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PHOTO BY STEPHEN M. DOWELL | ORLANDO SENTINEL/MCTMark Stoops screams on the sidelines during Florida State’s game against Wake Forest onSept. 15. Stoops, FSU’s defensive coordinator, was named UK’s head coach Tuesday.

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Barnhart tabs Stoops to revitalize program

UK announced Tuesdaythat Mark Stoops will bethe next head coach of thefootball program that went2-10 this season under Jok-er Phillips.

A press conference isset for Sunday in Lexing-ton, with the time and loca-tion to be announced.Stoops and Barnhart will beavailable for questions,along with Tim Couch, aformer UK All-American

quarterback and announcerfor Fox Sports South whowas involved with thesearch.

“I don’t know of any-body that would be a betterhire than him,” said OscarCombs, founder of TheCats Pause and a KentuckyJournalism Hall of Famemember. “I’m reallyamazed that the fan basehas come back together soquickly.”

He said Stoops already

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Fans, officials pleased with hire

Names had come and gone.In true Big Blue Nation fashion, over-

reactions to prospective candidates set so-cial media sites aflame.

The buzz first sur-rounded former Arkansasand Louisville headcoach Bobby Petrino.Needless to say, fans ap-peared split on this no-tion.

Cincinnati’s ButchJones followed, stirringup much skepticismabout facts of his legiti-mate interest in the job.

Once outsiders gothint of his name, San

Jose State’s Mike MacIntyre, a Bill Par-cells disciple, seemed to be a glimmer ofhope as names were smeared from the list,despite his only formidable success com-ing this season for a Western AthleticConference program.

In the midst of the weekend’s franticdebate of who was to follow the blue-blooded Joker Phillips, CBS Sports’ Jere-

my Fowler alluded to an interview con-ducted by UK officials with Florida Statedefensive coordinator Mark Stoops.

In unison, everyone with thoughts onthe coaching search was at a loss. Howdid Stoops’ name slide past everyone andinto discussion to the point that he had aninterview with UK President Eli Capiloutoand athletic director Mitch Barnhart aboutthe vacancy?

At that point in the search, his namegenerated excitement, which needed to beatop Barnhart’s priorities.

While other names divided, only fewhave belittled the coach’s prospective suc-cess, even after his defense gave awaySaturday’s game to Florida in allowing 24fourth-quarter points.

Naysayers to that performance shouldunderstand that the implementation of oth-er coaching candidates could have set theCats down a course they’re all too familiarwith.

Recruits’ recognition of MacIntyre andPetrino was surely to have been a setback.Some because of questioning who MacIn-

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Coming from a family of head coaches,45-year-old Mark Stoops is poised to be-come the next in his family to gain controlof a major college foot-ball program.

Stoops is the defen-sive coordinator andsecondary coach forFlorida State, a job he’shad since 2010. UnderStoops, Florida State’sdefenses have grownfrom 108th in the FBSduring 2009 to 42nd in2010 and fourth in 2011.

In 2012, Stoops’ Florida State squad isranked second in total defense in the FBS.Also, Florida State is seventh in scoring de-fense and fourth in rushing yards allowedper game. Stoops’ secondary is ranked sixthin passing yards allowed per game, and theSeminoles rank first in the ACC in eachranking detailed this year. Four Florida Statedefensive players — defensive ends BjoernWerner and Tank Carradine, cornerback

Xavier Rhodes and safety Lamarcus Joyner— were named to the All-ACC First Team.

Before he landed in Tallahassee, Stoopsserved as defensive coordinator and second-ary coach for Arizona under head coach andhis older brother, Mike Stoops, from 2004to 2009. In his final season at Arizona, theWildcats’ defense was ranked 25th in totaldefense. In 2008, Stoops’ Arizona squad fin-ished 24th in total defense nationally.

In 2007, Stoops coached then-Arizonacornerback Antoine Cason to the Jim Thor-pe Award (given to the most outstandingsecondary player in the country), consensusAll-America and first-team All-Pac 10 hon-ors.

Stoops coached at Miami (Fla.) from2001 to 2003 as the secondary coach forteams that compiled a record of 35-3 andwon a national championship in 2001.While at Miami, Stoops coached numerousplayers that moved on to the NFL, notablyfirst-round picks in safeties Ed Reed andSean Taylor, and cornerbacks Antrel Rolle,Kelly Jennings, Phillip Buchanon and MikeRumph. The 2001 Hurricanes defense al-lowed 9.75 points per game. Incidentally,

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With the hiring of MarkStoops, UK football willhave ties to Ohio and Flori-da, two states that are con-sidered hot beds of recruit-ing.

Stoops comes fromFlorida State, where de-fenses under his wing im-proved from 108th in 2009(the year before Stoops ar-rived) to second in 2012.

Stoops also was part of acoaching staff that recruited10 five-star defensive re-cruits (ratings according toScout.com) between theclasses of 2010 to 2012,five of which came fromFlorida. In total, thoseclasses signed 39 playersfrom the Sunshine State.

Florida State’s Class of2013 consists of 17 playersthus far, with 10 who arefrom Florida. On its roster,UK football has five play-

ers from Florida and 51players from Florida arerated at four or five stars,and 156 players are rated atthree stars from the state, aknown boon of talent forcollege football and specifi-cally the SEC. In-state rivalLouisville has 32 playerson the roster from Florida.

Stoops also coached atMiami (Fla.) from 2001 to2003 as secondary coach,further digging ties into the

Stoops has Fla., Ohio recruit tiesBy Nick Gray

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Coach with known name,reputation a good choice

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Following an investigation by the U.S.Office of Research Integrity, a decade ofwork from a former UK professor has beencensored following allegations of scientificmisconduct.

Eric J. Smart, a former UK professor ofpediatrics and physiology, pediatrics vicechair of research and the Barnstable-Brownchair in diabetes research since 2003, endedhis 12-year affiliation with UK in May.

On Nov. 20, the ORI released a report offindings and took final action against Smart.

The federal report alleged that during his

time with UK, Smart had falsified data thatwas included in at least 10 published papersand numerous reports and applications.

After a comprehensive internal investiga-tion, UK also found Smart to be guilty of re-search misconduct for “claiming results thatactually never happened,” UK’s GeneralCounsel William Thro said.

Among the falsified data, according tothe report and Thro, were five grant applica-tions and three progress reports about nonex-istent “knockout” mice, which have been ge-netically engineered to have at least one geneturned off, or “knocked out,” through a tar-geted mutation.

Eric N. Monday, the vicechancellor for finance and ad-ministrative services and chieffinancial officer at Louisiana

State Univer-sity, has ac-cepted the po-sition of exec-utive vicepresident forfinance andadministra-tion at UK,according toan email

from UK President Eli Capi-louto on Tuesday.

According to the cam-puswide email, Monday will

start at UK in late Decemberor January. He replaces FrankButler, who retired from full-time work in January after 36years with UK.

Monday’s salary will be$350,000, UK spokesman JayBlanton said. Butler earned$464,000 when he was fulltime, before he entered phasedretirement in January. Mondaywill not receive the retirementbenefit given to past adminis-trators at UK, in which UKpaid 15 percent of administra-tors’ salaries directly into theirretirement accounts.

Monday attended a forumon campus Nov. 15, where he

fielded questions from UKstudents, faculty and staff.

Monday oversees about1,200 employees and is re-sponsible for sustaining abudget of more than $800 mil-lion each year at LSU, accord-ing to Capilouto’s email.

A search committee for theposition began by reviewing 50potential candidates. UK thenconducted 10 personal inter-views and brought five candi-dates to Lexington. Mondaywas announced as the preferredcandidate two weeks ago.

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By Judah Taylor

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Former university professor accused of research misconduct

Monday officially named executive VP

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David O. Russell’s quirky “Silver LiningsPlaybook,” starring Bradley Cooper and Jen-nifer Lawrence, and Wes Anderson’s charmingcoming-of-age comedy “Moonrise Kingdom,”each earned five Spirit Award nominations, in-cluding best feature, director and screenplay.

It was the second nod of support this weekfor “Moonrise Kingdom,” which was namedbest film Monday evening at the Gotham Inde-pendent Film Awards in New York.

Rounding out the best feature nomineesare “Keep the Lights On,” “Beasts of theSouthern Wild” and “Bernie.”

Joining Russell and Anderson in the directorcategory are Julia Lotev for “The LoneliestPlanet,” Ira Sachs for “Keep the Lights On” andBenh Zeitlin for “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”

In the female lead category, nominationswent to Linda Cardellini, who launched herown awards campaign for “Return,” Emay-atzy Corinealdi for “Middle of Nowhere,”Lawrence for “Silver Linings Playbook,”

Quvenzhané Wallis for “Beasts” and MaryElizabeth Winstead for “Smashed.”

Vying for best male lead are Jack Blackfor “Bernie,” Cooper for “Silver LiningsPlaybook,” John Hawkes for “The Sessions,”Thure Lindhardt for “Keep the Lights On,”Matthew McConaughey for “Killer Joe” andWendell Pierce for “Four.”

McConaughey also earned a supportingmale nod for “Magic Mike.” Rounding outthe supporting male category are DavidOyelowo for “Middle of Nowhere,” MichaelPeña for “End of Watch,” Sam Rockwell for“Seven Psychopaths” and Bruce Willis for“Moonrise Kingdom.”

Supporting female nominations went toRosemarie Dewitt for “Your Sister’s Sister,”Ann Dowd for “Compliance,” Helen Hunt for“The Sessions,” Brit Marling for “Sound ofMy Voice” and Lorraine Toussaint for “Mid-dle of Nowhere.”

The Spirit Awards will be handed out Feb.23 at a daytime ceremony in a tent on thebeach in Santa Monica.

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The ORI found many ofSmart’s published findings tobe falsified also. In more than33 instances the office foundSmart to be guilty of manipu-lating “western blots” — ananalytic technique that allowsscientists to find a specificprotein in a sample of tissue— to falsify data in publica-tions and reports in order tocomplete his research.

Thro said the incidentwas “research misconduct ofthe most serious nature.”

Thro said that UK hasthousands of researchers onand off the main campuswho are working honestly,and that this incident shouldnot take away from whatother researchers are doing.

“The stuff our re-searchers do is vital to the

university, to the common-wealth and really to societyas a whole,” he said. “Wehave people who are tryingto create medicines and pro-cedures who are trying tomake lives better ... life easi-er, more comfortable or over-all safer. ... There is no placein such an environment forthe type of scientific miscon-duct that was at issue here.”

The Kernel could notreach Smart for commentTuesday.

Bourbon County superin-tendent Lana Fryman, whohired Smart to work as achemistry teacher at Bour-bon County High Schoolwhile he was still affiliatedwith UK in 2011, told theLexington Herald-Leader inan interview published Mon-day that “he (Smart) saidthere is no evidence to basetheir (the ORI’s) allegationson.”

“He (Smart) really goesabove and beyond,” Frymantold the Herald-Leader. “Thekids really like him. The fac-ulty really like him.”

Following the investiga-tion, Smart agreed to a settle-ment with the federal gov-ernment that will leave himdebarred and suspended forthe next seven years, accord-ing to the report, in whichtime he will not be able toadvise to, research or raisegrants for government agen-cies, including the NationalInstitutes of Health.

When asked how UKwill move forward, Throsaid, “We will continue to dothe outstanding research thatwe are doing. We will makesure that our policies contin-ue to be effective ... we willalso endeavor to reinforcethe culture that we currentlyhave of no tolerance for re-search misconduct.”

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With the hiring of FloridaState defensive coordinatorMark Stoops to be UK’s newhead football coach, it is thedawn of a new era in the Blue-grass. Stoops, a defensive-minded coach, will have anopportunity to implement hisschemes into the defensivelypredicated SEC in his first ca-reer head coaching gig.

But it is who Stoopschooses to bring on as his of-fensive coordinator whoshould have fans sitting on theedge of their seats.

The past two years theCats have been a disaster onoffense. In 2012, UK ranked118th in the nation in pointsper game, averaging 17.9points per contest; the year be-fore, the offense averaged 15.8points per game. So whileStoops may bring a greater tal-ent base and a stronger de-fense, the Cats will need to im-prove offensively to reach thegoals it sets for this newcoaching regime.

Two likely candidates forthe offensive coordinator po-sition are Texas Tech offen-sive coordinator Neal Brownand Florida State offensive

coordinator James Coley.Brown had reportedly been intalks with UK when its headcoaching position was open,but reports never made it past“preliminary contact.” Brownhas had success in just underthree years with the RedRaiders, and has his offenseaveraging 37.8 points pergame, good enough for 18thin the nation.

Whether Brown could du-plicate the success of hisspread offense in the treacher-ous SEC remains to be seen,as he will routinely face op-posing defenses far morechallenging than anything theBig 12 has to offer.

The other potential candi-date is Coley. This move is in-triguing as Coley comes fromthe same school and samecoaching staff as Stoops, andthe two are familiar with eachother. These Seminole assis-tants have shown that thepairing of their systems is arecipe for success, as FloridaState completed a 10-2 regu-lar season and will compete inthe ACC ChampionshipGame on Saturday. Whilemuch of the offense in Talla-hassee was commanded byhead coach Jimbo Fisher, Co-ley would surely bring the

same pro-style spread to Lex-ington for the Cats to run.

The Cats will welcometheir new offensive coordina-tor with a three-man competi-tion for the starting quarter-back job. Redshirt sophomoreMaxwell Smith, the team’sstarter to begin the 2012 sea-son, missed most of the yearwith an injured ankle. Takinghis place under center weretrue freshmen Jalen Whitlowand Patrick Towles, who al-ternated at quarterback. Whit-low is an athletic quarterbackwith a cannon for an arm,while Smith and Towles areboth big, strong pocketpassers. Towles was UK’s toprecruit a year ago and hasbeen hyped as the Cats’ bestsignal caller since AndreWoodson or even Tim Couch.Smith was leading the SEC inpassing yards per game atmore than 300 a week beforehis season-ending injury.

With their top three run-ning backs and a number ofyoung, athletic receivers re-turning for the Cats, it seemsthe pieces are in place for first-time head coach Stoopsand the Cats to make a splashwith a new offensive coordi-nator, or risk sinking altogeth-er.

New offensive coordinator next key for football success

By Ethan Levine

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | PAGE 3

A benefit for those affect-ed by the recent violence inSyria will be held from 6 to 9p.m. Thursday in the StudentCenter Grand Ballroom.

The “We Believe in Zero:UK UNICEF Benefit Nightfor Syria” is hosted by UKUNICEF, a student organiza-tion working to help childrenaround the world.

UNICEF, the United Na-tions Children’s Fund, worksin 190 countries to providehealth care, clean water, nutri-tion, education and emer-gency relief to children inparticular.

“We Believe in Zero” is acampaign striving for zeropreventable deaths of childrenaround the world.

“Basically the campaignis about raising awareness inmainly first-world countriesso they can help by giving re-sources to help childrenmainly in third-world coun-tries,” said Faiyad Mannan,advocacy officer of UKUNICEF and a biology andJapanese language and litera-ture sophomore.

All of the proceeds fromthe event, which will offer T-shirts, games, prizes andwristbands, are going to helpthose in Syria who have beenaffected by the violence that

has been escalating sinceMarch 2011.

The money will go direct-ly to UNICEF’s project in Jor-dan to aid families who havefled from the violence in Syria.

The need for financial aidin the Syrian refugee campscannot be understated, saidNoora Aljabi, UK UNICEF’spresident and a computer sci-ence sophomore.

“This is a crisis wherechildren are being hit thehardest; it’s a humanitariandisaster,” she said. “It’s justawful, and we want to dosomething about it.”

Fundraising officer forUK UNICEF and human nu-trition junior Amira Aljabialso stressed how much needthere was in the refugeecamps of the region.

“They’ve suffered a lot ofloss and a lot of trauma. Theyare refugees from Syria andhave seen a lot of bad things,”she said. “They need all ofthe help they can get.”

Amira Aljabi added that itwill not be exclusively chil-dren who benefit fromUNICEF’s aid in Jordan.

“The project is focused onhelping the children in Jor-dan, but if you are helping thechildren you are essentiallyhelping the family,” she said.

Mannan said he believesthe funds produced will notbe the only positive outcome

of the event.“We don’t have an ex-

pected amount of moneycoming in, but we are havingtwo amazing speakers comingin so people will be able tounderstand a little better whatis going on overseas,” hesaid. “The major thing aboutthis event is that we are goingto be able to spread a lot ofawareness.”

Noora Aljabi mentionedthe importance of the infor-mation to be shared at theevent.

“It’s also really importantfor us. Part of what we do asa club is promote awarenessabout what’s going on theworld,” she said.

There will be two speak-ers featured at the benefit.

Taruna Sadhoo, a speakerfrom the U.S. Fund forUNICEF, will be discussing“We Believe in Zero” and theproject in the refugee camps.

Shafi Khan is a speakerfrom Muslims Without Bor-ders and has been in Syriaproviding aid to those affect-ed by the violence.

“I think it’s really impor-tant to learn about these glob-al issues and educate your-self, to think outside of Lex-ington and college,” NooraAljabi said. “To be able tohear from someone who’s ac-tually been there in Syria, Ithink that’s really invaluable.”

Benefit raising money for Syrian refugees

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Stoops took over as second-ary coach after his predeces-sor Chuck Pagano (now headcoach of the NFL’s Indi-anapolis Colts while havingto take time off for battlingleukemia) took a job with the Cleveland Browns.

Stoops began his full-time college coaching careerat South Florida in 1996 aspart of the first football

coaching staff in school his-tory. Before he ever coacheda game for the Bulls, Stoopsbecame secondary coach atWyoming from 1997 to1999. Then-Wyoming coachDana Dimel brought Stoopsonto his staff at Houston in2000 as his co-defensive co-ordinator.

Stoops played collegefootball from 1986 to 1988 atIowa under famed coachHayden Fry. Stoops was agraduate assistant under Fryduring the 1990 and 1991

seasons at Iowa.Stoops’ three older broth-

ers, Bob, Mike and Ron Jr.,continue to coach on the col-lege level. Ron Stoops Jr., theoldest of the four, is a line-backers coach at YoungstownState. Bob Stoops is in his14th season as head coach ofOklahoma. Mike Stoops isthe defensive coordinator andsecondary coach at Oklaho-ma. The brothers were bornand raised in Youngstown,Ohio, by Ron Sr. and EvelynStoops.

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is a popular hire.“Many people were con-

vinced that they weren’t go-ing to be able to hire anyoneof any substance other thanpeople with baggage,” Combssaid. “And now that theyhave hired someone with apretty good pedigree withoutthe baggage, it is pretty popu-lar.”

Stoops has been the de-fensive coordinator and sec-ondary coach for FloridaState since 2010.

“I am thrilled to benamed the head footballcoach at the University ofKentucky,” Stoops said in aUK Athletics news release.“My family and I are excitedand looking forward to be-coming a part of the Big BlueNation. ... I promise the faith-ful of the Big Blue Nation Iwill be focused and driven tocreate a positive, winning at-mosphere for the programand an environment that all ofKentucky can be proud of.”

Stoops’ Florida Statesquad is ranked second in to-tal defense in the FBS. Also,Florida State is seventh inscoring defense and fourth inrushing yards allowed pergame.

“I was very happy whenit was all said and done thatthey got a coach who will berecruiting in the South,”Combs said. “The big thing ishis recruiting ties to the stateof Florida, and specificallythe Miami area.”

Stoops also served as de-fensive coordinator and sec-ondary coach for Arizona un-

der head coach and his olderbrother, Mike. In 2009, theWildcats’ defense was ranked25th. In 2008, Stoops’ Ari-zona squad finished 24th intotal defense nationally.

“I’m excited for Mark,happy for him and proud ofhim. He’s earned it. He’sdone really well everywherehe’s been,” said Bob Stoops,Mark’s brother and headcoach of the Oklahoma Soon-ers, via OU Athletics. “Iknow he’s really prepared forthe job. I believe that Ken-tucky, as he does, has a lot ofpotential, a lot of resources tobuild, so I know he’s excitedabout the opportunity.”

Many UK football play-ers and those close to the pro-gram tweeted about the hiringcongratulating Stoops onTuesday.

“We welcome MarkStoops as our head coach tothe #BBN,” sophomore line-backer Bud Dupree tweeted.

Freshman cornerbackCody Quinn and sophmoredefensive tackle ChristianColeman also took to Twitterto welcome Stoops.

Tim Couch tweeted:“Wanna welcome MarkStoops to #bbn!! I think he isa great hire, let's all supporthim and his vision for ourprogram! Go Big Blue!”

UK President Eli Capi-louto spoke about Stoops inthe news release.

“I enjoyed my time thisweek with Coach Stoops,”Capilouto said. “I am im-pressed with his commitmentto student-athletes, both in theclassroom and on the field. Iam also deeply impressedwith the way Mitch Barnharthas conducted this important

process. I amconfident thatCoach Stoopshas the charac-ter and skill tobuild the win-ning programthe Big BlueNation wantsand deserves.”

Combs be-lieves the hir-ing implies thatall the piecesare coming intoplay for a ma-jor commit-ment to thefootball pro-

gram. “It’s starting to look even

more that everybody is com-ing together at UK — fans,athletic director and presi-dent,” Combs said. “The bigstories will be the differentthings that happen in the next30 to 60 days, as far as im-provements and funding.

“Maybe there has neverbeen any division betweenPresident Capilouto andBarnhart, but it definitelyseems like they are on thesame page now. The presidentis in his second year now, andhe had a lot of financial firesto put out when he got here.It’s not like athletics will takeany money from academics atKentucky.”

Combs thinks this willend up being a marquee hireby Barnhart.

“It was probably a career-making decision. He not onlyhit a home run of a coachinghire, he hit a home run for hisown popularity in this state,”Combs said. “I don’t think itshould have come down tothis hire, but the way thingshave went down, this waswithout question his most im-portant hire.”

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PHOTO COURTESY OF FSU SPORTS INFORMATION

Mark Stoops has been defensive coordinator at FSU since 2010.

tyre even is and why he isworth playing for, and Petri-no’s reasoning relates tocharacter issues. Many par-ents wouldn’t want their sonsplaying for such a figure, orat least you’d imagine.

Among the few coordina-tors to inquire about the posi-tion, Stoops has a resumethat outshines that of evensome head coaches ravedabout by fans. So don’t deterhis abilities based on that.

As a member of hisbrother Mike’s staff at Ari-zona, Mark’s defenses rankedin the top 50 from 2006-09,including rankings of 24 and25 his remaining two years,

respectively.When pursued by the il-

lustrious Florida State Semi-noles, Mark Stoops trans-formed what a decade priorwas a juggernaut defense intoan image resembling its pastidentity, moving from No.108 in total defense his firstseason to the current No. 2defense.

If history has proven any-thing, the Southeastern Con-ference prides itself on de-fense. And that hasn’t neces-sarily been the case for UK,with a recent string of coach-es who have come in with anemphasis on offense.

It just doesn’t translate ifhelp can’t be found on theother side of the ball.

After seeing fans turn theother cheek on the program,

Barnhart has seeminglyfound a coach for a culturalmovement, a Stoops, one offour, and arguably the hotteston the market with his olderand more successful brother,Bob, no longer satisfying thedesires of his Boomer Soon-ers.

For now, speculation hasended, and Barnhart’s ownposition no longer has namesrevolving thanks to the fanbase. His quick hit on thecoaching world has flippedthe Bluegrass into anotherkind of overreaction, merehours after Stoops was an-nounced as coach, about howlong before his inevitablesuccess comes for whatwould’ve been a “dead-endjob,” according to variousSEC mouthpieces.

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state.Stoops has ties to Ohio as

well, where he was born andraised. Stoops spent his child-hood in Youngstown and wasthe secondary coach at Nor-donia High School in north-east Ohio. His brother, RonStoops Jr., coaches atYoungstown State and is thedirector of high school rela-tions on the football staff.

UK has six players fromthe Buckeye State. In con-trast, Louisville has six play-ers from Ohio while Indianahas 17 players from the state.Ohio has 88 players in theClass of 2013 rated three,four or five stars.UK has 11such players in the Class of2013.

Athletic director MitchBarnhart cited Stoops’ desireto “continue to expand our re-cruiting base helped guide usto Mark.”

Stoops’ recruiting reach

isn’t limited to those twostates.

Cornerback MarquezWhite, a Class of 2013 recruitfrom Alabama who has ver-bally committed to FloridaState, posted on his Twitteraccount Tuesday afternoon:“Coach Stoops to Ken-tucky......not a good look.”

Stoops’ efforts to continuethe recruiting success enjoyedat the 13th ranked footballteam in the nation will be akey to success in UK foot-ball’s future.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF FSU SPORTS INFORMATIONFlorida State is ranked second in total defense.

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gary hermann | opinions editor | ghermann@kykernel.comkernelopinions

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Now that Florida Statedefensive coordinator MarkStoops has been hired as UKfootball’s new head coach,the culture of UK footballwill begin to change.

Nearly everyone couldfeel the negativity that sur-rounded UK football this sea-son.

From the beginning, thecrowds were down and theyonly got smaller as the team’srecord got worse and it lost inmore embarrassing ways.

Anyone who was attend-ing games by the end of theseason either loves UK at anintense level, has a high toler-ance for suffering or reallyneeds to find a hobby.

The hire of Mark Stoopsimmediately changes howCats fans feel going into nextseason.

The season-ticket holderswho stayed home for the endof the Joker Philips era nowknow it is safe to come back,and they will come back. UKAthletics has already tweetedout that season-ticket infor-mation for next season willsoon be available.

The students who got theirtickets on a game-by-game ba-

sis this year are a lot morelikely to get the full season setfor the upcoming year.

UK fans are no longerworried about losing to littlebrother Western Kentuckyand they aren’t makingsnarky comments about UK’schances against an FCS op-ponent.

Stoops has his work cutout for him at UK. This isMark Stoops coming tocoach UK and not his broth-er, legendary Oklahoma headcoach Bob Stoops. TheStoops name does not ensurerunaway success as shown byhis other brother, MikeStoop’s time at Arizona,where he was 41-50.

Nonetheless, MarkStoops is an accomplishedcoordinator and the Stoopsname is synonymous withsuccess in college football.

College football is a hugebusiness and programs haveto be willing to spend to win.

Paying to bring in aStoops brother after hewspent a few successful sea-sons bringing the FSU pro-gram back to prominence af-ter years of mediocrity and anacademic cheating scandal is

money well spent.The work before Stoops

is challenging, but if GregSchiano (now of the NFL’sTampa Bay Buccaneers) canturn perennial doormat Rut-gers into a consistent winnerand Brian Kelly can put the

Fighting Irish in a position toreturn to the National Cham-pionship, surely Stoops canwin seven games a year atKentucky.

UK fans are looking forat least a seven-win seasonyear-in and year-out, which is

part of the culture that needsto change.

Just like under RichBrooks, once UK has a tasteof winning against top-levelopponents, fans will want thatto be the norm here.

Football will continue to

live in the basketball team’sshadow. That will neverchange at UK, but with foot-ball bringing in so much moremoney than other sports na-tionally, it is now paramountthat the UK football team be-come a winner in its ownright.

Barnhart has made somegreat hires in his time at UKwith John Calipari, Brooksand Matthew Mitchell. How-ever, he may have beenwrong when he hiredPhillips, although it lookedlike the right hire at the time,and he was off when he hiredCalipari’s predecessor.

Still, Barnhart knowshow to spend to win gamesand the football team’s facili-ties will need to improve.

The players also willneed to buy into the fact thatthis team can win, just likethe fans will.

Stoops already believesthat this football team can win.He left a well-paid coordinatorjob at a consistent top-levelprogram to come to UK.

Stoops has committed toUK; now the players, athleticdepartment and fans mustcommit to him.

Stoops hire can change negativity toward football

PHOTO BY ADAM CHAFFINS | STAFFFew fans turned out to see UK football late in the season, including a 40-0 loss to Vanderbilt on Nov. 3.

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