Regardless of a second straight shedding season that ended with Saturday’s 41-0 loss to in-state rival Louisville, Kentucky coach Mark Stoops mentioned he isn’t going anyplace.
Requested after the sport about the opportunity of stepping down, Stoops informed reporters, “Like, I will stroll away? Are you kidding me. … Zero-percent likelihood I stroll.” Stoops accomplished his thirteenth season at Kentucky with a 5-7 file after going 4-8 in 2024.
Stoops, 58, is 72-80 general at Kentucky with 10-win seasons in 2018 and 2021. He is incomes $9 million this yr and is signed by way of June 2031. If fired, Stoops could be owed 75% of his remaining wage, which equates to roughly $37.7 million.
“I will be right here so far as I am involved,” Stoops mentioned Saturday. “Now I am unable to management what resolution [is going] to be made. If you happen to’re asking me, I mentioned zero. Zero means zero.”
Stoops took an identical place earlier within the season when requested a few report that he met with Kentucky directors to debate his buyout. He known as the report “unequivocally 100-percent false,” including that, “There isn’t any give up in me.”