Calipari Takes Another Shot at Coach K Re: Recruiting

Lol Coach K is just beating Calisleezy at his own game and Cal can't take it.

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“I don’t sell, ‘When you come here, the university and the state will take care of you for the rest of your life.’ You may buy that, and I’ve got some great property and some swampland in Florida to sell you too.”

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Good Lord, that is a straight up lie.

If there is one state and one fanbase in America that will take of you for the rest of America, it is Kentucky basketball.

UK fans really don't like to lose, and they're out of the top 25 right now. No wonder Cal's in a foul mood.

Cal has such a complex about Coach K. He can't even go through a sideline interview in a game against Duke without trying to negatively recruit. And he gets his buddy to write hit pieces that are so transparent that even rival fanbases that hate Duke laugh about it.

The reality is Cal's program was always contingent on guys getting 1 and Done and actually leaving after one year and getting drafted in the first ruond. It went even better than expected his first year. 2012 was clearly the peak, but then, guys started sticking around because they weren't as good as the hype (i.e. the Harrison twins), and guys started backing away from the program because of playing time issues.

That's what happens when you have 8-9 freshman coming in. The last two classes (2017 and 2018), I think he's laded just one top 10 guy (Knox). The current class isn't looking too hot, and with a fairly deep draft, I think many will be back next year, and I think there is a more than decent chance that he ends up with just 3 recruits this year (Keldon, Quickley, and Tyler Herro).

I expect Knox to be a top 10 pick, Diallo to be a late first rounder, and probably Gilgeous-Alexander to go pro as well. But the rest are either going to be back next year (and maybe in 2019) or they will be second rounders). At this point, Cal is trying the one and done model not with top 5 kids as much as he is top 10-30 kids, and that's not nearly as easy.

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Calipari Takes Another Shot at Coach K Re: Recruiting

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Cal has such a complex about Coach K. He can't even go through a sideline interview in a game against Duke without trying to negatively recruit. And he gets his buddy to write hit pieces that are so transparent that even rival fanbases that hate Duke laugh about it.

The reality is Cal's program was always contingent on guys getting 1 and Done and actually leaving after one year and getting drafted in the first ruond. It went even better than expected his first year. 2012 was clearly the peak, but then, guys started sticking around because they weren't as good as the hype (i.e. the Harrison twins), and guys started backing away from the program because of playing time issues.

That's what happens when you have 8-9 freshman coming in. The last two classes (2017 and 2018), I think he's laded just one top 10 guy (Knox). The current class isn't looking too hot, and with a fairly deep draft, I think many will be back next year, and I think there is a more than decent chance that he ends up with just 3 recruits this year (Keldon, Quickley, and Tyler Herro).

I expect Knox to be a top 10 pick, Diallo to be a late first rounder, and probably Gilgeous-Alexander to go pro as well. But the rest are either going to be back next year (and maybe in 2019) or they will be second rounders). At this point, Cal is trying the one and done model not with top 5 kids as much as he is top 10-30 kids, and that's not nearly as easy.

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You know for all the hype and promotion that surrounds Cal and his iteration of the UK basketball program, the school only has 1 natty to show for it during his tenure and that natty was won by arguably one of the greatest single-season college basketball teams of all-time. During that same stretch, Coach K and Duke have won 2 and the school has obviously produced their fair share of NBA lottery picks and now have secured a generational talent for 2019 in Zion. When you're an all-timer like K and rep a school as prestigious as Duke, pretty much your only responsibility is staying out of your own way and they will come.

Here come the Kentucky fans and the Louisville fans.

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alipari is awful. it's a wonder UK fans put up with him. He won't win another Natty at UK. He's lucky to have the one at UK that he has. His model of a program sucks and he's a slime ball.

They go through a weak SEC usually, then get beat anywhere from 2nd Rd to Elite 8 most yrs

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Holy fricking shite

Coach Cal at UK

Elite 8
Final 4
Champions
NIT
Runner up
Final 4
2nd round
Elite 8


I cant believe they live with that bum and his results.....

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don’t be shocked if a certain former NBA Star player is on staff in Lexington

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Rod Strickland? Cal definitely likes him and if he is sober, that would be a big hire.

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It will be interesting to see how K is going to adapt the amount of players that will go pro after the season and has 3 studs playing the same position

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Who are you referring to? I think all of the guys coming in next year play different positions. Just like this year, so they fit in much better than last year's team. Reddish is a 3, Zion is a 4 although a bit short, but the team has height all around him, and Barrett was playing 2 for Canada in the U-18s.

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Calipari Takes Another Shot at Coach K Re: Recruiting

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:lol: He's so mad. frick Calipari