He was kicked around for 3 years and he had a chance to get some tasty revenge and he bailed for a 2nd round pick. We would have won the title hands down that year. Probably 40-0.
Who was the most disappointing Wildcat since probation ended in 1991?
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Feels like we’re all forgetting about Enes. Loved Harrellson but if we had Enes we win it all that year
After seeing how bad Askew was it’s no surprise that we sucked so bad. Boston and Clarke were both busts. You can’t have a team that relies on top 5 guys to produce who end up playing like 300 ranked players. Askew would have been a 2 star if rated properly.
He’s definitely not the most disappointing, but I was surprised Brandon Stockton didn’t have a better career at UK. I was really pulling for him … seemed like such a nice kid …
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I'm not saying he didn't play good in some games. He was big against Iowa state, and UL in the 2012 tournament. All I'm saying is with the talent he had He was awfully inconsistent. That's why he was a disappointment
It would be hard to argue in my opinion that our current Mr. Brooks is chasing Mr . Vanderbilt… for completely different reason. Both of them were/are persons that took more than they ever contributed or ever will.
Whitney was trash and quit on the team. If he is not number 1, then there is nothing else to say...
Barbour has to be up there. Played JuCo with Tony Allen and was the more highly regarded prospect. Was projected to be a 1st rounder.
Career stats: 4.2 points, 2.0 rebounds per game on 40% shooting/26% three point shooting.
Ouchie.
So he is supposed to change his life time earning potential to make fans happy?
The topic was "most disappointing wildcat" and I listed him because he disappointed me the most. I don't answer to you. He obviously did what he wanted, I think he took the coward's way out. Maybe he had PTSD from Billy G, and I'm not saying I blame him, but I'm more disappointed in his departure than any other I can think of. Sorry you disagree, but you can't deny the likelihood that we win it all convincingly in 2010 with him in the lineup.
Your argument about his career earnings is a desperate false choice fallacy.
Biggest bust of the Cal era is Skal Labissiere but he still got drafted. He was just a disappointment. All hype.
Before that, Carruth disappointed me as he just destroyed his own career. But he had the talent.
But push come to shove, I would select Antwain Barbour as the absolute biggest disappointment to me. I watched his every game in the 2000 state tournament as he dominated. He combined for 73 points in the state semis and championship game when they still played them on the same day.
In JUCO, as someone mentioned, he was a projected first round NBA pick just like other JUCO Kendrick Brown was yet Brown declared for the draft and got picked by the Celtics in the lottery. Barbour came here and busted.
Before that, Carruth disappointed me as he just destroyed his own career. But he had the talent.
But push come to shove, I would select Antwain Barbour as the absolute biggest disappointment to me. I watched his every game in the 2000 state tournament as he dominated. He combined for 73 points in the state semis and championship game when they still played them on the same day.
In JUCO, as someone mentioned, he was a projected first round NBA pick just like other JUCO Kendrick Brown was yet Brown declared for the draft and got picked by the Celtics in the lottery. Barbour came here and busted.
It was fair about being disappointed about Meeks departure, because I was disappointed that he left too. Until you said "he took the cowards way out." I agree that you don't answer to me, but neither do these kids that are trying to make all the money they can playing basketball. I bet he made more in the nba than you have in your life. Are you going to criticize a kid for cutting hay while the sun is shining just because he cost you the opportunity to give shit to your non UK friends?
I'm not sure how Skal, who only had one year here, could be ranked above Rhodes in terms of disappointments.
Imagine if Skal was here three years, went a combined 2/20 from the field in season-ending tournament games, and was asked by his coach to redshirt after his junior year.
That is precisely what happened to Rodrick Rhodes.
Imagine if Skal was here three years, went a combined 2/20 from the field in season-ending tournament games, and was asked by his coach to redshirt after his junior year.
That is precisely what happened to Rodrick Rhodes.
I'm old, but if I had a kid right now that was a Kentucky kid, say top 50/75 recruit that lived his entire life dreaming to play for UK, and he got offered and had the opportunity to work his way into a playing position Junior or Senior year, judging by what I read on here, I would tell him to go elsewhere, because our fans are mean and bitch about everyone and the coach that is trying to get the kids to the level of Hawkins or Willis. Let the kid go to somewhere else and enjoy his college career instead of listening to a bunch of assholes that didn't make the high school team judge them.
Any surprise this thread has like 3 times as many posts as the favorite uk player each decade positive thread? Typical rafters.
if there was proof i wouldn’t have qualified it with probably.
but you can form a logical conclusion based on interviews of former players after the fact and how things have played out that Cal pushes a lot of these kids to go pro instead of coming back if they’re having second thoughts.
But i understand logic and reason are foreign concepts to cult members.
All that said, i do not necessarily believe dakari was one of those instances. My comment was somewhat tongue in cheek.
I saw Carrier in high school and had no idea how he had such praise. He was nothing special. He just camped out on the baseline and shot jumpers. I also disagree with him winning Mr. Basketball which was ridiculous. His team never even made the state tournament. Meanwhile, Patrick Sparks led the state in scoring including a 70-point game, and took his team to state three of four years.
That was the epitome of giving the award to a guy just because he signed with Kentucky. He was overrated in high school and proved that in college.
Meeks got a guaranteed contract. I was disappointed he left. i initially thought he had made a bad choice. But when he got drafted and the details came out it made more sense.
That said, Cal had a vision for how he wanted that first year to go and i don’t think a senior jodie meeks fit that vision. Cal wanted to establish us as one and done U. for that to happen he needed to feature wall cousins and bledsoe. He would have taken Xavier Henry as well.
That said, Cal had a vision for how he wanted that first year to go and i don’t think a senior jodie meeks fit that vision. Cal wanted to establish us as one and done U. for that to happen he needed to feature wall cousins and bledsoe. He would have taken Xavier Henry as well.
He had a bad ending to his career here as I'll just always remember him for the Arkansas game where he choked and was crying on the bench but thankfully his teammates saved him. He (and Delk) shot us out of the Elite 8 game against UNC in 95.
But he still averaged like 15 his sophomore year and 13 ppg his junior year. That's why I don't think he's on that level. He did well at USC and was a first round draft pick when he came out. But glad he bounced and we got Mercer instead (one of my all-time favorites).
Watched him play juco and he was unreal. He looked like a sure thing. Crazy athletic and could fill it up
Boston and Skal likely would have improved like Rhodes did if they had stayed. That's why I don't think they were more disappointing than Rhodes was.
Rhodes needed five college years just to be drafted. Five. He barely spent enough time in the NBA to grab a cup of coffee.
Ask yourself this: which UK players failed to match their hype; and then which UK players failed to match their hype consistently, year-after-year, and still failed to match their hype once they left here.
Honestly I feel Rhodes wanted to do well but was a bad fit for pitino.
my pick would be skal because ulis outrebounded him and was a foot shorter. That is a lack of effort and I can’t take that.
I might add bj because I felt like he was biding time and didn’t give 100%. Mintz was on the same bad team but he was always making athletic plays or at least trying to do something to win.
my pick would be skal because ulis outrebounded him and was a foot shorter. That is a lack of effort and I can’t take that.
I might add bj because I felt like he was biding time and didn’t give 100%. Mintz was on the same bad team but he was always making athletic plays or at least trying to do something to win.
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It's a different sport today than what it was in 1993. Apples to oranges
Rhodes would have probably went top 15 after his freshman year. The amount of years he played college has little to do with it.
It's a different sport today than what it was in 1993. Apples to oranges
Yep. Only 7 of them since post probation. WCS was ranked 40th nationally coming out of HS. WCS actually might be the lowest ranked recruit to ever be consensus first team AA at UK and some guy thinks he was disappointing?
WCS had an incredible junior year at UK, especially in relation to his ranking out of high school. That last game left a sour taste in some mouths, I guess. Which I can understand. Absolutely no showed against Wisconsin, hard to understand.
Cal era: Kahlil Whitney, Skal, Devin Askew, Wenyen Gabriel, EJ Montgomery.
Tubby Era: Antwain Barbour, Rashaad Carruth, Marvin Stone, Jason Parker, Desmond Allison
Pitino Era: Aminu Timberlake, Oliver Simmons, Rod Rhodes
Gillispie era: Alex Legion
Tubby Era: Antwain Barbour, Rashaad Carruth, Marvin Stone, Jason Parker, Desmond Allison
Pitino Era: Aminu Timberlake, Oliver Simmons, Rod Rhodes
Gillispie era: Alex Legion
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