[honestjchsfan]

Over the last 50 years, Fran Curci, Jerry Claiborne and Rich Brooks are the only 3 head coaches with a better win percentage. UK football is and has been that bad for years. Between Curci and Claiborne, they have a combined bowl record of 1-2.

Rich Brooks elevated the program to new heights in his last 4 years. Joker is no worse than any other terrible coach that UK has had. His problem is injuries and that he followed the best UK football coach since Bear Bryant.

I totally disagree with everything that you have wrote here. First of all Rich Brooks was a good coach but he was not even close to Blanton Collier as a football coach, Collier was 76-34-2 with the Browns winning a NFL title ,Don Shula and Chuck Knox, are just a couple of coachs who learned the trade under Collier. Plus, Collier had winning record when he was fired from UK. Second your stats about Curci and Claiborne's bowl record are wrong, they were a combined 2-1 in Bowls games: (note it was much harder to go to a bowl game in that era). Finally Joker took over a UK football program that had been to 4 bowl games in a row, when Curci and Claiborne took over UK was total rebuilding job. Curci got caught doing what every other coach in the SEC was doing, Claiborne was a great Defensive coach who simply couldn't recruit the depth he needed to win in the SEC mostly because the state of Kentucky was way behind other SEC states in the leval of high school Football played. Claiborne beat every team in the SEC other than Bama in his time at UK and while at Maryland Claiborne developed Randy White into a Star and NFL Hall-of-Famer. Comparing Joker to Claiborne as X & O football coachs is like comparing Einstein to my Coon Dog! Claiborne was a Defensive master at UK, taking much less talented teams and stopping powerful SEC teams, UK was subject to beat anyone in the SEC when Claiborne was Coach. Plus Claiborne's last team at UK was 6-5 and sadly didn't get invited to a bowl game. Anyone who has watched Joker's teams can see that he has no clue to what he is doing! Putting Newton out there today is a perfect example of this, might as well put Newton's little brother the DT out there, I heard he could throw it better!