The 2018 Kentucky football season began with plenty of preseason promise, but was quickly brought down to Earth. Mark Stoops began his season-opening press conference by announcing that two members of the football family were fighting cancer.
“That in a way unified the team even more,” Mark Stoops said in Orlando. “What Josh Paschal’s gone through and Coach Schlarman, it keeps things in perspective. This is still just a game. It’s very important. It’s a way of life for us. Obviously we know how important that is and how many people we effect, but when you start looking at things like that, it keeps things in perspective and our team has really rallied around those two.