Overcoming Adversity Defines Kentucky’s Senior Class

Kentucky’s senior class will play their final home game at Kroger Field as a Top 25 team. They will leave the field with more SEC wins than any other senior class in school history. That success didn’t happen overnight.When Mark Stoops recruited these players to Kentucky, there wasn’t much to sell.

“I came here, really with a vision,” C.J. Conrad said. “Coach Stoops gave all of us kind of what was going to happen. We were at the old facility. It was grass, there wasn’t turf on the field. The stadium wasn’t renovated or anything like that. We had to buy into a vision.”

To reach this point, it wasn’t easy. A few players, like Mike Edwards and Darius West, were four-star talents that turned down…