Joe Sloan

And then he gets here and you kind of hold your breath that it's exactly what you thought.

And I think he's been everything we thought and more.

you know he gets what he's looking for you know he'd be stupid to go with his to not take it was his exact quote you know how are you guys just kind of addressing the next couple weeks knowing just how talented he is and you know what his future could hold in Lexington yeah I think for for Matt and for any of our guys right like in terms of something like that it is he and his family are going to make the best decision for him we're going to do a great job for Kentucky football every single day and showing up for the guys and then

You know, as Matt makes his decision and what he needs to do, right, we'll be all in because he'll be a member of the Kentucky football team, right?

So whatever that is, I mean, I think that's all we can do instead of trying to those kind of situations.

You know, some of it's out of our control, and so we just include him in what he can, and then we wait and see.

I think it starts with Coach Stein's energy and how he sets up the program.

So when guys come on campus, they feel it, they see it, they see how our players are really taken to the culture and how they're bouncing around with energy.

They see what's getting done, the work that's getting done, the development.

So I think that's number one, right, because it has to start.

inside our building.

And then when they come see it, they got to envision themselves in that environment, which I think that's where it starts.

And then, you know, he's done a really good job of showing the energy that we're going to play with, that we're going to carry ourselves with.

And I think young guys are attracted to that.

Coach Stein put together a great staff of a lot of guys who can really communicate effectively and are hard workers.

And that's what recruiting is.

Can you communicate?

Can you meet those players where they are?

And can you give them a vision of who they're going to be within our program?

And then you just got to be relentless, right, in what we're doing.