Mark Stoops is on people's radar but anyone that is wanting to compete with Bama or Georgia in the SEC should realize he hasn't done that in 9 years at UK. He is currently a $5m coach at Kentucky so any school would have to pay him probably $7m+ to come there and he'd be expected to win 9 game seasons regularly where at Kentucky he can do it once every 3 years and they are ready to give him a lifetime contract.
That said, I don't think Kentucky should try to compete with any school to retain him. He probably deserves more money to be UK's coach but not at the numbers other schools would throw at him if he is their guy.
Just this year he finally implemented a passing game , and one year his offense was basically the wildcat, so his improvement came from hiring a very good OC and getting rid of his buddy Gran
He is pissed about the facilities at UK, they won't build him a dedicated practice facility - although he is meeting with the AD today and I suspect the AD is going to be much more agreeable to building it given his name is being kicked around as a desirable hire.
Last edited by KFWA; 11/29/21.
