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So you honestly think beefing up the schedule and going 4-8 with no bowl would get better players? I did say the shortfall is the coaching and recruting budget. UK does not have a big time coach and they give the recruiting budget chump change. Investing money brings better players.

SG, I don't think you have read my past posts. I absolutely mean beef up the schedule, but what you have not taken from my posts, is that I am not suggesting to beef up the competition.

Do you honestly think that putting BCS conference schools Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia, Rutgers, Indiana, Northwestern is beefing up the schedule. My argument is these teams are probably as bad as Akron, WKU or any of the other non-conference teams that UK plays. My argument is about building the Strength of Schedule points. If UK played any of those teams that I mentioned, they would have beaten them just as bad as they did Akron or WKU. Those points on the schedule is what gets you better bowls. Just look at the bowl list and see that teams playing in those better non-BCS bowls had records similar to UK.

Not only do wins against BCS conference schools increase your points tremendously, it gives your kids real confidence. Maybe enough confidence to beat an SEC team like UT. But you and I both know that playing an Akron does nothing for your program. Beating Indiana is not making first five minutes of ESPN highlights, but at least it makes highlights somewhere in the broadcast. Not Akron.

Bottom-line, something has to change, because this program has topped out. If you repeat what you always do, you will always get the same results.