When Mark Stoops recruited these players to Kentucky, there wasn’t much to sell.
“I came here, really with a vision,” C.J. Conrad said. “Coach Stoops gave all of us kind of what was going to happen. We were at the old facility. It was grass, there wasn’t turf on the field. The stadium wasn’t renovated or anything like that. We had to buy into a vision.”
To reach this point, it wasn’t easy. A few players, like Mike Edwards and Darius West, were four-star talents that turned down offer from big schools to come to Kentucky.