Yes. Given that Key, Porter, Anthony, Crowdus, and the Browns have multiple years of eligibility left, and that Stoops needs to take 5 offensive linemen and a bunch of LBs in our 2024 class, I would guess Coach Coen may be fairly selective about taking WRs. But we do need a couple of them. Maybe Monteiro will commit to us. He sounds like an underrated WR prospect and Coach Woodward has built a relationship with him.
It is being publicly reported this weekend that Coach Marrow's offer to Justin Kattus may be a PWO. His little brother Tucker is a top UK recruiting target for our 2025 class. His big brother Josh is already a key player for UK's offense.
Boykins had been mentioned alot but then it went quiet. I assume due to the coaches telling him to wait. Like you said outside Monteiro there hasn't been much buzz on WRs.
Yes. There hasn't been much news lately about WRs, which is a contrast with QB, TE, and OL. There hasn't been much news about RBs either, but we may need a couple of those in 2024.
Yes but I also like Nik Hall if he can get healthy.
No, it won't help. Why would it help to present McRoy with an SC transfer for competition for playing time? It might hurt. Hopefully McRoy will like Kentucky and Yenser well enough to come on board and work for his chance to play. McRoy is one of my favorite Kentucky targets in 24 right behind Boley if he moves up, Mesman, and the twins.
Zeismer played/trained at the DE spot 100% of the spring.
Yes, because he will redshirt, and because the spring LB snaps were important for Jackson, Wallace, Wade, Fearbry, Matthews, and Thrower. But if Zeismer is going to play DE in a 3-3-5 SEC defense, he must add 25-30# of muscle. And he will have to beat out bigger, longer players with as much or more football talent. He doesn't have the build of a DE. I don't doubt his motor and toughness though.
We need to circle back and get some commitments. We are ranked 70th in country and dead last in SEC. Is anyone else truly worried? We sit here talking bout beating Bama, GA, Ugly Orange, but if we can't recruit, we will be lucky to beat Candy. What really is holding recruiting back? Something its missing and I'm beginning to not feel so good about our future. going to 9 SEC games will put us in a difficult position to win 6 gamws to go bowling.
Yeah, it's a concern but not as much for me with the whole portal thing. Do think that wherever UK gets players they need to step it up. UK needs 12-15 4*s or better a year moving forward. Maybe they're being "selective" or maybe they're bombing out. Would like to see some commits tho.
It's April. We went through this same group discussion a year ago. They don't sign for another 8 months. Therefore, the current class ranking is completely meaningless. Last year, some people were nearly frantic all through the spring and summer because of our internet class ranking. By February, we had a good class. Just have to wait and see who actually signs. Some years it is a deliberate coaching decision to save a lot of open scholarships for the fall, and I can understand why this may be one of those years. But we have to understand this. Stoops' classes always outperform their class rankings because our coaches are skillful evaluators of talent. It really can't be said enough that UK All Americans Bunchy Stallings, Logan Stenberg, Benny Snell, and Josh Allen were lightly recruited and lowly rated before playing at UK for Stoops. Almost no schools wanted Luke Fortner or Quinton Bohanna, and CRod was also lightly recruited. Stoops made stars out of them.
All of us hoped UK could sign the twins. But it has been apparent since last summer that it probably wouldn't happen. In the end, the twins showed no particular interest in playing in the SEC. They could have signed with AL. So this is no surprise. Stoops has offered scholarships to a lot of quality 2024 defensive prospects. UK's defense is one of the top units in the SEC, so I am confident we will sign a strong defensive class. The big question in my mind relates to which 2024 QB, RB, and OL prospects Coach Coen will sign.
UL had playing time available where UK might not have. We have Anderson, LeMaster, Dingle and Kattus who are all young and very good. Currently UL is where we were a few years ago, selling playing time.
I would say yes since UK, UL, Ole Miss, Auburn and Mich St was his Top 5 2 days ago
True, but not sure why you would choose to play in the ACC when you have SEC and B10 offers and you are from a B10 state. Not a good decision. Should want to play the best.
Looks like Kentucky's coaches are angling to sign Witten, Kosin, or Mesman but happy to settle for Rodriguez. This would explain why Grover committed to Cincinnati. Mesman is off the board now, but he imposed this time frame on himself. Implicit in all of this is that Kentucky's coaches must have a high opinion of Rodriguez. No surprise since 4 other SEC staffs do too.
They wanted grover as a hybrid TE. Mesman was possibly they're top TE target. Witten is probably a long shot due to them being big OSU fans, but UK is atleast getting an OV. Probably comes down to how many TEs OSU takes. They already have 1 commit. Rodriguez is not a backuo plan. ND is supposed to be going to visit. If that happens and they offer they will likely be the front runner. With that said UK would currently take both Rodriguez and Witten.
I was saying that our coaches seem to like Rodriguez a lot and would be happy to get him.
It is more common for pairs of twins to sign together, but they can make whatever decision they want. If I had to guess, I still think they will probably end up at the same school. But if we can only sign one of them, I would gladly take Jacob. It would be good to have Jerod too. He appears to be a nice player. But Jacob looks like an edge LB, and the good edge LBs are really hard to find at this level.
