First, thanks tcf15 for the quote, next, kcity quotation marks are for actual quotes from a source not for when you are paraphrasing. This may seem like nitpicking but someone might read your post, see the quotation marks and think Calipari actually said that. He didn't. He gets a lot of high level recruits and when he plays UConn in big games he loses. Yeah UConn.
What is your point? That you're mad Calipari is able to do what all coaches would like to do if they could?
I don't think that's necessarily true. To be completely honest, if he goes to UK he's likely a one and done, because that's what him and the squid would agree on beforehand, whether he's ready for the league or not (hello James Young). If he goes to UConn, he is likely a 2 year player in my mind. Our guys simply aren't pushed towards the league like they are at UK and they don't generate the same pre-draft hype either, both affecting his stock after one year.
Don't bother arguing, Leebo made the same pissy high horse defense of Calipari when that quote/article was originally posted as an OT thread, he's one of the board's resident contrarians.
Can't you just say what your point is? You say wanting great players instead of just good players says a lot about him. All coaches want that, so what does it specifically say about him?
Don't flatter yourself. It's just become a pattern that whenever someone makes a jab at Calipari on this board, you and another poster are always there to make some drawn out defense of the guy. You are like the guy on the Yankee's message board who butts in to defend the Red Sox manager in the OT thread when someone says something mean. Our programs are rivals and peers, and this is a message board, what are you expecting?
You are the board's other resident contrarian. Anyone wanna make a guess at the third?
Too bad that is hypothetical situation...Squid mauling would make a lot of folks happy!
As a follow up, for the reason I quoted above, I believe Diallo to be a UK lean. He seems like the type of player who values draft status over the character of his coach or the legacy he will create in college. In addition, in my honest opinion, despite UConn having been on him the longest and him saying we were the leader in his recruitment in one interview, he has never really said much of anything overly positive about the program or Ollie, I think he has just been playing the field, and I dont blame him. Just my 2 cents, queue angry mob.
what makes you say that? He has seemed a very prototypical hs kid in the few interviews I've seen. Answering terrible questions from terrible reporters with usual aplomb of a 16-17 yr old with no real indication of what he's really thinking
In all the footage and interviews I have seen of him, he has never really directly answered questions about UConn much, and he always seems to end his answers in an open ended manner implying that he doesnt want you to think that he is too into UConn. Again, this is completely my opinion on the issue and not fact.
I understand, I was just curious. I think early on everyone considered him a uconn lock and he maybe made the extra effort to dispel that rumor in interviews. Or he really just didn't have anything good to say about us. Who knows? Gotta love recruiting...
Again, every single coach wants this, so Calipari is like every other coach in this regard. I don't know what it says specifically about him.
