i want Cameron Johnson
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Used to be able to do this. I don't think there was any limit on scholarships, or if there were, it was quite high. Rupp would sign players he knew would never play just so they wouldn't go to another SEC school. This was particularly true of Kentucky natives. He didn't want them going to a school Ky played regularly and carry a chip on their shoulders because Ky. didn't recruit them, so he'd sign them and they'd sit on the end of the bench for four years. But, hey, they played at Ky! Back in the day that could set them up for life.
Call me insane, but I think the plan is to sign a GA like Cameron Johnson AND a FR like Jalemarl Baker if Briscoe leaves. Gives Johnson his year to shine in the worlds largest stage while Baker can play back up minutes and become a key player next year.
There's just no way I see Cal settling on 4 guards to last the entire season. Cal will sign a 2G and an experienced guard to replace Briscoe if he leaves.
Cal has said he wouldn't recruit a GA transfer, but if somebody were to come knocking on the door, he would more than listen. Especially a player from a major school like Pitt and maybe even a player from New Mexico that needs the limelight UK would give him in his final year.
Calioari had nothing but love for Julius Mays and LOVED having his needed experience in 2015...
There's just no way I see Cal settling on 4 guards to last the entire season. Cal will sign a 2G and an experienced guard to replace Briscoe if he leaves.
Cal has said he wouldn't recruit a GA transfer, but if somebody were to come knocking on the door, he would more than listen. Especially a player from a major school like Pitt and maybe even a player from New Mexico that needs the limelight UK would give him in his final year.
Calioari had nothing but love for Julius Mays and LOVED having his needed experience in 2015...
bam did not set the world on fire disappeared against teams with quality big men if he comes back needs to move pf spot we need bamba and johnson and a title is not out of the question i would take a title over a 1 or 2 loss team
It will be interesting to see if Cal reverses field on this and signs a GA.
If so... this is the kid.
If so... this is the kid.
I think there were limits after a while, but they where really high, like 18.
Football I'm pretty sure had no limits at all until the late 70's at the earliest. Could be urban mythology, but I remember reading a story that when Johnny Majors took the Pitt job in 1973, his initial recruiting class was something like 120 players (edit- just looked it up, and Majors claimed it was 76. Which is still pretty outrageous, considering the current overall limit is 85). It was basically a weed-out system, grabbing as many potentially good players as he could, then sorting through them to find the truly elite. And it worked, as Pitt won a National Title in 1976.
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poor guy, getting over hyped on UK board.
He'll be next year's Mulder if he signs up.
What is the evidence of over-hype? We are talking about him, nothing more.
I thought uncle julius played in 2013. The year we sucked.
Of course Mays was 2013. My bad.
Plus, if you considered that we "sucked" in 2013, thank God you are a Kentucky fan. For ANY other program that was more than a successful season. If they hadn't lost their best player to a season ending injury (The best big in the NCAA), Kentucky would've been somewhere around a 4 seed in the tournament with a shot to make the S16 at the very least, if not even make it farther considering that team was just starting to turn things around before Noel's injury/
Harrow, Goodwin (Nets justs signed him to a 2 yr contract), Mays, Poythress (Currently on the 76ers via Temp Contract). Wiltjer (Played 13 games with HOU as a rookie in 2016 before moving to the D League and is a starter on the Canadian National Team), WCS (Drafted 6th Overall in 2015 by SAC and made all-NBA rookie second team last year), and Noel (Drafted 6th in 2013 by NO and is currently in his 4th year averaging 23.3 MPG for DAL). Of those players, 5 have played in the NBA and 4 are currently on a NBA roster. 2 players drafted in the top 6 overall. That would have been the most talented team Tubby Smith had recruited while coaching at Kentucky from an NBA standpoint.
If you seriously think the 2013 Kentucky team "sucked" due to it's poor finish after college basketball's best big man's injury ruined our postseason chances, I cannot imagine that you have been a fan of UK for any more than 8 years.
A team that's rotation is Harrow, Goodwin, Mays, Poythress, Wiltjer, Cauley-Stein, and Noel does not suck on any level. For Calipari, it was a down year due to Noel's injury, but to say that they "sucked" frankly blows me away. 4 of the 7 rotational players are currently playing in the NBA. 99% of all other college fans would BEG for a roster like we had in 2013, yet due to an injury to the best big in college, we "sucked"? Blows me away how spoiled some of Kentucky's fans have managed to get.
I guess you think that "we sucked" for only making the Elite 8 last year and being a buzzer beater away from wrapping up another title (likely) this last year too. Guess what? If Bam would've been injured the same way Noel was, our results wouldn't have been too far off what we saw happen in 2013 without a suitable big man to put on the court.
I feel SO FREAKING BAD for whoever takes over after Coach Cal retires...
Plus, if you considered that we "sucked" in 2013, thank God you are a Kentucky fan. For ANY other program that was more than a successful season. If they hadn't lost their best player to a season ending injury (The best big in the NCAA), Kentucky would've been somewhere around a 4 seed in the tournament with a shot to make the S16 at the very least, if not even make it farther considering that team was just starting to turn things around before Noel's injury/
Harrow, Goodwin (Nets justs signed him to a 2 yr contract), Mays, Poythress (Currently on the 76ers via Temp Contract). Wiltjer (Played 13 games with HOU as a rookie in 2016 before moving to the D League and is a starter on the Canadian National Team), WCS (Drafted 6th Overall in 2015 by SAC and made all-NBA rookie second team last year), and Noel (Drafted 6th in 2013 by NO and is currently in his 4th year averaging 23.3 MPG for DAL). Of those players, 5 have played in the NBA and 4 are currently on a NBA roster. 2 players drafted in the top 6 overall. That would have been the most talented team Tubby Smith had recruited while coaching at Kentucky from an NBA standpoint.
If you seriously think the 2013 Kentucky team "sucked" due to it's poor finish after college basketball's best big man's injury ruined our postseason chances, I cannot imagine that you have been a fan of UK for any more than 8 years.
A team that's rotation is Harrow, Goodwin, Mays, Poythress, Wiltjer, Cauley-Stein, and Noel does not suck on any level. For Calipari, it was a down year due to Noel's injury, but to say that they "sucked" frankly blows me away. 4 of the 7 rotational players are currently playing in the NBA. 99% of all other college fans would BEG for a roster like we had in 2013, yet due to an injury to the best big in college, we "sucked"? Blows me away how spoiled some of Kentucky's fans have managed to get.
I guess you think that "we sucked" for only making the Elite 8 last year and being a buzzer beater away from wrapping up another title (likely) this last year too. Guess what? If Bam would've been injured the same way Noel was, our results wouldn't have been too far off what we saw happen in 2013 without a suitable big man to put on the court.
I feel SO FREAKING BAD for whoever takes over after Coach Cal retires...
Just read that CJ is from Cal's hometown and his dad played at Pitt when Cal was an assistant there. Is there anyway we don't get this guy?
He just got a scholarship offer, hopefully the hometown connections to Calipari can give us a leg up. I would much rather take a known commodity with experience at this point versus another freshman guard.
Of course, all things are relative. For lots of teams, 2013 would've been a wonderful year. For the Cats, and the type of run we've been on under Calipari, it sucked. If I'd been a fan of, say a Robert Morris, then I would've been thrilled with that season. But I'm not a fan of Robert Morris; I'm a fan of the University of Kentucky Wildcats (since circa '75, to respond to your dumbassed assertion that I must be a fan of 8 years or so), and as a fan of the Wildcats I can tell you that any season ending in a first round NIT loss, at home no less, is a damned disappointing season.
Again, if I'd been a fan of Robert Morris in 2013 I'd've been thrilled with the basketball season. Their year ended in the post season where they knocked off the ncaa's defending champions.
I remember this young man from the AAU circuit a few years ago, he is a talented player. I vaguely remember his dad being a bit of a "helecopter parent".
This has now gone public but was apparently happening for the last several days. Officially has a scholarship offer. I'd be surprised if he's not a Cat soon.
Pittsburgh graduate transfer Cameron Johnson has received his release from the Panthers and in turn received a scholarship offer from John Calipari and the Wildcats, who are in hot pursuit of an outside shooter to round out the 2017-18 roster. Johnson fits the bill, and a source tells SEC Country there is a “good chance” he ends up in Lexington.
Finding holes in the zone would be tight for a Johnson that size.
Adam Smith was was a graduate transfer to Georgia Tech from Virginia Tech 2 years ago. Averaged around 15 points that year.
A lot of good teams and schools in the mix. We will see what is important to him. Anything from geography to academics could factor here. Certainly in a good spot for him.
I hope he commits on the day Cal's 30 for 30 airs while the internet loses its mind over his graduate transfer stance.
