Kentucky fans are officially over Mark Stoops after shutout loss to Louisville
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Kentucky fans are well aware that Mark Stoops is the longest-tenured head coach in the SEC.
A good amount of them want that to change immediately after Saturday’s embarrassing 41-0 loss at Louisville in the latest installment of the Governor’s Cup rivalry. The 41-point margin is the largest win ever for Louisville over Kentucky, and that ugly fact seemed like a suitable taking off point for angry Wildcats fans on Saturday afternoon.
And for the ones who didn’t know that fact, well, they were still very angry and ready for a change on the sideline in Lexington. Stoops has survived this long after taking the Kentucky job in 2013, and he even managed to pull off double-digit-win seasons in 2018 and 2021, which is a huge accomplishment at UK.
But Saturday’s shellacking finished off a 5-7 season, which was only slightly better than last year’s 4-8 mark. Kentucky fans took to social media in waves to proclaim that Stoops has seen better days and that better days will come if Kentucky finally makes a change for the 2026 season.
Kentucky actually won 3 in a row recently but finished the season with a thud, with a blowout loss at Vanderbilt last week preceding Saturday’s beatdown at Louisville.
Here is just a sampling of the anger coming from Big Blue Nation after Saturday’s loss:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
