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Brooks' Decision Expected Soon

Posted: Jan 3, 2010 6:50 PM

(AP) - A newspaper is reporting that Kentucky football coach Rich Brooks could announce Monday whether he's going to stay with the team.

Brooks had told his Wildcats after they lost to Clemson on Dec. 27 in the Music City Bowl that he was "80 percent" sure he would not return in 2010.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Sunday that Brooks spent his time since then in Lexington, mulling over his options with family and friends.

Brooks wouldn't say whether he had made up his mind.

But in an interview with the Herald-Leader and The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart said he wanted Brooks to return.

The 68-year-old Brooks led the Wildcats to a 7-6 record this season and 39-47 mark in seven seasons.

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Information from: Lexington Herald-Leader

Rich Brooks Record
By Alan Cutler


Posted: Jan 4, 2010 9:19 AM
Updated: Jan 4, 2010 9:21 AM

Rich Brooks talks about his future this morning at 11. We will carry his press conference live on lex18. Here is a look at Rich's record at UK.

Rich Brooks 7 years UK Coach 2003 thru 2009 39-47

2003 4-8

Do you think UK coach Rich Brooks will announce his retirement at today's press conference?
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2004 2-9

2005 3-8

2006 8-5

Music City Bowl Kentucky 28 Clemson 20

2007 8-5

Music City Bowl Kentucky 35 Florida State 28

2008 7-6

Liberty Bowl Kentucky 25 East Carolina 19

2009 7-6

Music City Bowl Clemson 21 Kentucky 13


Biggest Non-Bowl Wins

Kentucky 24 Georgia 20 2006

Kentucky 40 Louisville 34 2007

Kentucky 43 LSU 37 3 OT's 2007


Toughest Losses

LSU 49 Kentucky 0 2006

Tennessee 52 Kentucky 50 4 OT's 2007

Arkansas 71 Kentucky 63 7 OT's 2003

Well in case someone missed the news, he is gone...

http://www.lex18.com/news/barnhart-and- ... etirement/

He did better than I ever expected he would. Hopefully Joker can continue to build and actually win a few SEC games in the years to come.

Joker

Now little brother has a chance!!!

Soon our seasons will end in October again...

Mike Leach is available

I am going to be optimistic. However I rarely promote and assistant manager to replace a manager in a facility whether they did good or bad. I am not sure how you expect the assistant to do better than his boss. If the assistant is that good then they would been better.
I really like Joker so I hope he does well!

Mitch may have been looking at it this way. If we tell Joker he's the next head coach it will keep him from leaving.

Also, it helps in recruiting when the players know who the coach is going to be the next few years (hopefully)

E_HILLMAN wrote:Soon our seasons will end in October again...

Well I was wrong. Our seasons are ending in Sept at this rate.

Couldn't find the one I made a couple years ago but here are a few news ones.

WTF. Go Toppers??!! Red is the new blue, after all-- LMAO, where is BATMAN?? I have never understood and always hated the idea of a coach in waiting, it's such b.s., no door open for anybody else-- why?? How can an a.d. have that much power? Which high profile recruit says "I wanna play for Joker Phillips"?? Can somebody name one? Other than those few of us that know he was a player at UK, who else does? Who cares??? UK football sucks and it always will with these no-names running the show. We need a coach Cal level FOOTBALL coach, somebody high profile, or we will never see anything but mediocre out of league play and the usual azz-stomping in the SEC. UK can afford to pay the right one(s) to coach. We just need to be begging and pleading and throwing Benjamins at a super fast rate. The bones are already there, they just need MUSCLE. UK superfans can't and won't keep carrying the program from stadium to stadium, filling the seats impressively, forever.

ITs finally over!


Lets hope they Pony up the money for a real SEC ready coach.