Mark Stoops hammered on social media following Kentucky's rough home loss against South Carolina
Mark Stoops and Kentucky played host to South Carolina on Saturday, and ended up losing their third game in a row to the Gamecocks by a score of 31-6.
It was a rough go for the Wildcats a week after beating Southern Miss 31-0 in a weather-shortened game. And the schedule doesn’t get any easier as No. 1 Georgia comes to town in Week 3, the 3rd of 4 straight home games to open the Wildcats season.
Stoops led Kentucky to a 10-3 record, a 2nd-place finish in the SEC East, and a Citrus Bowl win in 2021. Since then, the Wildcats have played to back-to-back 7-6 records and two bowl losses in a row. He was close to leaving for Texas A&M in the offseason despite signing a contract extension through the 2031 season paying him $9 million a year, but the Aggies opted to hire Mike Elko from Duke.
Now, the Wildcats are 1-1, and will be an underdog against the Bulldogs in a Saturday night matchup on ABC. After a blowout loss to Georgia last season, Stoops called for fans to “pony up” NIL funds for the program. Those comments appear to be coming back to haunt him now.
Meanwhile, social media reaction was plentiful following the loss to the Gamecocks at Kroger Field:
Embarrassing performance
Stoops asked for fans (and boosters) to Pony Up and they did…and this is the return
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) September 7, 2024
Maybe Mark Stoops should spend less time complaining about NIL and more time getting his team ready to play.
Least prepared team I've seen anywhere in college football this season.
— Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) September 7, 2024
Hey Mark Stoops,
Brock Vandagriff isn’t your biggest problem. Your pass protection is.
You just created a QB issue for your locker room because you took Brock out on that drive, cause you can’t stand losing to South Carolina & Shane Beamer.
— Andrew Lyon (@ALyon_SC) September 7, 2024
Since Mark Stoops' asked fans to "pony up" after losing to UGA 51-13, Kentucky football has a 3-6 record.
Includes:
**Likely loss to SC today, down 18
Last-minute loss to Clemson, 38-35
Loss to SC, 17-14 (-3 TO margin)
Loss to Alabama, 49-21
Loss to Tenn, 33-27
Loss to Mizzou,…— Tristan Pharis (@TristanUda) September 7, 2024
https://twitter.com/GamecocksInside/status/1832547569009860677
Mark Stoops and Vince Marrow perfecting the most frustrating 6/7 win season you have ever seen every year pic.twitter.com/WfFBEgIlBF
— Big Blue Carti (@bbcburnerr) September 7, 2024
Can Mark Stoops still take the A&M job?
— J. Vincent Bennett (@JVincentBennett) September 7, 2024
12 years in and Mark Stoops has yet to develop a QB. 12 years…
— Braxton Snyder (@BraxtonDsnyder) September 7, 2024
Who says Mark Stoops knows how to coach? This is his 12th year and Kentucky looks atrocious, not against Bama or Georgia, but against South Carolina. Shew
— Who am I? (@Iamwhoismoses) September 7, 2024
I think there's at least a decent chance we will look back on Mark Stoops' "flirtation" with Texas A&M as the end of the line.
— Chris Fisher (@ChrisFisher247) September 7, 2024
I think today may have been a wake up call to how many millions mark stoops has swindled from the university of Kentucky in the past 10 years
— the grundler (@RenceSpatt) September 7, 2024
This is a horrible loss. Mark Stoops needs fired before he gets to the locker room.
— Don Bender (@DonBender11) September 7, 2024
Absolutely pathetic game for Kentucky. I knew South Carolina wasn’t going to be near as bad as people tried to say, but they’re not this good.
This might be the end of the era for Mark Stoops. Greatest Coach in School History, but it might be time
— Cameron Waddle (@CameronWaddle) September 7, 2024
Mark Stoops has elevated Kentucky football tremendously over the last 12 years. Two 10 win seasons, bowl every year, beating Florida.
But there is one game a year that is an absolute brutal dud. Feels like season is derailed. Hope they rebound.
— Andrew Wring (@wringky01) September 7, 2024
BVG- never would have sen the field at UGA. There’s your answer buckeye Bob.
Sure…
that’s a coaching problem, not a QB problem!
Guess you’re going to have to find a different tambourine grrrtttttzzzz…
Fixing that won’t be that easy.
BVG was completely let down by our offensive line today. He never had time to make plays. KY has had a ton of OL injuries and we absolutely sucked today. Georgia will be able to play their second team and push KY around all day.
This.
The right tackle couldn’t handle Southern Miss, so I was concerned. The running game went better to the left, but the left tackle couldn’t handle pass rush either.
Hey EightTittless ! I know how down you get after a loss so I came over here to invite you to come chirp some under a Tennessee story. I know that always cheers you up. I’ll be watching to see what you come up with.
See ya soon.
Smoking meth is dangerous pal. You need help
Go Cocks!
GG UK, I think Stoops needs to have the heat turned up on him after that.
Also what on Earth happened to Vandagriff?
He looks awful.
Probably wishing he was still on the UGA bench celebrating EZ wins.
Coach Stoops is the problem! Kentucky is a wounded animal and it doesn’t matter who they play now…
the smell of B L O O D will not go away until Stoops is dismissed!
He was running for his life because the OL is horrible. The announcers said he was pressured on over half his throws. He’s responsible for part of the mess but it’s not all on him.
Stoops, you’re fired…
leave, now! Don’t worry about your stuff. Well box it up and ship it to you!
So…this is going to be your new cause? No more cherry picking Kirby’s QB? Bummer, my nanner split was 1 cherry short..
I have said it numerous times…
Stoops/Vandagriff doesn’t sound as formidable as…
Smart/Vandagriff does.
No QB will be living in a pocket like the one Beck is living in this year…
Beck has the best team and the best situation, no other QB has it as good as Beck does…
that is why if Beck doesn’t get the Georgia train to the station; it will hurt his draft status.
Ahh, playing the rotating shell game again are we? I pick the one hiding the cherries…
wrong again…
there is only one cherry…
the awesome possum Kirby Smar…
is the maraschino cherry of college football…
only one cherry, humperrr
You can’t fool me grrtttzzzz…I know there’s a BIG10 cherry under one of those shells…
Shewee! Big blue looked terrible. Is stoops done…
Beamer ball was played but sc just out physicaled them.
As ugly as they looked against South Carolina (who struggled at home against Old Dominion LOL)
Imagine how brutal next week against Georgia will be.
Georgia might let their cheerleaders try to score
You mean SC’s play was not embarrassing this week? Did they uphold the honor of the mighty SEC this week? Whatever, dude.
more like “basement brawls” too bad the Vols won’t get a chance to pluck your chickins this season.
I’m wondering. Did Stoops ship his playbook to SC before this game? Same old KY. Defense sucked, Offense really sucked and coaching didn’t even rise to the level of sucking. What coach in the world would put his defense in an aweful spot by going for it on 4th and three on his own 30 yard line in the first half when he knew his Oline was not getting it done. Did the O line go on strike tonight? What an aweful team.
Leaving Lexington, cats fans were class act all the way, and the players were very respectful at the hotel. Cats regroup and focus on next week.
Always good to hear. I hope our fans were gracious in victory.
Very much so, now in traffic active pew pew on 1-75
BLPB, I hope you got through or around that I75 mess without harm. Truly bad sitch there..
According to last sm post mark Stoops never missed a bowl? Last time I checked he missed a bowl the first 3 years and then there was a 4th. Too many uniformed people on sm yapping their ignorant traps.
The only thing that I can say about Coach Stoops and the Wildcats is “Thank you.”! You made me feel better about our team today. I was feeling really bad about them after the near fiasco of the ODU game. We still aren’t a good team and will have to improve a lot on offense to get to a bowl game, but at least we won today’s midget mudfight by a mudslide.
Incompetence. Pure incompetence.
Stoops should “pony up” after this disaster with 80% of his millions a year. Disgraceful coaching. I ponied up with $$ as well as season tickets for over 45 years for mediocrity as less. 2 more wins maybe.
I think KY is at the ceiling of Mark Stoop’s career. Stoops is totally incapable of developing a QB. Based on what we saw yesterday, he has 120 players but no team. He’s been recruiting for the skill positions and totally forgotten about the O Line. This team is not playing team football. A lot of selfishness in the locker room and that is on the coach.