SIAP but Calipari wants players to stay longer now?

[Creed Bratton]

Apparently he has decided to not push guys out the door now that he is at Arkansas.

Story here

 

[Blue Bigfoot]

Kind of has to. He is not going to able to recruit at quite the same level he did here. He will be exposed if he doesn't have #1 or 2 classes yearly.

 

[westerncat]

I hope they all leave Ark. after this season ! Hopefully they have a bad season also.

 

[bnewt]

Does this surprise anyone?
ccc is and has never been nothing more than a 2 faced used car salesman

 

[cats2010]

For a visionary who was always ahead of the curve he is vastly behind this one. 5 years too late and too late for him to catch up. His rosters at Arkansas will be far inferior to his talent he had at UK which he was unsuccessful with the past 5 years. Without talent cal is a sub .500 coach simply because he doesn’t know how too.

 

[WeWant9]

He can say what he wants, but for the last 15-20 years his whole shtick was onds and getting to the league asap. We saw it here, guys who get recruited by Cal feel they are ond and NBA bound. That perception isn’t going change all the sudden for Cal, no matter what he says (still think he’ll be all in on draft night).

I really think this Cal/Arkansas experiment will be short lived.

 

[true blue1]

🤦‍♂️

 

[Cold Stout Beer]

CDS rolls on. Cal stunk it up the last several years and it was time to go, but he started trying to get UK players to come back the last few years and even said it.

 

[JumperJack]

That seems odd. Why then would the best players play for him to begin with?

 

[TucsonCat]

I don't think that's new for him. He was wanting NIL well before it was forced on the game. And he often cited it as a way to keep players in college. Oscar and Antonio being evidence

 

[Smashcat]

 

[know1]

If he wants them to stay, then he needs to actually lift a finger to help develop them as players. That was why they guys who weren't going to be drafted transferred - because they were getting no coaching from him.

 

[Cleatortoises]

CDS rolls on. Cal stunk it up the last several years and it was time to go, but he started trying to get UK players to come back the last few years and even said it.

Was he successful?

 

[Cleatortoises]

I don't think that's new for him. He was wanting NIL well before it was forced on the game. And he often cited it as a way to keep players in college. Oscar and Antonio being evidence

Didn't Antonio try to leave?

 

[jwphelps]

Apparently he has decided to not push guys out the door now that he is at Arkansas.

Story here

So he is self serving, at UK he could push them out the door, then say see how all these guys are going to the NBA and it is all because of me, now he can't recruit the same players he needs them to stay longer.