Back home in Tennessee, former Kentucky football standout Randall Cobb, has a speaking engagement in Knoxville on Thursday that prompted one sports columnist to ponder what might have been if the Green Bay Packers wide receiver had stayed home with the Volunteers instead of signing with the Cats.
"Cobb will forever be remembered at UT as the 'recruit that got away.'" the Knoxville News-Sentinel's John Adams wrote in a column published Thursday. "UT’s failure to recruit a player who grew up a Vols fan was magnified by what happened after Cobb joined the Wildcats.