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UK Football Officially Adds Dean Hood to Coaching Staff

UK football has officially added former EKU head coach Dean Hood to the coaching staff.

Hood joins UK as special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach.

Here’s a release from UK:

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Dean Hood, a familiar name for football fans around the Commonwealth, returns to the Bluegrass to join Mark Stoops’ staff as the special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach, it was announced Wednesday. Hood spent 13 years at Eastern Kentucky in Richmond, Kentucky, including eight seasons as the head coach from 2008-15.

“I could not be more excited to have Coach Hood join our staff,” Stoops said.