We started 2 23 year olds last year. The 3 leading scorers in 23 were seniors. Started 4 juniors in 2022. There’s nothing more dumb than a clueless raftard with a talking point. The truth doesn’t matter, only the narrative and the talking point to uphold the narrative.
The truth is Cal fell off when he had older teams. It’s easy to look up for yourselves but you pathetic goofs are too dumb for that. Y’all hate facts. Y’all hate critical thinking, y’all hate anything that goes against your narrative.
I should probably ignore your ridiculous post here. I don't disagree with everything you said, but you've overstated it by a long shot. Your insults aside, there is validity to a couple things here.
1. Calipari's usual approach is recruit elite freshmen and try to compete with 22-23-24 year Olds.
2. Now, the last 2 years have been exceptions in some respects. Both teams had upperclassmen, yes, and those upperclassmen led the teams in scoring and contributing in multiple other ways. That proves the point I was making with my "raftard" post. But those teams also relied heavily on freshmen. Those freshmen did what freshmen do when they face a challenge for the first time. Even Sheppard, whom I love dearly and loved his game, laid an egg in both the SEC tournament and the NCAA-T. And that also proves the point we're making.
3. Now, given the makeup of these last 2 teams, the results should have been better. But the problem is 2-fold: first, the competition became even more mature than in the past because of the transfer portal, and second, Calipari has obviously lost something that he once had at UK. He was wound as tightly as a drum coming into that game and it clearly affected the players, especially the freshmen. Just look at the numbers.
So, it wasn't that the teams were older that caused the issue. It was that CAL was older, or lost his nerve, or something.
And by the way, the purpose of my post is not so much an attack on Calipari as it is an evaluation of how to build a team in the transfer portal age. In the past, these options weren't as readily available. Transfers were rare. But now every player is a free agent every season. So, building a team doesn't have to depend only on freshmen recruits. That's the point I'm making. If I'm choosing between a physically mature 3 or 4 star guy who has 3 or 4 years of experience in the the NCAA or a 5-star freshman who is talented and has the measurables but is wet behind the ears, I'd rather major on the mature players and minor on the kids.
Now, I mentioned in my original raftard post here, there are exceptions. There are some pretty rare exceptions when you have a guy who is a transcendent talent, like Anthony Davis or LeBron James or someone similar. But the problem is, you don't always know if that's who you're looking at, and sometimes that guy just isn't ready and you'll just see potential and not results.
But I'd still recruit some freshmen if I were the coach. I'd choose them very carefully and I'd still prefer a more mature and proven transfer, or a returning player (which rarely happened under Calipari's system) over a talented kid.
By the way, you can make your point without insulting the entire board with your favorite phrases. It would not only be more effective in making your point reasonably, it would also keep you posting on the board longer, hopefully for many years to come.
