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Kentucky LB Courtney Love, his coach bound by upbringings

HOOVER, Ala. — Rarely are underclassmen selected by their coaches to attend SEC Media Days. Rarer still, transfers. Rarest of all, student-athletes yet to play for the school they’re representing.

Courtney Love is a junior transfer who hasn’t played a single down at Kentucky, yet Mark Stoops chose him as one of three Wildcats to join him in meeting the league’s media.

“He’s earned the right,” Mark Stoops said when I asked him why Love was invited. “Because of what he’s done for our program and the leadership he’s shown in our program and the consistency he’s shown.