It would actually be a smart move by all the recruits to hold out on automatically following Cal, they can demand a sizable NIL check to recommit with Cal.I seen it as a good sign when Boogie said UK fans had the right to be pissed after the Oakland loss.
The smart move would be to come to UK and stay away from playing with DJ.
Fland will be the player schools will try to flip the hardest.
I'd say Cal will have his work cut out to land him in Fayetteville.
Knox I'd say would be a toss up.
He has already stated he has to know what the roster is going to look like.
Bottom line Cal is not keeping this class and Arkansas' good players( Battle,Marks, Davis, Brazille all together.
This is GREAT news ! It's great not only because it seems likely that JQ will become a U.K. Wildcat. It's also super great news because it's a slap in the fact to CCC ! ! !Per Pilgrim
Sources tell KSR that 5-star signee Jayden Quaintance would like to STAY at Kentucky and is not currently planning to follow John Calipari to Arkansas.
Quaintance and his family would like to speak with Mitch Barnhart regarding his vision for the coaching search and the incoming freshman's path under the new administration. The first priority is Kentucky before worrying about other potential.
Do not currently envision the top-five prospect to end up in Fayetteville.
We soured on building the whole program around freshmen. You can take two or three but not six.A lot of folks soured on freshmen under Cal and with good reason, but this guy is a special talent. Hope he comes and stays!
Besides Mr. Kraft, who are UK's big money guys?There is about to be an influx of NIL money at UK. Our big money guys are back.
We won't be "down" next season.
FR can contribute, and in some cases be a very important piece. But they shouldn't be THE FOCAL POINT at all times.A lot of folks soured on freshmen under Cal and with good reason, but this guy is a special talent. Hope he comes and stays!
That will not surprise me if that happens. In fact I predicted much of that this morning, when everyone was saying we will have 0 players or only Perry.JQ, Fland and Perry staying and Big Z and Shep back would be great. Maybe Theiro comes back now. Also like Richmond. McNeely for good measure.
Negative. He needs to do so by end of the week.Negative, he needs to do so in the next 72hrs.
So you would swallow the poison pill?As much as I know we need to move on from only freshman, I'd love to stick it to cal and keep this incoming group just so he has absolutely nothing. Even better since those terms that came out included all his incoming class as if it was all a done deal already.
if it doesn't happen, the move by arky to secure cal's class is going to get expensive.I’ll believe it when I see it
don't know if Billy got cold feet because of Cal or not.... maybe he feels better about UK now...Won’t surprise me if Richmond ends up at Memphis. Just a week after he committed here there were strong rumors that he already regretted it and was thinking about flipping to Memphis.
I’d be absolutely over the moon if JQ stays here but like already said, his dad said after the Oakland loss “we’re riding with Cal til the wheels fall off.” I’ll believe it when I see it. The thought of him being coached by a real coach has me excited though.
Plenty of other schools can keep players around more than a year so I differ with you here. Hell just look at Tennessee and not just Fulky over the years or Vescovi but that Zeigler kid for one. Bacot at UNC. Self keeps his guys. Quaintance is only 16, not old enough for the league so the point still remains he would not get to the NBA for at least 2 years.Well, minus the whole transfer portal thing ... I don't expect anyone to stay more than one year, anywhere, these days.
This year absolutely.So you would swallow the poison pill?
Basically the same thing, we are half way through Monday right now...Negative. He needs to do so by end of the week.
I don't care if he gets pissed ... I just want to beat the hell out of Arkansas and see that stunned "deer in the headlights" moment from Cal knowing everything Cal will say to the Arky press afterward ... oh wait, he skips those. Thank God and Good Riddance.Hopefully a few more with do the same and piss off Calipari.
It would actually be a smart move by all the recruits to hold out on automatically following Cal, they can demand a sizable NIL check to recommit with Cal.
Arkansas is open air boasting their Tyson chicken money NIL strategy right now. The players would be foolish to just join Arkansas for free. Every single one of them should pretend to be interested in UK.
The good thing is, if Arkansas is writing big checks to freshman, that’s less money to play with in the transfer portal.
I won’t get my hopes up but at least he didn’t flat out decommit. This would be a huge recruit for the new coach to recruit around .
Never really cared for him much Noah kid is a better fit he can shootKarter Knox has reopened his recruitment
Agreed . Just up to Mitch to not let us down with whoever he hiresAND, it could help draw in some coaches. Honestly, not a lot of other coaches can get a lot of this top talent like Cal can... so the coach coming in could stand to get a top10 recruit and for TWO years. That has to perk up some ears.
So you would swallow the poison pill?