Calipari going the international route again
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Lithuanians can ball. Guy looks like he's 30.
20 years old. Has some experience under his belt.
So now you can just straight up recruit foreign pro players? What was all of the Enes Kanter ******** about again? This seems even worse than that situation for eligibility or is that a thing of the past now too?
Iām guessing it was an eligibility thing with UK. Just like the NIL being behind on football and basketball due to Barnhart refusal to get on board
Except that heās not Lithuanian.
Weāll be seeing a lot more of these overseas guys who look 30. The floodgates have opened on being allowed to recruit from the overseas pro leagues.
No, itās just about the everything being completely different now from how the sport was in 2010. Recruiting Kanter would be no problem today.
Umm, I never claimed he was. In fact, I explicitly said he wasnāt.
Did you respond to the wrong post?
I was agreeing with and supporting your post, but adding his nationality for more information.
So can we just scour the foreign leagues for recruits? I thought they were maintaining some semblance of āstudent athleteā BS. No?
I read it as a confirmation instead of a disagreement.
He is a Rony Seikaly, not an Arvydas Sabonis.
Great find !! It's interesting to note that Steve Kerry is from Lebanon.
I clicked this hoping to find he was going to Greece to coach and I wouldn't have to hear any more of his Calisms. I am already tired of the threw us in the coffin but forgot the nails comment.
Huh? the Enes Kanter thing was totally an NCAA issue related to his professional stipends and also a vendetta against UK because he had originally committed to Washington and that same year the AD at Washington became the head of the NCAA.
Appears so. Lots of schools are doing it now and the NCAA no longer utters even the slightest peep of protest about it.
Most Nordic Lebanese person ever.
He was born there of American parents.
Does Kerr have any Lebanese ancestry? No
I understand your sentiment, of course, but he does seem to have relatively strong Lebanese ties ...
Yes, NBA coach Steve Kerr was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and his father, Malcolm Kerr, was a Lebanese-born American academic specializing in the Middle East.
Here's a more detailed look:
- Birthplace:
Steve Kerr was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 27, 1965.
- Father's Background:
His father, Malcolm H. Kerr, was a Lebanese-born American academic who specialized in the Middle East.
- Family Ties to Lebanon:
According to L'Orient Today, Steve Kerr's family has strong ties to Lebanon, with his grandparents, Stanley and Elsa Kerr, moving to Beirut from the US in 1921 and teaching at the American University of Beirut (AUB) for 40 years.
- Malcolm Kerr's Assassination:
Malcolm Kerr was assassinated in 1984, while serving as president of the American University of Beirut. - Steve Kerr's Early Life:
Steve Kerr spent much of his childhood in Lebanon and other countries, but attended Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles, graduating in 1983.
- Malcolm Kerr's Assassination:
Smashbot please reprogram Calipari as an Arkansas razorback. We dont have to know every player that he gets this year
Same question i had recently
Looks like we're getting our answer
Why not pull someone from the G League then?
someone like.....ANTHONY FREAKING DAVIS!!!!
Thereās a part in Kurt Vonnegutās Player Piano where it goes into college football. You canāt play college football and be a student so you get paid to play college football for the school and you end up having a bunch of 36 year olds waxing philosophically about whether Harvard pays more and how Tennessee puts their players up and trains them in Miami Florida.
We are almost there.
We are almost there.
The NCAA pretty much threw that in the trash can with the UNC ruling.
Averaged 5 points? We better get some serious defenders out front. Cal has 2 five star and 1 four star guards coming in.
That was my thought. He's going after players who haven't heard about his BS.
The answer to every question for some people is Barnhart. Do you think Barnhart would have benefited from having Enes Kanter eligible? The answer is in an obvious yes