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Posted by eleem (Member # 884) on 03-12-2015, 06:32 PM:

Just through the doors of the Nutter Indoor Training Facility, five police officers stood watch. Further inside past the lobby, a consortium of cameras, coaches and players flooded the field. Halfway down the track, an SEC Network crew carried the coverage, with an NFL star acting in his first role as an amateur sideline reporter.

If I didn’t tell you it was Nutter Fieldhouse, you might think it was another SEC powerhouse, but no, it’s Kentucky.

The number of people in attendance isn’t the only thing that’s changing around Kentucky’s program. With Coach Korem’s High Performance Training, players are sticking around once they’re playing days are over to prepare for the draft.

“The norm for other draft picks is for everyone to leave campus and go somewhere to train,” Stoops said. “People are going all around the country and training with some of these guys, and our guys have stayed here. It started with Avery staying and working with Coach Korem and Coach Edmund, and then seeing the results that Avery did. It opened the eyes of our other guys. Hey, they can save a lot of money, and get better training and stay right here.”

Stoops believes it’s important to have those guys remain on campus, showing his current players the amount of sacrifice necessary to play at the highest level.

The current players were also there to support their teammates, crowding around during drills and cheering them on to push just a little harder.

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