Another UK hater with the answer for fixing the "system"

[P.PattersonISwalkingthruthatdoor]

If they're complaining about Nike, they're a Card.

 

[lacocat]

Originally posted by STEVE!:

The morons that cry about UK having 9 McDonald's All-Americans probably don't realize they are spread across three recruiting classes. Not exactly cornering all of the Top 10 players or OADs each year.

This team may only have 2 one and dones on the roster, Kat and Lyles, depending on what Booker decides.

 

[KingOfBBN]

Originally posted by jamo0001:
If they're complaining about Nike, they're a Card.

The OP is a troll and is the one who has posted multiple pro Louisville/anti UK pieces. Don't be fooled by this idiot. He's the one that first promoted that awful article about fixing games.

 

[FrankLloydwright]

If you are an idiot you can rest assured that someone on this board will find you.

 

[CatsIndy2010]

I think Kenneth Faried is an example of what hard work can do for yourself. He played at Morehead. Not exactly a powerhouse kinda of team but this guy is missing that point. Every division I school is an opportunity to make it to the next level. Regardless of the powerhouse schools.

 

[MO_Blue]

Originally posted by beamer_at_uk:
"Cal has ran..."

I stopped right there.

 

[Poetax]

Originally posted by TankedCat:

Originally posted by AnarchoNeoLuddite:
Yeah, folks would rather teams be like Izzo and MSU. Have the old college spirit, try and take chickensh@it players and turn them into chicken salad in 4 years, not win games and bemoan the whole system when your team is garbage but be doing it the right way.

Izzo is very thinned skin when it comes to criticism. He was heralded for his each of his players to attend at least 1 final four for a long period of time, then that kind of fell off lately and I think he's feeling some pressure.

Izzo, while a very good coach, would have been a mistake as a hire here at UK because he would implode during a bad year here.

That said, he was very successful with his method - but I don't think his recent struggles have anything to do with what Kentucky is doing.

Izzo took from tubby whatever player he wanted, that has stopped now that Cal is here. I can see him being a little upset with us.

 

[Allan Brewer]

Kentucky is not the problem with college basketball

The problem is two and a half decades of the NBA cherry-picking college basketball's best players before they graduate with lucrative contracts, and the NCAA greedily monetizing the student-athlete's work without the courtesy of compensating him...there's no middle ground despite all the dollars that go into NCAA basketball from many sources

Efforts to fix that problem are far more productive than a knee-jerk reaction aimed at one school which abets the best players by creating the most efficient transit from student to millionaire possible

Let's make one thing perfectly clear: the loudest voices for reform right now are not acting out of concern for this chronic abuse by both the NBA and NCAA. They are acting out of envy of the University of Kentucky.

It's shameful and exemplary of the same meiopic mentality that put us here in the first place

 

[Blueworld_3.0]

1-7

 

[trueblujr]

So why is it that when a football player is very highly ranked, you always see the same 4-5 schools on their list. Cal's philosophy and how he works the system is no different than how a school like Alabama does it in football. Is Bama ruining college football because they have a plethora of riches when it comes to recruiting the best players? Or have they gotten to that point because they are putting a ton of players in the NFL and winning or competing for national championships on the biggest stage?

 

[AnarchoNeoLuddite_rivals]

Originally posted by Poetax:

Originally posted by TankedCat:

Originally posted by AnarchoNeoLuddite:
Yeah, folks would rather teams be like Izzo and MSU. Have the old college spirit, try and take chickensh@it players and turn them into chicken salad in 4 years, not win games and bemoan the whole system when your team is garbage but be doing it the right way.

Izzo is very thinned skin when it comes to criticism. He was heralded for his each of his players to attend at least 1 final four for a long period of time, then that kind of fell off lately and I think he's feeling some pressure.

Izzo, while a very good coach, would have been a mistake as a hire here at UK because he would implode during a bad year here.

That said, he was very successful with his method - but I don't think his recent struggles have anything to do with what Kentucky is doing.

Izzo took from tubby whatever player he wanted, that has stopped now that Cal is here. I can see him being a little upset with us.

Funny because MSUs most notable player in the NBA right now was a Tubby recruit....

 

[rhstoess]

Okay, so what this person is saying is "Let's take the actual recruiting approach away from college basketball and make it so every school can get the elite talent regardless of the amount of effort that is put into signing these players."

That's communism.

 

[rhstoess]

Originally posted by Cats192:

Secondarily: You want to punish kids for going off to be millionaires after 1 year of college? How is that not the ultimate success of a college? I went to WKU for Chemistry/Pre-med. If WKU Chem was making multiple millionaires after a single year under them--they'd advertise the hell out of that. But, it's somehow bad if you don't use your education to get paid?

This may be the smartest thing I've ever seen written about college basketball players. Everyone against OAD argues that these players are "student-athletes", which they are, they go to class and learn to better their lives. But the ultimate goal of going to college is to prepare yourself in a career that will support you best for the rest of your life, and that's exactly what is happening on Kentucky's basketball team.

This post was edited on 3/13 1:20 AM by rhstoess