Mark Stoops is looking for answers to solve Kentucky's self-inflicted mistakes

Vanderbilt is currently one of the hottest teams in college football at the moment, but Kentucky left Kroger Field on Saturday night feeling like the Wildcats beat themselves. There is certainly enough evidence to support that theory.

Bush Hamdan‘s offense created five scoring opportunities in seven non-kneel possessions and scored just 13 points. Kentucky’s 12 penalties also had a lot to do with the final results. Personal fouls, false starts, and illegal blocks directly kept points off the scoreboard. Mark Stoops told the media on Monday that the loss was “frustrating on a lot of levels”. Kentucky is now looking for answers heading into a Week 8 contest on the road against Florida.

“Very frustrating. No excuse for it. Things we have to get corrected and we gotta take a good hard look at ourselves and why we are doing that. Not so much blaming the individuals who made the mistakes but why,” Mark Stoops explained. “Why are we doing these things? And why do we do them in critical moments in certain games? That’s what we’ve gotta get figured out.”

“It’s not like always who, it’s why. Why are we doing these things? That’s my issue. And how can we get it corrected?”

Frustrations are building at the Joe Craft Football Training Facility. Mark Stoops is looking for answers after a second home performance this season where Kentucky was a two-possession favorite and left the stadium feeling they played awful.

“There’s a very thin line between success and failure,” Stoops said. “We are definitely shooting ourselves in the foot.”

Kentucky is again back to the drawing board as some more self-inflicted adversity has hit the program.