How Kentucky football coach Will Stein handles recruiting big targets

This episode of The C.L. Brown Show features new Kentucky football coach Will Stein, making his second appearance on the podcast but first since taking over at UK.

Stein speaks on the demands of the job, including how he used the time between a set change at a Morgan Wallen concert to FaceTime a recruit. He details what he views as the biggest difference between coaching today's players and how he was coached as a player. And he discusses how his playing days at Louisville may have been different had the transfer portal and name, image and likeness (NIL) been around back then.

A new episode of this podcast, hosted by Courier Journal sports columnist C.L. Brown, posts each Wednesday. You can listen to The C.L. Brown Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast, Audible, CastBox and iHeartRadio, among others.

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This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Kentucky football coach Will Stein on recruiting, time at Louisville