Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops talks transfer portal, recruiting
University of Kentucky head football coach Mark Stoops says “having a few resources helps” when getting players through the transfer portal.
Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops is the winningest coach in program history but is under pressure to improve on last season’s 4-8 record.UK AD Mitch Barnhart acknowledges the importance of a successful college football program for revenue generation, particularly in the era of NIL and revenue sharing.
LEXINGTON — Kentucky football can’t afford another bad year without making a change at head coach.
Coach Mark Stoops has had the most successful tenure in program history. He’s raised the expectations and established a standard for what UK can be.
But after a 4-8 record last season and, on paper, a schedule in which they may only be favored in four games this season, the Cats are in danger of losing all the momentum Stoops built in his run to eight straight bowl games.
The tipping point is going to be defining what bad is to Kentucky athletics director Mitch Barnhart, who spoke to reporters Friday in essentially his state of athletics address ahead of the Wildcats’ football media day.
A losing season on the surface is not good, but in and of itself, may not be all it takes to facilitate a head coaching change.
“I’m not going to sit here and say it’s this number of wins, it’s this number of things,” Barnhart said. “We’re not, not doing that. I’ve never done that, and so I’m not going to start doing that now.”
Most of this dynamic isn’t particularly new to Barnhart. Entering his 24th season at UK, he is the second-longest-tenured athletics director in the nation and will become the longest when Oklahoma’s Joe Castiglione retires at the end of the school year.
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