Sunday Headlines: Mark Stoops says he wasn’t criticizing Shane Beamer

Good morning BBN. Hope you’re having a blessed Sunday!

So, by now, you’ve probably seen the recent interview by Kentucky Mark Stoops in which he appeared to take shots at South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer.

Well, on Saturday, Stoops said those comments were actually not a shot at Beamer but of Stoops himself from when he first became Kentucky’s head coach.

See for yourself thanks to our own Dylan Ballard.

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