The House of Blue

I agree wholeheartedly this is about poor recruiting .By poor recruiting I mean too many of the same kind of players .I think we have several guys that play the same positions .When they are on the court at the same time all of them are confused .

Only a KY fan can post after pulling in 3 straight #1 classes that this is what bad recruiting looks like. I'll tell you why there aren't that many 3-4 star players on the roster. Because they usually want to play. They transfer like Poole did, they got hurt like Becham and Hood did or they decide they want to play versus sit like Lacey did. Geez, what an idiotic post. Tell me again, next year how bad our recruiting is ace.

Not singling you out on my response ... I've seen a lot of this same post this year. Fact is, when you really look at it ... no elite teams have deep benches with 8-10 serious contributors. While some may go one or two deeper than UK typically does, that's just not how major college basketball rosters are made up. I went back and looked at the previous 20 national champions and only once or twice ('96 UK being one) did a champion have more than 7 or 8 regular contributors.

Almost every single year, it's 7 or 8 players that make up the major contributors ... and it's not just Cal doing that ... that's how everyone does it. There's not one top-25 team this year (or in almost any year) with 10 players that all average over 10 minutes a game and/or score more than a basket or so a game.

We will have to get use to seasons like this. UK will be a beast one yr and because of who leaves and who stays we will have down yrs. Its not the coaches fault this is just the way it fell this yr.

Uk will have 2 or more players back next yr to round out a super class coming in.

Punch cal and UK this yr but next yr Uk will lay the smack down on teams like Tenn.

Most teams in general, championship or not, really just gave 7-8 serious contributors. The difference is, most teams don't just have those 7 or 8 and then a handful of PG walk-ons like we do. I think msdcatfan's point was not that we need more to play in games, but that we need more guys who can push the contributors in practice while developing for a couple of years in case they are needed in times like this.

Honestly I don't think you have a clue about how recruiting goes. I can go back and show you the rankings on these kids and not a one of them said that they were definite one and dones. Their playing backs me up but it doesn't mean that they are bad players, they are only players that need more then one year to reach their potential, not the nba kind. Some like you on here thinks that every four star basketball player is standing in line to sit our bench and play maybe 2 minutes a game in most years(think next year). Those kind of players are not abundant. So change your name, cawood would never act like that, and come back next year with your whiny remarks and lets see how they work out then.

Nothing whiny to the remarks. The coach sets up the roster. This roster is very poorly set up. I asked if there were any 3 or 4' that would want the oppurtunity to develope at Kentucky. There must be some.
The practices must so lop sided with the talent in total that they do not challenge the better players, note just look at the first three years. When a coach recruits so many that are shooting for one year you have failure. Last years team had 2 soph and a senior go to the nba. This team should probably have only 1.
If this was a regular job the performance would cause management to question the business practice.
Sorry you felt so attacked .

I have enjoyed the discussion non the less. Cawood

That's because most teams do not have the recruiting bonanzas we tend to have. So they can attract and keep the less talented players some here want. This dynamic has been explained time and time again.

never said I was. Nothing personal to you other fans.

I just don't know why Kentcuky needs to fill it's roster with walk on's.

Or why it has to.

Please read bigcat65's response.

Correct, and we have been lucky enough they weren't needed....until this year. This is also the first year we haven't had experienced returned. First year we had Patterson, Miller, Liggins and Harrellson. Second year was the same group of vets, minus PP. Last year was Miller, Jones and Lamb. This year? Wiltjer. Next year? Who knows, but likely just Wiltjer and Polson.

I'm not too sure what statement you are trying to make....I suspect their is plenty of talent on this team for each player to be "pushed" as much as you can "push" some players.... And yes you need the walk-on....notice the type of player Coach Cal chooses. Players that bust their butts on the court, as well as, in the classroom. Helps with the overall Team GPA. However.....you really think Goodwin, Harrow, Poythress aren't getting pushed this year in practice? That's just lunacy.....