Jones on KSR today: confirms report that Arkansas is willing to double whatever UK offers recruits

[Imafan4evr_]

It blows my mind the level of pettiness from Cal toward a program that didn’t do anything to him except overpay his worth for the last several years. Also seems like a foolish use of money by Arkansas donors, but it’s theirs to light on fire. Enjoy the mercenaries, I suppose. I’m sure they’ll play hard and for the greater good of the team…

 

[HeismaNole]

Why didn’t they do this before this season?

 

[MidseasonTweak]

I love how UK is being directly targeted here.

 

[Coach Marrow]

Because nobody wants to be in Arkansas

 

[UKWildcats1987]

They are his guys so he is going to overinflate their value to get them to Arkansas.

And all these players are mercenaries, let's not kid ourselves.

 

[ukpence]

This will hopefully make our win over Arkansas that much better.

 

[anonymous_2011]

If Cal is such a hot commodity what is the point of this?

 

[Tubbyfan78]

Cal is proving the job made him not the other way around. Watch what's about to happen with Pope and see. Hopefully, we remember this next time people are saying if we lose this coach it's over. It's never over at UK.

 

[bookerfan66]

Does this mean any recruit or just the ones that commited to him at UK?

 

[RunninRichie]

Calipari is a scornful loser. He feels slighted by us, so he's going to ''burn our village down''. Listen to the dude sometime. There's a reason he's hated everywhere he leaves.

 

[BlueBomb]

I'm so glad the Cal era is over. The "Players First" approach is sickening to me.

That said, UK does have to figure out how to play the game at the highest level. We better find serious dollars if we expect to compete. Sad but true.

Too bad the bourbon industry can't fund it.

 

[kywildcat41086]

You only have so many roster spots piggy pigs…… Cal can go straight to HELL to be honest….. He’s where he deserves to be for what he’s done to our program the last 5 years!

 

[65pacecar]

Because nobody wants to be in Arkansas

I believe Larry Glover refers to it as Fayette-Nam.

 

[Jerbear76]

No smart business person is willing to blindly double anything. Arkansas would never lose a recruit and they’ve lost several so far. Also Arkansas football wouldn’t be ass year after year with recruiting classes generally ranked lower than UK’s.

I’m gonna apply common sense here and ignore the tough talk.

 

[JoshAllenFan]

The true character of Cal is on full display. Many Cal defenders need to realize what he is and what he has done to our program. He wants to ruin us even after he's gone. That's Cal.

 

[WeWant9]

Does this mean any recruit or just the ones that commited to him at UK?

I was going ask the same thing. When this was first discussed it seemed it was for this year’s class, but it’ll probably become a story that grows and grows.

 

[BassProCat]

Let’s drive up JQ’s price to 2 mill and let Jerry Jones pay that 4 mill

 

[Imafan4evr_]

UPDATE: he said he thinks it pertains more to portal guys than high school recruits at the moment.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

UK isn’t going to get into a battle for johnell Davis and one other guy, because cal wants to use the money Arkansas has and double UKs offer and use the recruitng win in the PR world to show he is better than Uk. So it’s looking like Davis isn’t gonna happen. Also osobor is gonna take longer

 

[Jerbear76]

Why didn’t they do this before this season?

Because it’s made up nonsense. Cal took a paycut to go to Arkansas now they’re blindly doubling NIL offers when they have no way to even confirm the offer. That’s laughable.

 

[Dreklie]

I honestly don't care about it, Arkansas will be relevant until cal is gone in about 5 years and we will continue to be Kentucky and they will continue to be arkansas

 

[Shawn (uk7spd)]

I am sure that will go over well for team chemistry when a few recruits are making millions because of this and then the rest are making a couple hundred grand. I realize that happens, to a lesser degree, on most teams, but this would be a unique situation. They would need to essentially double every player's NIL just to make it sustainable.

 

[BassProCat]

I hope we beat this POS by 40+ when we play them

 

[bookerfan66]

UK isn’t going to get into a battle for johnell Davis and one other guy, because cal wants to use the money Arkansas has and double UKs offer and use the recruitng win in the PR world to show he is better than Uk. So it’s looking like Davis isn’t gonna happen. Also osobor is gonna take longer

Man this will kill us with the best portal guys.Cal is such a POS.

 

[KyCatFan]

They won't keep doing that for long. Driving up those prices so when the results don't equal the value they are investing, then Arkansas donors will run him out of town.

 

[JwUKFan11]

Nobody here using common sense. They may over pay for a few guys but it will end quickly, nobody with a substantial amount of money is going to spend 10-20 million on a college basketball roster just so the one in Lexington doesn't have exactly the players they wanted. And even if it was somewhat true and it happens for a few guys it will quickly end once the results on the court aren't what they wanted.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

A bullshit report that anyone with a brain could see through in ten seconds.

First, even if Arkansas had a billion dollars in NIL they can only sign 13 players -- and that includes by the time all is worked through probably half a dozen Cal had made commitments to at Kentucky and a couple recruits. So, they don't even have room to block more than a couple potential recruits to Kentucky, even if they had unlimited resources.

Second, the two programs aren't even going in the same direction or after many of the same players. Why would Arkansas just sign anyone Kentucky was after -- to DOUBLE THE NIL -- just to keep that player out of Lexington? Very quickly, Arkansas would be out of scholarships.

Third, Why is there now all this mythical money in Arkansas? Why didn't they sign all the top recruits last year? Suddenly, after paying an enormous amount to add Calipari the program has all this surplus money that was never there before?

This is propaganda being put out by people in Arkansas that a nitwit like Matt Jones either believes or is willing to repeat to keep people going to his site.

 

[BassProCat]

UK isn’t going to get into a battle for johnell Davis and one other guy, because cal wants to use the money Arkansas has and double UKs offer and use the recruitng win in the PR world to show he is better than Uk. So it’s looking like Davis isn’t gonna happen. Also osobor is gonna take longer

Is Cal reaching out to Osobor now??

 

[JoshAllenFan]

No smart business person is willing to blindly double anything. Arkansas would never lose a recruit and they’ve lost several so far. Also Arkansas football wouldn’t be ass year after year with recruiting classes generally ranked lower than UK’s.

I’m gonna apply common sense here and ignore the tough talk.

Who knows if they'll actually try to do it, but we can be certain it is what they are saying. National guys have confirmed it.
I do think you're correct. I think it's just so much tough talk. That's all Cal has left. Talk.

 

[ukfan041]

Talent accumulation has never been Cals issue! If he was to get Davis, he’ll just start DJ over him lol. I’m looking forward to the shit show of Cals incompetence

 

[kywildcat41086]

They won't keep doing that for long. Driving up those prices so when the results don't equal the value they are investing, then Arkansas donors will run him out of town.

The donors will dry up down there just like they did here. They will get sick of his crap too.

 

[Jakerz]

All of that just to flake out in the first round 😂
Give it about two years before you never hear from them again and cal leaves in 4 years

 

[EJonesy]

Just more proof that Cal can’t evaluate talent. Dude literally always just targeted the top 50 players in high school that the recruiting services said we’re good. Now he is letting Kentucky do the talent evaluations for him so he can hopefully just double the money to take them. The guy can’t coach, can’t evaluate talent, he nothing but a snake oil salesman.

 

[meteordealer]

It blows my mind the level of pettiness from Cal toward a program that didn’t do anything to him except overpay his worth for the last several years. Also seems like a foolish use of money by Arkansas donors, but it’s theirs to light on fire. Enjoy the mercenaries, I suppose. I’m sure they’ll play hard and for the greater good of the team…

Who would want to play for Arkansas? Especially for an old, washed up coach?

 

[JimboBBN]

Money and recruits don't mean much when Cal is coaching.

Screw them

 

[Girthang]

I love how UK is being directly targeted here.

Talk about directly lighting the inducement fire. Wonder if the ncaa has anything left to put it out? Lol. If JJones pIssing on the legal notion of "NIL" doesn't get them immediately banned from postseason play with any of the players they bring in, the NCAA will have torn off the floodgates.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

Man this will kill us with the best portal guys.Cal is such a POS.

They can do that a couple of times but if will hurt them, let’s say they get quantaince & Davis, that’s 2.4 million locked up in 2 players

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

Is Cal reaching out to Osobor now??

No clue, I finally paid for the KSR+ thing since it’s a dollar for your first month. And he didn’t mention any guards at all, just bigs

 

[Girthang]

Who would want to play for Arkansas? Especially for an old, washed up coach?

We already know the answer to that. They don't have to play a single possession. They can paid double to sit out the entire season

 

[kywildcat41086]

Talent accumulation has never been Cals issue! If he was to get Davis, he’ll just start DJ over him lol. I’m looking forward to the shit show of Cals incompetence

Welch’s offense was good last year but guess what no Welch next year for old Cal. No one’s afraid of a Cal coached team. I can’t wait till we play them next year. Pope is going to coach circles around that clown.