Mark Stoops and the Kentucky Wildcats are gearing up for another season in Lexington after an incredibly disappointing 2024-25 year.<\/p>\n
The Cats finished the season with a 4-8 record, the worst season since Mark Stoops took over in 2013.<\/p>\n
With that being said, Kentucky fans thought Stoops might be heading out, but he is back for another season and is on the hot seat\u2026 Right?<\/p>\n
\u201cStoops is one of the best coaches in UK\u2019s 100-plus seasons of college football,\u201d Bruce Feldman wrote for The Athletic. \u201cThe Wildcats have had only four 10-win seasons, and he\u2019s responsible for two of them. Last year was the first season since 2015 in which the Wildcats didn\u2019t make a bowl game, as they went 4-8 and 1-7 in conference play.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the biggest issues the Cats have faced over the past few years is finding consistent play on the offensive side of the football.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting the offense right has been his biggest challenge here. The optics of losing top recruiter Vince Marrow to archrival Louisville aren\u2019t great, but Kentucky fans hopefully haven\u2019t forgotten how tough this job is or that they hadn\u2019t had even one Top 25 finish in the 28 years before he arrived. On top of that, his buyout is enormous at close to $40 million,\u201d Feldman wrote.<\/p>\n
Feldman continued with this Stoops situation, discussing how hard and how expensive it will become for the Cats to move on from Stoops, so the Kentucky Athletics are hoping for a bounce-back season now more than ever.<\/p>\n
Will Stoops get the program back on track this season? We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Stoops and the Kentucky Wildcats are gearing up for another season in Lexington after an incredibly disappointing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1607,399,57291,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-82002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-kentucky-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}