We’ve already seen a talented WR recruit decommmit, current and former players express their frustration on social media, and a former WR coach express his opinions about the real problem with the offense on social media. The style of play won’t fit without the big blue wall and Kentucky is going to need to change its style of play to contend in the East. I think we all know the real problem here, but I do think it was time for Gran to go. We as Kentucky fans wanted 8-win seasons consistently when Stoops got here, and Kentucky has done nothing but that since Gran’s time here. Trust me, I have been aggravated plenty of times with it and have shouted some choice words from the stands. Now, there have been a lot of complaints over the past couple seasons about Gran’s odd, conservative play calling, and the “don’t lose” style of play when the Cats take a big leads, which has lost Kentucky plenty of games, and his inability to “open up” the offense. Bowden led the Cats to an 7-win regular season and a bowl victory over Virginia Tech. Then, maybe Gran’s best accomplishment at Kentucky, he took Lynn Bowden, a QB turned WR at Kentucky, and once again made him a QB. He was really successful, until his injury. Gran had to come up with a new gameplay for incoming transfer Sawyer Smith, who had never played a down of SEC competition.

The next season, Wilson was injured in the second game of the year and ruled out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL.

Then Terry Wilson took over in 2018 and led Kentucky to a 10-win season. He had a promising QB in Drew Barker, who shined against Southern Miss in a new system, then he got hurt and Gran had to adjust to a completely different QB in Stephen Johnson, who was pretty successful in his time at Kentucky.

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