UK has reached out to Vinny Zollo, Dakotah Euton and Morikyno and Adam Williams...

[MdWIldcat55]

Yeah, the last two Kentucky coaches. They not only "reached out to" those guys, they offered or even signed them.

The current coach, John Calipari, has changed things quite a bit, SIGNING guys who, in the last 11 tournaments, went to SEVEN Elite Eights, FOUR Final Fours and won a championship.

For this year, John Calipari has signed a top-ranked budding star Daimion Collins, two exciting Top 25 or 30 recruits in Hickman and Hopkins, and two of the top five transfers in America in Oscar Tschiebwe and Kellen Grady.

As for "reached out to" -- that's media chaff designed to fool the simpleminded. Programs and assistants reach out to lots of people. Only a total moron would use those reports to lob criticism.

We'll see who Kentucky actually SIGNS soon enough, and how it all fits together as a team. I have a feeling that team won't include G.J. VIlarino. I suspect it'll be an exciting mix of players that, ;post-COVID, puts Kentucky back where Calipari has almost always had the program.

 

[drcats2013]

For a guy that goes around whining about excessive, unnecessary threads, you sure create enough of them.

 

[Born and raised Big Blue]

Kc ross Miller?

 

[TankedCat]

For a guy that goes around whining about excessive, unnecessary threads, you sure create enough of them.

:::::::::nodding aggressively::::::::::::

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Sounds like some people can't handle the truth. Well as Harry Truman once said,

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”​

 

[TankedCat]

Sounds like some people can't handle the truth.

yea, I say that alot reading your posts

it will be interesting to me if Cal doesn't pull it off this year, will you become one of the voices that the light bulb goes off and now he shouldn't be coaching?

I find those people interesting because its only then, at that moment in time, was it the right decision to say the coach isn't on the path of success. They'll continue to completely ignore the chorus of voices prior to their epiphany as unreasonable malcontents.

 

[ManitouDan]

Truth ? Truth is 9-16 . Truth is also his record versus rivals and his record versus ranked opponents the past 5 years . There is you some truth you don't seem to like to accept . Oh well pointless thread , at this point in time everyone has their opinion formed . I just dont want to go 21-9 next year , lose in there sweet 16 and everyone MARVEL AT WHAT GREAT TURNAROUND .

 

[RunninRichie]

OP always posts so aggressive

SIGNING guys who, in the last 11 tournaments, went to SEVEN Elite Eights, FOUR Final Fours and won a championship.​

 

[SmedMoley]

For a guy that goes around whining about excessive, unnecessary threads, you sure create enough of them.

We may as well shut it down the rest of the day lol. Wish I could like this a million times.

 

[kb22stang]

For a guy that goes around whining about excessive, unnecessary threads, you sure create enough of them.

This thread isn't nearly as bad as half the board being junked up with "cal has reached out to Bill Cosby" threads. ANd the mods do nothing to stop to stop the nonsense.

 

[kb22stang]

Truth ? Truth is 9-16 . Truth is also his record versus rivals and his record versus ranked opponents the past 5 years . There is you some truth you don't seem to like to accept . Oh well pointless thread , at this point in time everyone has their opinion formed . I just dont want to go 21-9 next year , lose in there sweet 16 and everyone MARVEL AT WHAT GREAT TURNAROUND .

That's a partial truth which is equivalent to a lie.

 

[CatPhight]

This thread isn't nearly as bad as half the board being junked up with "cal has reached out to Bill Cosby" threads. ANd the mods do nothing to stop to stop the nonsense.

He's a solid verbal to the d-birds...

 

[kyjeff1]

Thanks Ellen.

 

[BigBlueFan19]

Yeah, the last two Kentucky coaches. They not only "reached out to" those guys, they offered or even signed them.

The current coach, John Calipari, has changed things quite a bit, SIGNING guys who, in the last 11 tournaments, went to SEVEN Elite Eights, FOUR Final Fours and won a championship.

For this year, John Calipari has signed a top-ranked budding star Daimion Collins, two exciting Top 25 or 30 recruits in Hickman and Hopkins, and two of the top five transfers in America in Oscar Tschiebwe and Kellen Grady.

As for "reached out to" -- that's media chaff designed to fool the simpleminded. Programs and assistants reach out to lots of people. Only a total moron would use those reports to lob criticism.

We'll see who Kentucky actually SIGNS soon enough, and how it all fits together as a team. I have a feeling that team won't include G.J. VIlarino. I suspect it'll be an exciting mix of players that, ;post-COVID, puts Kentucky back where Calipari has almost always had the program.

I agree man! Unfortunately, this forum is full of morons. Now I know why UK fans get a bad name, just look in the comments on this.

 

[BigBlueFan19]

Thanks Ellen.

So original, Jeff. How did you come up with that one?

 

[BassProCat]

This thread isn't nearly as bad as half the board being junked up with "cal has reached out to Bill Cosby" threads. ANd the mods do nothing to stop to stop the nonsense.

Yup pretty childish when I come to check for news and talk UK and the first page is filled with dumb ass threads...****in middle school in here.

Bunch of grown ass men acting like teenagers....then the little clique of cry babies team up and run around the board slapping hands and cheers juice drinks.

 

[WayneDougan]

Dakotah Euton, in the right system, could have been the next Larry Bird.

 

[STL_Cat]

Well someone has to take over the reigns as Cal’s resident PR man, since the mysterious disappearance of @GonzoCat90

OP is worthy of the title. Congrats on your new gig!

 

[RunninRichie]

Yup pretty childish when I come to check for news and talk UK and the first page is filled with dumb ass threads...****in middle school in here.

Bunch of grown ass men acting like teenagers....then the little clique of cry babies team up and run around the board slapping hands and cheers juice drinks.

I started the thing with my conway twitty post then everyone else decided it would be funny to make their own.

 

[BassProCat]

I started the thing with my conway twitty post then everyone else decided it would be funny to make their own.

Yeah I get the joke and it was funny but in typical board fashion every one had to start their “original thread” I’m sure more will be coming.

PS-On a serious note...every transfer we’ve got the past couple seasons have been quiet af so most of these “reach out” are BS imo.

 

[kyjeff1]

So original, Jeff. How did you come up with that one?

The OP's skirt flew up again.

 

[MbergCat]

Yeah, the last two Kentucky coaches. They not only "reached out to" those guys, they offered or even signed them.

The current coach, John Calipari, has changed things quite a bit, SIGNING guys who, in the last 11 tournaments, went to SEVEN Elite Eights, FOUR Final Fours and won a championship.

For this year, John Calipari has signed a top-ranked budding star Daimion Collins, two exciting Top 25 or 30 recruits in Hickman and Hopkins, and two of the top five transfers in America in Oscar Tschiebwe and Kellen Grady.

As for "reached out to" -- that's media chaff designed to fool the simpleminded. Programs and assistants reach out to lots of people. Only a total moron would use those reports to lob criticism.

We'll see who Kentucky actually SIGNS soon enough, and how it all fits together as a team. I have a feeling that team won't include G.J. VIlarino. I suspect it'll be an exciting mix of players that, ;post-COVID, puts Kentucky back where Calipari has almost always had the program.

Now do last year!

 

[TankedCat]

I could live without the reaching out threads

it certainly drives home the point that Cal isn't hand selecting the players he wants and maybe more importantly, he isn't getting the players he *needs*

the argument that with the transfer portal everyone is in this situation rings a bit hollow to me. For 1., UK has been in the transfer portal for at least 3 years now, and 2, since when is UK in the same boat with everyone else at any given time.

If Kentucky is competing with Texas Tech and Auburn for players (and losing out to them to boot), then its time to have a frank discussion about where UK is in the scope of college basketball. Please tell me again how I should be excited about us landing a Davidson transfer as the thread points out us taking guys that ended up at Akron and Marshall (for a coach that failed and was fired)

Maybe its appropriate to have a thread about the level of players that are being brought into Kentucky afterall.

 

[BigBlueFan19]

Dakotah Euton, in the right system, could have been the next Larry Bird.

I don’t know about the next Larry Bird but I would have loved to see him in Gonzaga’s system. Dakotah went to high school about 30 minutes away from me before he transferred to Scott County. I saw him play many times.

 

[TankedCat]

I don’t know about the next Larry Bird but I would have loved to see him in Gonzaga’s system. Dakotah went to high school about 30 minutes away from me before he transferred to Scott County. I saw him play many times.

Vilarino went to Gonzaga didn't he?

 

[WayneDougan]

I don’t know about the next Larry Bird but I would have loved to see him in Gonzaga’s system. Dakotah went to high school about 30 minutes away from me before he transferred to Scott County. I saw him play many times.

I was joking. There was an article on him a year ago where he said his issue was that he lacked athleticism. He said he would bust his ass doing box squats, jump rope, dot drills, etc., but he could never improve his quickness. So considering he was a marginal player at an NAIA school, I don’t think going to Gonzaga would have worked for him.

 

[BigBlueFan19]

I was joking. There was an article on him a year ago where he said his issue was that he lacked athleticism. He said he would bust his ass doing box squats, jump rope, dot drills, etc., but he could never improve his quickness. So considering he was a marginal player at an NAIA school, I don’t think going to Gonzaga would have worked for him.

Wiltjer done ok at Gonzaga and has the same problems.

 

[BigBlueFan19]

Vilarino went to Gonzaga didn't he?

Yeah he did.

 

[Flipflopsandsocks]

Yeah, the last two Kentucky coaches. They not only "reached out to" those guys, they offered or even signed them.

The current coach, John Calipari, has changed things quite a bit, SIGNING guys who, in the last 11 tournaments, went to SEVEN Elite Eights, FOUR Final Fours and won a championship.

For this year, John Calipari has signed a top-ranked budding star Daimion Collins, two exciting Top 25 or 30 recruits in Hickman and Hopkins, and two of the top five transfers in America in Oscar Tschiebwe and Kellen Grady.

As for "reached out to" -- that's media chaff designed to fool the simpleminded. Programs and assistants reach out to lots of people. Only a total moron would use those reports to lob criticism.

We'll see who Kentucky actually SIGNS soon enough, and how it all fits together as a team. I have a feeling that team won't include G.J. VIlarino. I suspect it'll be an exciting mix of players that, ;post-COVID, puts Kentucky back where Calipari has almost always had the program.

Prolly why we win so many more championships now.

 

[STL_Cat]

Wiltjer done ok at Gonzaga and has the same problems.

But Wiltjer was exceptionally skilled -- much more so than Euton. If you are going to lack the athleticism, you better have an elite skill level.

 

[WayneDougan]

Stop it. Euton didn’t get recruited by anybody outside of Akron and EKU. Wiltjet was a 5-star.

 

[deplion]

Dakotah Euton, in the right system, could have been the next Larry Bird.

Add him and the Williams twins (Morakinyo and Adam) and they might as well go ahead and mail us title #9 right now,

 

[BigBlueFan19]

But Wiltjer was exceptionally skilled -- much more so than Euton. If you are going to lack the athleticism, you better have an elite skill level.

Euton was a very skilled shooter. I’m not saying he could have ever made it to the NBA but he could have been a good spot up shooter being 6’8 at the college level.

 

[BigBlueFan19]

Stop it. Euton didn’t get recruited by anybody outside of Akron and EKU. Wiltjet was a 5-star.

Oregon State as well. And stars beside your name mean 0. Ie: Boston, Clarke

 

[Smashcat]

Great. I'm getting my "Got Euton?" tee shirt out of storage.

 

[ArcadiaFan]

Adam Williams had a teammate at Saint Albans named K.J. Waterman who could have played at UK back then but I dont believe he had the grades. If he had Williams test scores he could have been a big time player.

 

[BigBlueFan19]

Great. I'm getting my "Got Euton?" tee shirt out of storage.

I believe he works at UK doing something with Christian athletes??? I’m sure you could get that shirt autographed! 😆

 

[ArcadiaFan]

Dakotah Euton

This is just a short excerpt for the about page.

dakotaheuton.com

 

[billCgmx]

If fans are offended by the "Reached out to" threads then just ignore them. I thought they were kind of funny. With everything going on in college basketball, the sport has pretty much become a joke these days, so why not laugh at the situation.

 

[STL_Cat]

Dakotah Euton

This is just a short excerpt for the about page.

dakotaheuton.com

Man, thank you for sharing that. Looks like he's grown into a really solid dude, good for him. Seems like a great guy, I'm sure that wasn't easy to have an offer from Kentucky and then have to go down to Akron. Looks like it led to bigger and better things for him though. Good stuff.