Following his firing by Kentucky Football, Mark Stoops has found his next job. According to Chip Brown of 247 Sports, Stoops is joining the Texas Longhorns Football coaching staff.
Stoops will serve as a special assistant to the head coach.
“Mark Stoops has been hired in a similar special assistant role that Paul Chryst and Gary Patterson were hired in by Texas,” the source told Brown.
The irony here is that Stoops’ Kentucky team nearly upset the top-25 Texas this past season. However, a goal-line stand
in overtime by the Longhorns helped them escape with a 16-13 win, and Kentucky ultimately would finish the season at 5-7, one game short of a bowl berth that would have saved his job.
Now, Stoops will look to revive his head-coaching career with an assistant-coaching stint with a Longhorns team that’s set to be a preseason top-10 squad next season. Texas won’t be on Kentucky’s schedule again until the 2027 season when the Wildcats travel to Austin.
Best of luck to Stoops as he looks to get his career back on the right track.
