The ones that matter - Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Maryland. The rest are fluff ...
Ole Miss most likely... Coaching staff ❤️ TP.
Ole Miss most likely... Coaching staff ❤️ TP.
Interesting list of schools interested in Perry!
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Tried to get TP’s attention at the stop light in Eddyville this weekend, so I could ask him why he was bailing. He didn’t have time for me though.
Hopefully he goes out of the SEC. I still have lingering bad memories from watching a small, slower, less athletic top flight instate HS guard from Ky light up the league wearing orange.
He's not the least bit worried about money at this point in his life.
He doesn't have the burden of ending generational poverty.
That basketball gym in his backyard didn't build itself.
He comes from upper middle class money.
Even if his NIL at his new school is substantially lower, his total take from NIL/ revenue sharing will have him in the 99th percentile of money in the bank within his graduating class.
This guy will never want for anything in life and is totally free to live out his basketball dreams.
The NIL at the other schools are substantially higher than UK.
Are you talking about just for Travis Perry or overall?
I could see that because Maryland and Ole Miss haven't spent big in the portal.
The money simply went to other players at UK.
This.
And UK will attack him relentlessly on offense.
I thought Beard was a defensive guy anyways so a bit surprised he seems so enamored with Perry.
It was his loss for being in a hurry. He probably could have gotten some free shooting tips.
Agreed. He’s not going to play professionally. So, if you truly bleed blue and love UK, would you leave just to play more next season?
Pressure would be off. Perry could focus on improvement all the while cashing fat checks and buying time for an expanded role.
Guess he loves playing basketball that much. I can respect the belief in himself and wanting to play meaningful mins, but I can also question if he considered this move from a long term perspective.
Bingo. This is the point. This notion of "competitors want to play, blah blah, you've never played competitive basketball blah blah" (even if that were true, which it's not, is not the pre-requisite of baseline knowledge necessary in order to assess this situation or have an opinion on it). It's a low-IQ indicator to argue "you must have never played competitive basketball" when diagnosing his reasoning for leaving being that he simply wants to play and compete. No one is denying that desire. No one is denying the power of that desire and how it impacts decision-making.
Ultimately I, nor anyone on here, truly care what he does, but this is a message board designed for the purposes of sharing opinions and banter, and under that pretense I again, in my opinion, think it's a mistake to leave UK, IF, the sole reason is simply to get to play more minutes of basketball. My reasoning is because, as @AzubuikeandFitch said, this move needs to be considered from a long term perspective. He goes to some lesser school and plays a bunch of minutes and scores a bunch of points, who cares? I get it, the kid cares. But for what? And even if he is already financially wealthy, the long term benefits, especially if he stays in KY to start a career/raise a family, of being a full-career University of Kentucky basketball alumni, not to mention combining it with his high school career in this state, are immeasurable.
My hope is that someone in his camp is reminding him of this every time he says "but yeah I think I could be 6th man at Maryland and maybe start there as a junior and maybe make some threes".
Has Perry had any in-person visits with any Power 4 universities since entering the portal, much less signed with anyone? I haven’t followed closely, but I haven’t seen anything.
He might not make the NBA, but for sure he can have a professional basketball career if that is what he chooses to do.
Travis is 20 years old he shouldn't live his life afraid to fail
If basketball is his passion in life then he should pursue it to the fullest extent.
They say nothing is more expensive than regret.
IMO you are way overvaluing staying at UK for 4 years as it pertains to his future.
I believe Travis was Valedictorian of his class at LCH so he doesn't need to be handed success solely built on networking UK alum.
It's also not like leaving would close that door to him anyway.
I guarantee you that a lot of former players would tell you they weren't"setup for life" after 4 years at UK.
Dale Brown was a starter on a final four team and ended up delivering packages at UPS. I think he finished his degree and got into coaching out of state.
A guy from my hometown started for UK football in the 90's
Good enough for UK but not for the NFL.
Alumni set him up with a pharma sales job and he pissed it away in 6 months.
The opportunity never came back around and now he's in his 50's without a pot to piss in.
Point being he needed the help and Travis doesn't.
Travis is smart enough along with all the other things to create opportunity for himself.
He can always go somewhere else to get the minutes and college level development he needs then transfer back here. Doubt it happens, but not out of the realm of possibility.
Just because he doesn't have an NBA profile does not mean he cannot have a successful career overseas and do better than most of us.
I thought this was a poem at first.
Few guys I know who didn’t get much after playing here.
- Jared Carter
- Ed Davender (RIP)
Both of these guys I worked with in some capacity. And both scammed the company I worked for. I loved Ed, but the guy had some demons. Felt really bad for the guy. Jared not so much.
Another guy I knew - Mel Turpin. Of course he played professionally, but he didn’t have much, and he was such a nice and compassionate dude. I often wondered why he didn’t get some sort of hook up later.
How much NIL do we have, and how much do other teams have that has more than us?
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