What would Calipari have done with the Arkansas roster (plus Quaintance) at UK?
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Like every other Cal season. Could be a really damn good team that could get to the FF or it could flame out early.
Also, we saw what Cal would do with an experienced roster when we had the likes of Oscar, Wheeler, Toppin...... we lose to a 15 seed.
We have a long period of years to model what Cal would have done with that roster, and it is not good. Thank God he is gone, so who cares
Thinking back, I doubt we get Davis.
Remember one reason Cal reportedly left was that he couldn’t get the money he needed at UK to pay for NIL because the boosters had basically cut him off from it, trying to force him out.
Davis went to the highest bidder, so he wasn’t coming here, IMHO.
Aidoo over Cyril is still maybe an option.
Maybe Cal gets someone else on the cheap to be his go to guy, but if he was still at UK, he probably rolls with Wagner, Fland, Knox, Richmond, and Perry rotating at the 1-3 with Quaintance, Aidoo (or Cyril), Thiero, and Ivisic at 4-5.
Look at Arkansas’ roster, he is perfectly content with 8-9 guys. He brought in a couple of practice players to fill out his roster. He wasn’t going to add many impact guys. He only wants 8-9 guys to work with.
Ark has only legit 9 players. They are a injury or 2 away from becoming as thin as it gets. When comes to Cal is ALWAYS seems he has a couple of 3 injured players throughout the year. I'm gonna predict at some point this season 2 major players are going to have to sit out 3 or so weeks and they will lose some of those games. Just look at his track record at UK it's happened about every year I don't see why this year will be any different. He just better hope nothing happens to Davis, Fland or Aidoo or it's gonna be a long season. Can you imagine him coming to Rupp with...
Pg- Wagner
Sg- Richmond
Sf- Knox
Pg- Thiero/Brazile
C. Z
That team has no shooting, passing, defense, no inside muscle. Game over for them. Even if one of those 3 are out it's gonna be hard for them. Don't get me started on the worst staff he's ever had in college.
Pg- Wagner
Sg- Richmond
Sf- Knox
Pg- Thiero/Brazile
C. Z
That team has no shooting, passing, defense, no inside muscle. Game over for them. Even if one of those 3 are out it's gonna be hard for them. Don't get me started on the worst staff he's ever had in college.
Really? Everybody knows how it works. Is this real? I actually just think you are a jackass. There, I said it.
Experienced roster? You seem to forget cal had 6 freshmen commited to play here next year. Fland, Richmond, Knox, Quaintance, somto, and Perry. Would have only added 4 more at most and 3 of the freshmen (Minimally) would have received the lions share of minutes. Not sure Davis or Aidoo is added and likely Theiro stays away. No clue why he ended up following cal to arky after entering the portal before cal even did. Either way that’s a poor roster that isn’t making much noise and likely a bubble team.
I agree.
Six Freshmen.
I’ll say Wagner, Thiero, and Ivisic return..
That’s 9 guys. Cal rolls with those guys.
G Wagner
G Fland/Perry
G Knox/Richmond
F Quaintance/Thiero
F Ivisic/Cyril
Some funny comments in this thread for sure.
So Thiero would have transferred from UK is Cal stayed, but he's willing to follow Cal to Arkansas? That makes zero sense.
Also, Cal would not have counted on Perry as a rotation piece. You guys declaring as much have ignored how Cal treats guys like Perry. Cal would have added Davis to this roster and found the NIL for him. There's no chance he would have counted on Perry to be the third guard in any rotation.
So Thiero would have transferred from UK is Cal stayed, but he's willing to follow Cal to Arkansas? That makes zero sense.
Also, Cal would not have counted on Perry as a rotation piece. You guys declaring as much have ignored how Cal treats guys like Perry. Cal would have added Davis to this roster and found the NIL for him. There's no chance he would have counted on Perry to be the third guard in any rotation.
OK, now which players will be better coached to execute and offensive and defensive scheme, and which players will be on the floor by merit and ability as opposed to by promises?
There's no question that each individual player, regardless of whether they play for Arkansas or UK, would be better served playing in Pope's system.
He's the superior Xs and Os coach.
You guys think Jaxon Robinson is going to be your best player. I dont know much about your transfers but if any SEC team has Jaxon Robinson as their best player they are screwed bigly.
I don't really think that, but he might be.
That is why we will go ahead and find out by playing the games.
It is also true that Boogie might be your 4th best option and will still leave.
🐄 gonna 🐄.
Good luck.
No way to prove this in a hypothetical situation, but Cal doesn’t get Davis if he stays at UK. He would have gotten outbid. He might add someone else with a lower price tag, but he wasn’t getting Davis.
Good point about Perry, though we said the same thing about Sheppard, to a lesser degree, last offseason. He played a fair amount, so Perry might have as well.
Cal probably grabs a Reeves type guy from the portal (but not a Davis level guy) and keeps Perry off the floor, unless Perry ended up being Sheppard 2.0 (unlikely).
I just can’t see Cal getting Davis with his purse strings tied like they reportedly were at UK.
