NICHOLASVILLE – Sleep easy, Big Blue Nation. John Schlarman’s legacy will not be forgotten by the Kentucky football program anytime soon.
“All ideas are good,” Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said Monday before a golf scramble organized to raise money for Schlarman’s family. “I don’t want to come off as a jerk. Thank you, but nobody needs to sign a petition. I think we do a pretty good job of honoring people and doing what we need to do.”
As of Monday, just less than 5,000 fans had signed an online petition at Change.org calling for UK to name the concrete wall circling the Kroger Field playing surface the “John Schlarman Big Blue Wall.