Both were ranked #1 overall in their classes. KY had an amazing stretch from 95-97 time period of in-state elite talent. Alexander, Couch, Redman, Johnson Couch lived up to all the hype. Johnson ended up doing pretty well, but did not have the type of career many folks thought he would. Alexander had the best overall career.
it has continued to this day, off & on of course. compare it to the relatively few high level basketball players this state produces - despite the screams of the Oscar Combs of this Commonwealth that we are a basketball state & that football is a bothersome distraction.
That makes for a good story and is similar to what an Indiana guy told me years ago... "if we could just get the slow white guys who have dreams of playing basketball, to instead play football, IU would have one hell of a team." Personally I think football and basketball have different body types and physical attributes... Mostly though I think its what lies between the ears that makes the biggest difference in athletes/sports... And that's not meant to be a negative comment regarding other sports/players.
Meh, football in the state as a whole is rather weak while there has been a little run on some football talent, the numbers have been few. I really doubt that Pitino had any affect on what the kids are doing today. None of the kids in high school were even born with Pitino was at UK.
Nobody know, he is a 2017 recruit. He will just be a Jr. this upcoming season at Lafayette, so who know he has 2 more years of this stuff.
You are getting too far ahead of this story. Wills' recruitment will be complicated, and Stoops has an uphill climb to sign him.
No. He is wide open, and he will be recruited by every major program in the southeast and midwest. I will be very happy and surprised if we get him. Stoops is doing a great job with recruiting. But you can never get all of them. Occasionally there will be players who look carefully at all of their options and make another decision. Wills may be 1 of them.
There are only 15 5* kids in the 2017 class... 4 are O-linemen as are 17 of the top 100. There are 39 O-linemen in the 2016 class Rivals 250 but only 2 5*.
I'm sure he will. But Wills has already been offered by Alabama, Florida State, Florida, Notre Dame. Offers will come from Ohio State, Michigan, Georgia, Tennessee. Sometimes we can beat these schools for a player. Stoops signed Randolph and Elam away from Alabama, Snodgrass away from Ohio State, Boom away from Georgia. But we will lose some of these too. Just because Wills lives in Lexington, that won't be enough. We will be up against several top 5 programs that will go all out to get him. My biggest hope is that Wills is sold on the idea of being a tackle in college. Some top programs will offer him as a guard, and that might help us.
