The House of Blue

Awesome!

Thanks for the great news JD! And thanks for the highlight clip link tWhit! Nice pick up for Joker and crew. Does anyone else notice the offer lists of the recruits we are getting this year? Instead of beating out Miami Ohio, Akron, Toledo, ect..were beating out Fla St, WVU, Miami of Fla...BCU, Rutgers..ect ect. I'm still holding out hope for Drennon, Timmons, ect. I know we lost out on Jo JO Kemp..but we will get Khalid Thomas..who has offers from Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio St., among others..and I think we should pursue Dayln Dawkins ..JD? Your thoughts on DD of Trinity?
Anywho..McClain gives us a kid that can play corner, saftey, and even wr..but with AJ LeGree and D Sweat I dont think we'll need him there..Nice tackler with some pop..isnt afraid to come up hard in run support. Solid addition IMO!!

JMO, but THIS is how you build Kentucky Football. Realisitically, Kentucky should spend a vast majority of their recruiting efforts in 2 states- Florida and Georgia. If you could build a staff that had major ties to just those two states, you would have a lot more success building UK than focusing on a lot of these other places.

Fact is........GOOD football players in Florida will come to Kentucky if you put in the work to get them here. It's not that hard.

This is the blueprint. It's not putting 3 guys in Ohio chasing the white whales.

And yes, Fricken KUDOS to the staff on this one. Along with Bell, UK has garnered commits from two defenders with the best looking offer sheets that they've gotten in years. Great work, specifically Nord.

UK should just keep Nord, Summers, and Cassity in Florida until Fall Camp.

agreed. i don't know how it happens but florida is LOADED with football players. if the gators keep being mediocre, kids can be taken from there.

no matter how much uk tries ohio just seems to be lost. SEC means championships BIG 200(ten) is runner-up. the sooner ohio kids get that, the sooner they'll turn our way. but yeah florida should be way more priority than anywhere but GA and TN and KY.

I would be completely satisfied if UK landed 2-3 of the top KY kids every year and filled the rest of the class with quality kids from GA, FL, and AL.

Do that consistently and you will have a team competitive in the SEC.

Heck yeah, glad to have the kid.

With the addition of TAMU to the SEC I think we need to focus on FL, GA, and TX primarily. Take the top 5 kids from KY and a few from the surrounding states but FL, GA, and TX should be our hotbeds

To hell with Texas. Every school in the Big 12 from Texas all the way down to Iowa St mines that state. Pac 10, too. Add Arkansas, LSU, and Missou. I just don't see kids wanting to do the UK thing.

HOWEVER!!!! Tee Martin very quickly proved that talented, SEC caliber players in the state of Alabama are VERY open to playing at UK. It's a shame UK has essentially dropped that state, and they have. Really dissapoiting that Coach Washington, whom has big Alabama ties, isn't setting up shop in that state like Tee did.

From today's Orlando Sentinal- "McClain said another big drawing point for Kentcuky was the SEC factor, "It was the greatest factor". "

It's still early in the process. If he hasn't committed by middle of the fall, I would be worried, but I understand him wanting to take his time. Plus in a recent article he said he wouldn't have things narrowed down until the fall. From what I've read, his mom wants him to play at the same school as his brother, and in the end, I think that plus his good relationships with the UK coaches will win out.