More insight on why Marrow left town.
Eddie Gran was the offensive coordinator for the Kentucky Wildcats up until following the 2020 season when he was fired after Kentucky went 4-6 in a 10-game SEC schedule.
He was re-hired in an off-the-field role in the fall of 2021, working as a pseudo-GM for the Wildcats football program, getting a say in what players Kentucky went after, most notably during the transfer portal windows.
According to KSR’s Nick Roush, Gran’s role grew larger in the football offices, and Marrow’s grew smaller.
For the first decade of the Stoops era, Marrow and Dan Brezowitz were the most powerful speakers in the room. Mark Stoops had the final call, but he deferred to Marrow’s judgment.
That equation changed when Gran entered the picture. Marrow’s first choices were no longer always the program’s first choices.
Gran was responsible for a slew of the last two transfer portal classes. Last year’s was a failure on most fronts, which may have caused some frustration on Marrow’s end, along with his reduced say in who Kentucky recruits.
Internal conflicts, butting heads, and an increasingly smaller role seem to have led to Marrow’s departure, who had been with Stoops and the UK program since 2013.
Now, he’s the GM of the Louisville Cardinals in a city he dominated while in Lexington — Kentucky, and Stoops can consider the city of Louisville officially untouchable.