Over the past weekend, former Kentucky Wildcats football coach Rich Brooks was inducted into the UK Hall of Fame. It was a well-deserved honor for the man who brought Kentucky from probation to four straight bowl bids. But life at Kentucky was not always a batch of well manicured tomato plants for Papa Brooks.
Entering his fourth season at Kentucky, Brooks was just 9-25 and the pressure was on for the school to "Ditch Rich". Season number four did not look promising as the Wildcats dropped a season-opening 59-28 loss to the hated Louisville Cardinals. After a couple of wins, the Cats dropped yet another game to the Florida Gators to the tune of 26-7 and had a much closer than it should have been 45-36 win over Central Michigan.