Kentucky coach Mark Stoops says UK is far better than the record indicates. (Vicky Graff Photo)
On player retention with revenue sharing…
Stoops: “As I mentioned in the summer and leading up to the year, I feel like we have a chance to come out on the other side of that. I’ve said many times prior to the year. I know the year is very difficult, not fun on anybody, but I do feel like with the revenue sharing, you have a chance to both retain guys and be on somewhat of an equal playing field moving forward.”
Stoops: “It does but everybody had that. We have our own, but everybody has challenges. This era that we’ve been in hasn’t been real fun for too many, except if you have a boatload of money, so that was fun for them. Everybody’s talked about it, we’ve beat a dead horse on that, with the transfer portal and completely wide-open NIL with no salary cap, as much money as you have, I don’t think anybody likes that unless you’re (the) five, six schools that have as much as they want. Coming out on the other side of that with somewhat of a cap, we can make sure we’re enforcing some of these rules on NIL and let the players earn what they can earn authentically and organically and then the rest of it being somewhat of a level playing field, I think we’re all looking forward to that.”
On distributing the budget…
Stoops: “I think you can see, I hope you can, and everybody can see we are most definitely better in certain areas. I understand we’re not complete and you look at our record, I’m not naive to that but we are definitely better and making strides and it definitely helped. We’re far better although the record may not indicate that but you see the progress, you see the young guys, and so we did as good as we could. Definitely, for this last year this team had more resources, I’m grateful for it. I wish that the results would be better but I know we are better, but you’re not going to do it in one year either. You have to build a roster over the course of at least two, three (years). Yes, you look at it every year and evaluate it every year and you hopefully just patch a couple holes, you don’t have to patch all of the holes.”
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We are not looking at just one year sir. It's the whole body of work. Last game against Tennessee is the only game I've seen any emotion out of Stoops. This goes back 2-3 years. Whoever gets this job will be in a better place than when Stoops took the job. Wasn't that his whole reason for coming to Kentucky?. He said he wanted to put the program in a better place. We are now leave.!
Mumme was once a lifetime hire – Barney hires someone who has discovered passing. Yea right.
Most imaginative hire now would Dolphins coach – get quirky or go home – nice thing about him is NOW he knows importance of interior ( both O & D ) lineman – where 1/4 of a second means the difference in a W or L and a seven figure job.
Stoops has reached his ceiling. An expanded SEC with an expanded SEC schedule combined with NIL and the transfer portal has taken the game to a level that Stoops just can't contend with. He needs to resign. If he wants to continue coaching, he needs to go to a mid major or maybe even a high school team. He had a good run here, made a lot of money, but now it's time for him to move on…for the sake of the program and the University.
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