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How Loyalty Led Mark Stoops’ High School Teammate, Frank Buffano, to Kentucky

Kentucky’s new safeties coach is a familiar face around the Joe Craft Football Training Facility. Frank Buffano has been with Mark Stoops since the head coach came to Lexington. The two have known each other much longer.

“Let me put it to you this way. When I was in high school here’s how it went: Coach Stoops was a senior, Bo Pelini was a junior, Vince Marrow was a sophomore and I was a freshman,” Buffano said on the Behind Kentucky Football Podcast.

“It all goes back to Cardinal Mooney. That’s really where it all started.