DE/FB Tevin Slaughter, Somerset...EKU

Has Fogle of Conner received any offers,seems there was alot of interest but have'nt heard anything yet

Got him covered on the list Coach. See the Other D1 players section. :thumb:

 

Sorry bout that! Thought the list was BGP All-State only...didn't look at it thoroughly enough. Nice job keeping up with all this. I like knowing exactly how many from our state sign full-rides so I can tell college coaches who come into my school that Ky is not devoid of D1 football talent as is thought.

 

Looks to me like 32 Kentucky kids will get full-rides to play football for the next 4-5 years. Not Florida or Texas, but seems a LOT better than years past.

Sorry bout that! Thought the list was BGP All-State only...didn't look at it thoroughly enough. Nice job keeping up with all this. I like knowing exactly how many from our state sign full-rides so I can tell college coaches who come into my school that Ky is not devoid of D1 football talent as is thought.

 

Looks to me like 32 Kentucky kids will get full-rides to play football for the next 4-5 years. Not Florida or Texas, but seems a LOT better than years past.

Coach, you've certainly had a hand in the increased number.

Kentayvus Hopkins signed with EKU..

Coach, you've certainly had a hand in the increased number.

 

Nice of you to say that...not sure how much any one person has influenced this though (and I've actually had very few full-ride kids in the 14 years I've been a head coach). I'd attribute a lot of it, actually, to the opening up of offenses during the time of Mumme at UK and John L Smith/Petrino at UofL. It's gotten MANY more of those 'best athletes in the school' to choose to play BOTH football and basketball.

 

One of those kids was at Ballard when I took the job. His dad told me he'd be playing football, but his 'scholarship sport' was basketball. I said, "thank you" and meant it (he was a heck of a football player and an even better kid). Long story short, he got multiple football offers, nothing for basketball, accepted a full ride for football and ended up starting for Indiana University as a true freshman at defensive back (Forisse Hardin).

 

I personally had very little to do with it (other than the films I send out on our kids). What did it was that kid choosing and his father allowing him to be a MULTI-SPORT athlete (not to mention having a basketball coach at our place--Chris Renner--who doesn't discourage kids from playing football AND basketball).

 

Again, thank you though -- one of our (not just me, but our whole staff) goals is to be the program in the state that does the most to promote our players to D1 schools.

^ Good comments Coach. I believe any athlete who isn't a sure bet college scholarship basketball player (and there are very, very few of those) should keep playing another sport he excels at. Basketball is very difficult to get a scholarship and your story well illustrates the value of continuing to play football, baseball, etc.

^ Good comments Coach. I believe any athlete who isn't a sure bet college scholarship basketball player (and there are very, very few of those) should keep playing another sport he excels at. Basketball is very difficult to get a scholarship and your story well illustrates the value of continuing to play football, baseball, etc.

 

Today you almost have to be 6'4 just to be a POINT GUARD! Most 6'4/6'5 guys I see put up big points as post players--that won't play at the next level at that height. 6'4/6'5 and physical relates to Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzalez, etc. on a football field though. Kids (and their parents) are getting it though...much moreso now than when I was growing up in this state.

 

** Sorry, feel like my comments have kinda hi-jacked this thread...should be about the great Ky kids who signed to play D1/1AA next year.