Kentucky’s Mark Stoops followed up his AP SEC Coach of the Year honors by earning the same award from the league’s coaches.
Congratulations to Coach Stoops on a great season:
Associated Press SEC Coach of the Year.
SEC Coach of the Year as voted by league coaches. @UKCoachStoops = Earned, not given. #GetUp pic.twitter.com/7DdRR7VtND
— Kentucky Football (@UKFootball) December 5, 2018
From UK:
Stoops becomes the first UK coach to earn Coach of the Year honors since Jerry Claiborne in 1983. The Wildcats won nine regular-season games for the first time in 41 years, including six over bowl-eligible teams and four over squads that won eight or more. UK’s 5-3 mark in SEC play also was the team’s first winning league record since 1977. The Cats won at Florida, ending a three-decade-old dry spell against the Gators, and the recorded the most-lopsided win in the history of the Governor’s Cup series against Louisville.
