Heading into his eighth season at Kentucky, Mark Stoops is slowly but surely gaining some respect from the national media. This morning, CBS Sports released its SEC head coach rankings, and Stoops came in at No. 7, up one spot from a year ago. As with most things when it comes to the SEC, seven out of fourteen may not sound that impressive, but when you look at the national rankings, Stoops is No. 22 overall.
“Stoops either matched or improved upon his season win total from 2013-18, when he posted the first 10-win season Kentucky has had since 1977,” Barrett Sallee (aka Shannon the Dude’s nemesis) wrote.