Will Stein has been in office for nine days. In that short amount of time, he’s practiced what he preached shortly after taking the job to be Kentucky’s next head coach.
The 36-year-old is the youngest coach in the SEC. There are obvious advantages to a youth movement. Kentucky is taking a chance on a rising star in the coaching ranks. One downside to that inexperience are the friends he’s made along the way. There just aren’t that many.
In the early days of Stein’s tenure, it was difficult to handicap who could be on his inaugural coaching staff because of his lack of connections in the coaching world.