Mark Stoops basks in the shade of one of college football’s most lucrative and secure jobs.
At Kentucky, Stoops is not expected to produce national titles or conference championships. In the division era, he was not expected to win the SEC East or beat Georgia or Tennessee.
Just keep Big Blue Nation entertained until basketball heats up. Seven wins and a trip to the Gator Bowl will do just fine, thank you kindly.
This side of the golden parachute, it doesn’t get much better. Or, so I thought, anyway.
Stoops, in a recent interview with 247Sports, made it sound like he’s toiling in misery.
Stoops belittled Kentucky’s NIL efforts and said he’s so busy gladhanding and fundraising, he can hardly find time to coach.
“I get no help. None,” Stoops said during the interview.
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Stoops might consider this a plea for assistance, but trashing Kentucky and its NIL operative makes Stoops’ job harder.
Most coaches worry about their adversaries criticizing them on the recruiting trail or exaggerating the negatives about a particular school while they try to steer recruits away from a rival and toward their school. This practice is known as negative recruiting.
Lately, no one negatively recruits Kentucky more than Stoops.
Let’s review some of his actions in the past year:
∎ He described Kentucky fans as cheapskates and told them to “pony up” more money if they wanted him to beat better opponents.
∎ He flirted with the Texas A&M job before the Aggies shot down a trial balloon.
∎ He’s lost six of his past eight games.
∎ He trashed Kentucky’s NIL operation and claimed he’s too busy schmoozing to coach the way he’d like.
Stoops, 57, talks like a man who’s tired of Kentucky and set his sights on either replacing Kirk Ferentz at Iowa, his alma mater,…
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Author : The Courier Journal
Publish date : 2024-07-28 10:04:45
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