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06-09-2025, 08:34 PM
UK TE coach and lead recruiting coordinator Vince Marrow, aka The Big Dawg is finalizing a three year deal to be Louisville's GM.
3 months ago he told BBN that he wasn't leaving.
3 months ago he told BBN that he wasn't leaving.
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06-10-2025, 08:49 AM
I don’t like the state of the UK football program right now. Feel like we are trending in the wrong direction.
06-10-2025, 08:17 PM
This is the 47th time hes tried to leave, UK is better with him gone, hes been a major roadblock in player retention and recruiting lately. Time for new blood.
06-10-2025, 08:34 PM
I think Stoops is gone after this season. Him trying to get the texas am job awhile back showed he didn't wanna be here then.
06-10-2025, 11:12 PM
06-11-2025, 03:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-11-2025, 03:15 AM by Old School Hound.)
06-12-2025, 12:14 AM
Not upset in the least Vince left and won't be when Stoops leaves either. They have both peaked already IMO, at least at UK. Where the program goes from there will depend on the hires. I have faith we will get 2 better people for a lot less $$$. Like my dad said every time I went through a breakup, you can always do worse and you can always to better, just make sure you do better next time. lol
06-12-2025, 02:57 AM
(06-12-2025, 12:14 AM)jetpilot Wrote: Not upset in the least Vince left and won't be when Stoops leaves either. They have both peaked already IMO, at least at UK. Where the program goes from there will depend on the hires. I have faith we will get 2 better people for a lot less $$$. Like my dad said every time I went through a breakup, you can always do worse and you can always to better, just make sure you do better next time. lol
Sage advice.
06-12-2025, 12:12 PM
This definitely has all the feelings of the final season for Joker Phillips type season for Stoops. Looking at the schedule, there's a real potential to go winless in conference play, just winning our usual cupcake games which would put us at 3-9.
Writing was on the wall for Marrow leaving, he had been courted by Louisville already, and even Purdue when Brohm was there but he always stuck with Stoops who had been there since the beginning, cupboard was bare, but they really started putting together a solid foundation & culture. Here we are years later and things really went south. The decline really started whenever the Stoops to Texas A&M story broke loose and there seemed to be real traction that he was going to be the next HC, then when A&M pulled out, Stoops was like, "hey guys all that was just a ruse, I am committed to Lexington."
Few articles I've read that bringing back in Eddie Gran to be the so called GM (same position Marrow took at UL) was really a big change, and not a good one for Marrow. Stoops started leaning more toward Gran, and a few other select coaches for any & everything, when before, Marrow had always been Stoops right hand, when he started to fall out of place, things started going into motion. Most people thought that Marrow just liked the attention of being courted by other programs, but I always had a feeling he would eventually leave, but to leave for Louisville was one big FU to Stoops, there's no denying that.
This right here may be the final nail in the coffin for the Mark Stoops era at Kentucky, losing your key recruiting guru to your rival school, and especially if they perform as bad as most everyone expects, there's just no way of him surviving.
Writing was on the wall for Marrow leaving, he had been courted by Louisville already, and even Purdue when Brohm was there but he always stuck with Stoops who had been there since the beginning, cupboard was bare, but they really started putting together a solid foundation & culture. Here we are years later and things really went south. The decline really started whenever the Stoops to Texas A&M story broke loose and there seemed to be real traction that he was going to be the next HC, then when A&M pulled out, Stoops was like, "hey guys all that was just a ruse, I am committed to Lexington."
Few articles I've read that bringing back in Eddie Gran to be the so called GM (same position Marrow took at UL) was really a big change, and not a good one for Marrow. Stoops started leaning more toward Gran, and a few other select coaches for any & everything, when before, Marrow had always been Stoops right hand, when he started to fall out of place, things started going into motion. Most people thought that Marrow just liked the attention of being courted by other programs, but I always had a feeling he would eventually leave, but to leave for Louisville was one big FU to Stoops, there's no denying that.
This right here may be the final nail in the coffin for the Mark Stoops era at Kentucky, losing your key recruiting guru to your rival school, and especially if they perform as bad as most everyone expects, there's just no way of him surviving.
9 hours ago
(06-12-2025, 12:12 PM)-STAT- Wrote: This definitely has all the feelings of the final season for Joker Phillips type season for Stoops. Looking at the schedule, there's a real potential to go winless in conference play, just winning our usual cupcake games which would put us at 3-9.
Writing was on the wall for Marrow leaving, he had been courted by Louisville already, and even Purdue when Brohm was there but he always stuck with Stoops who had been there since the beginning, cupboard was bare, but they really started putting together a solid foundation & culture. Here we are years later and things really went south. The decline really started whenever the Stoops to Texas A&M story broke loose and there seemed to be real traction that he was going to be the next HC, then when A&M pulled out, Stoops was like, "hey guys all that was just a ruse, I am committed to Lexington."
Few articles I've read that bringing back in Eddie Gran to be the so called GM (same position Marrow took at UL) was really a big change, and not a good one for Marrow. Stoops started leaning more toward Gran, and a few other select coaches for any & everything, when before, Marrow had always been Stoops right hand, when he started to fall out of place, things started going into motion. Most people thought that Marrow just liked the attention of being courted by other programs, but I always had a feeling he would eventually leave, but to leave for Louisville was one big FU to Stoops, there's no denying that.
This right here may be the final nail in the coffin for the Mark Stoops era at Kentucky, losing your key recruiting guru to your rival school, and especially if they perform as bad as most everyone expects, there's just no way of him surviving.
I've heard nothing but Stoops was basically offered and accepted the job but Texas A&M had to do an about-face when their boosters went absolutely nuts.
Can't say I'd blame Stoops for taking the offer because Texas A&M is a step up from Kentucky and Calipari was still in Lexington (remember the "basketball school" fiasco or whining about a practice facility?).
As a Kentucky fan, it's overall a sign of some good years when a school higher up on the food chain wants our coach. No one wanted Bill Curry or Joker Phillips.
7 hours ago
Yeah, I’ve been fine with Stoops, he’s done about as much as I think anyone can with the UK football program. It just feels like the juice has run out of the orange, you know what I mean? If the SEC is going to nine league games, are we ever going to be able to expect more than 6 or 7 win seasons at best going forward no matter who is in charge? The majority of our NIL money is still gonna go towards basketball, not the case for hardly any other SEC school.
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