Upon becoming Indiana’s coach ahead of the 2024 season, Curt Cignetti told fans and writers to “Google me,” a mantra that became one of the most famous sports quotes of the 2020s. Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea insisted at the SEC’s spring meetings in May that he took the Commodores job with the intent of winning the national championship.
It is into this realm—the realm of football coaches at non-traditional football schools who radiate a confidence that may scan as delusion to outsiders—that Kentucky coach Will Stein stepped Monday with his comments at the SEC’s annual media days.
