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This definitely has all the feelings of the final season for Joker Phillips type season for Stoops. Looking at the schedule, there's a real potential to go winless in conference play, just winning our usual cupcake games which would put us at 3-9.

Writing was on the wall for Marrow leaving, he had been courted by Louisville already, and even Purdue when Brohm was there but he always stuck with Stoops who had been there since the beginning, cupboard was bare, but they really started putting together a solid foundation & culture. Here we are years later and things really went south. The decline really started whenever the Stoops to Texas A&M story broke loose and there seemed to be real traction that he was going to be the next HC, then when A&M pulled out, Stoops was like, "hey guys all that was just a ruse, I am committed to Lexington."

Few articles I've read that bringing back in Eddie Gran to be the so called GM (same position Marrow took at UL) was really a big change, and not a good one for Marrow. Stoops started leaning more toward Gran, and a few other select coaches for any & everything, when before, Marrow had always been Stoops right hand, when he started to fall out of place, things started going into motion. Most people thought that Marrow just liked the attention of being courted by other programs, but I always had a feeling he would eventually leave, but to leave for Louisville was one big FU to Stoops, there's no denying that.

This right here may be the final nail in the coffin for the Mark Stoops era at Kentucky, losing your key recruiting guru to your rival school, and especially if they perform as bad as most everyone expects, there's just no way of him surviving.