Mark Stoops is preparing for his 12th season as the Kentucky football head coach. For a few hours on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2023, that was in doubt. Now others around the college football landscape believe the end of his head coaching tenure is on the horizon. Smoke around a potential move for Stoops to Texas A&M started floating from College Station on Thanksgiving day. A few hours before a fifth-straight Kentucky victory in the Governor’s Cup, college football insiders reported Stoops was a legitimate candidate for the A&M coaching vacancy. A departure seemed imminent for a few h…