Now that twins Destin and Keaten Wade are in the transfer portal, their father is giving his thoughts (for some reason?) on Kentucky football and the coaching staff.
“They didn’t keep their promises up there. We’re not going to go for that,” their father, Steve Wade, told Main Street Maury. “I’m mainly talking about Destin, not Keaten.”
Here is an excerpt of his comments from Mainstreetmediatn.com:
“They threw him in that bowl game and never did give him a chance to redeem himself, under circumstances that nobody could have really did anything with, Iowa being the No. 2, No. 3 defense in the country,” Steve said. “We were promised by (Kentucky offensive coordinator Liam) Coen that Destin ‘was too good an athlete to just be sitting on the bench’. We did our part, we trusted in Kentucky to do theirs.
“They let Keaten play, but he still didn’t get the reps he should have gotten as being a starter.”
Prior to the 2022 bowl game, Mark Stoops and the Kentucky staff discussed North Carolina State transfer Devin Leary as the odds-on favorite to start this season, and that turned out to be the case. Leary threw for 2,440 yards, 23 touchdowns and 10 interceptions this fall. Kaiya Sharon played in five games as the Wildcats’ backup, completing half of his four passing attempts for 5 yards and rushing for minus-5 on two attempts.
“Destin could have been just as good as that quarterback we had this year (Leary),” Steve Wade said. “There’s nothing any of those guys sitting in that quarterback couldn’t have done (that Leary did). They didn’t give him an opportunity to even compete. So we’ve got to do what we’ve got to do. He’s got to get on the field somewhere.”
