Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops has emerged as the prime candidate to be the next head coach at Texas A&M, sources tell Sports Illustrated. A deal has not yet been completed.

Stoops is one of the highest paid coaches in the country, making just over $9 million per year. Agreeing to a contract structure with Texas A&M may prove tricky. Aggies athletic director Ross Bjork has said publicly multiple times that the school wants its next coach on a more incentive-based contract that doesn’t reset the salary ceiling of the sport like the fully-guaranteed Jimbo Fisher contract did. At his current salary, only six coaches make more than Stoops.

Stoops had brief overlap with Bjork when both were at Miami in the early 2000s. He has amassed a 73–64 record overall with two 10-win seasons. The Wildcats’ 10–3 mark in ’18 was the program’s first 10-win campaign in over 40 years. Stoops’s Kentucky teams have faltered against the upper echelon of the SEC, though if he is the hire at A&M, he’ll have resources and talent on-par with any team in the country.

When asked by On3Sports about the Texas A&M vacancy after Kentucky’s win over rival Louisville on Saturday, Stoops said:

“This is a big win for our program and state … I’m keeping the focus and concentration on our team.”