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Mark Stoops is Working to Add Ed Reed to UK Coaching Staff

Mark Stoops is working hard to add former NFL star Ed Reed to the Kentucky coaching staff.

According to The Baltimore Sun:



Beginning Jan. 9, Division I football programs are allowed to hire a 10th on-field assistant coach. At some programs, that might mean an internal promotion of a support staffer. At others, it might mean plucking a coach from another school.

At Kentucky, it might mean hiring Ed Reed.

In 2016, Wildcats coach Mark Stoops reportedly reached out to the Ravens legend, whom he coached at Miami, about joining the program’s staff as a defensive backs coach. But Reed had been hired the month before as the Buffalo Bills’ assistant defensive backs coach, and he declined the offer.

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