Mark Stoops
Stoops at the University of Kentucky Commonwealth Stadium in 2013.
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Kentucky |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 19–30 |
| Annual salary | $3.4 Million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 9, 1967 Youngstown, Ohio |
| Playing career | |
| 1986–1988 | Iowa |
| Position(s) | Defensive back |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1990–1991 | Iowa (GA) |
| 1992–1995 | Nordonia (OH) HS (DB) |
| 1996 | USF (DB) |
| 1997–1999 | Wyoming (DB) |
| 2000 | Houston (Co-DC/S) |
| 2001–2003 | Miami (FL) (DB) |
| 2004–2009 | Arizona (DC/DB) |
| 2010–2012 | Florida State (DC/DB) |
| 2013–present | Kentucky |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 19–30 |
| Bowls | 0–1 |
Mark Thomas Stoops (born July 9, 1967) is an American college football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Kentucky, a position he assumed in November 2012. Stoops previously served as defensive coordinator at the University of Arizona from 2004 to 2009, and Florida State University from 2010 to 2012.
Stoops is currently the head coach for Kentucky. Stoops, one of six children born to Ron and Evelyn "Dee Dee" Stoops, attended Cardinal Mooney High School in Youngstown, Ohio, where his father was an assistant coach and defensive coordinator. He is a brother of Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops and former Arizona head coach Mike Stoops, currently the defensive coordinator at Oklahoma.
After high school, Stoops played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1986 to 1988.
Stoops was a graduate assistant coach at Iowa from 1989 to 1991, and then became the athletic director and defensive backs coach at Nordonia High School in Macedonia, Ohio (1992–1995).
In 1996, when Kansas State assistant Jim Leavitt was hired as the head coach for the South Florida Bulls, he hired Stoops as defensive backs coach.
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