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Modern Wellness.com. We used to have John Hale on the podcast all the time, but the SEC

schedule makers have conspired against us over the past few years. Kentucky's still not on

the Mississippi State schedule, but we will get a look at them here in the spring, John Hale,

who has joined us many, many times back with us. And John, I did an interview recently with Cole Kublich and asked him about Kentucky, and he was very, very, what's the word I'm looking for? It was enthusiastic. He was optimistic about the Kentucky Wildcats. I saw recently that J.D. Pekyll from 1-3 was talking about Kentucky, and he seemed very, very optimistic about the Wildcats. That's the outside perception right now, that Kentucky is a program that's turned things around and headed in the right direction. What's the inside perspective on the Wildcats? Yeah, I mean, enthusiasm's high, for sure, especially compared to what it was the last couple of years in the Stoops era when I think everybody in their heart of hearts was kind of ready for a fresh start.

Obviously with the first time head coach and Will Stein, let alone one who's 36 years old, there are going to be questions.

He's got things to prove.

But what he did with the offense at Oregon, what he did with quarterbacks in particular, makes

you pretty confident that they're going to be able to build an exciting offense, which is

something Kentucky has lacked for a long time.

What they did in the transfer portal, getting Kenny Minchie from Notre Dame at quarterback,

a guy that NFL scouts are really high on, even though he hasn't played very much, getting,

I know Cole's an offensive line guy, so I'm sure he is impressed by the fact they went and got three offensive linemen who have multiple years of starting experience at the power conference level, including a guy who was third team all SEC at Tennessee last year and Lance Hurd. Like, that's a great foundation to start on. They got to prove it. They got to go out and show that they can win games in the fall. But, you know, in terms of the first four months on the job, I don't think you could have hoped for it to go any better realistically. I want to talk about that transfer portal class because you know that the word on Kentucky has always been. They put their resources into basketball, and football NIL was going

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