Connection with Liam Coen helped 2024 quarterback Dante Reno earn Kentucky scholarship offer

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Liam Coen’s connections in the northeast continue to pay off for Kentucky football. Recently Kentucky offered 2024 quarterback Dante Reno of Loomis Chaffee (Conn.) thanks in part to Loomis Chaffee coach Jeff Moore.

“I was a freshman at UMass when Liam was a senior,” said Moore. “Kentucky offensive analyst Scott Woodward was a junior there when I was a freshman. I have also known (UK defensive coordinator) Brad White for four years or so.”

One of Moore’s former players, Lamar Goods, verbally committed to UK two years ago but then flipped to Florida after Moore left the school.

“Coach White is really a stand-up guy,” Moore said.

The 6-2, 195-pound Reno also has offers from Arizona, Georgia Tech, Houston, Iowa, Massachusetts, Purdue, Vanderbilt, and West Virginia with interest from Wisconsin and Penn State. His father, Tony Reno, is the head football coach at Yale and former assistant coach at Harvard.

After Moore put Coen in touch with Reno, he thought an offer might come the quarterback’s way after he came to a UK camp in June.

“Liam wanted to see him in person and get a feel for him. I would not say an offer was guaranteed, but I thought it might happen,” Moore said. “He has an extremely strong and accurate arm. He’s very smart. I worked for his dad at Yale and one of the main reasons Dante ended up here was our relationship.”

Reno’s team did not get to play in the fall of 2020 and had only an abbreviated spring season. That’s why he elected to repeat his sophomore year after transferring to Loomis Chaffee.

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