The legend of Tim Couch at the University of Kentucky almost never happened. Thanks to a coaching change and one fateful afternoon at a Hooters, the Wildcats forever changed college football.
Couch was the No. 1 ranked high school football player in America after the Leslie County gunslinger broke every national high school passing record. He initially wanted to play for Phil Fulmer and the Tennessee Volunteers, but his father talked him into representing his home state school.
As a true freshman, Billy Curry had Tim Couch running the option. It was, as you might expect, a disaster.