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Competition for football recruits in Kentucky about to turn red-hot

This moment in history is likely to become the best time ever to be an aspiring major-college football player in Kentucky.

Simultaneously, the next few years could become an unusually challenging time to be an in-state recruiter for the commonwealth’s three Football Bowl Subdivision schools — Kentucky, Louisville and, especially, Western Kentucky.

The coaching carousel this offseason placed coaches with deep ties to Kentucky at out-of-state FBS schools well-positioned to recruit the commonwealth.

At Purdue, not only is Jeff Brohm head coach, but the former Louisville Cardinals quarterback and ex-Western Kentucky head man has seven assistants on his Boilermakers staff who worked for him at WKU.