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Stoops names Towles Kentucky’s starting quarterback for coming season
By Ethan Levine
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Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops brought his team’s four-man quarterback competition came to an end Monday morning when he named redshirt sophomore Patrick Towles the Wildcats’ starter via Twitter.
After thorough evaluation and a hard fought competition, we are naming Patrick Towles as our starting quarterback.
— Mark Stoops (@UKCoachStoops) August 18, 2014
This competition has brought out the best in our quarterbacks and I’m confident in Patrick moving our team forward.
— Mark Stoops (@UKCoachStoops) August 18, 2014
Towles beat out four-star freshman Drew Barker, former starter Maxwell Smith and redshirt freshman Reese Phillips to assume the Wildcats’ starting job.
Towles played in five games as a true freshman in 2012, completing 19 of 40 passes for 233 yards while throwing one touchdown and one interception. He sat out the entire 2013 season as a redshirt.
He will speak to the media Tuesday for the first time after being named the starter.
A former newspaper reporter who has roamed the southeastern United States for years covering football and eating way too many barbecue ribs, if there is such a thing.
