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Kentucky believes it has loaded up in the transfer portal at receiver by bringing in four transfers for next season to help offset the departures of Dane Key, Barion Brown and Hardley Gilmore.
However, Kentucky is also adding five true freshmen receivers, including Cameron Miller of New Jersey. The 5-11, 175-pound Miller is a four-star prospect and nation’s 31st ranked high school receiver.
He had 59 catches for 1,342 yards and 15 touchdowns as a junior and 42 catches for 722 yards and 14 touchdowns in 2024. He chose Kentucky over Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and others.
Miller, who also runs track, impressed recruiting coordinator Vince Marrow immediately.
“He is a really good player. He came in spring and he was committed to another school,” Marrow said. “We hung out with him and his high school coach on his visit and it went well. He got back home (to New Jersey) and asked me if I could talk to his mom.
“She told me she did not know what I said to her son because he was talking about de-committing. He didn’t then but we still brought him in on an official visit and he can fly. He is a fast, fast man who is very twitchy.
“He played against good competition and had a lot of offers. We are really reloading on the receiver position and he is going to be a guy who can really contribute.”
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Words don’t play very well on the field. Besides, Stoops has said he wants to concentrate on running the ball so how does this help with the plans of ground and pound? I’m not convinced that Stoops has any idea of what he wants to do and usually what he says he wants to do doesn’t match what he recruits. He says he wants to run the ball much, much more, yet he recruits pocket passing qbs. Does this mean that Boley and Saunders need to be looking for a new home? He did Beau Allen the same way; recruited him as a passing qb but went to the portal to get what he really wanted, a more mobile qb. He recruits great tight ends and then tells them just to block. Stoops needs to get better at developing schemes that utilize the abilities of what he has, rather than always trying to put square pegs in round holes.
Your exactly right it’s like whatever the coaches say here its usually the complete opposite. Before 2024 season started all I heard was this is the best o line we’ve had in a good 4-5 years lol. Which he last 3 years the o line has been a joke. He’s had 3 full seasons to address the o line and secondary and what do we do? The same thing every time our o line is to slow for the front 7 of the other teams defense and our secondary gets blown by like they are pissing in a wind storm. If its 3rd and 14 there will be a first down on the next play. Even stats show we do better at 3rd and 2 and 3rd and 3 then we do at 3rd and 8 or 9. How is that possible unless you completely lay a egg on 3rd down almost every time. We play great on first and second down its that third try that gets us every time. I do think our offense will be better it really has no choice but to be better. We should have a better o line. Running backs. Wide receivers. Tight ends. Quarterback play… Our front 7 on the defense lost some bodies but not even the front 7 played good after the 5th or 6th game the season was pretty much over. Even when we made a great play it would be taken away almost every time because of a holding call or unsportsmanlike penalty. Its almost like we’re destined to lose. Nobody shoots themself in the foot more than Kentucky football. I’m happy with a 7+ win season and the games we do lose are winnable. That’s all I’m asking for. Not SEC championships. Not National Championships. Maybe we could sniff the playoff once every 3-4 years but I don’t see that happening now. When the playoff talk first started I wanted 16 teams in because it gives Kentucky more of a chance of making it. The thing it also did was make all the teams that narrowly miss great seasons every year to win that one or two more games and possibly get in. Look at South Carolina and Ole Miss. Look at Missouri. Vanderbilt was 2 wins away from the playoffs. The SEC really gets snubbed by the playoffs because top to bottom we are easily the best conference in college football. Its why its nicknamed the little NFL. We sucked so bad last year that the starting quarterback quit. He could have came back and made at least a million dollars for some team.,but that’s just not his style plus his fiances dad is a multimillionaire who Brock works for and he said he enjoys the work more than playing football. He also said it was no knock on a Stoops who asked him to come back next year and he told stoops basically that he was burnt out on football. I said it all year that he looked like he didn’t care whether they won or lost. You can see the fire in a quarterbacks eyes when he wants to win. Vanderbilt has the best quarterback in college football. He will be back again next year I really enjoy watching him play. He’s a winner and does whatever it takes to win. Vanderbilt is going to be very good this year in football and they might and should be ranked higher than us in the preseason polls. I love watching that kid play football. The 7th year quarterback we got out of the transfer portal reminds me of Vanderbilt a QB anything to win. I love it!! You will see a big difference from last year players just going thru the motions to this year where its do or die and we smell blooood!
Can he catch?
I sure hope so