Kentucky seems ready to finally have offensive continuity

Kentucky faces a tough challenge on Saturday against Texas. In year four under Steve Sarkisian, the Longhorns have finally stopped underachieving and are clearly one of the best teams in college football. The Horns control their SEC title destiny and could be a popular pick to win the national championship in the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff. Texas got here thanks to terrific roster-building, talent development, and coaching continuity.

“It’s evident they have a lot of continuity. I think it’s the only Power Four school in the country that’s had the same offensive coordinator, same head coach, and same defensive coordinator,” Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops pointed out on Monday. “So they have continuity. It shows.”

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Kentucky is looking for continuity as year 12 of the Stoops era. How is it possible when a head coach has been one place for a dozen years? Constant year-to-year turnover at offensive coordinator and quarterback has prevented Kentucky from building any continuity in the Joe Craft Football Training Facility.

Just look at how many different offensive coordinators, offensive line coaches, wide receivers coaches, and starting quarterbacks there have been since 2020.

Year	Offensive Coordinator	Offensive Line Coach	Wide Receivers Coach	Starting Quarterback
2020	Eddie Gran	John Schlarman	Jovon Bouknight	Terry Wilson
2021	Liam Coen	Eric Wolford	Scott Woodward	Will Levis
2022	Rich Scangarello	Zach Yenser	Scott Woodward	Will Levis
2023	Liam Coen	Zach Yenser	Scott Woodward	Devin Leary
2024	Bush Hamdan	Eric Wolford	Daikiel Shorts Jr.	Brock Vandagriff

At four critical positions, Kentucky had made at least two changes each offseason and twice (2021, 2024) had four new individuals at each spot. That has led to a lot of the up and down performances and prevented Kentucky from setting a foundation and building from there on offense.

Stoops would like to see Kentucky have some offensive stability from 2024 to 2025.

“I would certainly love to have some continuity. We’ve had great defensive continuity. Offensively, I’m excited and hope to keep that consistency built on the good things that we have,” Stoops explained. “Again, I think you saw a spark in a young quarterback and I’d love to have several of our quarterbacks back and have that continuity and build on things.”

In the 48-6 win against Murray State, true freshman Cutter Boley showed what made him such a highly coveted recruit but there is still development needed. Stability is needed for development. On Monday, Stoops made a public commitment to Brock Vandagriff, offensive coordinator Bush Hamdan, and the rest of the offensive staff as Kentucky appears ready to press the continuity button despite a rough year on offense this season.

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