You remember where you were when Mark Stoops took the podium at Kentucky Football Media Day in 2018. He announced that Josh Paschal and John Schlarman were both sick, the former diagnosed with malignant melanoma and the latter battling a health issue later confirmed as cholangiocarcinoma.
You could hear a pin drop in the Kroger Field media room, a sobering day that made football feel irrelevant. Schlarman fought like hell, but would ultimately lose his two-year battle with cancer, passing away in November 2020. Paschal, fortunately, won his battle following multiple surgeries and immunotherapy.