Vince Marrow says Brian Robinson is "damn near perfect" and he should be studied

Mark Stoops and Vince Marrow went back to their home dirt in Northeast Ohio to find the top-rated player in Kentucky Football‘s new 2024 signing class, four-star EDGE Brian Robinson. Stoops even announced Robinson’s signing during UK’s National Signing Day press conference after Marrow slid into the room to whisper to Stoops that Robinson’s paperwork had come through, officially making Robinson a Kentucky Wildcat.

“He’s a Youngstown guy so we better not lose a Youngstown guy like that,” Stoops said of the addition of Robinson, On3’s No. 150 overall player, to Kentucky’s class.

Stoops added, “I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more dedicated high school player, as far as the way he goes about his business with training, nutrition, flexibility, coaching, and you name it. (He is) extremely dedicated.”

That’s one way to put it.

Vince Marrow had another.

“He’s Damn Near Perfect”

When Marrow followed Stoops at Wednesday’s Signing Day press conference, UK’s recruiting coordinator had plenty more to say about Robinson because of longtime Youngstown connections between the Marrow and Robinson families. Marrow said he has known Brian’s dad for 20 years and Brian for 10, and that Marrow’s own brother, Raymond, a former college QB, trained a young Brian Robinson at the quarterback position when Robinson weighed only 120 pounds.

Many years later, Robinson is officially listed at 260 pounds as an official member of Kentucky’s 2024 recruiting class, and Marrow thinks the world of him.

“He’s damn near perfect,” Marrow said on Wednesday, sounding like my wife when asked to describe her husband.

Marrow added, “3.7 GPA. He’s very technically sound in how he wants to live his life, meaning nutrition, training, spiritual side. And I’m gonna be honest with you: me and Mark were talking last week and he’s got to be one of the (most) physical-looking guys I’ve ever seen, like, that can come in, and you say, ‘This guy looks like an SEC football player.’ I seen a picture where he was standing next to Miles Garrett, and he looked bigger than him, and Miles Garrett is a big guy.”

Marrow admitted, “he’s one of the prettiest-looking dudes I’ve ever recruited out of high school. I mean, when he came on a visit here, some parents thought he was a former player from the NFL coming back, and he’s only 17. Shew, he’s a good-looking dude.”

Marrow also admires the Robinson family’s father-son bond and the involvement of Brian’s father in Brian’s promising young football career.

“What I love about that young man is the way his dad has raised him,” Vince explained. “A lot of people and a lot of coaches stay away from something like that. They don’t want to be where there is a dad that is very involved. But you look at me and Mark and where we came from, and our dads were very involved in our lives. They were very strict. So, I think we related to that.

“But this kid, they need to do a study on him, if you just talk about him and his makeup as a young man. So we’re very excited to have him.”

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