“UK In Great Position To Land Top Guard”

[Random UK Fan]

Not able to get very excited about our recruiting anymore, but for those that are, here;

Kentucky is the early favorite to land a 2025 five-star guard - Sports Illustrated Kentucky Wildcats News, Analysis and More

Kentucky has a good shot to land this talented five-star guard.

www.si.com

Just looking for a bright spot.

 

[Mdnerd]

Not able to get very excited about our recruiting anymore, but for those that are, here;

Yay….🫤

 

[Rockfly78]

With recruiting, we are now in a situation where genie is out of the bottle and there's no putting him back in. I do not get excited about recruiting anymore because I just expect to get highly rated recruits. It has become the norm. I wish they played better for sure.

But I can tell you this for a FACT. As long as Duke, Kansas and UNC keep pulling in 5 stars, our fanbase will not accept anything less than 5 stars for ourselves and it doesn't matter who the coach is.

 

[WeWant9]

You could give Cal his current 7 all stars, and he wouldn’t even know what to do with them now.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

You could give Cal his current 7 all stars, and he wouldn’t even know what to do with them now.

He would get super swaggy then lose to Our Mother of the Atlantic Coast.

 

[MachineHead1]

Cal lands top recruit, promises to only lose 13 games with him next year

 

[Ugoff]

For some reason I'm picturing Wagner bricking a jumpshot as I read that.

 

[CatPhight]

 

[bnewt]

He may be rated as a 5 star now, but under the "coaching" of ccc, he will play like an 8th grader.
He will regress under this amazing "coach"

 

[zwynn10]

You could give Cal his current 7 all stars, and he wouldn’t even know what to do with them now.

5 NBA picks and a 1st or 2nd Team AA and we are 8-5 in the SEC. He knows what to do with - let them live large in the Lodge, let them collect big NIL $$$, promise and play them minutes at the expense of the team, protect their egos and say I like my team and we are built for March. Then tell everyone that SEC Tournament doesn’t matter and lose first game and go to NCAA Tournament and lose first weekend. Go to NBA draft and prance around and talk about how many billions in player salaries he has achieved. Yup, I think he knows exactly what to do with them.

Apologies, Wewant9. I know the correct point you were making and I bastardize your point with my rant.

 

[WeWant9]

He would get super swaggy then lose to Our Mother of the Atlantic Coast.

I think the Washington Generals could find a way to beat a Cal coached team.

 

[WeWant9]

5 NBA picks and a 1st or 2nd Team AA and we are 8-5 in the SEC. He knows what to do with - let them live large in the Lodge, let them collect big NIL $$$, promise and play them minutes at the expense of the team, protect their egos and say I like my team and we are built for March. Then tell everyone that SEC Tournament doesn’t matter and lose first game and go to NCAA Tournament and lose first weekend. Go to NBA draft and prance around and talk about how many billions in player salaries he has achieved. Yup, I think he knows exactly what to do with them.

Apologies, Wewant9. I know the correct point you were making and I bastardize your point with my rant.

All good, we’re all pissed off about it.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Will Cal still be the coach in 2025? If so, I don't GAD if we could recruit 6-Star players. Cal will find a way to F it up.

COACHING MALPRACTICE

 

[jwphelps]

Not able to get very excited about our recruiting anymore, but for those that are, here;



Just looking for a bright spot.

Doesn't matter, we still have the same coach.

 

[Pulaski Cat Fan]

Wouldn't matter if it was a young Michael Jordan, Cal would **** it up.

 

[gharding07]

Who cares...if Cal is still here it means nothing.

 

[WeWant9]

I just hope not too many people fall into this trap. I’m betting as the season nears its end, we’ll see more stuff like “top recruit leaning UK.” Then some will be convinced that next year or year after, is finally the year. When they were all saying this was the year when we had a terrible 3 year stretch.

 

[Mdnerd]

With recruiting, we are now in a situation where genie is out of the bottle and there's no putting him back in. I do not get excited about recruiting anymore because I just expect to get highly rated recruits. It has become the norm. I wish they played better for sure.

But I can tell you this for a FACT. As long as Duke, Kansas and UNC keep pulling in 5 stars, our fanbase will not accept anything less than 5 stars for ourselves and it doesn't matter who the coach is.

Should we expect less than 5 stars? Not seeing the issue here…

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

Who gives a shit

 

[UKortho]

He is a N Carolina fan. Doubt he comes here.

 

[*CatinIL*]

Color me excited...

 

[Tubbyfan78]

Who cares? This was supposed to be the group remember.

 

[catben]

He's my favorite player in the class and his Dad played football here. He is a STUD.

But with the way Cal has treated Kentucky kids, I wouldn't be surprised to see him go to UNC as much as it PAINS ME to say that.

I just have NO faith in Cal anymore. SAD

 

[true blue1]

It's hard to get excited about recruiting under Cal because it hasn't done us no good at all to the land the best of the best. Cal has underachieved with all the talent he has had!

 

[Rockfly78]

Should we expect less than 5 stars? Not seeing the issue here…

No we should not. My post was directed at people who think recruiting doesn't matter.

 

[wcats#1]

5 NBA picks and a 1st or 2nd Team AA and we are 8-5 in the SEC. He knows what to do with - let them live large in the Lodge, let them collect big NIL $$$, promise and play them minutes at the expense of the team, protect their egos and say I like my team and we are built for March. Then tell everyone that SEC Tournament doesn’t matter and lose first game and go to NCAA Tournament and lose first weekend. Go to NBA draft and prance around and talk about how many billions in player salaries he has achieved. Yup, I think he knows exactly what to do with them.

Apologies, Wewant9. I know the correct point you were making and I bastardize your point with my rant.

Maybe Cal needs those once in a lifetime 6 star recruit

 

[ukfan041]

Wash, rinse, repeat! We’ll continue to get talent and Cal will continue to do jack shit with it!

 

[jeffky]

 

[NociHTTP]

I can't put a finger on it, but he reminds me of Sharpe.

 

[NociHTTP]

No we should not. My post was directed at people who think recruiting doesn't matter.

Coaching matters more than recruits, but it seems like you keep trying to deflect from that.

 

[TNCatfanforever]

Not able to get very excited about our recruiting anymore, but for those that are, here;



Just looking for a bright spot.

I wish you headline said UK about to hire a top notch coach

 

[Rockfly78]

Coaching matters more than recruits, but it seems like you keep trying to deflect from that.

Oh do I? Want to elaborate on that?

I wonder what everybody’s hero Ricky P thinks about your take? Sounds like he’d like to have some better players about right now.

 

[TFCats11]

Let me know when the headline reads, “UK in great position to land top Head Coach.”

There’s no 5* player I will ever get excited about again as long as Calipari is the HC. Dude is essentially robbing whoever (except for Vegas) is paying his absurd salary, and robbing BBN of real UK basketball!

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Jasper Johnson to UK should be the minimum. Cal needs to land Peterson, Dybantsa, Thomas, Johnson, Wilson, Acuff, and get about half of them to reclass to '24 to even stand a chance of winning 25+ the next two seasons.

 

[jof2]

Not able to get very excited about our recruiting anymore, but for those that are, here;



Just looking for a bright spot.

Hope he knows how to play defense; he sure won’t learn how here.

 

[Fox2monk]

Not able to get very excited about our recruiting anymore, but for those that are, here;



Just looking for a bright spot.

These things don’t work anymore. Cal used to put these out to calm BBN but we already know it don’t matter now.

 

[RunninRichie]

Does it even matter? No.

 

[BigRedMachineBigBlueNation]

 

[bucsrule8872]

I would love to have Johnson and pretty much expect him to come here, but I can’t get excited about next season. As long as Cal is coach, we will underachieve.

 

[kennyskywalker34]

Let him go to Duke, UNC, Kansas or anywhere but UK. If it means UK gets a new coach.