The House of Blue

Interesting question. I would like to know as well.

Micah Johnson. And I know we had one more. I'm just at a loss on the name at the moment

What was the name of the big offensive linemen from the western part of the state? He only played a few years and had to quit due to injury and academics. It was about the time RB became coach. Wasn't he an 5 star that we beat TN to get?

Micah Jones?

I believe that was Micah Jones but I don't believe he was rated better than a high four star by any recruiting service.

And as to this thread as a whole, there are never more than 25-30 5 star rates kids per year and a system of rating as kids as such has only been available for wide public commercial consumption for maybe 10-12 years. So any way of determining how many 4 and 5 star kids has had in any given year prior to 10 years ago is purely speculation. There isn't really any reliable documentation save what is available on the internet.

Micah Johnson was a four star on Rivals, as a DE IIRC, which is of course where he should have played at UK. Kid had to starve himself to play linebacker. He would have been a 275 pound wrecking ball at DE.

Micah Johnson was 5 star..he was the #1 overall player untill he commited to Uk..then he fell a couple spots. Dennis Johnson was also a #1 overall..as was Couch. Micah Jones..the big OG was a 4 star if I remember correctly. Could be wrong there though. Never panned out. Personally..I cant remember a class with more than 3 or 4 combined 4star/5star kids. Not saying there hasnt been..just cant remember one.

Wdaukfan - Are you talking about Aaron Miller? He was great, but not a ***** recruit.

Micah Jones was just a 4 star, but, had to give up football because of a chronic back problem.

What? He didn't have the length to be a wrecking ball DE and never played a down with his hand down in HS. I wish people would just stop with this nonsense. As it was he was a wrecking ball multiple year ALL SEC MLB. Geez.

Micah is just as tall as Freeney or Dumervil. And he weighed nearly 270 in high school. He was exceptionally fast and monstrously strong but stiff. This is why he was listed as a D Lineman by most scouts.

I watched every game he played in while at UK. I know what I saw. A guy who should have been a DE weighing about 275 like his body wanted him to. .

What's pretty astounding is the UK basketball team has 12 scholarships a year to give and the football team has 85 and we have at least 10 4-5 star players on every BB team since Calipari's been there and we've only had a handful or 2 of 4-5 star football players in the last 2 decades.. Add in the fact that there are numerous powerhouse BB teams outside the BCS schools, like Memphis, Villanova, GTown, Temple, UNLV, Butler, etc and only a handful in football, makes it even more astounding..