“Whether you like it or not, I’m a Kentuckian now. This is home.”
Those comments from Mark Stoops were polarizing between the Vanderbilt and Louisville blowout losses, but they read differently now that his time as Kentucky’s head coach has come to an end — and we know he means them.
How do we know that? KSR’s Matt Jones broke the news earlier on Monday that Stoops was in a “good place” with Kentucky following the breakup and “he may even stay around Lexington until his next gig.” Now, Mark Pope has said the same thing after talking to the former head coach himself.