Only 26.7 miles lie in-between Kroger Field and Roy Kidd Stadium. The proximity between the two programs isn’t the only thing that connects these football teams. On Saturday Mark Stoops‘ Kentucky Wildcats will host three of his former pupils when the Eastern Kentucky Colonels take take the field at 3 pm EST.
Before he was named ASUN coach of the year in back-to-back season, EKU head coach Walt Wells spent two seasons on Mark Stoops’ staff as a quality control analyst. The Kentucky head coach has a ton of respect for Wells and still maintains a great relationship with the EKU coach.