Mark Stoops Becomes Longest Tenured SEC Head Coach

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00:00Mark Stoops is now the longest tenured head coach in the SEC after Saban leaving last year.

00:07This will be his 13th season as the man with the Wildcats.

00:13And to be fair, I know it's Kentucky, it's a basketball school.

00:18Probably the best job anyone's ever done in terms of football at Kentucky is the job that he's done there.

00:24Here he is talking about now having that distinguishment.

00:27When you have a down year, you have to stand up here, you have to own it, you have to face it,

00:32you know, talk about the things you're doing to address it, and then move on.

00:36I've stood up here after, you know, two ten-win seasons.

00:38That's only happened two times in the history of our school.

00:41You know, and I don't really want to talk about that year.

00:44I want to talk about this year, you know, so there's a fine balance there.

00:48So for me, it's just exciting.

00:49As I mentioned to your colleague there, to your right there,

00:54but, you know, it's really just, you know, excited about the opportunity.

00:58You know, really diving into the challenge that lies ahead of us

01:03and embracing that and having fun with it because, you know, this s*** is hard.

01:08And you might as well go enjoy it and dive into it.

01:11And there's a lot of people that can't do it and didn't do it for 12 years

01:15and didn't do it for 13 years and not in Kentucky.

01:17You look at the history of what we've done, and there's a lot of great ones

01:22that didn't make it very long.

01:23And so I'm proud of the run that we have.

01:27Yeah, I'll give you this.

01:29He has certainly been somewhat successful there

01:33and has made the program relevant in football

01:37at a place that all they care about is basketball.

01:41And that's all they'll ever care about is basketball.

01:43I mean, at UK, they just don't care about football.

01:50That's just it.

01:51And he's made them matter at the very least.

01:55And, you know, they've had success at some level.

01:58You know, he's still not a winning coach.

02:00As a head coach, he's got a losing record.

02:03That's just all there is to it.

02:05Yeah, it is at the end of the day.

02:07All right.

02:08They have a low win total as well

02:09because I think they were picked to be one of the bottom teams,

02:12four and a half, for Kentucky this year.

02:15God bless and good luck to Mark Stoops.

02:18I want to play you this Drinkwitz.

02:20He's, of course, the head coach of Missouri.

02:22This guy does have a little bit of a personality,

02:24but he's also a little out there as well.

02:26A lot of people have ideas, Scotty,

02:28for a new college football playoff format.

02:31I don't know if you need a pen and a paper

02:33or you need to try to keep up here,

02:35but listen to this guy start to rattle off

02:38how many teams he thinks should make it.

02:39My math could be wrong here,

02:42but if we did the 12, okay,

02:44and you had four automatic qualifiers,

02:46everybody thinks that's limiting.

02:47It's not limiting if you think about it from,

02:49you take those four automatic qualifiers

02:51and you divide that up into eight opportunities

02:53of eight play-in games.

02:55So now you're taking the SECs playing in for eight,

02:57you're taking the Big Tens playing in for eight.

03:00Since we've expanded the bubble, the 16,

03:03give three to the Big 12,

03:05three to the ACC, one, one.

03:07Now you've got 30 teams, 30 teams.

03:10Now we're talking about an opportunity for 30 teams,

03:1330 fan bases to be excited and engaged,

03:16engaged in giving revenue.

03:17Got 30 teams with players who have access

03:21to compete for a championship.

03:23And so for me, I think that makes a lot more sense.

03:26You know, again, when you're talking about

03:28the NFL playoff system, not only is it 14 teams,

03:30but you only have to be the best

03:31out of your four-team division.

03:33So you've got to compete against four teams

03:35in order to make the playoffs.

03:37You know, again, when you're at the University of Missouri,

03:39if you say, hey, you just have to finish in the top eight

03:42to have a chance to play in the playoffs,

03:44that's a win every day.

03:46Listen, he's tripping.

03:48He's absolutely tripping.

03:50If he thinks that they're going to have

03:5230 teams in that playoff, that's not happening.

03:56So right now, they're going to expand it.

03:58I think it's going to go to, what, a maximum of 16.

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