[Panther Thunder]

Hope those people in the Sean Woods thread are disappointed in the lack of care Barnhart is explicitly showing for his players. :devilflam

Stoops is an intense guy, with a solid scheme. Biggest gripe from me is the lack of turnovers his Defense's have forced, heavily applies the better safe than sorry approach. Which has worked well, but is not a game changing style.

He had a loaded staff of assistants at FSU to help recruit. Not sold on his sole ability to recruit. If he can steal DJ Eliott away, consider it a nice coup for the Cats as Eliott will probably not be promoted to DC at FSU, even though they would like to keep him on for recruiting purposes. Stoops could make him a DC at UK, much like Coley is OC at FSU, in title only. Coley is another solid recruiter, not a ton of coaching responsibility. Coley is very good in the SFLA area. Stoops has a background in Ohio, and has shown ability to pick a few out of Alabama. But getting players to Lexington is a littler different than getting them to Tallahassee.

This is not great timing for FSU. Now they get to prepare for an annoying GT offense with a DC who is packing his things. Going to be hard to hold on to a few of the better recruits like Marquez White (AL) who Saban will now be all over. Hopefully they can be just as quick with a solid hire to secure the class and get ready for next year with a defense depleted to the Draft.