There are a lot of great head coaches in college football. Some of them walked into winning situations. Others were tasked with trying to recruit and change the atmosphere in order to build a winning situation.
Before Mark Stoops took over at Kentucky, the Wildcats were an afterthought when it came to football. As far as Kentucky fans were concerned, football season was just a placeholder for basketball season.
Stoops has changed all that. He’s actually getting top-end recruits to consider the Wildcats. On Tuesday, Stoops hit the jackpot by getting verbal commitments from three four-star prospects in the class of 2017.