LEXINGTON, Ky. — On the second floor of Kentucky’s three-year-old, $45 million football facility, there’s a hallway that’s about the length of a football field.



As you walk down that hallway, lined with the assistant coaches’ offices, the recruiting war room and position meeting rooms, you draw closer to wood paneling at the end of the hall that leads to coach Mark Stoops’ office. Take a sharp right at the dead end, and you’re inside the oval office of Kentucky football, the headquarters of the football program that’s killing the Big Ten on the recruiting trail.



The first thing that comes into sight, before the floor-to-ceiling glass windows that look onto the Wildcats’ practice field, are four chairs and two PlayStation 4 controllers sitting in front of a 70-inch flatscreen TV that’s mounted on the wall.



“That’s where Lynn used to sit,” Stoops said. “We were extremely close.