You are letting your dislike for Cal's system cloud your judgement. If you aren't comparing Allen to Boston, then who are you comparing him to. You were the one that started the judgement. But I never compared the players themselves, I simply viewed Allen in the light of changing actual outcomes, which it seems he didn't actually do. Let's examine Allen fully. Cal didn't start out hating and not playing Allen, he played him early in the season, and Allen was getting some minutes until they played Georgia Tech. There Allen had 3 turnovers and was 0-1 from the field in the only 4 times he even as much as touched the ball. In fact, in the first half of the game Cal put Allen in, and he turned it over on 2 straight possessions causing UK to lose the lead. Cal took him out and talked to him. Couple minutes later put him back in after UK got the lead again, and he immediately turned it over, then missed a 3 and fouled the guy for an and 1, causing UK to lose the lead again, only this time they would never get it back. He didn't yank him after one mistake, but you can't play playing like that. But then we lost a lot over the next few games and the sentiment went from he is unplayable right now, to why isn't Allen playing. If you play scared or can't hold you own, Cal ain't going to play you. Fanbase got loud, and Cal finally played him against Miss St. He has a great game, the fans started yapping, and thus Allen's demise. Bot saying Cal's management of Allen has been correct, but Allen basically had 2 games of note last year, both against the same team. And he had several games following his first game against Miss St where he played a lot, but was ineffective. Problem is, fans were so enamored by his one performance that they blamed every bad performance on Cal. Kid just isn't really that good right now, and I'm including last year. Boston wasn't good most games, but neither was Allen. Allen beginning with the fir Miss St game played 15 or more minutes in 9 of 10 games, over 20 the first 6 games of that. Let me read you his outputs: 23, 14, 6, 8, 8, 3, 6, 12, 0, 3. That certainly doesn't scream I got to play. That culminated in 3 points in 19 minutes in a loss to UT. From there, his time started dwindling. He played 18 minutes combined in the next 2 games scoring a grand total of 3 points. He played spot/cleanup minutes the next few games before spotting us 2 points in 10 minutes against USC. He found a groove against Miss St, in the next games and played 29 minutes and scored 23 points. Sure doesn't seem like a guy that wasn't given a chance to play. He was given the chance, and his play dwindled as his performance dwindled. In the games where he had it going a bit, Cal played him. He didn't get jerked for every mistake. Much like this year, he was given opportunities to play last year and just did not capitalize. The fantasy of Allen is made up by the fans because they got enamored by the games against Miss St.