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LB Scales visits Louisville, Kentucky spring games

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

Tegray Scales figures to be a major recruiting priority for both Louisville and Kentucky in this recruiting class and he visited both schools on Saturday.

The timing of the spring games at Louisville and Kentucky made it possible for some of the region's top prospects to take in the Cardinals' game and then make the drive over to Lexington to catch Kentucky's game at night.

That's exactly what Scales did.

The 6-foot-2, 212-pound linebacker from Colerain, the home of top 2015 UK target George Brown, has offers from Louisville, Indiana and Western Michigan.

He was only at Louisville for the second half of their spring game.

"I liked (Louisville)," he said. "They pretty much did great. The coaches were out there just having fun. I liked the fans. They had about 30,000."

But at Kentucky, he said, the atmosphere was even more impressive.

"The main difference was that UK fans were just crazy. Other than that it's two good football schools and good coaches," he said.

The fans made the trip more than Scales imagined it would be. Though his younger teammate has been to Kentucky on several occasions it was his first trip to Lexington so he didn't really know what to expect beyond what others had told him.

"I liked the team. They were looking good. And again, the fans were amazing," he said. "It's the SEC and I had never been to an SEC school before. There was a big difference surrounding it. It was definitely more than I expected.

"I talked to coach (John) Schlarman and coach (Vince) Marrow and the whole time I was with my boy George Brown and we loved it."

While Scales does not have an offer from UK, that could change soon.

"(The coaches) will be up to the school in a week and a half," he said.

Notably, Scales said he does not have a favorite "out of the schools that have offered."

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