Heading into Auburn, Mark Stoops should have been on one of the hottest seats in the SEC. But he wasn’t.
And truthfully? He was never going to be.
Mitch Barnhart wasn’t firing Mark Stoops, not before Auburn, not before Florida. And now that he’s beaten two SEC programs that have lost all sense of direction, his job security is essentially locked in.
Florida fired its coach before the Georgia game last week. Auburn fired Hugh Freeze after getting shut down by Kentucky. Both programs are spiraling, and Kentucky took advantage.
Beating two of the worst teams in the league shouldn’t save a coach.