Keion Brooks transferring from Kentucky
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Yeah, that’s just some random tweeter speculating.
This thread should either be deleted or have the title changed.
Old man Brooks said last week it wasn't happening. He was going to test the NBA waters and if he returned to CBB it would be kentucky.
Huh... did he tell you that when he was screaming at you to stay off his lawn?
Nope, he mentioned it at around 4:30 while were in line for the dinner buffet special.
I don't think you have to enter transfer portal to test the NBA waters. Transferring and going pro are 2 different things.
He had a variety of hard candies. I'm unsure of his selection that night. I had a stick of Beemans though.
Boy, Howdy! That meat loaf is hard to beat for $6!
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you gotta love ernest t. he got his diploma and thanked his mother figure
Ernest T. had the right ideas more often than I realized when I was younger.
BTW - On the main topic, Brooks isn't in the portal. The Fletcher kid is the only one that's put his name in.
Gotta be one of my favorite TV characters of all time. Top 5 off the top of my head, in no particular order: Earnest T, Jim Rockford, Newman, Jeanie (I Dream Of), and Audra Barkley (Linda Evans) on The Big Valley. F me, I'm old! HM to Kramer. Apologies to Winnie Cooper. Who did I leave out?
jeanie and audra. yum yum. can you imagine being the filling for that sandwich?
I thought that was why they went to Kentucky to begin with. One and done and show me the money. Of course with the histories of Kentucky Basketball and Coach Cal. they may be showing them the Money before they get to Campus,
The jig is up with Cal. His first few teams had once in a lifetime type talent that could’ve went to the league regardless. He’s not been developing talent as well as thought. Askew is transferring after saying he was staying. Now maybe Brooks.
His biggest issue is he isn’t the only one doing it. So it’s tougher to get all the top guys he wants, and he certainly isn’t getting guys that are like you mention. Plus he seemed to have a better mix of solid veterans to mix before. I find it hilarious that UK sucks. I can’t stand those toothless fools
That’s just it. Even the veterans are leaving. After that undefeated season they have gotten worse.
I could see them loading up on transfers this year. Sucks, but that is about the only way they can get some veteran presence.
He's been losing recruiting battles to Coach K. I said for years that Cal wasn't a great coach, just a great recruiter and the game would adapt....and it did. 2011 was a phenomenal class. Kentuck has to dominate the top 5 recruits for the 1 and done model to work. Now that IU has it's NBA coach, what does he think is going to happen? lol
I doubt UK fans are worried about Woodson at IU - that's the least of their worries. But they should be worried that World Wide Wes no longer funnels players to UK, that there are now minor league basketball options growing for players that don't want to go to college, that several other programs are chasing (and landing) the one and done players, and that players that don't get immediate big minutes in playing time tend to transfer out after their first year. Cal has never been more than a mediocre in-game coach, but he historically recruits top talent and usually gets them to play hard defensively. When you have a huge talent advantage over your opponent, that's usually enough to get you the win. When the talent disparity isn't that big, you see a season with only 9 wins.
Agree completely. The NBA and the Players Association have been working on making the G-League a much more attractive option to high school graduates who would like to avoid college altogether. That's another dent in Calipari's approach to recruiting.
Calipari would be better off adopting the recruiting strategy of Jay Wright or Mark Few.
Cal will get to experiment a bit this year with the free for all. He will get 2-3,4 transfers. See what he can do with them.
True. We'll see what he can do with transfers.
I would assume it's easier to build a culture with guys who stay with a program for a few years rather than a group of mercenaries who will only be around for a year. Who knows if any transfers into UK will actually stick around.
Can anyone else imagine Earnest T Bass singing "in the air tonight?"
Not until I read this. Now I won't be able to stop imagining it.
word leaking out that Brooks is staying at UK. Fine with me. Time to be selfish.
Not sure if he would have helped anyway. He is exactly what I thought he was out of HS, a tweener.
I don’t see any evidence that Cal can “X and O” even close to the level of those coaches. If he doesn’t have a large talent disparity he’s going to struggleIMO.
That’s the weird thing though. Back at UMASS he had 1 great player and built a team around him. It’s not like he had a ton of talent. Those to me where his best coaching years.
having someone else take your SAT doesn't hurt either....
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