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Safety Dawkins will take a look at Kentucky

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

Kentucky recently became one of the latest schools to offer safety Will Dawkins but the Wildcats have some ground to make up.

The Vero Beach (Fla.) safety doesn't know much about Kentucky yet. In fact, he hasn't had much contact with the UK coaching staff. They didn't even let him know about his offer directly.

"My coach spoke to them," Dawkins explained. "I think it was last Saturday, sometime during the weekend.

"I don't really know much about them but that's a school I'll probably look into."

Working in UK's favor is the fact that Dawkins has not visited any schools recently. So while he doesn't know much about Kentucky, he doesn't know much about many of the schools recruiting him.

Lots is going to hinge on how his official visits go.

"I'm going to wait until the fall and take some official visits," he said. "I should definitely be going to Ohio State, Michigan State and then I think I'm taking (and official visit to) Northern Illinois."

That might come as a surprise to some people. Ohio State and Michigan State are premier programs in the Big Ten that attract plenty of national attention, but NIU is a MAC school. On top of that, they have a new coach.

"I have a good relationship with the (NIU) coaches," he said. "And my cousin is over there.

"Really I'm just looking for some good coaches and I'm also looking for a school that's good with business and management."

Dawkins said he does not have any schools at the top of his list, per se, but he admitted that the schools he mentioned - Ohio State, Michigan State and NIU - are probably in pretty good shape relative to most of the other schools recruiting him.

The 5-foot-11, 195-pound prospect told Cats Illustrated that he doesn't have a preference as far as what conference or what part of the country he plays in.

"I'm not all about what team is sponsored by NIKE or that kind of stuff," he said. "I just want to be on a good football team with good players."

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