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National football signing day is about a month away but Kentucky coach Mark Stoops has a lot of roster management to do before he finalizes his incoming freshman players for the 2024 season.
He has to worry about losing players to the transfer portal and also which seniors might opt for a COVID year and return for an extra year.
“Internally you work on you and talk about it and look at it all year. There’s some things that are out of your hands, but you try to have the best fix you can,” Stoops said. “It’s on our radar.
“It’s something we look at. It’s something we think about internally. We don’t have any of those discussions with our players until it gets to be after the last game of the year. At least the schedule they have in place for us now allows us coaches to be on campus following our last game. That’s a change.
“I think last year’s the first year, but that’s a good thing to let us be here in-house and have meetings with our players and with our coaches and get a fix on our own roster before we start hitting the road and closing on guys for the December signing period.”
