Will Stein

So it may just be that in that moment, he's not that good at it.

Because he was, when Will Stein was there, considered to be a good game planner and a good addition to the game plan and good at that, you know, scheming it up during the week.

But you can be good at scheming it up during the week, and then when the clock is ticking and you need to call a play...

Do

Why the hell not? You know what? I've gotten to the point

where I – I wouldn't be surprised if Will Stein just never lost a football game ever again.

He's a winner.

Winners win.

what would you have? You have Deshaun Bishop and an awesome defense.

Jim Knowles.

Don't look at Jim Knowles' stats versus Will Stein.

You're not going to like it, buddy.

Dan Lane is hired.

Kenny Dillingham and Will Stein, who's doing a great job in Kentucky.

He's hired a corner.

It did not work this year.

Bill Belichick is a top 10 highest paid college coach right now in college football.

You have teams like Kentucky and UCLA having their teams in playoff contention when they hire Bob Chesney and Will Stein and North Carolina.

They are paying.

for championship results.

You're Bill bleeping Belichick.

Fix it and fix it right now, right?

Yeah, Bob Chesney and Will Stein weren't at their schools this time last season.

Right, there you go.

Bill Belichick is a top 10 highest paid college coach right now in college football.

You have teams like Kentucky and UCLA having their teams in playoff contention when they hire Bob Chesney and Will Stein and North Carolina.

They are paying.

for championship results.

You're Bill bleeping Belichick.

Fix it and fix it right now, right?

Yeah, Bob Chesney and Will Stein weren't at their schools this time last season.

Right, there you go.

And this year... 7-0, everybody's talking about Chesney.

Everybody's talking about Will Stein, the first-year coaches that just exploded onto the scene.

But, you know, UCLA's schedule to me is really interesting.

Like, I'm not saying, like, Arkansas, not even close to saying this, that Arkansas would win seven straight games against this schedule.

And in the SEC, it's hard to have success running the football, especially when a lot of teams know that Your quarterback's strength seems to be that he's better running the ball than he is throwing it.

And not every first-year rebuild is going to look like Curt Cignetti or what Will Stein is currently doing at Kentucky.

The thing with Auburn is that...

You had to lose a lot of players this offseason.

Why can't you do it in one or two or three years? Now, that can be pretty toxic, can be a lot of pressure, but when it works, it's a whole lot of fun.

Will Stein in Kentucky, it's working in year one.

Now, in the preseason, I was incredibly high on Kentucky relative to the market, relative to what most people were saying.

I got kind of laughed off for, which is fair, right? When you make a prediction like, yeah, I think Kentucky can beat Alabama, which I know they didn't do, but I think Kentucky can win a whole lot of games, right? I think they can be incredibly competitive in year one.

I think Will Stein has this Kentucky team really play a different brand of football, maybe competing in the SEC in year one.

That's a little bit outlandish.

And even in the same breath, I had them going seven and five.

Georgia is 6-1 overall, so they have that edge.

Like, look at Chesney.

Look at Will Stein.

Like, immediate turnarounds.

Coaching does matter.

Yeah, and the Will Stein one is particularly well-made.

It's basically, even though the Lions have righted the ship in the NFL, it has a lot of shades of like Ben Johnson leaving Detroit, right, where Will Stein leaves Oregon now, sitting there at 4-3, just fired their offensive coordinator, and Kentucky sits alone atop the SEC.

It's amazing the impact that a good game-day coach can have in this new era.

All right.