The 68-year-old Brooks led the Wildcats to a 7-6 record this season and 39-47 mark in seven seasons. If it was his final game, his career college record will be 130-156-4 in 25 seasons, including 18 at Oregon where the field is named after him.
Last January, Kentucky announced that offensive coordinator Joker Phillips will take over as head coach when Brooks steps down. ESPN
The better of Rich Brooks' coaching career is behind him. He was a great coach at Oregon, but couldn't get Kentucky lifted off the ground with any consistency. Joker Phillips will have his handful in the future for a couple reasons, the first is that this Kentucky team isn't that great, and when a school is a basketball first school, it's tough to get the program going. The second is that Kentucky is in the SEC and he would need about 3 straight good recruiting years to ever make noise in the that conference.
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