![]() Brad Kragthorpe, the son of former Louisville head coach Steve Kragthorpe, has spent three years in Cincinnati, the first two as an assistant quarterbacks coach and last year as an assistant wide receivers coach those were the same titles Liam Coen once held with the Rams. Walters, the Bengals’ lead wide receivers coach, boasts OC experience (Nebraska, Central Florida, Indiana State) but doesn’t have the specific QBs experience that might be sought with this hire. ![]() Rationale: If the hire doesn’t come from within UK’s locker room, it makes the most sense that Stoops would look to the NFL for his next offensive coordinator, and the Super Bowl runners-up boast a couple of potential candidates. Troy WaltersĬurrent job: Cincinnati Bengals wide receivers coach. Among them: prepare Will Levis for the NFL in a manner that he did for Alex Smith (while QBs coach at Utah), Dak Prescott and Kyle Trask. At Kentucky in 2022, Mullen’s responsibilities would be more focused. His tenure with the Gators was ultimately doomed by two factors: program-wide recruiting misfires and his attachment to defensive coordinator Todd Grantham, whom he fired midway through last season before he himself was let go. Rationale: Mullen has spent two decades in the SEC, serving as Florida’s OC and quarterbacks coach from 2005-2008 before two head coaching stops: Mississippi State (2009-2017) and Florida (2018-2021). Becoming an SEC offensive coordinator just six years after being a graduate assistant would be quite a rapid rise, but the football world as of late has been more open than ever to eschewing experience for gifted youth. Seeing as he’s a close friend of Coen, that might be difficult, depending on if there’s a job waiting for him in Los Angeles, but his role in the development of UK’s receiving corps last year was undersold. Rationale: I suspect that, even if “Woody” isn’t named offensive coordinator, Kentucky will likely try to retain him as part of its staff. Working from the assumption that Mark Stoops would like to continue running the same offense at UK that helped it engineer a 10-3 season last year, here are some names to watch as the Wildcats seek a new offensive coordinator. It’s hard to fault Coen teaming back up with his former boss and team being the Rams’ offensive coordinator, at this point, is functionally an internship with the promise of an NFL head coaching job at the end of it. ![]() His exit isn’t officially official, but it’s all but. It became evident early in Coen’s time leading the offense that his stay in Lexington would likely be short, but predicting that he’d only be in town for a single campaign was hazardous. Liam Coen left the Los Angeles Rams’ coaching staff to join UK’s about this time last year after getting officially announced as the Cats’ next OC in December, a couple weeks prior to the Wildcats’ game against North Carolina State in the 2020 Gator Bowl. It seems like it was just yesterday that Kentucky was looking for an offensive coordinator. ![]()
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