburn: HOME
South Carolina: HOME
Georgia: HOME

Did you actually watch the UofL game or are you going off of what little info ESPN is showing?

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It is the SEC, look at Florida and Bama, look at how many cupcake games they have. Florida played WKU. UK has a LEGITIMATE chance to do some damage this year, Akron, WKU, Miss. St., Tenn, Vandy, Ole Miss, Charleston Southern (Biggest cupcake). I think we could maybe pull out South Carolina and Georgia, after all, those are home games, and I think Auburn is a long shot but you never know. Those that I listed first give UK 8, if we get lucky with S.Car or Georgia, that is nine. We have some good players this year, a veteran offense and a talented defense.

You're also smoking a large quantity of crack if you believe what you're saying.   I understand you're a fan, but jesus, at least use some relevance with it.   

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Auburn: HOME
South Carolina: HOME
Georgia: HOME

Did you actually watch the UofL game or are you going off of what little info ESPN is showing?

I'm going on being a fan of SEC (Tenn.) football for the better part of 28 years, you?   ESPN is about as accurate as the Military Channel.   Lorenzen was supposed to be "the answer" to UK's program, just like Cobb.   

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Purdue lost to Notre Dame 23-12.  Our defense got faked out on every handoff and froze, letting their runner gash us for 10+ yards every time.  Their QB never kept it, but we (Purdue) still got faked and never learned.  That was the most disappointing part imo.  

On the bright side, our new QB looks very good, never threw a bad pass, only threw INTs when pressing and none of them were "bad" picks.  All the short to medium range throws were right on target, and he was outstanding with his accuracy on the move.  Also our "low-talent" senior RB, who was third on the depth chart going in to the spring, and when he was recruited was supposed to "never actually see the field", looked much better than expected.

Considering most teams are playing cupcakes at home, and we played a much better coached (than any time since Ty imo) ND team on the road, I'm still convinced Purdue will win 8 games and make a fairly decent bowl game this year.

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Auburn: HOME
South Carolina: HOME
Georgia: HOME

Did you actually watch the UofL game or are you going off of what little info ESPN is showing?

final score of the UofL game was 23-16, not impressive.

doesn't matter since their at home, those three times still have more talent in their 2nd and 3rd strings than kentucky.

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Lmao, you guys are acting like I just said UK was a national title contender.

Look, I haven't seen ESPN do ANYTHING on either Cobb or Locke. Hell, local news barely does anything on them. But really, Is it too far fetched to think that UK couldn't win against Miss St? Vols, maybe not, but seriously, they kinda suck this year. I know our showing at UofL wasn't spectacular, but we have the players to at LEAST get 7-6. Charleston Southern, Vandy, UofL, WKU, AKRON, and toss up Auburn, S.Car or tenn and who knows? I'm just saying.

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Purdue lost to Notre Dame 23-12.  Our defense got faked out on every handoff and froze, letting their runner gash us for 10+ yards every time.  Their QB never kept it, but we (Purdue) still got faked and never learned.  That was the most disappointing part imo.  

On the bright side, our new QB looks very good, never threw a bad pass, only threw INTs when pressing and none of them were "bad" picks.  All the short to medium range throws were right on target, and he was outstanding with his accuracy on the move.  Also our "low-talent" senior RB, who was third on the depth chart going in to the spring, and when he was recruited was supposed to "never actually see the field", looked much better than expected.

Considering most teams are playing cupcakes at home, and we played a much better coached (than any time since Ty imo) ND team on the road, I'm still convinced Purdue will win 8 games and make a fairly decent bowl game this year.

  Losing half the offense and defense didn't help. The talent is there, just not in the right places right now. How bout the Big 10 getting Nebraska? And Purdue gets to be Iowa's protected rival next year.

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Lmao, you guys are acting like I just said UK was a national title contender.

Look, I haven't seen ESPN do ANYTHING on either Cobb or Locke. Hell, local news barely does anything on them. But really, Is it too far fetched to think that UK couldn't win against Miss St? Vols, maybe not, but seriously, they kinda suck this year. I know our showing at UofL wasn't spectacular, but we have the players to at LEAST get 7-6. Charleston Southern, Vandy, UofL, WKU, AKRON, and toss up Auburn, S.Car or tenn and who knows? I'm just saying.

They WON'T is the real focus here.   They "suck" this year?   I'll remember that when you lose by 4+ TD's.   Only thing you have going for you is Eric Berry left, but they always have someone step up every year.   

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umm, alabama does not have a cupcake season. our last 6 sec game have a week off before they play us, and we play florida and penn state.
can someone say hardest schedule in the nation? and dont say the stats from the san jose game. we started playing our third string in the second quarter.

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  Losing half the offense and defense didn't help. The talent is there, just not in the right places right now. How bout the Big 10 getting Nebraska? And Purdue gets to be Iowa's protected rival next year.

The QB should be really good unless they've been making stuff up this whole offseason, the receivers have talent tho only one has experience.  That's a pretty good start.  Main problem is if you can't stop the run or pass, you're in trouble, and we didn't stop the run, and our secondary is ALL new.

As for Iowa, didn't their QB just get hurt?  What's that situation?  My opinion on Iowa as the protected rival is that its bad short term, as Iowa is good right now, but it should be good long term, as Iowa is by no means a traditional contender... they are usually happy, like Purdue, to be middle of the pack.

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Excellent.... It has begun...

umm, alabama does not have a cupcake season. our last 6 sec game have a week off before they play us, and we play florida and penn state.
can someone say hardest schedule in the nation? and dont say the stats from the san jose game. we started playing our third string in the second quarter.

They WON'T is the real focus here.   They "suck" this year?   I'll remember that when you lose by 4+ TD's.   Only thing you have going for you is Eric Berry left, but they always have someone step up every year.   

   Losing half the offense and defense didn't help. The talent is there, just not in the right places right now. How bout the Big 10 getting Nebraska? And Purdue gets to be Iowa's protected rival next year.

Let it continue. Use your anger, it gives you focus.... makes you stronger... 

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The QB should be really good unless they've been making stuff up this whole offseason, the receivers have talent tho only one has experience.  That's a pretty good start.  Main problem is if you can't stop the run or pass, you're in trouble, and we didn't stop the run, and our secondary is ALL new.

As for Iowa, didn't their QB just get hurt?  What's that situation?  My opinion on Iowa as the protected rival is that its bad short term, as Iowa is good right now, but it should be good long term, as Iowa is by no means a traditional contender... they are usually happy, like Purdue, to be middle of the pack.

Ricky Stanzi QB went out for 7 plays when his knee buckled under him. Gave us all a flashback moment to last year. But he is all right unless it swells up on him. I think Iowa and Purdue ended up w/each other because all the other protected rivals were already picked. Most people here were going Huh? Purdue?         Hang in there Purdue will be back in the hunt before you know it.

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BUMP

How 'bout now?

I think aside from our Special teams play and one or two things on our defense, we're a pretty good team this year (UK).

I thought South Carolina played well, and I think Alabama played extremely well.

Go SEC! I predict either Bama or Florida will go to Arizona, play the National Champ game against Ohio State, and clobber them... Maybe in a few years, OH St.