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Selling Mark Stoops an easy job for UK’s top recruiter. ‘I know where he comes from.’

Players talk about it all the time and how it often tips the balance between one school and another come signing day: This coaching staff felt like “family” or this school had “a family atmosphere.”

When he sits in recruits’ living rooms with Kentucky Coach Mark Stoops, Vince Marrow said he doesn’t have to fake family.

“When I go recruit kids, I tell their parents, ‘Look, I know this guy who I’m recruiting for,’” Marrow said of Stoops in December during the new early national signing day when UK signed a bulk of its 2018 class.