Anyone know or hear about a "confrontation" at a recent practice between the owner of Aspirations and Stoops, with the owner thereafter pulling Goodwin out of practice? Its been posted on KSR in a comment to an article about Spencer.
Confrontation at Practice
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First I heard but if true you pretty much have to have Goodwin cut him out or continue his transfer. Don’t need crap like that.
it has been inevitable for years now that Vaughn (former UL Fball player) would re establish a relationship with UL and cut off UK. We were on borrowed time for the other 2 sides to work stuff out.
Interesting if true. Never really thought about this aspect of the nil. I guess boosters kind of had a say ( the maybe few?) that donated big money but now programs have to deal with nil people acting almost as agents to plays and teams have to deal with both of them.
I do worry now with Brohm coming home and if true about this falling out that recruiting in the city of Louisville is going to be very difficult
How many Lou kids are in our lineup? 1?
The bottom line is that you don't even want kids that are going to allow themselves to be brokered so. It's not about winning football games, but all about them. See, e.g. Texas A&M for what results.
U6 started rumor. Obviously with it being on here the purpose is working
All I know is what I said: it comes from a comment to an article on KSR,,,Aspirations? Really?
Star hs basketball and football players have always been influenced by third parties. This did not begin with NIL, although without a doubt NIL has made it worse. Money always attracts con artists and parasites. Coach Marrow has generally been known for doing a good job of handling this. But the Vaughn situation is complicated because Vaughn is a UL man by history. In any case, a hc can't allow himself to be dictated to by a third party acting as the player's quasi-agent. Inevitably, that leads a program down the pathway of rules violations and investigations, as UL, LSU, and AZ recently learned. It is bad for the locker room, bad for the concept of competition for team roles, and bad for building and maintaining a stable coaching staff. Goodwin is gone, and Stoops has had almost nothing to say about it. Stoops typically doesn't comment very much on such things, but I thought he looked relieved.
Where was this reported?
If true imo we should just stay away from the gym. They need us way more than we need them
If true imo we should just stay away from the gym. They need us way more than we need them
Sad situation but I am old so what do I know
Find another “gym”, a more UK friendly gym.. There’s got to be some morally challenged, exploitive former college FB player in Louisville willing to steer kids to UK. Just got to find him. Or create him. Lol.
Damn, people don't read: I SAID it was reported in a comment to an article on KSR, aka Kentucky Sports Radio...
This is really a dumb move by him a business owner if true. Dont care if he was pro UK would not take my son to a place with drama and someone like this.
Many of the comments on KSR are worth skipping.
Why is Goodwin practicing? I thought he was transferring
Not that we don't want in-state guys, we do. But Ky HS FB just doesn't produce enough for us to be overly concerned about it. The state produces a handful of P5 guys annually and typically it takes some development time because they haven't been playing against much quality at the hs level.
We may only have one starting currently but you can't write-off the biggest city in the state in a state the size of Kentucky
People are overreacting to recruiting da vile. We should struggle there, it’s another major D1 programs front and back yard. We always have struggled there until the last 3-4 years and while we may have gotten more recruits in that time, honestly most didn’t pan out. It’s not the end of the world to have recruiting competition in Louisville now. KY doesn’t provide enough major D1 talent to be the main recruiting vein anyway
Get into a place attainable like Cincinnati and the program doesn't skip much of a beat
I read it too . It was just a random post on a ksr article. Dude said his nephew was on the UK team and told him that Stoops and Vaughn got into a shouting match in the middle of practice and Vaughn pulled Goodwin from the field. The post could‘ve be made by anyone. Would Stoops even allow Chris Vaughn to be at team practices? I doubt it.
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The guy said this is the incident that caused the “falling out “ with Aspirations Gymn and Goodwin entering the portal.
It is a gym in Louisville. Vaughn is the owner. He took Goodwin in and trained him. Moved him to HS is southern Indiana. Some have said he was Goodwin's legal guardian. Either way he has a major influence in the kids life
Aspirations gym has more than just Louisville kids. Wandale went there, so did Carrington Valentine.
News of the portal happened Dec 17, were we even practicing fir the bowl yet
News of the portal happened Dec 17, were we even practicing fir the bowl yet
I like the “create” get a young Cat from back in the 13? Class
Just an Example- from the L, maybe played WR?, had a bigger than huge ego who knows? He may have even been Mr Football?
See what he can do
Where has it been suggested to write off recruiting football players in Louisville? I must have missed that.
I seriously doubt Stoops backs down from anybody or anyplace.
Vaughn doesn't get every D1 football athlete in Louisville under his spell