It would be a step down unless the ACC has some clause that would allow them to tear up that TV deal. That's without including the increased travel costs for all sports.

That’s the funniest damn thing I’ve seen in a long time

Uh huh...

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Not currently


Literally nobody cares about Kentucky football.

The only issue to be worked out is getting Vandy and you to walk away from the larger SEC payouts. Not sure it’s workable.

Stoops is pulling in top 30 recruiting classes with a decent amount of his pull coming from Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida along with going toe-to-toe with Ohio St. in Ohio as well as beating Clemson, Ohio St., and Alabama for the best LT prospect in this upcoming recruiting class from just outside of Louisville. Stoops and staff sell their recruits on getting to play in the SEC and being a 6 hour drivable distance from their family.

The university has also invested significantly in improving the program(new training facility, stadium was renovated significantly in the past 10 years, and they invest heavily in Stoops and his staff).

All of that progress would be heavily impacted with going to the ACC.

And there's literally no financial incentive to leave. Kentucky is one of, if not the, highest revenue generating basketball programs in the country. And it's still out earned by football. Moving to the ACC won't change that fact on top of the ACC contract not being nearly as lucrative as the SEC.

Kentucky isn't Kansas. They actually do give a damn about their football program.

Yeah. There's been absolutely zero chatter I've ever seen about Kentucky leaving the SEC, and it doesn't make any sense.

The model Stoops has used at Kentucky is the same one Drinkwitz is now rolling with at Mizzou. Successful so far.

And that's a model where, if you do get the stars to align, you can actually get into the playoff. Just need to have that difference-making QB to pull it all together.

Hasn't Kentucky been going into Ohio and selling the non-Ohio State recruits to come play in the SEC?

Why tho? KY football sucks ass.


504-563 all time - sure sounds a lot like Kansas’ 530-635.


I’m sure some meth’d out hillbillies go to their games. But nobody with a brain cares about any of these bottom feeders.

The difference is that Kentucky within the past 10 years or so has really started to spend money on football dating back to before Stoops(more-so in part of the Rich Brooks era leading into Joker Phillips).

We have a very passionate football base, as passionate as basketball, but not as large.

Kentucky will never be a national power in recruiting, but can be a large one regionally. Stoops is a great coach and I don't think he'd leave anytime soon given his contract structure(it auto-renews if he wins 6 games on top of bonuses for additional wins, bowl games, etc). The pressure is low and as long as the team is bowl eligible with an occasional appearance in Atlanta(that should be a realistic expectation now), the program will be where it should be realistic expectations wise.

If Kentucky is basically what Mizzou was for the majority of Pinkel's tenure, a lot of people will be happy.

Yes. I think Mizzou has a higher ceiling program wise given the in-state recruiting advantages with KC and STL, but very similar overall.

Yes, which is why they're getting recruits.

Stoops is basically doing a better job at recruiting out of Ohio now than when Pinkel was recruiting in Texas for a majority of his time in CoMo. And he's also getting really high ranked (4*) recruits over Ohio St. Him and Vince Marrow are kicking ass there.

Because there's no school in the state that competes with Kentucky historically in terms of popularity. None. Louisville is a joke. They are little brother in the Bluegrass. And no one outside of Louisville cares about them.

Additionally, Kentucky was somewhat decent back in the day before a span of 30 years of being mediocre to bad.

I know some coaches on the Chiefs who care about Kentucky football

Matt House ended up helping Stoops turn the program around tremendously.

He (Stoops) had to take over playcalling from D.J. Elliott(current DC at KU) in 2016 because of how bad the team was performing. Stoops would have likely lost his job during that season.

The two biggest differences between Kansas and Kentucky football currently are the following:
1. Kentucky gave Stoops time to build his program and he's actually started producing results, showing that he's been a decent-to-good hire at Kentucky. And has had better results than any coach since Mangino at Kansas.
2. Kentucky is spending a lot of money on improving the facilities. I'm unsure about if that's the case at KU.

Also, a lot of this has to do with overall stability within the athletic department with Barnhart. I'm unsure if there's any Power 5 school that has had all 3 of their basketball, football coach, and AD in place as long as Kentucky has.

New Conference re-alignment thread
 

I never thought Stoops would turn around UK football but he proved me wrong.

The Mizzou vs Kentucky game should be interesting this season.

He stole coach Klein's playbook

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