nomar
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Cal has continued to recruit in the NIL era, but he may still have the biggest war chest in the game. Prior to NIL, World Wide Wes delivered him player after player and everyone turned a blind eye to it. His recruiting talent was just as much about getting illegal resources as it was about talking to players. He was able to use his relationship with WWW to cheat brazenly. Major publications wrote articles about it, yet no one would stop it. That tells me Cal and UK made relationships at the NCAA that allowed him to cheat. They didn’t try to figure out what he was doing. His talent is talking his way in and out of situations. He’s a mediocre coach but a hell of a smooth talker.
He is wrong be because he’s pretending that cheating is the sole reason for Calipari landing high level recruits. I can’t imagine you agree Calipari’s not a good recruiter. Did he have success before and after WWW? Did WWW have a hand in the majority of the guys? Nobody is denying Calipari has always been sleazy. He had a title vacated before he even met WWW.