Michael Smith’s Message to UK’s Young Wide Receivers

New assistant coach Michael Smith is inheriting a wide receivers room that only features ten scholarship players and four of them will be freshmen this fall. Tavin Richardson and Dorian Baker will be the only players with more than a year of college experience.

“I like the challenge of being able to mold those guys. I look forward to it. I’ve had a bunch of young receivers in my career,” Smith said yesterday. “You have to have patience. You have to understand that they are 17 and 18-year-old young men that are trying to find their way not only on the football field, but in life.”

Smith’s first task as their coach is simple: learn everybody’s name. To integrate himself with the players, his…