The Kentucky Basketball team is about to undergo one of its biggest offseason overhauls in recent memory, as Alvin Brooks III is reportedly the latest assistant coach to leave town.
According to KSR’s Jacob Polacheck, Brooks is not expected to return to the UK coaching staff for next season. The associate head coach joins Jason Hart as assistant coaches who will be leaving Lexington this offseason after Hart accepted a job at SMU.
Like Hart, Brooks was on an expiring contract, and it’s currently unclear
if Kentucky attempted to re-sign him for next season.
The 46-year-old Brooks was part of Mark Pope’s first staff in Lexington and has been with the program for the past two seasons. Originally from Houston, Brooks spent the previous eight seasons on the Baylor Bears staff in Waco. He also had previous stops at Kansas State, Sam Houston State, Bradley, Midland, and Arkansas–Fort Smith.
While Kentucky did just hire Keegan Brown, he’s in a front-office role, so Pope still has two primary assistant coaching spots to fill in the coming weeks.
Safe to say this could go down as the most important offseason of the Mark Pope era, one that may decide how the rest of his tenure will go and if it goes beyond next season.
