If we are picking nits, Verbal Commits has us offering 4 days before UK. Although who knows .. the VC site is not what it used to be (at least visually). Just trying to keep the conversation lively ...
Offering and putting time in are very different. We’ve offered guys you don’t hear a peep of us spending any time on, ie Chris Cenac. UK kinda put Lewis back on their “target” list recently and have now gone full throttle.
Hopefully the same full throttle that the Red Sox employed last offseason.
Fwiw 247Sports.com also has UConn offering before UK. UConn on June 15 and UK on June 17.
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It's still UK and no more slime ball Calipari. Up until a few years ago, Hurley had not really proven anything either.
Felt like this was where it was heading for a while. Let’s get Adams and Mullins…if Mullins goes elsewhere, get Furphy.
Yeah I’ve been surprised at the recruits going there for Pope, but I guess Kentucky is always Kentucky until Pope shows that he can’t win. I know nothing about his coaching, just saying that’s when they will have trouble getting the high level recruits.
Really don’t have room for him. Prefer adams and Mullins. Lewis and Thomas seem to
This is exactly how I feel. We have point guards for next year.
Really, really wanted Acaden. Seemed like a good match with Hurley too. But, gonna be happy with who I get I am sure.
It is a premiere program but Tubby Smith was there for 10 years and never recruited particularly well. His teams won, although Kentucky fans didn't like that he didn't get many blue chip recruits. Whether that was by design or not is up for debate. He won that first championship with mostly the players Pitino left him and then Kentucky fans ran him out of town. It will be interesting to see what Pope does over time.
Tubby rode the early momentum and got McDAA's guys like Tayshaun Prince, Keith Bogans and Marvin Stone. Also got McDAAs like Rondo, Randolph Morris, and Joe(?) Crawford later on, yes it ended sour but he brought guys in. I think Gillespie even got a couple of McDAAs off memory like Patrick Patterson. Even without Calipari UK will have cache and these kids all grew up with UK in front of their face for the past decade. I wanted Lewis badly and won't write off until it's official but I get the appeal of playing for Pope/UK, the same guy that made the video for UConn's offense did one on YouTube for Mark Pope at BYU and it was pretty creative and impressive.
PT right away was a stated priority from the beginning. UConn obviously made a big impression on the kid, but UConn is going to be strong at guard next year (we will just have to suffer with having too much talent ahead of him).
Pope will have a couple of lefties in the back court with Acadien and Jasper. I’d have to think PT was a driving factor for him as with AN locked in at PG for a few years, Solo, Mahaney and now potentially 2 other guards coming, very crowded. The UK situation offers a lot of open PT.
