UK linebacker tweets, “STOOPS!”
Stoops!
— Pancho Thomas (@JussstCallMeDom) November 26, 2012
UK linebacker Pancho Thomas just tweeted, “STOOPS!”
Does this mean Kentucky has hired Mark Stoops? Or is Thomas standing at the bottom of a small staircase outside his apartment?
This is interesting.
114 Comments for UK linebacker tweets, “STOOPS!”
My bet is that he likes porches.
Done deal
Pancho is from Tallahassee so maybe he just wants Stoops…then again it could mean he’s hired. Just wanted to throw that out there.
Probably just a defense guy wanting a defense guy.
They are not going to announce the pick to a bunch of twitter-happy college kids before making a formal announcement.
I hope it is stoops. Macintyre can go lose at another BCS program.
stoops, jones, who cares we want PETRINO.
Florida blogs are reporting it…
If not Petrino, lets go with the Shoney’s dude.
Sounds like he’s making his pick. The kid is from Tallahassee.
Wikipedia says he was named to UK today?
This is a NO BRAINER! The kids down south know who Stoops is. He can make an impact sooner than later. Big time connections. He is also a name that will put butts in seats!!! I hope he is the man because he actually makes me excited!!!
Go Big Blue!!!
Couldn’t this just mean he *wants* Stoops?
my buddy is a real estate agent in lexington and he said he has been showing petrino houses in town.
11 – Awesome! I mean when has Wikipedia ever lied to us?
whore houses
This is ridiculous. Trying to read between the lines of a 19 year old kid’s tweet!
I can hear the phones ringing in the season ticket office . . .at other SEC schools.
Good call #11, LOL – Per Wikipedia … “On November 26th, 2012, it became known that Stoops would take the Head Football Coach position at the University of Kentucky, beating out Shoney Bear Bryant for the job.” If its on Wikipedia, it has to be true? WTF, SMH, LOL.
hey drew,
what gives with the KSR podcast on itunes? no refresher since the 21st. y’all are killing us over here…
Stoops would be a great hire. I and others said for this hire to have an immediate impact he would have to have inside ties to SEC territory recruiting. He does.
Wikipedia says he beat out “Shoney Bear Bryant”
On November 26th, 2012, it became known that Stoops would take the Head Football Coach position at the University of Kentucky.
Mark Stoops wikipedia it is there.
…and a radio show in Tallahassee reported this morning that he already accepted the Auburn job. Until we see an official letter from Barnhardt (since that’s what he likes to do), I’d say nothing is official.
Come on Matt and KSR break the news, now that we find it for ourselves. STOOPS TO KENTUCKY in 3 2 1
#5 you’re wrong. The team will be told first. That’s from MB.
7. You’re not getting Petrino so you might as well start looking for another team.
He beat me for the UK job?
Go wikipedia Mark Stoops and check out the last line in the coaching career section…NICE!!!
I’m hearing Herman Boone
Yeah 11, it says he beat out “Shoney bear Bryant” for the job…
Seriously, check this guy’s other tweets. By his history, other coaches who could get this job are:
Reggie Miller, chocolate women, and some guy named “yulucky”
I posted this a little ways down, but it was like the last post. As such, I’ve decided to post it here to see if it generates discussion.
Matt Jones often asks why would X coach choose UK over the other available schools (Tenn,, Auburn, Arkansas, etc.). The thinking is, Kentucky is such a historically bad football program that no coach would coach here if another job offer was presented. Kentucky fans want the big name hire, and want to make a splash with some name recognition. Matt Jones has often challenged callers by asking, “What big name coach is going to come to Kentucky?”. The callers respond with, ‘Generic Big Name (Gruden)’ and Matt replies, “they’re not coming here” and “why would they come here over X”. We True Blue Kentucky fans overvalue the allure of our HC position. However, Matt has also stated that if Kentucky could get the ‘best possible coach’ money would not be an issue. Ergo, my response: Why would coach X come to UK over every other school? Answer: Insanely large contract. We all want the job at the classiest establishment, but we’d all happily work in a crappier place if the Price Is Right.
To this Matt Jones has replied, intelligently, “How do you think Cal would like it if football coach made more money than him? Thats just not going to work.”
Here is where I strongly disagree. Lets get one thing straight, this past year, with abysmal attendance UK football was responsible for more revenue than UK basketball in its Championship year. Coach Cal will be the highest paid basketball coach and he’s wonderful, but it should not be his concern (and I dont think he would care one bit) what a coach for a different sport makes. Should coach mitchell be concerned that he makes a fraction of what Cal does? No. Why? Because its a different sport. Granted the interest level in UK basketball outweighs the interest level in football, partly because of a tradition for winning vs. a tradition of losing, respectively, and partly because we’re UK, but Football is where the money is.
Why do I mention all of this in this thread? Because we, the UK fans do not want Stoops, MacIntyre, Jones, or any other unproven up and comer or retread. We want a winner and we want one now. Presuming for a moment that everything Matt Jones has said is accurate: 1. UK is crappy job, 2. Big Name coaches wont come to UK when they have better offers, and 3. We cant pay a coach more than Cal, then the obvious answer for head coach is Bobby Petrino. KSR has already noted that no other SEC team is offering him a position. This means, UK being a crappy job doesnt matter. If Barnhart wants to show the fan base he has a pair, he needs to realize what we all already know, its not everyday UK has the ABILITY to land a proven winner at the peak of his coaching career, and when that person comes along (with whatever baggage) you’ve got to show you have the testicular fortitude to make a gutsy decision.
Matt Jones, I love you, but put that in your pipe and smoke it.
19, I just looked it up and saw that. Hilarious!
He’s transferring to FSU.
On December 11, 2009, Mark Stoops accepted the job to be defensive coordinator at The Florida State University.
Last line on wikipedia
Rumors over at RR that a football player is going to join the basketball team as a walkon for the rest of the season (possibly Forrest). Any truth to this?
I am a UK fan. I want an up and comer. Up and comers are young, energetic and usually have great visions. Some of them can actually make their visions happen. Great coaches start somewhere. Many of them at mid-level schools.
Isn’t Bobby Petrino, fired at his last job amidst scandal, unwanted by many if not all the other major teams in the SEC, not the very definition of “retread”? Because that’s what he is.
5 – Not true. The guys on the team are the first people that will find out.
Fatt smokes pipes all the time 32. Didn’t you know that?
People really don’t want Petrino right? I mean, this guy is the lowest of the low; anyone who has ever been associated with UL has turned into an awful person.
Just saw on ESPN that Harrow having second thoughts about staying with UK. He feels the verbal abuse it just to much for him. Did anyone else just see that?
32 – You cannot be serious…shut up!
Stoops Who?
I wouldn’t worry about a coach putting fans in the seats. Jennifer Smith of the H-L is reporting that UK will no longer keep attendance figures. The policy was changed after the Vandy game. But I bet they will give you a really high estimate! Do not despair. All is well.
I hope they hire someone quick so all you guys can by season tickets ( which will be raised) and then in 3 years say ” where did our money go”? You may have to refinance your dump truck!!! Hire Lou Holtze!!!! Same stuff- different years—- 7-5, 6-6, 7-5, 3-9. Music City Bowl!!!!!
http://ukfootball.bloginky.com/2012/11/26/kentucky-actual-attendance-numbers-no-longer-available/
I think I just felt it move. So, it must be Stoops!
My source told me that it was Rudy Ruettinger as the next UK coach!
I’m proud to announce that we have decided to accept the head coaching job at the University of Kentucky. We signed a deal to coach for free as long as our beef jerky can be the official beef jerky of the University of Kentucky. As a result, Mitch Barnhart is now able to pay Coach Cal the 10 million a year he deserves. Pam and I look forward to being your next head coaches. Sincerely, Ronnie and Pam Mingua.
35, they have fact-checkers. One of them deleted the Shoney Bear reference. I would have posted a screen-shot here but the comment section doesn’t have that capability (unless possible if you’re logged in).
I’m not believing anyone until JR Greer confirms it.
@42. I am serious, why would you think otherwise.
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Fatt is such a cutie!!!
Bob Stoops is who he meant. It was on The Onion. Best news coverage around.
JUST ANNOUNCED!!!!!
Ryan Harrow wants out can’t handle the pressure.
Brian Kelley to KY after winning the Natl. Championship
GO CATS!!!!
Muslim Extremist hacked Clear Channel so the The only way to hear the show was to listen to it live, this morning….
MattD, Fatt Jones cuts people off on his show because he’s insecure about the above picture. I would be too.
Internal polls say it is Nick Saban in a landslide.
#20 Was who that was for
all those joker haters will be calling him mark stooped in 3 years. can’t please anyone on this site so go ahead and pick lou holtze like 45 said. we can at least make fun of the way he talks as well as the way he coaches!!
Breaking News, Fatt has a cute picture on line 53.
ah, damn
Stoops would be a great hire for the Cats because we need a defensive minded head coach. When Petrino was at Arkansas what did he lack; a great defense. Or they would’ve won a National Title. Bobby Petrino was who I was hoping for. But since I heard Stoops in play, as a student it gets me excited. I personally am not excited about a guy from San Jose State. Mitch needs to ignite our fan base and show that our program will be with him. Stoops is a proven assistant and I’m surprised that he’s even interested. We have young but talented team, we develop that talent…we can win in the SEC. I believe in UK but if it’s not Stoops or Jones at the head of operations. I’m afraid I will not be attending many games in the coming years. If they do make the right hire, I will rarely miss a game.
@ 64
Be prepared to be disappointed then, even with Stoops.
We cannot and will not be able to line up, run the ball and play strong defense against the rest of the SEC, who already does that infinitely better than we do. You’re not going to out-SEC the SEC at Kentucky.
Give me a creative offensive mind, like a Macintyre or Dykes and let them find a DC as opposed to a DC finding an OC. He can have all the name recognition in the world, it didn’t work very well for his brother in Arizona. I don’t see why it’s going to be any different than Mark out at Kentucky in a much harder conference.
I sure hope its Stoops!!
Here’s a thought… Hire Stoops. A great D minded coach. Then since Petrino cant get a job anywhere else, Stoops can hire him to be OC. Boom! UK WINS THE SEC EAST NEXT YEAR!!!
Do you think Jeff Goldbloom would take the job if offered?
“On November 26th, 2012, it became known that Stoops would take the Head Football Coach position at the University of Kentucky, beating out Shoney Bear Bryant for the job.”
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32–interesting, but i began to nod off after reading what should have been about the 5th paragraph. do you have a condensed version
Maybe he meant Poops! and auto correct changed it to stoops. Happens to me all the time.
Matt D. I don’t think Coach Cal cares what the football coach makes so that shouldn’t be the issue. I disagree with you that a huge contract would bring a “Big Name” coach if UK would just shell it out. UK is a good job but not a great one. UK did try to get Spurrier’s attention by throwing big money out but he said no and took South Carolina instead, not a great job at the time. It has taken a coach of his ability 7 yrs to pull them from the mud. Big money does not guarantee quick success. I also think Bobby Petrino would be a terrible hire and Mitch Barnhart is showing he has “a pair” by standing up to the fan base who wants that piece of sh-t.
I don’t agree with everyone saying all season that we have so much young talent. I just don’t see it. We have a few guys that can hang in the SEC and a good QB. Other than that, our players are slower, smaller and less athletic than their SEC peers. I still throw my full support behind them, but realistically, we don’t have the talent to compete with Floridas and Bamas of the world. That said I think anyone can come in and win 5 or 6 next year, just given the huge players that’ll be back from injuries.
65) Macintyre is a defensive minded coach and dykes will find a better job. Guess your gonna be disappointed without and offensive mind available.
Ya’ll realize this is getting really ridiculous, right?
I agree with 65 bigtime. FSU’s D got spanked by Florida. Now try to hang with the big dogs at UK where our current talent level and local talent pool are inferior to FSU.
65) Jason you made a point on a previous post that his family connections didn’t mean anything. And then you judge him on what his brother did at Arizona. Macintyre is a defensive guy. Get your story straight. If you don’t like stoops because other people do or because of his last name or whatever then just quietly sit in the corner. Stop making up reasons. Stoops has been at more high profile judges then Macintyre which equals more good contacts to bring in as assistants which equals better recruits. His brother brought in dykes to Arizona. He could bring in the next dykes to be OC at uk.
#32 , I agree , good post.
@ 74
Macintrye is a defensive minded coach who’s got an extremely talented OC with great ideas. I’m very certain he’s going to keep his staff. What’s put him on the map is his offense. We have zero idea what type of an offense Stoops will run. Being that he’s been around a more pro-style system over the last few seasons, I’m going to guess it’s going to be far closer to pro-style than anything, and I don’t think that works here.
With the radical muslims controlling the site, what can we really believe on here? They’re trying to tear us apart with false rumors and innuendo.
77) jobs not judges
@72 Thanks for the response. My opinion, and its just that, and opinion, is that the amount of money needs to be enough to warrant a coach (a la Spurrier) to choose UK over, lets say an Auburn. I guess it would be beneficial if we knew what was offered to Spurrier vs. what USC paid Spurrier. I tend to believe that a coach would come to UK if we offered said coach 2 million more than the other SEC schools (though again, this is just a belief – there exists no empirical data to support it). I disagree with your position about Petrino. Although I understand what you mean when you suggest that Barnhart is making a gutsy decision by not picking Petrino even though it makes him unpopular, I feel like the tone of your sentence is indicative of my feelings. Basically, it sounds like your saying he’s not picking him just because he is an unscrupulous gentleman (if you’re referring to his cheating alone – Joker was no better – isnt that right MJP), and not because of his inability to coach. As such, I do not understand why he would be a terrible hire. I am a past UK ticket holder, and I don’t drive to Lexington from E-town to listen to a Coach preach to me “love your enemies, bless those that curse you, be good to those that hate you, and pray for those that use you and persecute you (Matthew 5:44)”. If I did, I’d have to pray for every SEC team that plays UK, because they all thump us and mock us. I want to see my team crush the other team and have the coach make spurrier-esq comments making fun of said team after the game. Don’t we as UK football fans deserve that?
The FSU offense had five turnovers on Saturday. That’s hard for the defense when the offense is giving it away so much.
#37, You say you want a up and comer then Pitrino is your man, just ask the girls at Arkansas.
For everybody saying Stoops sucks because Florida hung 30 on them. Do you all really follow football or know anything about it? FSU had 5 turnovers, atleast 3 of those in their territory. Get a clue before commenting
79) Jason if Macintyre brings his staff we will have the worse recruiting class in the history of the SEC. Your just assuming he is a good offensive mind and that stoops would run the pro.
@84 Love it! ‘rimshot’
@UKalum
I don’t like Stoops because there’s too many questions. I have no clue how he runs a program. No clue on his offensive scheme…..all I know from him is his defense was just abused by UF on national TV, his defenses don’t rank that high (with all those FSU recruits) and the guy has zero program experience.
I’ve said I don’t care what his last name is, but if you want to judge him based on his last name (what almost EVERYONE is doing, based on his last name), than you have to base him on Mike as much as you base him on Bob. Sure, Bob’s a fantastic coach. Mike? Mike didn’t do crap in Arizona. Mike got himself fired at Arizona. Now, Mike’s defenses are getting abused in the Big 12. If Mark’s going to have such amazing connections, why, then, did Mike (who presumably, also had great connections) fail?
You add all that up, and yeah, I don’t really want Mark Stoops. He’s a complete unknown as a leader of a program. For all the questions you can put on Macintyre or Dykes of “can he recruit in the SEC”, you make up with the ability to pinpoint their staff, what kind of a program they’re going to look to run, and the fact that they’ve actually proven themselves, not only to be capable leaders, but to be capable leaders who have the strength of taking down-and-out programs and getting them, within a 3 year span as BCS top 25 teams (La Tech only recently fell out of that, but was in there most of the season). And in the end, I’m taking that 100% over captain connections.
@85
UF put up 240 yards of rushing offense on FSU. A 5.2 yard per carry. I could care less about the points. I care about 5+ yards of rushing offense per attempt. That’s worse than what UF put up on our crap defense this season.
Good point 83.
the pride of BBN
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88) Jason
Mike took a bad Arizona program to three straight bowls. He failed because his OC sonny dykes and his DC mark stoops left and the guys that replaced them weren’t that great. By the way sjsu got pounded by utah state. And mark stoops defense held Florida to 7 points in their previous two meetings. And only lost this year because 5 turnovers. You don’t know if Macintyre could recruit in the SEC either. But what I do know is that his recruiting classes at sjsu are bad even by WAC standards and if you look at his staff at sjsu, like I have, you will see they are a bunch of has Beens or want to be’s. the same can be expected at uk. Just like joker did.
All I know y’all, is I am exhausted from this football season and this coaching search. Please, Mitch Barn hart fart tart cart smart and so on, please
just make a decision and get it over with so the new coach can get to work, and so we can focus on our basketball season without all of these
crazy insane useless distractions BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO CONNECT OR COMMUNICATE WITH THE UK FAN BASE! Please, little
emo AD, PLEASE make a decision!
89) Jason
We also did give UF five turnovers in there own territory. The only two good offensive teams that sjsu has played against they struggle to stop. Utah state beat them by 22. And LT put up 40 points.
Hey errybody, look, #91 found a racist person in our fanbase. Boy howdy. That musta took years to find
somebody like that. Newsflash #91, you got racists in your Tard fanbase too. But you know what? We fat
toothless rednecks are mighty honest and upfront about our racism. We tell people flat out what we don’t
like, and then they know who they’re dealin’ with. Them Looeyville racists are so different. What they
do is smile to your face and slap your back and then make sure that you are NEVER. EVER. promoted
to a job that would lead you to think you could marry their daughter. They’ll shake your hand and
play nice and then tell racist jokes behind your back and will make sure you don’t move to their
neighborhood or go to their church. I’m SOOOO sick and tired of Tard fans portraying Kentucky
fans as “racist”. I been all around this world. There are racists in every city in every nation.
That does NOT condone it. But Kentucky hardly has a monopoly, and at the very least and
lowest of optimism, at least redneck Moon-pie eatin’ camo wearin’ old truck drivin’ racists
are up front about it. I’ll take an honest idiot racist over a lying, smiling, wealthy idiot
racist, any time.
Guy Morriss has just accepted the UK football job. It is trending now. Welcome back!
Spurrier is easy to make fun of, but he won immediately. Bowl first year, even with reduced scholarships from Holtz probation. Steadily going to better bowls and the SEC championship game in 2010. The right coach can win NOW.
as a true fan, its a shame that there are fans like those depicted in post 91. sad to see. Grow up Keith Bohn whoever you are. you are a disgrace to the BBN and society in general…….
in response to #91…whoever this d-bag Keith Bohn is, his racist white trash views do not represent the bulk of BBN. what a f-ing loser, somebody find him and drag him out of his mommy’s basement and bust his lip….for the article, im all in on stoops…….
#82. Bravo!!! I’m right with you Pal!
#91 Keith Bohn is a jackass and a racist white trash POS hopefully we as a fanbase arent judged by such white trash scumbags………..
#95 instead of calling out the guy who posted this we should be more embarrassed by the RACIST scumbag representing BBN….. whoever this Keith guy is hes a white trash MFER, who is not part of my BBN…………..
@102 not defending the comment, but what is racist about a true statement. The young man lived in africa and through a spear from time to time. Just sayin its not a black thing is an african thing.
I would rather have the great defensive mind in our program at head coach and hire the OC. Defense matters and in the SEC it matters even more. The logic that we can’t stop anyone in the SEC even with a good DC so we just punt defense and go after offense is not how you are going to ever get UK over the hump that is the cellar. If you want to really build UK a program that last for more than a few years….it starts with defense.
You also don’t have to have an offensive minded head coach to have a great offense. Offense is more about play calling and taking advantage of your strengths. The “BIG IF” with the Stoops hire is IF Mitch will open his checkbook for an offensive coordinator. If you bring in Stoops as your head coach and empty your pockets to get a stud offensive coordinator for our young QB’s than who knows what we could be capable of.
This would be the homerun hire that Barnhart was talking about.
ok, first off we are not getting petrino, i think thats clear…everyone pls give that up! and heres my little rant..WHY does alot of ppl not like mitch?? i seriously dont get it? hes a outstanding family man, full of morals, our atheltics top to bottom is great! mens bball, after he ran tubby off (which was needed) he hired bcg..and my opinion at the time was a sexy hire..he was a hot commodity ..well it didnt work..but hey we ALL miss it from time to time..HE FIXED IT!!! look now!!! forgive him..football wise..he hired rich brooks ..i was ticked!! and turns out (I) was the one that was wrong! brooks was what we needed at the time..then joker made sense, a state guy who knew the program and brooks ways to contiue our success..it didnt work. so now hes out to fix it..and matthew mitchell was a great hire..i think im the only mitch fan.and YES i do have a opinion and a right to one..10 year season football ticket holder..i drive 3 hours every game then drive straight back home..go cats!!!
It’s funny, watching ESPN BCS Countdown they talked to Mark Schlabach about coaching vacancies in the SEC and he mentioned Kirby Smart as a possible replacement at Auburn then they said what about the other coaching vacancies in the SEC and Schlabach said “Smart could be a possibility at Tennessee as well” but he said most people thought Arkansas would name a head coach before anybody. No mention at all about UK having a vacancy or who a new coach might be!
Yes #106. Finally, some common sense….don’t forget…Volleyball, soccer, baseball, softball…..all of the sports under Mitch’s leadership. Let’s do this….let’s let Mitch do his job and we will go back to practicing law, medicine, plumbing, etc. Be an educated fan…but be a fan.
oh yeah, Stoops is a fellow Hawkeye……he’s a winner.
Good, bringing a defensive coach should help one of the worst offensive teams in the country.
We have already tried with offensive minded head coaches through the years and seen how that turned out. Lets try going the defensive route this time.
106) Bc he shouldve hired cal the FIRST time. Before BCG. Cal, himself even said he was hoping for a phone call. How u BLOW that I’m not sure
Probally just hanging out at oneness
32 nailed it!!!! PETRINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!