By LARRY VAUGHT
Chattanooga quarterback Reese Phillips knows plenty about the football facilities at the University of Tennessee and several other Southeastern Conference schools. However, to him, he was plenty impressed by the facilities he found on his visit to Kentucky and eventually gave his verbal commitment to UK on that June visit.
“I was impressed. It was pretty much everything I expected. The facilities certainly lived up to my standards,” Phillips said. “The practice fields were gorgeous. That was very impressive. The weight room certainly was up to SEC standards. I didn’t find anything that stuck out that I wish they really had that they did not. Kentucky obviously had pretty much everything I wanted.”
One reason often given for UK’s inability to compete with upper tier teams in the SEC is that UK’s facilities are not quite as good as other teams. Often one of the biggest drawbacks is thought to be the lack of a recruiting room at Commonwealth Stadium, but if that bothered Phillips he never mentioned it.
He said he had been to Tennessee, Duke, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Memphis and other schools for visits, so he certainly had a good base to compare UK’s facilities.
“Kentucky’s facilities are right up there. Maybe right behind Tennessee, but (NFL quarterback) Peyton (Manning) gave them $70 million. You can’t fault UK for not having that,” Phillips said. “Kentucky has great facilities. To me, it lived up to what I expected. It had all of the SEC standards and probably even a little more than I expected really. The facilities were really good. I saw no problems at all with what UK had.”
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Kentucky does have great facilities. I believe the keep up with the Jones’s deal is the fancy recruiting rooms that the big dogs have. The other programs also have two and three tier sky boxes between the 30 yard lines that bring in big booster money. The program has to win games, or any type of expansion or new fancy recruiting room will not happen. I hope Joker and his staff can get the offense going this season and squeeze out some wins. Go Cats!
This is interesting & it confirms the majority opinion in response to your article about a year ago – What matters more – People or Facilities – in Football Recruiting.
Again, the answer is People! That’s great, because we have good people on staff – We have the foundation to build upon. Reese indicated in one of Larry’s previous articles that he wanted to work with Randy Sanders.
And with Adequate Facilities, we have the foundation to build upon. However, we have to continue to improve these facilities or we quickly fall behind. Coach Brooks & Coach Phillips both saw a need for a recruiting room – Then we need to find the money to build one.
We are glad to have you Reese – Your enthusiasm will be contagious!
With this foundation of people & facilities this fan has the same goal for U. K. Football as Dave Hopewell.