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Kentucky offers North Carolina linebacker

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

Kentucky needs linebackers and that's a message the assistant coaches on the staff are preaching everywhere they go.

While coaches are limited in the amount of contact they can have with recruits there are ways they can get their message across. They can talk to a recruit's coaches and they can get on the phone with a recruit after they have left his school.

However it happens, coaches get their message across. And Kentucky's coaches are letting every linebacker they are recruiting know that they are needed.

Especially guys like Chris Register, a Rivals250 linebacker from North Carolina and one of that state's top prospects. Ranked the No. 10 outside linebacker in the nation, the Greensboro (N.C.) Dudley prospect already has a lengthy offer list. He also knows that the in-state schools, primarily North Carolina and NC State, would love to keep him at home.

Kentucky assistant coach Tommy Mainord has been stumping in North Carolina and Register was one of the key recruits he wanted to check out.

"My coach told me [on Wednesday] that Kentucky and Miami had offered," Register said. "I know a lot about Miami and what they produce. I pretty much know that and that they graduate 100 percent of their players.

"Kentucky is supposed to be getting new facilities and they've got a new coaching staff that's coming in."

That's all the 6-foot-2, 226-pound linebacker knows for now. But he could learn a lot more soon.

"I would like to take visits [to both schools]," Register added. "I will definitely get down to Miami and I might visit Kentucky."

Register made it clear that it wasn't too late for either school to get involved. While he is more familiar with more local schools like North Carolina, NC State and Clemson, simply because they have been recruiting him the longest and he has visited those schools multiple times, he's remaining open to whatever comes his way.

In early June Register plans to visit the state of Florida, where he will visit Florida State and Miami.

At one point he had hoped to make a relatively early decision. Now his timetable is completely up in the air.

"To be honest I don't really know anymore," he said with a laugh. "I was never really that close to making a decision. These schools that have been taking longer to grade my film are starting to come around. They've been coming in with late offers and it's hard to even keep up."

Register added that he would like to take his official visits but he does not know where he will take them yet.

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