The FAU coaching staff is now without an offensive and defensive coordinator as it was reported Mike Stoops will be joining the University of Kentucky football staff as the linebackers coach.
Stoops will be reuniting in Lexington, Ky. with his brother Mark, who has been the Wildcats’ head football coach since 2012.
Stoops began his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Iowa in 1986. He also held defensive coaching jobs at Kansas State and Oklahoma before accepting the job of head coach for the University of Arizona in 2004.
After parting ways with Arizona in 2011, Stoops returned to Oklahoma, this time as defensive coordinator, which he held until 2019 when he joined the staff at the University of Alabama as a defensive analyst for legendary coach Nick Saban.