Calipari and recruiting

[W2R]

isn't it crazy to think how far we've come since Cal has been at the helm. Even when Cal doesn't doesn't get some recruits he always come through. I remember back in April may some on here was having a meltdown about our class and missing on Newman Zimmerman and others We end up with Murray and 7ft Australian. Most coaches couldn't pull that off in their career much less in the summer. Also when Mudiay chose smu people were freaking out and we got Ulis at the last second. Some thought Ulis was a consolation recruit, Now people saying he is the best pure PG in nation and at UK. What Cal has done with recruiting is nothing short of amazing I don't worry anymore about recruiting because Cal is working overtime behind the scenes. Some thought this class was dead in the water before this summer. you add second year Ulis with this class
We have a another great team. It's crazy to think where we've gone with recruiting

 

[wromanp7]

!

 

[WildMoon]

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

I also feel like we are getting better as well.

 

[KyFord]

It has been one of the most amazing runs in college basketball history, Cal is the ****ing man.

 

[W2R]

Ulis. Consolation guard and grabbing at straws last second after missing on mudiay ( according to,some on here ). Too,short. Not in caliber of mudiay. Will never see minutes with twins , some thought we get Newman and briscoe the number one PG in his class...oh how times have changed and also how things work out. Mudiay never played and now briscoe the number one PG might not even start of finish games at UK

We all,worried about the names and players we know and Cal goes out and gets an Australian and a kid from New Zealand . He gets one of the best juco players and a Haitian that only played basketball since he was 14 but now considered the number one pick even though he missed his whole junior year with a back injury and was declared ineligible his senior year. We all witnessed what Skal can do Friday night in just 20 minutes.

Matthews is considered an afterthought but would be a top recruit before Cal got here. Ulis is now embraced by even rival,fans and media members. Briscoe might not play as much as most would think the #1 pg in nation would play anywhere else, but yet we as fans thought Cal was losing his touch back in April. We add Murray which might be the next John wall type player. cal has the potential to have Skal or Murray as a top pick.

 

[Poetax]

Ulis. Consolation guard and grabbing at straws last second after missing on mudiay ( according to,some on here ). Too,short. Not in caliber of mudiay. Will never see minutes with twins , some thought we get Newman and briscoe the number one PG in his class...oh how times have changed and also how things work out. Mudiay never played and now briscoe the number one PG might not even start of finish games at UK

We all,worried about the names and players we know and Cal goes out and gets an Australian and a kid from New Zealand . He gets one of the best juco players and a Haitian that only played basketball since he was 14 but now considered the number one pick even though he missed his whole junior year with a back injury and was declared ineligible his senior year. We all witnessed what Skal can do Friday night in just 20 minutes.

Matthews is considered an afterthought but would be a top recruit before Cal got here. Ulis is now embraced by even rival,fans and media members. Briscoe might not play as much as most would think the #1 pg in nation would play anywhere else, but yet we as fans thought Cal was losing his touch back in April. We add Murray which might be the next John wall type player. cal has the potential to have Skal or Murray as a top pick.

Nobody can be John Wall, but Murray will be better in other areas that we need badly. Especially shooting.

 

[Blue Decade]

isn't it crazy to think how far we've come since Cal has been at the helm. Even when Cal doesn't doesn't get some recruits he always come through. I remember back in April may some on here was having a meltdown about our class and missing on Newman Zimmerman and others We end up with Murray and 7ft Australian. Most coaches couldn't pull that off in their career much less in the summer. Also when Mudiay chose smu people were freaking out and we got Ulis at the last second. Some thought Ulis was a consolation recruit, Now people saying he is the best pure PG in nation and at UK. What Cal has done with recruiting is nothing short of amazing I don't worry anymore about recruiting because Cal is working overtime behind the scenes. Some thought this class was dead in the water before this summer. you add second year Ulis with this class
We have a another great team. It's crazy to think where we've gone with recruiting

For more than 50 years, Kentucky has been the most important program in college basketball. The only hiccup was in the 1970s and 80s, when John Wooden recruited Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton to Westwood and Kentucky had to endure the Chris Mills scandal. But while UCLA faded, Kentucky survived as the apex program. There is nothing new about great players playing for Kentucky, or about Kentucky being an elite team. The dawn of the internet may have changed the way we talk about it, but Kentucky has been a dominant basketball program for longer than I have been alive. What has changed is the public viciousness with which some fans respond to every disappointment. Every year, Kentucky plays 30-40 basketball games and 12-13 football games. Every year, Kentucky's basketball coaches offer scholarships to 20-30 high school players, and our football coaches offer scholarships to 150-200 football players. If we lose a game or a recruit, there is a parade of posters cluelessly blasting our team and our coaches. In a sense, criticisms, fake expertise, and overreaction have become the sports and entertainment that basketball and football used to be.

 

[Pulaski Cat Fan]

I tell you what, where we are now sure beats the days of worrying about the Jai Lucas's of the world. We couldn't even sign a power forward with a pulse, until PPat, for the longest time. When Cal got here, all the new ELITE recruits we where getting was so new and exciting. 7 years in and Cal is still delivering them, but we have gotten so used to it that it's just expected. What Cal has done isn't the norm. Cal is to recruiting what Jordan was to shooting guards.

 

[Bkocats]

I just remember a time when UK fans would be ecstatic at the "second or third" choices Cal has gotten. We'd have been on top of the world to land these guys -

We are so spoiled at this point, that we were COMPLAINING of our class this year before getting Murray. We were worried that Cal was losing it - or that we couldn't get decent players. Seriously, go back and read some of the threads on recruiting this year.

It's amazing where we are right now - and what we have to look forward to.

 

[UKWildcats#8]

For more than 50 years, Kentucky has been the most important program in college basketball. The only hiccup was in the 1970s and 80s, when John Wooden recruited Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton to Westwood and Kentucky had to endure the Chris Mills scandal. But while UCLA faded, Kentucky survived as the apex program. There is nothing new about great players playing for Kentucky, or about Kentucky being an elite team. The dawn of the internet may have changed the way we talk about it, but Kentucky has been a dominant basketball program for longer than I have been alive. What has changed is the public viciousness with which some fans respond to every disappointment. Every year, Kentucky plays 30-40 basketball games and 12-13 football games. Every year, Kentucky's basketball coaches offer scholarships to 20-30 high school players, and our football coaches offer scholarships to 150-200 football players. If we lose a game or a recruit, there is a parade of posters cluelessly blasting our team and our coaches. In a sense, criticisms, fake expertise, and overreaction have become the sports and entertainment that basketball and football used to be.

The 2000s decade was pretty medicore overall as well. You only had one legit team that whole decade that maybe could have won it all in 2003.

 

[Drcatfan]

Cal's only real competition for the elite level recruits right now is Coach K and the occasional hometown school. If Coach K ever retires, UK will have free reign to hand select the top 5 recruits each year.

 

[Aike]

For more than 50 years, Kentucky has been the most important program in college basketball. The only hiccup was in the 1970s and 80s, when John Wooden recruited Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton to Westwood and Kentucky had to endure the Chris Mills scandal. But while UCLA faded, Kentucky survived as the apex program. There is nothing new about great players playing for Kentucky, or about Kentucky being an elite team. The dawn of the internet may have changed the way we talk about it, but Kentucky has been a dominant basketball program for longer than I have been alive. What has changed is the public viciousness with which some fans respond to every disappointment. Every year, Kentucky plays 30-40 basketball games and 12-13 football games. Every year, Kentucky's basketball coaches offer scholarships to 20-30 high school players, and our football coaches offer scholarships to 150-200 football players. If we lose a game or a recruit, there is a parade of posters cluelessly blasting our team and our coaches. In a sense, criticisms, fake expertise, and overreaction have become the sports and entertainment that basketball and football used to be.

We are historically great, but our talent level is unquestionably better than ever at this time.

As for the football discussion - you lost me. We are a mediocre football program at best, with a few rays of sunshine splashed in.

Most criticism of our football program is hardly knee jerk. We are Charlie Brown to the rest of the SEC's Lucy.