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A2 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 FROM THE FRONT PAGE LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | KENTUCKY.COM Greet the coach Stoops made Arizona bet- “My kids are 29, 27 and STOOPS ter, said Greg Hansen, sports 21; they’re all young adults Fans will have two chances to From Page A1 columnist for the Arizona and they have always been welcome Mark Stoops to Kentucky Daily Star, before leaving close to Mark,” said Ron on Sunday. chuckling. “We didn’t have Tucson two years before At the hangar: UK announced Stoops Jr. “When we go on a business background or a Saturday that fans are invited to Mike was eventually fired and family vacations, he’s the one marketing background. We’re come out and greet the school’s replaced by Rich Rodriguez. who is always into some- not really qualified to do new head football coach when his “Mark didn’t have much to thing. And he gets as good as anything else.” plane lands at the R.J. Corman work with defensively at Ari- he gives. I know he’s taken In fact, during his under- Airplane Hangar at 12:45 p.m. The zona, no better than average up fishing since he’s been in grad days at Youngstown hangar is located at 101 Corman personnel,” said Hansen, “but Tallahassee. He just blends in State, Ron Jr. was on the staff Dr. in Nicholasville. he held his own, established wherever he’s been.” at Youngstown High School, PHIL SEARS | ASSOCIATED PRESS At the stadium: They can also his system and by the time It should be no different coaching under his uncle Bob. Mark Stoops has helped build the nation’s No. 2 ranked defense make their feelings known at Gate he left for Florida State was in the Bluegrass, where Mark His brother Bob was an at Florida State. One of Commonwealth Stadium at clearly ready for a higher and wife Chantel will bring All-Big Ten defensive back 2:45 p.m. calling.” their two young boys, 6-year- at Iowa before becoming a Stoops, who served as Florida In fact, by that time, said old Will and 2-year-old Zack. State’s defensive coordinator in graduate assistant coach there Ron Stoops Jr., Hansen, “I thought it was ob- “We knew he was going Mark’s oldest Saturday night’s Atlantic Coast for Hayden Fry. Mike followed Conference championship game, vious he was more suited to to be a head coach one day, Bob to Iowa where he was brother, is an assistant at will be introduced during a 3 p.m. be a head coach than Mike, we just didn’t know where also All-Big Ten, and where he Youngstown news conference at UK. so it was probably good that or when,” said Ron Jr. “That also became a grad assistant. State. The news conference is not he went out on his own.” it’s so close to us in Ohio just “Mark kind of followed the open to the public but will be tele- Indeed, Mark’s communi- makes it that much better.” same path,” said Ron. “But he vised live on CWKYT-27.2. Fans can cation skills helped him flour- In fact, when Oklahoma was quite a baseball and foot- coach at that time,” said also watch on the video boards ish in Tallahassee, building played at West Virginia ball player in his own right.” McKinney, who has spent 40 inside Commonwealth Stadium. a defense that ranked No. 2 recently — Mike has rejoined Mark became the third years in Cheyenne. “He may nationally this year. Bob on the Oklahoma staff brother to play at Iowa and have mellowed now, but back “He’s been very important — there were 120 Stoops the fourth brother to go into DANNY MOLOSHOK | ASSOCIATED PRESS then, Mark was all football Brooks, an All-Pac-10 safety for me, and not just as a family members and friends coaching. He, too, was a grad Mark Stoops served as defen- with those kids and he got at Arizona who now works in football coach but as a father at the game in Morgantown. assistant under Fry (1990- sive coordinator for brother the most out of them.” the school’s fundraising de- figure,” LaMarcus Joyner, the “There aren’t too many 91), then coached at Nor- and head coach Mike (above) A year after following partment. “I would love pick- Seminoles’ standout junior times we get to see them east donia High School in Ohio at Arizona for six seasons Dimel to Houston in 2000, ing his brain about football. safety told the Miami Herald. of the Mississippi River,” said before being hired by Jim before moving on to Florida Mark Stoops left to join He really elevated my game.” “There’s a lot of things that Ron. “People will get used Leavitt to coach defensive State in 2010. Larry Coker’s staff at Miami, Was he the fun-loving Coach Stoops knows about to seeing a lot of us down in backs at South Florida. where he developed the Mark Stoops or the intense me that a lot of other people Lexington.” Bill Snyder had a lot to do were grad assistants to- recruiting ties that served Mark Stoops? don’t.” That’s great, but right with this. Before becoming gether at Iowa in 1989 before him well in 2009 when Jimbo “He was a little of both,” “He knows how to coach now, the Big Blue Nation a coaching legend at Kansas Leavitt joined Snyder in Man- Fisher hired him to replace Brooks said. “He was great people,” FSU defensive end can’t wait to meet the baby State, Snyder was an assis- hattan then later became the the legendary Mickey An- to be around, but in those Bjorn Werner told the Miami brother. tant at Iowa when the Stoops head coach at South Florida. drews at Florida State. meeting rooms, he was all Herald. “That’s why we have After all, Kentucky foot- boys started coming through When Kansas State of- In between, however, Mark business. We’d be watching so much fun on defense in ball could use a little fun. Iowa City. fensive coordinator Dana spent six years as defensive film, and we would be at each practice and when we’re play- In 1989, Snyder hired Bob Dimel became head coach at coordinator on his brother other. You loved playing for ing because he just knows John Clay: (859) 231-3226. to his first Kansas State staff. Wyoming in 1997, he hired Mike’s staff at Arizona. him because he wanted to how to talk to us.” Email: [email protected]. In 1992, Snyder hired Mike. Mark away from Leavitt. “He was a players’ coach make you a better football That’s no surprise to his Twitter: @johnclayiv. Leavitt and Mark Stoops “Mark was a very intense all the way,” said Darrell player.” oldest brother. Blog: johnclay.bloginky.com ing back,” he said. Lexmark’s software acquisitions weren’t Perceptive Software’s “To grow, Lexmark will LEXMARK traditional strong point. Per- have to take (market) share, Adding software Lexmark has acquired five software companies since 2010. To From Page A1 ceptive, meanwhile, was pop- and that’s difficult when Over the past few years, describe what each specializes in doing, the company offered the fol- ular among universities, but you’re fighting against much lowing examples of how the software could be utilized by a health care and development, as well as Lexmark’s acquisitions of provider. Lexmark was stronger with bigger players,” Cross said. corporate work like marketing software companies has led it grade schools. and sales. even further into its custom- tive Intelligent Capture, automates The acquisitions come as Lexington going forward In the mid- to late 2000s, ers’ business operations. what might have been a manual many companies are begin- So where does that leave the company’s inkjet opera- The moves began in June paper-intensive task. Consider the ning to think more about their Lexington operations, which tions began a steady decline 2010, when Lexmark acquired Perceptive Software: “Every- accounts payable department of a environmental footprint with have focused much of the as consumers weren’t buying Kansas-based Perceptive Soft- body’s probably experienced the health care provider. some starting to print less. company’s research and devel- enough ink to meet profit ex- ware, which specializes in situation where a doctor refers you “A typical hospital might be As the entire printer industry opment on printer hardware? pectations. Like the business what is called enterprise con- somewhere else for a diagnostic dealing with thousands of bills ev- is maturing in terms of pages The company recently model for razors and blades, tent management software. test,” said Ken Woodruff, Lexmark’s ery month, all coming from many printed, companies including launched 42 new laser print- inkjet printers were often sold Perceptive bills itself as health care industry director. “It’s different suppliers,” Woodruff giant rivals HP and Xerox, ers that Rooke, Lexmark’s like you’re starting over. You have said. “What Perceptive Intelligent at a loss with the expectation providing “content in con- CEO, said shows the impor- to give them your ID card, insur- Capture is really good at is ... both of which have a presence that future ink sales would text.” It takes information ance card, contact information, automating the process of scan- in Lexington, have turned in- tance of the Lexington head- provide enough profits. in any number of ways — a medical history, etc.” ning in invoices and automatically creasingly to software to boost quarters.

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