Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Wildcats compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 37 head coaches since it began play during the 1881 season. [1] On November 27, 2012, Mark Stoops was introduced as Kentucky's 37th head coach. [2] The team has played more than 1,150 games over 122 seasons of Kentucky football. [1]
The Wildcats play their home games in Rupp Arena, named after their 16th head coach Adolph Rupp. They previously played in Memorial Coliseum, Alumni Gymnasium, Buell Armory Gymnasium, and began their existence playing in State College Gymnasium. [1] [2] There have been 23 head coaches in the history of Kentucky basketball.
Mark Thomas Stoops (born July 9, 1967) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach for the University of Kentucky, a position he has held since 2013. Stoops is the all-time winningest head coach in the history of the Kentucky Wildcats football program. He is also the longest-tenured current SEC ...
Bio: Stoops was hired as Kentucky’s football coach in November 2012, and his only head coaching job as been at UK. Stoops is about to begin his 12th season leading the Wildcats.
After nine months as the head coach of the Wildcats, Stoops and his staff signed the highest ranked recruiting class in program history. [96] Stoops's first season at Kentucky was a struggle, as the Wildcats duplicated the 2–10 record from 2012. [ 97 ]
Mark Pope is the current head coach. Six Wildcats coaches have won the National Coach-of-the-Year award: Adolph Rupp in 1950, 1954, 1959, 1966, and 1970, Joe B. Hall in 1978, Eddie Sutton in 1986, Rick Pitino in 1990 and 1992, Tubby Smith in 1998, 2003, and 2005, and John Calipari in 2012 and 2015.
On April 12, 2024, Pope was hired to become the 23rd men's basketball head coach at Kentucky. [6] Pope's coaching debut at Kentucky was a 103–62 win against Wright State University. The score received some media attention for being a 41-point win, as #41 was the number of Pope when he was a player at Kentucky. [7] [8]
After beginning his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma State under Henry Iba, Sutton was a successful head coach at Tulsa Central High School and the College of Southern Idaho. Sutton began coaching at the NCAA level in 1969 at Creighton University , followed by Arkansas from 1974 to 1985, Kentucky from 1985 to 1989, and ...