Why not us? Why not Kentucky?
That was the slogan that the Kentucky marketing team came up with for Mark Stoops and his staff as they began to put together their first full recruiting class once the ink had dried on the 2013 class. It worked, too. The Wildcats finished with a top-20 class in 2014, their highest ranking since ESPN started rankings the classes in 2006.
The class featured 28 signees from 10 different states. It included six players in the ESPN 300 and four of the top five recruits in the state of Kentucky. And more importantly, it had fans excited about football again.