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Why doest Kentucky get the best players in the state
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Dost not UK deserve the best player in yon realm, m’lord?
LOL I was gonna say what midieval times english was his post title lol
Reed was the best player in the state. Cal recruited because he HAD to. Cal never recruited Ky boys. But thankfully he is gone. Pope has Noah and Perry now. He will get more
The previous staff rarely took ANY players ranked outside of the top 50. During Calipari’s tenure, there weren't any players from the state that were top 50, other than Reed.
1. Not ALL of the top KY players are UK material.
2. Not ALL of the top KY players are UK fans / fit their style of game.
Pretty simple answer really.
2. Not ALL of the top KY players are UK fans / fit their style of game.
Pretty simple answer really.
Yeah Cal (barely) took Reed and hated that he did the whole time. The average KY boy didn't have too much of a shot.
Because the Kentucky kids Cal didn't take weren't good enough.
You do realize that Calipari took plenty of players outside the top 50 during his time at UK.
Per Rivals, the only guys that were always outside of the top 50 were:
-Dontaie Allen
-Dominique Hawkins
-Derek Willis (I think he might have been top 50 at one point in high school)
-Joey Hart (only recruited because Antonio Reeves was about to leave)
-Isaac Humphries (Late reclass and recruited because of how thin the frontcourt was. I assume that he's never recruited if Dakari returned.)
-Tai Wynyard (reclass and thin frontcourt)
-Adou Thiero
Need to do more research, but look at your list, Hawkins and Willis were 3 star Kentucky boys who were very important pieces their last two years at UK. Cal did not like it when a Kentucky kid took attention away from his valued possible number one draft picks.
At Calipari's introductory press conference he said "I'm here, because I can recruit the best of the best." I hate to break it to you, but that ain't Kentucky boys. The guy HAD to have elite talent to win anything. How many in-state kids that were ranked in the top 50 did Cal not recruit?
Made up problem. We always got the best players in the state other than Tubby guessing wrong on Lofton. Then Cal blew off most Kentucky talent and true Cal was a dick about it but frankly for the most part we weren’t missing much. Reed, Check. Noah, check. Perry, check. Pope just got here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Probably had nothing to do with Reed being a stud and a McDonalds All American. I’m guessing he HAD to recruit Travis Perry too.
I’m not sure what in state player we missed on since Chris Lofton who we really just took Ramel Bradley over and like Dewayne Morton for you old heads. Who are these in state players that we didn’t recruit that we should have?
So the kid that he offered in June of 2021 and who committed in November of 2021 is a kid he barely took? Seems like offering a guy the summer between his sophomore and junior year is more of a priority target and not a kid he barely took.
You seemed fixated on this so called top 50 talent, when I just pointed out how valuable some Kentucky Kids have been even for Calipari. And no offense how many times did Calipari get his ass handed to him with this so called top 50 talent by teams with no top 50 players on their roster. Are you one of Cal's daughter's trying to defend his horrible coaching by throwing out there his recruiting etc.
UK has gotten most of the worthy KY high school players over the years. The problem is there are gaps in years of worthy UK level talent.
You have completely strayed from the argument. The "so called top 50" is what Calipari recruited. Kentucky kids typically don't fit that. I'm sorry if that reality doesn't fit your "Calipari doesn't like Kentucky kids" conspiracy.
That’s true he did say that. He also said “look around at these walls they don’t hang banners for anything except National Championships” and then went on to not give a shit about National Championships 😂. It’s hard to dissect that man’s bullshit.
Cal isn’t hated it’s just many see him for what he is. Cal was adored here until he chose to put winning second and attacked the fanbase. I don’t think UK fans don’t understand what’s going on based off of an opinion of Calipari. I’d say the Calipari fans are much more likely to suffer confirmation bias and misjudge the situation, they didn’t even notice how bad of shape the program was in because of his ability to daze and confuse.
Only bringing it up because I see routinely the idea that the people that don’t like and saw through Calipari are the ones with these types of conditions. I think it’s actually the opposite.
Cal is literally hated by a lot of fans, that’s why he is brought up every single day on this board. Calipari fans are just Kentucky fans who supported Calipari, you call them Calipari fans because you hate Calipari. Mark Pope fans are Kentucky fans who support Mark Pope, same applies to Mark Stoops, Kenny Brooks and every other coach on campus.
Wow didn’t think anyone was still on the tired line of “you just hate Cal” lol.
Calipari was losing at historic rates at UK. In ways we’ve never seen before. Kentucky fans would not approve and want to maintain a coach who’s losing in record fashion. Anyone who supported him and didn’t want him out is a Calipari fan because most UK fans wouldn’t support him to the detriment of the program.
We talk about him because he just left and took much of our team, to a rival, and we will now play against him. 15 years sir. If you don’t understand that I have no idea what you’re talking about. All of our coaches are talked about constantly. Calipari isn’t special.
Tell me what you think Calipari’s approval rating was in 2015? If I told you there was a poll I could cite with 400 replies and 96% approval what would you say?
Cal is disliked because he became incredibly stupid toward the program and lost at record numbers. It’s not about anything other than that. There’s a few that like to pretend Cal was just simply hated and that’s a lie they tell themselves so they don’t have to accept how wrong they are and we’re. That simple.
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