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NCAA expanding inquiry into top Kentucky recruit Nerlens Noel
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It's only a matter of time before the bloom comes off the rose for Calipari/Kentucky. It may be this year, it may be two years down the road, it may be 5 years down the road. At some point straddling the NCAA gray area and beyond will catch up with Slick Cal, and because he's so smooth he'll know the exact time to skip out of town (Lexington).
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I feel so sorry that Friend of Tubby is not here to defend the virtue of Sandy Bell.
Thank God.
I feel so sorry that Friend of Tubby is not here to defend the virtue of Sandy Bell.
I know that you are being sarcastic here, but in all honesty, if Cal is cheating at UK he is even slimier than I could have imagined. I can SOMEWHAT understand the rationale for cheating at UMASS and Memphis, not the easiest places to win like he did there without it.
But if you need to cheat at UK? Really? The school that has Ashley Judd as its number 1 fan and gets championship rings for Drake and sends kids to the NBA like no other school right now? I realize they are recruiting against Duke, Syracuse, UNC, etc. but come on. UK is not the hardest place to recruit to, so if you need to cheat to get kids there ... you are the bottom of the coaching barrel and I am just not ready to put Cal there. Yet. I give him (probably wrongly) some benefit of the doubt here.
If you want to win like Calipari does, yeah you cheat at UK. Did you see the article about the dirtiest recruitments of the past 10 years? 3 guys Cal took to UK were on the list that I remember, maybe more. Anthony Davis was #2 on the list. If you don't think Cal will cheat when it makes the difference between having a Final Four team and a great but not Championship-caliber team, you're mistaken.
John Wall and Terrence Jones were both on the list of dirtiest recruitments as well as Derrick Rose (who was a Memphis recruit for Calipari). But literally every Calipari UK team has featured at least one player who was involved in one of the dirtiest recruitments in the past 10 years, according to other coaches who are "in the know" so to speak.
Anthony Davis was the #1 recruit in his class, and he had a final 3 of UK, Syracuse and OSU. His dad in July 2010 said the plan was for the family to visit all 3 places before Anthony made a decision. Then in August they visited DePaul and UK unofficially, and right after that he verballed to UK. But right before he verballed to UK the Chicago Sun-Times reported that he would commit to UK because a payment of $200K was made by someone who wanted him to go to UK that secured the commitment. The story was never retracted, it was only taken down briefly to edit to reflect the fact that it was not UK who made the payment directly but someone who wanted him to go to UK. The family did not make any trips to OSU or Syracuse. You've got an OSU, Syracuse, UK final 3, and only end up visiting one of your finalists with your family as planned (but also visit a non-finalist) and commit in August? The reality is they didn't stick to the plan to do their due diligence at all, obviously UK was very persuasive with whatever they did.
John Wall, he was the top player in the country from North Carolina and yet North Carolina decided not to recruit him - that is bizarre. Baylor hired his AAU coach in order to get Wall and still was unable to land him, so whatever UK had to do to get him must have been dirtier.
Terrence Jones held a press conference at the end of his senior season and verbally committed to Washington. Immediately afterward he speaks with Calipari over the phone and changes his mind. Something that Calipari did had to have influenced him. You don't make a fool out of yourself by committing to a school publicly and then change your mind immediately afterward for nothing.
John Wall and Terrence Jones were both on the list of dirtiest recruitments as well as Derrick Rose (who was a Memphis recruit for Calipari). But literally every Calipari UK team has featured at least one player who was involved in one of the dirtiest recruitments in the past 10 years, according to other coaches who are "in the know" so to speak.
Anthony Davis was the #1 recruit in his class, and he had a final 3 of UK, Syracuse and OSU. His dad in July 2010 said the plan was for the family to visit all 3 places before Anthony made a decision. Then in August they visited DePaul and UK unofficially, and right after that he verballed to UK. But right before he verballed to UK the Chicago Sun-Times reported that he would commit to UK because a payment of $200K was made by someone who wanted him to go to UK that secured the commitment. The story was never retracted, it was only taken down briefly to edit to reflect the fact that it was not UK who made the payment directly but someone who wanted him to go to UK. The family did not make any trips to OSU or Syracuse. You've got an OSU, Syracuse, UK final 3, and only end up visiting one of your finalists with your family as planned (but also visit a non-finalist) and commit in August? The reality is they didn't stick to the plan to do their due diligence at all, obviously UK was very persuasive with whatever they did.
John Wall, he was the top player in the country from North Carolina and yet North Carolina decided not to recruit him - that is bizarre. Baylor hired his AAU coach in order to get Wall and still was unable to land him, so whatever UK had to do to get him must have been dirtier.
Terrence Jones held a press conference at the end of his senior season and verbally committed to Washington. Immediately afterward he speaks with Calipari over the phone and changes his mind. Something that Calipari did had to have influenced him. You don't make a fool out of yourself by committing to a school publicly and then change your mind immediately afterward for nothing.