He is not winning 10 annually. He has done it twice and they both included the bowl win. 10-2 regular season ought to be the worst we do with the money this idiot is making. This is ridiculous and Mitch ought to be ashamed.
Stoops Signed New Contract - Bigger Buyout and Extension
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Don't you have to go eat or something or do you live at the lodge?
With the results of this season, I don't think Iowa would offer Stoops. Especially with a massive buyout and having to pay Stoops about 9 mil/year. No other school would offer stoops that kind of money. We are stuck with Stoops. This new extension just cemented the deal. Mitch got punked by Sexton. I was on board until this season. Going forward I see no way for UK to compete for an SEC title.
Holy ****. Complete and total failure. Criminally bad mismanagement. This just sealed our fate for the next decade of finishing 3rd or worse in our own division.
This will make Cal’s lifetime contract look like a bargain. Everyone in the AD’s office needs their *** fired.
This will make Cal’s lifetime contract look like a bargain. Everyone in the AD’s office needs their *** fired.
Cat imagine he had any serious interest in either Auburn or Nebraska. Just free 2 mil a year raise thanks to Jimmy Sexton and the ever gullible Mitch.
On the flip side, I guess we now know why Mitch finally let go of some of his nil death grip. Just like the use of private plane, recruiting room, practice facility upgrades - the only way to get any football money out of Mitch is to threaten to leave.
Pretty amazing and pathetic.
I like coach Stoops, but this is a dumb move
I am not on the get rid of Stoops wagon, but an extension and raise this year just offers more evidence that Mitch negotiates from a position of fear/weakness
Also sets a precident that we'll pay as much as any school in the country, helps when we do need a new coach, hopefully a ways down the road.
Money is irrelevant, Atheltics can afford basically anything. And would buy out Stoops easily if need be. I'm just glad they'll swing the fat wallet around for football now.
Money is irrelevant, Atheltics can afford basically anything. And would buy out Stoops easily if need be. I'm just glad they'll swing the fat wallet around for football now.
According to what? You think this season was bad...wait till next year. Be lucky to be .500. There is nothing in the tank folks.
Get Mitch outta here. The guy is a demotivater. I’m not into coincidences. What’s his stinking buy out Eli? Good grief Barney. Never friggin do business the day before a game. What’s wrong with this guy and how the hell has he milked 17 years outta our school?
Took me a while to believe this, but I think I'm finally convinced of this. The track , volleyball and SB coaches are the only ones earning their salaries. FB, baseball & basketball are not.
Wait until Cal finds out Stoops makes more than him! His ego won't be able to let this go
Well that has ended.
Stoops record would get you fired at Auburn before the Alabama game. No way they put up with that.
Raises and salaries like this for mediocre coaches will only raise the NIL $$$ expectations are requirements … geez !!
I was just thinking the same thing only Mitch would reward a coach with a loosing record in sec play.
Really questionable move. I’ve said before and still believe that it’s not reasonable to fire Stoops right now, but the results this year have pretty underwhelming, and there’s some legitimate reasons to be concerned that we may be on the cusp of a fairly noticeable step back as a program. It’s not like his current contract was set to expire this year, so it would have been a much better time to sit tight and make him prove something than to hand out a massive extension.
No raise comes out of thin air, but besides that Brett McMurphy said the raise was due to Nebraska trying to get Stoops. Presumably, if Panthers don’t pay some of Rhules salary.
No clue on next year. Last preseason people were predicting the SECE and were wrong. If I know anything it’s to fade the conventional wisdom of this board.
Maybe the conversations began when Ferentz was struggling earlier this year at Iowa.
Exactly. Doubling down as I see it. It cannot do anything but help recruiting as long as there is a good pitch concerning the offense and what will be done about it.
I've been, and still am, a Stoops supporter however this is ridiculous. I've even come to the conclusion that if he leaves, he leaves and will get replaced by someone competent. I'm shaking my head over this.
I love Stoops, but I won’t be shocked if we go anywhere from 5-7 to 7-5 next year. Absolutely horrible timing.
I'm down with it. Kentucky hasn't finished with the loss in 4 years and we're going for five. 8 straight bowl games and five straight bowl championships? Yep pay The Man.
But you better get some offensive lineman and a quarterback in the off season with some nil and you better get it done.
You've had too much success for me not to believe you'll have as a good team next year the least can go six and six.
Don't listen to everybody! Making a bowl game is the standard that is Kentucky football.
anything above that record is just icing on the cake.
Do the best you can, get the best players you can , and hopefully we can break through.
thanks coach
But you better get some offensive lineman and a quarterback in the off season with some nil and you better get it done.
You've had too much success for me not to believe you'll have as a good team next year the least can go six and six.
Don't listen to everybody! Making a bowl game is the standard that is Kentucky football.
anything above that record is just icing on the cake.
Do the best you can, get the best players you can , and hopefully we can break through.
thanks coach
Dumbest move ever!! We are stuck with this guy who signs this extension right before he takes the program back to the gutter. And that’s where it’s headed.
Should’ve given some of the money to the skilled players who are going to be part of the mass exodus at seasons end. Maybe sign a long snapper.
Should’ve given some of the money to the skilled players who are going to be part of the mass exodus at seasons end. Maybe sign a long snapper.
Money is totally relevant to the results you get for the money spent. I like Stoops and appreciate what he’s done for the program, but for what he’s going to be getting paid, he’d better start getting Saban-like results in the W-L department.
Edit to add that I hope he’s going to get extra money to hire better assistants, including a ST coach.
This is what worries me. I had looked at next year's schedule before this season. With how it setup and who we losing I felt next year UK be lucky to win 7. Now with this dumpster of a season, possible portal losses and NIL and recruiting class falling apart UK now looking a possible 3/4 win season.
In 5 years the quote "never has so much been paid for less results" with this IMO.
6th highest coach should be making new years 6s and the 12 team playoff every other year imo. We shall see.
If my math is correct, that is a $68 million deal over 8 years. Wonder what the Buyout is?? Great defensive Coach IMO. However never has had his own identity on Offense. Hence will be looking at the Transfer Portal again, to run who's offense?? It sure as heck is not Stoop's offense. Outside observers look at this and say Hum?? Perhaps he should hire his retired brother Bob as a Consultant in some way? That might help, as his brother Bob put plenty of points on the Board. Just saying.
I am a Stoops fan but this is stupid
1. We sign an extension in the midst of a very disappointing year. When has that happened ever ?
2. So now if Stoops bottoms out …we could be headed below Usc and back to fighting Vandy for basement…weee stuck for 8 years and 9M per
3. If Stoops does amazing things…he can leave anytime he wants ..this just raises the ante for other programs to pay out. And Mitch will bend over once again if Stoops ever does get to Atlanta.
Mitch is just a politician. He spends money like pouring piss out boots. He is antiquated in old days. Spends all this money on Stoops and baloney Olympic teams yet has no $$$$ for NIL which is going tk determine UK fate. Truly a disaster in the making.
1. We sign an extension in the midst of a very disappointing year. When has that happened ever ?
2. So now if Stoops bottoms out …we could be headed below Usc and back to fighting Vandy for basement…weee stuck for 8 years and 9M per
3. If Stoops does amazing things…he can leave anytime he wants ..this just raises the ante for other programs to pay out. And Mitch will bend over once again if Stoops ever does get to Atlanta.
Mitch is just a politician. He spends money like pouring piss out boots. He is antiquated in old days. Spends all this money on Stoops and baloney Olympic teams yet has no $$$$ for NIL which is going tk determine UK fate. Truly a disaster in the making.
Beating Vandy and having an exciting offense that throws passes beyond the line of scrimmage goes farther with recruiting than throwing money at a coach that no other big program wanted.