Maurice Douglass never expected his son, Moses, to follow in his footsteps as a Kentucky Wildcats football player.
“To be honest, I did not think he was going to go there,” says Maurice Douglass, a starting cornerback at UK for Coach Jerry Caliborne in 1984 and ‘85.
Maurice Douglass, who coaches his son as the head man at Ohio’s Springfield High School, thought Wisconsin would prevail in Moses’ recruitment.
Yet after visiting the University of Kentucky earlier this year for a football recruiting “junior day,” Moses Douglass, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound safety, had a surprise for his father.