Stein's Process Paying Dividends on the Field for No. 12 Kentucky

No. 12 Kentucky had seen great success on the football field so far this season. The Cats are 6-1 overall and 4-1 in the Southeastern Conference, where UK is tied with Georgia atop the league standings.

Kentucky head coach Will Stein believes that the results happening on the field now are due to several months of hard work and establishing how his team goes about its business.

“Our process, I think, makes us different,” Stein said. “How we operate on a day-by-day basis.”

That process started with Stein’s arrival in Lexington. He had to teach his team a lot of things in order for them to be able to meet the new staff’s standard.

“I think when we hit the spring, it was more about how to practice, how to meet, really teaching the base fundamentals and technique of our scheme,” Stein said. “The into summer, and the fall, we had a really good fall camp.”

Stein remembers when the staff’s process really showed up during the season.

“I think that confidence really started to show when we went on the road in week three,” Stein said of his team’s trip to Texas A&M. “We were able to win that game in that fashion. That showed our guys, and really everybody in our building, that what we do on a day-by-day basis, this process that we’ve built really does work and we’ve just got to stick to it. And these players have done an unbelievable job of buying into that process.”

Stein knows that the bottom line, ultimately, is wins and losses.

“You’ve got to go out there and prove it on the field, which is something we’ve done so far this year,” Stein said. “I think people benefit from winning games. I think that’s how you get people going is to prove it on the field.”

Some teams fall victim to having too much success, but Stein believes that will not happen to this group.

“I just go back to what we do on a day-by-day basis,” Stein said. “It’s how these guys respond. It’s really how they work throughout the week. It’s hard to say it’s just this or just that. I think it’s just a culmination of the last eight months and putting in the work with really good players.”

Stein and his staff brought their process to Kentucky and it’s paying off in season one in Lexington.