It’s the final stop in our Advanced Stat Profile series and this time we’re taking a deeper dive into the head man of the Kentucky football program. Mark Stoops is entering season eight as a head coach, but before that he was a defensive coordinator for nine seasons at both Arizona and Florida State. It feels like a good time to look back at the work that got Stoops the Kentucky job and then view how he has built the Kentucky defense through some trials and tribulations.
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After five seasons out in Tucson, Mark Stoops called the defenses for his brother Mike and under his guidance the Wildcats had an average SP+ defensive finish of 40.