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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Dan Mullen’s impressive head coaching resume has a few glaring holes.
He’s beaten national title-winning coaches Urban Meyer, Steve Spurrier, Les Miles, Gene Chizik and Ed Orgeron. He upset Florida while he was at Mississippi State and won at Mississippi State in his first year with the Gators. He has topped Mark Stoops in a shootout and Gus Malzahn in a defensive battle.
Mullen’s done everything short of winning a championship during his dozen years in the league. Well, that and knock off Alabama under coach Nick Saban.
Mullen is 0-9 as a head coach against the Crimson Tide, losing every year during his near decade in Starkville. He gets another shot his first with the 11th-ranked Gators (8-2) in the Southeastern Conference title game Saturday night in Atlanta.
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The state of Rhode Island isn’t often thought of as a football powerhouse, but it is now the home state of both the Kentucky Wildcats’ defensive and offensive coordinators.
Defensive coordinator Brad White is originally from The Ocean State, and now newly-hired offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach brings a second face from Rhode Island to the UK coaching staff.
Despite growing up in the heart of New England with little personal connections to Kentucky, the newly hired UK offensive coordinator said he grew up watching several football Wildcats of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Eric Wolford Named Kentucky s Offensive Line Coach By Haeli Spears Kentucky
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LEXINGTON, Ky. The University of Kentucky has a new offensive line coach. Head coach Mark Stoops named Eric Wolford to the position, he announced Thursday.
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Eric Wolford to serve as offensive line coach for Kentucky
Wolford joins the Wildcats with 25 years of coaching experience
Wolford previously coached with the NFL
Previously the offensive line coach at South Carolina, Wolford joins the Wildcats with 25 years of coaching experience, two of which were in the National Football League (NFL).
“I’m honored to have Eric Wolford join our staff,” Stoops said. “I’ve known Eric and worked with Eric for a long time. I knew it would take a special person to fill this role and we found the best candidate. I know what we are getting with Eric Wolford and he will continue to b
Kentucky taps former UMass quarterback Liam Coen to guide its offense
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LEXINGTON, Ky. Kentucky coach Mark Stoops has hired Los Angeles Rams assistant and former UMass quarterback Liam Coen as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach to revive the Southeastern Conference’s worst passing game.
Coen, 35, was named the Rams’ assistant quarterbacks coach before this season after two as the NFL club’s wide receivers’ assistant. He will join the program after the season with Los Angeles, which reached the Super Bowl in 2018 and currently leads the NFC West. Coen works with Pro Bowl QB Jared Goff and has helped the receiver corps produce a 1,000-yard duo each of the past two seasons.