Next week Mark Stoops will take the podium at SEC Media Days for the 11th time. Only one of his peers has made more appearances at the event, Alabama’s Nick Saban.
The Kentucky head coaching position was once a rotating cast of characters. Following Billy Curry’s termination in 1996, Rich Brooks was the only of four coaches that managed to survive more than four seasons in Lexington. In the current state of college football, that’s not uncommon. An On3 analysis last spring found the average tenure of an SEC head coach was 4.