News broke Monday that offensive line coach Eric Wolford was leaving Kentucky for Alabama after just one season in Lexington.
While there’s no shame in changing jobs, especially when Alabama is involved, the details of Wolford’s departure have been sketchy at best.
According to Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio, Wolford was on a recruiting trip for Kentucky, then interviewed for the Alabama job and accepted it, then started recruiting the same player to Alabama. He didn’t return to Lexington or even say goodbye to his players.
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On Friday of last week, Wolford was recruiting a late OL target for Kentucky and left to interview at Alabama
On Saturday he took the job, never came back to Lexington to tell the team bye and was recruiting the same kid for Alabama
A pretty amazingly quick turnaround
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) February 1, 2022
Kyle Tucker followed up with confirmation of the report:
Crazy. Confirming what @KySportsRadio is hearing on how OL coach Eric Wolford leaving for Bama went down, per a source:
“He went to interview and never came back.”
Wolford was recruiting a kid for UK, they thought, but turned out it was for Bama. No goodbye to his OL.
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) February 1, 2022
That’s not a great look for Mr. Wolford.
