The Kentucky football program is in a precarious place. As Mark Stoops acknowledged to open his Monday press conference, the Wildcats still have a quarter of their season left to play, and yet, it doesn’t feel like those games matter all that much.

Kentucky football head coach Mark Stoops emphatically responded to rumors of him leaving the program and retiring

Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops talks to the media on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, as the Wildcats prepare to play the Murray State Racers on Saturday at Kroger Field in Lexington. Murray State is 2-9 this season.

At 57 years old, and the landscape of college football changing dramatically the last several years, Stoops was asked today about rumors of possibly deciding to retire at the end