We're just a few weeks from college football.

The Kentucky Wildcats coach, Mark Stoops, says his team needs to keep improving and move to the next level.

Stoop has been with the team 12 seasons and the Cats have been to eight consecutive bowl games at SEC Media days and Dallas Stoops says that's not enough.

Where we're at the margin for error.

We have to make the best of every situation.

And, you know, there's been some consistency.

I appreciate Greg just mentioning the fact, like, you know, we have been to eight straight bowl games.

There's only eight teams in the country have done that.

I think only two in the SEC besides us, Alabama and Georgia and, of course, Oklahoma, who's, you know, hasn't been in the league, but they've done it as well.

But that's not nothing.

But but we want to improve.

You know, and that's the message with the team.

Ultimately, we got to get better.

We got to find a way to make those plays in critical moments to push us over the top.

You know, we're not interested in just existing.

I'm not here.

I'm not coaching.

I'm not back for the 12 years just to teach to exist.

You know, we want to find a way to improve.

Use these rules, whatever it is to, you know, to to, you know, make changes to to make that jump to get to the next level.

It's extremely challenging.

I don't have to tell you all that either.

Been covering the SCC for a long time.

It's extremely challenging, but it takes, you know, us, you know, individually, personally, every day, you know everybody every day to do the little things to help us get to the next point.

And the other thing is, is we're stronger together.

I've listened to some of the talk or, you know, some of the speakers, some of the coaches, but ultimately every coach that gets up here in some form or fashion talks about the culture of our program, what we want, what we're looking for, the unselfishness.

We know the world that we're in.

We all are getting used to it.

We all are adapting to it.

But but we want to be extremely demanding and we want selfless players and we want to play better for each other.

Kentucky's football season began Saturday, August the 31st.

The team takes on the southern Miss Golden Eagles at Kroger Field in Lexington.