Let’s just call it what it is: Mark Stoops is done tiptoeing around the money conversation.
For years, the narrative around Kentucky football and NIL has been… complicated. But on Monday, Stoops stripped away the coach-speak and delivered a cold, hard reality check to Big Blue Nation.
If you want to keep the players you love, you have to pay for them.
In one of his most candid moments of the season, Stoops admitted that the "old ways" of complaining about the changing landscape are over.
"I’m done with it," Stoops said regarding the complaints about the system.