We have heard Mark Stoops use a lot of words to describe losses over his 13 years in Lexington. "Frustrating." "Sloppy." "Unacceptable."
But on Saturday night in Nashville, after watching his team get dismantled 45-17 by Vanderbilt, Stoops used a word that should send a chill down the spine of every Kentucky fan: "Discouraging."
"Discouraging performance by us and, uh, you know, not very good," Stoops said bluntly to open his press conference. "We weren't very good."
They were terrible, there is no way to sugarcoat just how embarrising this was.