Like I said, be happy to detail why I am stating this in private. Feel free to PM me. I'm going to stick with what I was told and why I say this. I'm just glad Clarke chose Kentucky, but my friend knows quite a bit about who/how things get done and not going to doubt him. He has no reason to make anything up and never has. He's also comfortable in saying "I don't know" if he doesn't know.
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Like I said, be happy to detail why I am stating this in private. Feel free to PM me. I'm going to stick with what I was told and why I say this. I'm just glad Clarke chose Kentucky, but my friend knows quite a bit about who/how things get done and not going to doubt him. He has no reason to make anything up and never has. He's also comfortable in saying "I don't know" if he doesn't know.
Just read Kyle Tucker’s piece, which was sobering. This quote especially stands out:
Obviously Cal and the rest of the coaching staff are a big part of it, but I think KP is really the guy that gets things done. That relationship we build with KP from when he first steps in your house to recruit you to the season when he’s pushing you — the way he doesn’t just tell you what you want to hear — that relationship just continues to grow even after you leave Kentucky.” — Tyler Herro
Reading the praise former players have for KP doesn’t make you think, ‘no way Bruiser can fill those shoes.’ What it makes you think is ‘no one can fill those shoes’.
On the other hand, this was interesting:
“They’re just making us feel very wanted,” Clark’s father, Kenny, told The Athletic this week. “The relationship we have with Joel Justus is amazing. We talk all the time. He texts Skyy all the time. They get on FaceTime. Same with me. There’s a real connection there and Joel has just been great through this whole process. That has been really important with all this COVID stuff, not being able to see coaches in person. Relationships matter.”
Obviously Cal and the rest of the coaching staff are a big part of it, but I think KP is really the guy that gets things done. That relationship we build with KP from when he first steps in your house to recruit you to the season when he’s pushing you — the way he doesn’t just tell you what you want to hear — that relationship just continues to grow even after you leave Kentucky.” — Tyler Herro
Reading the praise former players have for KP doesn’t make you think, ‘no way Bruiser can fill those shoes.’ What it makes you think is ‘no one can fill those shoes’.
On the other hand, this was interesting:
“They’re just making us feel very wanted,” Clark’s father, Kenny, told The Athletic this week. “The relationship we have with Joel Justus is amazing. We talk all the time. He texts Skyy all the time. They get on FaceTime. Same with me. There’s a real connection there and Joel has just been great through this whole process. That has been really important with all this COVID stuff, not being able to see coaches in person. Relationships matter.”
Excellent post, OP. It genuinely blows my mind how people can think they know better than a coach who is in the Naismith Hall of Fame. Literally, the man has been awarded the highest distinction one can garner in the sport and posters here want to argue. Glad you brought some perspective. Again, great post.
the years the recruiting dropped off, other programs paid to get theirs. So I really don’t see any recruiting drop off. In fact calipari proved
He is the best recruiter in the world even thru those times we did not get top 5 guys. Others like greene I think were recruited because they brought other guys with them. So the whole recruiting talk to me is irrelevant when you have to compete with schools who hire their relatives or flat out pay for the kid.
I will suggest that it was Coach Cal who engineered the recruitment of Clark. Sometimes it doesn't matter who holds a recruit's hand during the run up to commitment. In other words, Clark was right out of Cal's Compton.
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