After searching for more than a week, Mark Stoops selected 35-year-old Liam Coen as Kentucky’s next offensive coordinator.
The Rams assistant quarterbacks coach was chosen over Purdue co-offensive coordinator Brian Brohm, Missouri wide receivers coach Bush Hamdan and former Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead. Each candidate brought various pros and cons to the table. By selecting Coen, Stoops is searching for the lightning LSU found in a bottle when it hired an NFL assistant quarterbacks coach, Joe Brady, that transformed its offense into a National Championship-winning juggernaut.
By now you probably know Coen’s rap-sheet. After studying the Rams’ offense for the last three years and examining Maine’s offensive production under his two-year tutelage, we can paint a picture of what UK’s offense may look like with Coen calling plays in 2021.