I wouldn't be shocked if UK asked him to do it so they can evaluate the tactics of their competitors and to also pinpoint a fair-market value for Perry.
Interesting list of schools interested in Perry!
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Kind of the same discussion as the other thread about him and portal/mobility.
He read the room and saw that he was most likely going to be continually recruited over.
In eras past we and most other programs had the C Mills types. Mainly because they couldn’t move around. Now they can.
Also, coaches could afford to spend time coaching/developing them and play them.
Now, though most folks don’t want to give MB any credit he was right about “Microwave society”
Coaches are on shorter leashes with brass, boosters, and fans. They can’t wait 2, 3, 4 years for a guy or even core group of guys to develop.
For all the cons to how Cal did things, especially when they weren’t working well towards the end, he couldn’t really switch it up. He’d have been run out of town even faster had he reorganized everything to model more traditional ways of team building over time.
Instead of recruiting elite talent/athleticism/size/length coming out and saying “alright BBN I’m no longer going to focus on the John Wall, AD, KAT, platoon type talents…I’m going to recruit more Travis Perry, 3-4 year, program kids…”
This board would have imploded.
Pope…same thing. He’s not Cal, and is doing things a little differently…but when push came to shove ya boy dabbled in the portal and brought in some mercs and guys who look, move, play a tad bit differently than the 3-4 year program kid.
We are after all the program that runs off title winning HOF coaches. We’re not going to wait very long. Cant expect Cal or Pope to error on the side of waiting when it comes to talent.
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He’s officially public enemy number 1 if he picks one of them for sure
So instead of getting no playing time at his dream school that he only wanted to play for in his entire life, he's going to transfer to his dream school's competition to still get pretty much no playing time. Only somewhere who will play him is where he's going, so if an SEC school will give him that, then that became a very easy win for us.
I love him as a player, I want him to come back home eventually, but there's a reason he's leaving. He's not good enough this upcoming season. He won't be next year either. Hopefully he gets to do senior day as a cat.
You would rather be the water boy than an All American? You expect us to really believe that? IF that is true, you didn’t grow up as an athlete. Real athletes want to play and compete.
As an All American, you are likely pulling in millions from NIL, probably looking at a career in the NBA, and being a huge star on campus and with the co-eds. As a water boy, you are probably lucky if you even get to travel with the team to road games.
I’m as Blue as anyone, but offer me $250k to play elsewhere for 5 months and I’ll take it.
You are assuming he will never be able to contribute lol. Obviously he doesn’t believe that and I doubt the team he goes to will believe that either. Just because he wasn’t ready last doesn’t mean he never will be
Dontae Allen was going to be a star also. JUST because you transfer to WKU, doesn't mean automatic star. He still has to be able to defend guys like Wilkerson, and SEVERAL other shooters that play in CUSA. You are acting like WKU is D2 or something.
Just a few guards he would have faced this year : he would have trouble guarding any of these guys and several more.
Lamar Wilkerson
Jaron Pierre
Adrian Wooley
Colin Porter
Simeon Cottle
Jestin Porter
Taelon Peter
Yep
I see that list and I’m likely playing for Iowa or Maryland if I’m him and the coaching staff tells me I’d be in their top 7 rotational players
He’d play more at most of those schools than he would here with our depth. He might be 7 or 8 off the bench at most. Not Louisville though. They have a crap ton of guards in front of him.
Then why go to UK to begin with? Did he think he was going to be a 4-year starter? If so, he was sorely misguided as to what to expect.
Personally, unless he was explicitly told to look elsewhere, I think leaving UK is a big mistake. Several posters on here taking this approach of "well you just don't understand, competitors want to compete, etc etc blah blah" as if they somehow exclusively understand the mentality of athletes compared to everyone else. Spare us. We all know that competitors want to compete and we understand that he has been accustomed to competing and scoring alot of points etc. We freaking know.
At some point, it ends. This attitude on here of "he wants to play, you don't understand the true nature of a competitor" is annoying. What's more important on a resume for future career/job opportunities after basketball; a resume with 4-5 years as a UK basketball player, even with minimum playing time (combined with being the state's all-time leading scorer), or a resume of scoring 2k points at Hofstra?
At some point, his future prospects will need to take precedent over his desire to play lots of minutes of basketball. Perry likely has professional aspirations, most realistically overseas, but those aspirations can be realized right here even in a minimal role at UK. And if he doesn't become a paid professional, the financial implications of being a 4-5 year player at UK, that just happens to also be the states all-time leading scorer, are immeasurable.
I wish him well, but I think leaving just to get to play more is a grave mistake. UNLESS...he comes back ah-la Stetson Bennett at UGA football.
Not to be argumentative, but ... It's about a one-hour drive from Eddyville to Murray. It's less than a two-hour drive from Eddyville to Bowling Green. If Travis considers the one, but not the other, to be in his "home area", then Travis is far more provincial than I have previously perceived him to be. If Travis transfers, I hope he goes to Western.
I bet it's true.
The issue isn't the agent.
It's that fans don't want to understand what "interested" means.
He didn't say they were recruiting him and throwing out NIL offers.
I'm sure those schools sent a "Wassup" text.
And fans should know that with out it being explained.
But for whatever reason, people turn off their brain on the Internet.
Gives them an excuse to be snarky about agents, Perrys ability, or bang on an agenda about Kentucky boys.
Or the Crispin brothers, Joe and Jon, a relatively unathletic 6-0 and 6-1, who came into Rupp with unranked Penn State and beat UK 73-68. The brothers shot a combined 13-23 from the three point line and torched the Cats for 57 points.
I don't think that a single SEC school would take Perry. Good kid, smart, good spot up shooter but just not a SEC level guard. Nothing to be ashamed of because less than 40 to 50 kids a year are SEC quality guards. I hope he finds a school that he and the school are thrilled they mesh. I would love to see him at a school like Appalachian State in Boone NC. They have a great basketball program for their level of basketball conference (Sun Belt).
I bet he goes to Vandy and gets a starting spot. Kinda the worst SEC school, but he also gets to play against SEC schools consistenly which would help him.
I don't think Cal would be patient with him. Wonder why he cares about AK.
A 6-foot catch and shoot SG can’t play at this level unless they’re lightning quick to blow by defenders or can jump out of the gym to get their shot off over bigger defenders.
A short, slow footed shooting guard can be successful in Kentucky high school basketball because most of the competition is fellow slow footed kids, but undersized, limited athlete playing SG at the highest level of D1 is another story.
If he wants to play off ball and also play a lot, his best choice would be transferring down to the level of a WKU or Wichita State. His other option is to learn to play PG because that’s where he’d be used in a P4 system.
Thrown out in the sense that we were so ravaged with injuries that he was forced into play before he developed enough to contribute more
Vanderbilt has a rather good team this past year. They were a 10 seed in the tourney.
For next year, they got Frankie Collins at point, who a lot of folks here were targeting. They are bringing in Michael James from NC State, who averaged 12.6 PPG under Payne at UL. They have Nickel back on the wing too. Tyler Tanner is back too at backup PG and had 5.7 PPG last year. He would play, but he'd be the 5th option at best at guard.
Very true but we grew up with knowing how much it would mean to our families if we were on UK’s team. I would have loved to be a 4 year bench player. $$$ is really the root of all evil
You have to take off your blue-tinted glasses. Of course he didn’t think that he was going to be a 4-year starter. However, he probably saw the trajectory of the recruiting of other elite guards to the program and realized he wasn’t going to be in the rotation. He is being recruited by primarily premier teams in the P5, not Hofstra level.
He's 20 years old, being promised at least 6 figures and playing time by other high profile schools. Do you honestly believe that he would pass that up to continue being the 12th guy on the bench, because it would help out his post-playing career?
He was way overmatched and it's going to take more than one summer for him to physically develop into a guy that can play meaningful minutes in the SEC.
Nobody should be stunned at this. Travis obviously wants to play right now, he doesn't want to wait until his junior year just so he can say he played at UK.
Travis is a good player, but if he's getting significant minutes for someone, that team is not a serious contender for anything beyond a sweet 16. This isn't a church league where everyone gets to play.
TP did the best thing for his situation.
If a kid gets in the weight room they become faster. If Richie Farmer could play for Rick then perry can play for any of those schools. Yes he was too slow this season but that doesn't mean he always will be. If he goes to ole miss he will be solid as a junior
Our fans are victims of forgetting that players get better. Because of cals system
If Arkansas goes after Perry, it will only be to piss off Kentucky. If Perry signs with Arkansas, he is a fool.
19-21 year old player: "I want playing time & 6 figure NIL deals now. "
60+ year old forum member: "Quit crying about money & pt, simply be content with wearing that sweet UK jersey... You gonna regret this is 30 years when only 5 people show up to your mall autograph sessions instead of 10!"
60+ year old forum member: "Quit crying about money & pt, simply be content with wearing that sweet UK jersey... You gonna regret this is 30 years when only 5 people show up to your mall autograph sessions instead of 10!"
He's getting 250,000. It's not like UK asked him to play for the name on the jersey.
He won’t play at any of those 3 as a Soph., so I bet that if he does transfer it will be to a lower level school like Western or Murray State. Not saying he can’t develop into a really good player by his Jr or Sr. year, but he needs time to get stronger and craftier.
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