First Down Kentucky: Kroger Field will be packed this fall

Mark Stoops Gives Updates On Kentucky Football At Media Day

Kentucky has eight home games on the slate in 2024. South Carolina and Georgia will roll into Lexington back-to-back in September. Auburn will make their first trip to the Bluegrass State since 2015. Jeff Brohm will be on a Louisville sideline on the road in the Governor’s Cup rivalry for the first time since Andre Woodson found Steve Johnson streaking down the sideline in 2007.

The fan base has shown its excitement through season ticket sales. Kroger Field will have some jam-packed crowds this football season.

The Big Blue Nation can find tickets to Kentucky home games here. First Down Kentucky is ready to get the last weekend of summer without college football (that felt so good to type) started by looking at some more fall camp highlights.

More Kentucky fall camp highlights

All but two Kentucky practices have been closed throughout fall camp, but the social team over at the Joe Craft Football Training Facility has been doing a good job of keeping us up to speed on what is going on with the Kentucky football program.

Two more videos dropped on Thursday.

Most notably, Marques Cox was spotted in the background without pads not participating, but it looks like Jager Burton has returned to practice after he was not shown in a practice highlight clip of the first-string offensive line earlier this week.

We should expect some more highlight packages over the weekend from Kentucky’s second fall camp scrimmage. Over at KSR+, we took a look at some of the big storylines that could develop as camp wraps up. We will have much more coverage of what is going on at the facility over the weekend.

Recruiting update at KSR+

We are now halfway through the current recruiting dead period as camp begins to wrap up. Once September rolls around, schools will be allowed to host prospects for visits again. Kentucky currently has 17 high school commits in the fold, but there is plenty of work to be done.

A new recruiting notebook dropped at KSR+ on Friday afternoon. We have a couple of big updates to share at wide receiver, where UK’s offensive line class sits, and why Cedric Works‘ transfer to Frederick Douglass is a big deal.

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The man in charge of the sign-stealing scandal at Michigan that some Big Ten rivals will claim tainted an undefeated national champion is not leaving football. After being fired during the epic run last year in Ann Arbor, Connor Stalions has re-emerged and will now have control of his own defense.

Stalions has joined the Detroit (Mich.) Mumford coaching staff as a volunteer assistant and is the program’s new defensive coordinator.

“He’s great with the kids, has an outstanding football mind and we’re learning a lot — not just the kids, but the coaching staff,” Mumford head coach William McMichael said. “He’s a great addition to what we’re doing. He can help prepare the kids for college. They are learning the lingo, how they practice college, and how they break down film, so it gives the kids an advantage.”

Michigan is currently awaiting a formal Notice of Allegations for the sign-stealing scheme that reached drastic measures. At the end of the month, a Netflix documentary will air that will tell the story of the scheme. Stalions is expected to make his first public appearance since resigning from Michigan on Nov. 3.

What a sport.