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Helton inherits youthful but experienced Hilltopper roster

Tyson Helton has been in the room for meetings where new coaches address players they’ve inherited from a previous staff.

The new Western Kentucky coach said there were “a lot of faces in the crowd” Tuesday when he spoke to the team.

“Usually when you address a team for the first time, it could be a heavy-laden senior team and there’s not many people sitting in those chairs,” Helton said Wednesday on WKU football’s weekly radio show. “I had a full crowd, a full team to talk to.”

Helton was hired Tuesday as the Hilltoppers’ head coach, replacing the fired Mike Sanford.