This game was a story of lost opportunities. If ’Bama does what its supposed to do, it would be 24-0 at halftime. If Kentucky does what its supposed to do, it would be 7-7 at halftime.

I expected our offense to be one-dimensional and woeful. I expected our defense to keep us in fighting distance. I expected ‘Bama to not be too serious about the game, and let us hang around. I didn’t expect the amount of silly, stupid, drive-killing penalties.

The outcome is best for Kentucky. ’Bama gets the win, but faces a week of “are they tough enough” talk, and Kentucky gets some positive press for playing so tough in Tuscaloosa.

Y’all are going tumble a few giants this year. Too many penalties from both teams, too many turnovers from both teams. It wasn’t a beautiful game from either side, but you guys deserve all the credit in the world. Good luck the rest of the way!

After cooling off the disapointment of losing the game I feel great about the game. Tru, I think this game takes the Cats forward in a big way and hopefully you will get over your “unhappy” feeling and look at how well we did except, of course, Seiber – his performance(?) is not worth mentioning. Yes, Bama controlled the line of scrimmage but not consistently. The Tide rolled up a lot of yards rushing but only had one rushing touchdown to show for it. Let’s say we trade the Hartline fumble for the Tide freak fumble inside the five and trade out the interceptions (although, ours hurt us more than theirs). We stood up to Bama better than anyone so far this year and did it in their own backyard. When you look at room for improvement, Kentucky has plenty. The anemic rushing game will find its legs but Hartline is looking better each week and considering it is his first year I think he should be commended for continuing to lead the team in a hostile environment even after that bonehead drop. John David Booty, er, John Parker Wilson (these triple names kill me) didn’t look particularly world class and that was true for much of the Bama offense and defense. The game of “ifs” include limiting the TD run by Coffee to a 10 yard gain, a couple of missed interception opportunities and missed pass completions (as usual) would color the game in a different outcome. With regard to near interceptions, I wish they had a stat for it – Kentucky almost had a few and I don’t know if Bama almost had any – an indication of quarterback inaccuracy. Granted, they had an off night but I think much more of that is due to Kentucky than is being credited. When you look at both teams, where they are today, the potential for improvement (especially offensively) I strongly believe at the end of the season the Cats would take care of Bama. I saw flashes of a much better team during this game – a great catch in traffic by Grinter, reciever downfield blocking, defensive intensity on every play and much more. This game as a loss will help keep Kentucky just under the radar, but I’m afraid each week the “Cat” will be out of the bag. There’s not a team we will play that we shouldn’t beat, especially TOBC.
A couple of strange play calls and I wish they would have rolled the pocket a little more but I salute Brooks, the staff and team for doing themselves proud.
………and that’s the view through these rose colored glasses.

….y’all looked very solid on defense and we’re very happy to escape. Good luck the rest of the way.

In many ways, I feel the same way after this game as I did after the basketball team lost @ Knoxville against UT last year. Both games were against superior opponents and few experts gave the Cats a chance to emerge victorious. Nevertheless the Cats fought hard only to come up so tantalizingly and frustratingly close.

This sucks.

P.S. I have a very, very hard time thinking Alabama is the second best team in the country. Their offense looked rather pedestrian and Kentucky offensive ineptitude largely due to a terribly called game by Joker Phillips), probably contributed more to Alabama’s defensive successes than anything. And do we need to mention Alabama’s special teams?

My comment about Seiber hating Kentucky was a bad attempt at humor. Of course he doesn’t hate UK — he just made a mistake in a never-ending stream of them so far this year. The kid is having a bad year, and that happens all the time. Hopefully, it will turn around for him.

At least he didn’t drop the football and cost us seven points (I’m looking at you, Mike Hartline). For the life of me, I can’t figure that out. Hartline has done that three times this year, twice giving up touchdowns. If I were Rich Brooks, I’d have to look for answers to that one from the genie in a bottle of Jim Beam. Jeez.

Bama hurt itself over and over with penalties and missed field goals. UK’s offense consisted of 3 big plays and that was about it. I think the score is much closer than the game actually was.

UK didn’t help themselves with penalties, dropped passes and turnovers either,