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Mark Stoops can see “the turn” in Kentucky football since Citrus Bowl win

So, Mark Stoops, how’s life?

Has your world changed any since your Kentucky football team won 10 games last season, including five in the SEC, plus a Citrus Bowl victory over mighty Penn State?

Are people treating you any differently now that you’re the reigning SEC Coach of the Year? Have all the good things that happened in 2018 changed the way people perceive UK football?

“Nationally, it has, without a doubt,” Stoops said Wednesday, the second of college football’s two national signing days. “You go through the different states, places where we recruit, and people already had a great belief in what we were doing, (but) you can see it now taken to another level.