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WCS says Cal drew recruits not UK.

Calipari had that pull at Memphis: most of his big haul his first year here were players who followed him to Kentucky after signing with Memphis.

WCS is 30.
“Most of”

Har

At Memphis he had signed only Boogie and Xavier Henry. To a class where no one would have challenged either of them for all the minutes they could possibly have wanted.

The monster classes for Cal were exclusively a Kentucky thing.

WCS was 15, 16, and 17 during the time period he would have had to cast the nets of his attention very far and very wide to have come up with a proper understanding of these issues in their proper context. Word is he was playing wide receiver with an outdated glasses prescription instead.
 
“Most of”

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At Memphis he had signed only Boogie and Xavier Henry. To a class where no one would have challenged either of them for all the minutes they could possibly have wanted.

The monster classes for Cal were exclusively a Kentucky thing.

WCS was 15, 16, and 17 during the time period he would have had to cast the nets of his attention very far and very wide to have come up with a proper understanding of these issues in their proper context. Word is he was playing wide receiver with an outdated glasses prescription instead.
Don't get as old as me. I "remembered" that Bledsoe and Wall had both been bound for Memphis before they came.
 
Don't get as old as me. I "remembered" that Bledsoe and Wall had both been bound for Memphis before they came.
You remembered mostly correctly. Wall was 100% going to Memphis if Cal stayed. All of this talk about anyone in that first class except for Orton coming here for any reason other than Cal is revisionist history.


And Bledsoe didn't even have Kentucky on his radar before Cal came here. Once Cal took the job he immediately put Kentucky as the leader and kept Memphis in his top 2 as basically a courtesy. Before Cal left Memphis it was thought Bledsoe was going to Florida, Memphis, or potentially Duke if he could make the grades work. I don't believe he even had an offer from Kentucky before Cal.
 
Was John Wall coming here before Cal? Cousins? Bledsoe? Davis? KAT? MKG?

Having a gig at UK certainly helps, but let’s not kid ourselves and pretend 99.9% of athletes care about UK history or tradition.

Can a coach recruit at UK and fill a team with decent players? Sure. Can they recruit like Cal?

There isn’t a better recruiter in all of college basketball and I doubt we see much of a slowdown at Arky.
Everyone that came to UK under Cal came because of Cal and his G league system. it worked great for about 10 years then fell off into the abyss. It is what it is, players dont care about the UK brand going in but as you can see they love the UK brand by the time they leave... well most anyways
What WCS said not only doesn't fit what the headline says, it paints a completely different picture of Calipari than is cast in stone on Rupp's Rafters. The man WCS talks about is not the lying, narcissistic monster that RR wants him to be.
If you couldnt tell Cal was acting towards us fans and UK Admin like a massive Narcissist then you have your head in the sand. Narcissists do have the ability to treat people they feel they can use really well ....
He's in position to land a monster class. He already has a commitment from Acuff. He's in a great position with Dybantsa, Peterson, Thomas, Wilson, and Sealy. It's why I was hoping Cal wouldn't crap the bed until after next season when a bunch of those guys would have joined a sophomore Quaintance in Lexington.

Cal screwed it all up. It's 100% on him.
Peterson is the face of adidas.. but thanks for the nostalgia of 15 years of staff gas lighting people into thinking Cal is really in it with the top adidas player only for Adidas to say nope, he's going to an Adidas school.

As far as AJD , seems like he's BYU's to lose, as they are the ones willing to go over 3 million $ to get him right now and everyone else is cringing at paying that much to anyone.
 
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