It is not an overstatement to say that Jai Lucas and Patrick Patterson’s recruitments launched KSR to the mainstream thirteen years ago, and in his introductory press conference this morning, Kentucky’s new special assistant to the head coach/recruiting coordinator opened up about just how close he was to becoming a Wildcat in 2007.
“I was coming,” Lucas said. “I was coming to Kentucky until Coach [Tubby] Smith left and took the Minnesota job. That kind of left me in the scramble mode because I had made my mind up for months and then that’s how I ended up at Florida.