Availability reports? Mark Stoops compares it to 'a mouse turd' in grand scheme of college football

The world of college football has changed greatly over the last few years and Kentucky football head coach Mark Stoops knows that. So when he was asked about the potential for a new rule change, he seemed to minimize the topic.

That topic? Availability reports.

It's a new theme across college athletics that began last year with specific leagues, including the Big Ten.

Earlier this week at the SEC Spring Meetings, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey spoke on potentially implementing availability reports.

“We don’t want to just rush into something,” Sankey said. “It’s not injury reporting. It’s a very different circumstance, given some of the privacy issues we have. Yet when you start to see the numbers of dollars being bet on legalized sports gambling around college sports — not just football, but men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, baseball — all of those catch your attention.”

While Sankey and the rest of the NCAA doesn't want to label it as an 'injury' report, that's essecially what it is. While the Big Ten doesn't list the specific type of injury, each team would have to designate its availability report with either 'questionable' or 'out' tags on players a few hours before kick.

While Mark Stoops addressed the possibility of adding that to the league moving forward, he was rather dismissive about the importance of it when talking about the rest of the issues involved in college athletics.

“I’m pretty forthcoming. If someone’s out, I’ll say they’re out. I’m on board,” Stoops said. “We have so many other issues now. That’s a mouse turd there.”

A mouse turd.

He's not wrong. The last thing that commissioners of conferneces and coaches should be dealing with are injury reports or availability reports.

For now, at least, it's going to remain on the docket but it doesn't appear like something that will be an immediate chance to the SEC.