Darrell Bird is the General Manager of The Cats’ Pause and CatsPause.com. He knows Big Blue athletics in and out. Darrell does a great job covering Kentucky athletics and is kind enough to once again offer his insights into Saturday’s noon Bluegrass showdown in Lexington.
What has Mark Stoops meant to the program?
Mark Stoops has been the first coach since Rich Brooks in 2007 to bring real football to Kentucky, but with even better recruiting success. For years, fans have believed that Kentucky must be different or gimmicky — Air Raid — because they would never have the talent to line up man to man in the trenches with better SEC teams.