Vince Marrow believes alignment will help Kentucky football climb out of current hole

The trend lines are not good for the Kentucky football program. Coming off a brutal 2024 season that finished 4-8 with only one win in conference plays and zero home victories against power conference competition, there is a lot of rebuilding that needs to take place. Head coach Mark Stoops told the Big Blue Nation not to panic on Saturday following an embarrassing loss to in-state rival Louisville. The head coach is returning in 2025 and is determined to fix the roster in Lexington.

Kentucky recruiting coordinator Vince Marrow has been with Stoops since the beginning in Lexington and also acknowledged that 2024 was a bad season, but the staff at the Joe Craft Football Training Facility is determined to get this train back on track before the 2025 campaign arrives.

“Did we want to have this season? No. There’s nobody in that building excited from Mitch on down but the support is there, and we’re going to get that back on the right track,” Marrow told KSR. “I mean we have one bad season out of the last eight and nobody, nobody is happy about that.”

How does this get fixed? Kentucky will need a roster overhaul but the support is there for the program to get the problems fixed. Stoops has raised the funds needed to compete in the NIL space for free agents and the leadership of the university is behind the men running the program and the football facility located adjacent to Kroger Field.

Marrow believes that all the needed parties are pulling in the right direction.

“You’ve got the administration behind us. From the top. Dr. Capilouto, Dr. Eric Monday, Mitch, Marc Hill, all the way on down you got support,” Kentucky’s top recruiter explained. “You got Joe and Kelly Craft and a lot of supporters who give to this program. They all behind it.”

“Now we just gotta go get the right players. We will get this fixed and I’m not concerned at all. That taste in our mouth is going to last for a couple months until we go out there and play.”

There is a lot of criticism and negativity surrounding this football program. Many supporters do not believe this football organization can get turned around in one offseason. Kentucky will look to prove those critics wrong. After losing two long-time commits on Sunday, UK will look to close strong by keeping the rest of their high school commits in the fold while also aggressively recruiting the portal. Kentucky must get evaluations right and find the correct fits for the scheme and culture when free agency officially begins next week. That is what the coaching staff believes will get Kentucky back on track.

Thanks to fundraising and donations from high-level boosters, Kentucky claims to have the pieces in place to fix its personnel problems this offseason. The Wildcats are committed to finding the right answers this offseason and feel that they have the support needed to bounce back after what the program is selling as a one-off year in 2024.

“We’re gonna get this damn thing going,” Vince Marrow said.