{"id":855490,"date":"2026-04-05T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:06:25","slug":"will-stein-believes-in-his-recruiting-pitch-isnt-going-to-beg-guys-to-play-for-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/855490\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Stein Believes in his Recruiting Pitch, isn’t going to Beg Guys to Play for UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

College football fans are currently consumed with updates from spring practice and the recruiting trail. A few months into his tenure, Will Stein<\/a> is juggling both as the Wildcats bring talented prospects to watch Kentucky spring practice. <\/p>\n

Kentucky has picked up a handful of early commitments in the 2027 class<\/a>, but the Wildcats\u2019 head coach still hasn\u2019t been able to use his best recruiting pitch yet. <\/p>\n

\u201cI do like where we\u2019re at currently with that class. We\u2019ve had some elite players come through here, and not just quarterback-wise, but all positions. Now, it\u2019s our job to close,\u201d Stein said after Saturday\u2019s spring scrimmage<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard because there\u2019s not anything going on in college football, besides recruiting right now, and spring ball, obviously. So there\u2019s always buzz. The best way I\u2019ve recruited is on Saturdays and showing a great product on the field. So you\u2019re not going to win or lose recruiting right now, but it does build momentum towards the future.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Kentucky head coach noted that they have a star-studded group of visitors on campus this weekend. It includes quarterback Andre Adams<\/a>. I recently placed an RPM pick<\/a> for the Wildcat to land the top-15 passer in the 2027 recruiting class. Kenny Minchey<\/a> shared his pitch for prospective passers. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou feel like you\u2019re in control, and whenever you receive the coaching points that they\u2019re trying to coach you, and whenever you kind of get on the same wavelength as the coaches, you see it from their point of view, from their lens, and there\u2019s a lot of answers,\u201d said Minchey<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey allow us to, whether that be us making checks as a line of scrimmage, whether that be built into the play call, it\u2019s a lot of, not free roaming, but it\u2019s a lot of access or different like avenues you can take in order to get us in the right play in order to keep the ball moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

[KSR+ Kentucky has a Blockbuster Recruiting Weekend Lined Up<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Will Stein is confident in Kentucky\u2019s recruiting pitch. There\u2019s one thing that won\u2019t be a part of it. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing I\u2019m not going to do is beg and plead. I\u2019m not going to get on my hands and knees and say, \u2018Please come to Kentucky.\u2019 No, they better want to be here. They better want to play for the blue and the white. They better want to play in Kroger Field. We have a great product. We have every resource that we need right now to go field an elite \u201927 class,\u201d said Stein. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re building the relationships and why wouldn\u2019t you want to play in this offense? Why wouldn\u2019t you want to play for me and for Joe Sloan<\/a>? I mean, you\u2019re talking about guys that have taken guys to New York (for the Heisman Trophy ceremony) recently, not 25 years ago, right now. I\u2019ve had a league quarterback play, and guys have translated to great play in the National Football League. These players know that, who are coming on campus, and I feel like we are in a really strong position with a handful of guys.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College football fans are currently consumed with updates from spring practice and the recruiting trail. A few months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107411,7,54586,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-855490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-andre-adams-27-antioch","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kenny-minchey-23-pope-john-paul-ii","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116353432643429821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}