No excuses.
It is year five for Mark Stoops as the Kentucky football coach, after all. Five years of recruiting better players. Five years of changing attitudes. Five years of implementing a culture. Five years of developing talent. Five years of building a culture.
“Going into year five we should be stronger,” Stoops said Sunday at the team’s annual Media Day to start training camp for the 2017 season.
To be sure, the Cats cleared a pair of hurdles last season, year four of the Stoops Era. They dramatically defeated arch-rival and ranked Louisville in Louisville 41-38 for a seventh 2016 victory and UK’s first winning season since 2009.