[DeuceUL]

Right...since UL isn't losing their star TWill, their best defensive player McGee, and probably their best athlete in Earl Clark to the draft.

Right now UL's recruiting class makes up the loss of those players despite UK (by all intensive purposes) returning everyone. Once you figure in one or more program changers like a Wall, Cousins, or Henry, the balance QUICKLY shifts in UK's favor.

Siva and Buckles are top tier recruits, but there is a drastic difference between them and "one and done" type guys like Cousins, Henry, and Wall. To be honest Siva and Buckles probably cancel out Hood and Orton, but for sake of arguement and the uncertainty of Orton,I will assume they are a positive for UL in the matchup instead.

To be fair, Earl Clark didn't do anything in the UK game this past year, and Preston Knowles is just as good, if not better than Andre McGee defensively...

And again, nobody knows for sure if Cousins, Wall, or Henry will go to UK. If that happens, then UK would get the advantage. That's why I said we should wait until we know exactly who each team will have before we go making bold predictions.