It's official Kentucky Wildcat Football fans! Kash Daniel announced it today! The four star linebacker is coming to play for the University of Kentucky!
He is also a U.S, Army All American!
The Courier Journal reports: It's unusual for the state of Kentucky to produce three U.S. Army All-Americans in the same year – Jackson, Young and Daniel will play in that elite showcase Jan. 9 on NBC – and impressive for the Cats to land all of them. Before Stoops, top talent often left the state for college.
"It's huge. I've always said it doesn't matter if you're Kentucky or Missouri or Florida; if you recruit your state well in the SEC, you have a chance," Shurburtt said. "And that's been proven everywhere from the rise of South Carolina under Steve Spurrier to the Mississippi schools. The Mississippi schools have signed 97 percent of all the players rated four stars or higher for the past four years. So even if you don't have a deep state, you need to get the guys in your state that can come and make a difference.
"It's huge to have three guys that are Army Bowl guys this year, and to get them all, it's gigantic. Every recruit in the country watches that and they're going to be hearing 'Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky' over and over again during the broadcast."
Building the class with local talent is also something of a safety net. The Cats were off to a great recruiting start last year and won five of their first six games – but after they lost six in a row to end the season, several elite out-of-state recruits jumped ship.
Players closer to home, who grew up on Kentucky football, are less likely to bolt if things get bumpy for Kentucky again this fall.
"Mississippi and Mississippi State were middling along a little bit (before taking off last season). South Carolina, the year they signed Alshon Jeffery and Stephon Gilmore (2009) and then the year they signed Marcus Lattimore (2010), they were 7-6 both of those years," Shurburtt said. "So that's a positive of getting in-state guys, because they tend to stick with you. Look at Tennessee. That roster has come a million miles under Butch Jones and a lot of those guys are in-state guys or Vols legacies.
"Even if you have a tough season, chances are those guys are going to stick with you. It's not like a paper-tiger class."
As for Daniel, now that recruiting is out of the way, he's looking forward to focusing on his senior year at Paintsville High School. He said winning a Class A state title is No. 1 on his mind, while being named Mr. Football – an award for which he should be a top contender – is "the ultimate" individual goal.
A fiery competitor, Daniel is already thinking about hated district rival Raceland, which he wants to beat "as bad as I want to breathe." That's a glimpse at what kind of player he is. As is this:
"The thing people need to know about me is that I'm one mean dude on the football field," he said. "I'm a completely different human being. It's not even human. I go through a transformation. I'm a nice guy off the field. But when I step across those lines, the switch is turned on, it's full throttle for four quarters. They've got to kill me to get me off that daggone field."
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Kash took to Twitter to post about his coming:
Yeah, we are happy and very excited that you have committed to the Big Blue Nation too Kash, welcome to the Kentucky Wildcats!