Jake Feldhaus down to 4
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$2 million and he's all ours!
unless Kansas offers a million
Kansas would only need to offer a sleeping bag and a free backpack.
Good for him, I will be rooting for him, provided he stays far away from UK's 8 man rotation
Maybe he develops and transfers to UK as a junior/senior. No reason to ish on a legacy kid because current recruitment isn’t going well.
Suspense. He should add the towns of Pueblo and Cherokee, NC. That'll really get the nail biting going.
Sad day for me when UK with 15 scholarships can’t take a Feldhaus who is a 6 8 Mr Basketball.
I’ve never seen him play so I’m sure he’s making a good decision to go to a school where he can get on the floor early and continue to develop.
I can understand wanting to play.
Hopefully Jake really does well early on and possibly transfers back to UK in the future. Wishing him all the best. Good UK karma with that last name. Allen and Deron were warriors in UK Blue and White.
I’ve never seen him play so I’m sure he’s making a good decision to go to a school where he can get on the floor early and continue to develop.
I can understand wanting to play.
Hopefully Jake really does well early on and possibly transfers back to UK in the future. Wishing him all the best. Good UK karma with that last name. Allen and Deron were warriors in UK Blue and White.
I agree. Being Deron's son and a top player in the state is enough for him to deserve a jersey here whether or not he wants to take it or go somewhere else for playing time issues. What's wrong with us that we can't recruit fourteen players good enough to where we can give that 15th spot to a kid like this.
I guess these guys today don‘t understand what “commitment“ means. WKU seems logical.
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UK doesn't have to take every son of a guy that played here. Most of these guys aren't gonna be like Reed was. Most of them want to go somewhere and get minutes as well. And make some money.
guys like this its better for them to go get playing time and actual good coaching from a mid major then after proving themselves coming to UK
I agree. I in no way wanted him here or believe he's capable of playing here
Really surprised we aren't in the final 4 to help drive up the NIL offers from the school that actually lands him...
You’re living in the past. College means zero
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ More important than minutes. Your living in a dream world.
Belmont has had 16 straight 20 win seasons, and 14 of the last 20 seasons with single digit total losses. A committable Belmont offer is a pretty good D1 offer.
He can’t go there yet, he hasn’t had his first domestic violence incident.
If he develops at Belmont or WKU and looks like he could contribute after his sophomore year or so I’d love to have him take his rightful place here as a bench player.
If he is a golfer, South Florida is the place to be.
MVC. Before that Ohio Valley.
Clearly it's not the same as a P5 conference. But an offer from a top tier MVC team is far above P5 walk-on material, as the other poster suggested he might be.
I really couldn't tell you much about the guy but I have to guess that if he was any good, he would have a couple low level P5 offers at a minimum. He would need that before I would want him at UK and listen to the hill tribes call for him to get into the games simply because he was born here.
Surprised K State is not involved.
Either JF didn't want to go to Manhattan or CA didn't think he was good enough to play in Big 12.
Either JF didn't want to go to Manhattan or CA didn't think he was good enough to play in Big 12.
Probably because people say this every year. "Why can't UK make an exception for (X Player) from (X place in KY)" only for them to sit on the bench because they're not as talented as the rest when this program is serious about winning.
All the guys since Tubby's last year
Mark Krebs
Jared Carter
Matt Scherbenske
Landon Slone
Adam Delph
Darius Miller
Jon Hood
Jarrod Polson
Tywany Beckham
Tod Lanter
Derek Willis
Dominique Hawkins
Dillon Pulliam
Zan Payne
Brennan Canada
Dontaie Allen
Reed Sheppard
Trent Noah
Travis Perry
Zach Tow
Jasper Johnson
Malachai Moreno
Reece Potter
Hopefully Moreno and Johnson turn out to be good players. This is the same mentality that landed a .634 winning percentage 9yr head coach with no previous NCAA tournament wins, regular season, or conference championships leading UK basketball.
He grew up wanting to play for Kentucky- why can’t the Wildcats develop their own talent without the constant turnover of players every year.?
Hope he goes to WKU but South Florida with Karter Knox & Co is my prediction. Unless he wants to play close to home.
Jake had many P5 offers including K State & MissSt.
He cut his list to those 4 from over 50 offers.
Nope.
Sean Woods' son.
John Pelphrey's son.
Deron Feldhaus' son.
Richie Farmer's son.
Jamal Mashburn's son.
Tony Delk's son.
Jeff Sheppard's son.
Anthony Davis' son
John Wall's son.
DeMarcus Cousins' son.
And any of a small subset of kids like that—not anywhere near enough of them all told to ever be in question every year—are light years from having anything at all to do with what you're talking about.
If any of them (among the ones that exist) are good enough to start on any public high school team then by rights they deserve an automatic bid to come and be the 15th player even if that's all they're good enough to be. As if it made sense to have Walker Horn and Zach Tow on the bench but doesn't make sense to allow a living, breathing part of Kentucky tradition to come sit on the bench hoping for a chance to play some day if that's what they want to do. Whether or not they get playing time is a different issue and most would turn down the offer of end-of-bench status. But not offering it to that specifc subset is a crime. And if you don't understand how that subset gets defined and why it's important then much as you may legitimately love Kentucky basketball there's a huge dimension of it you're missing.
It's a total fantasy and completely fabricated for the sake of argument that this situation has anything vaguely to do with (respectfully) people like Jared Carter or Zan Payne.
I get what're your saying. You look at these players because of their heritage being affiliated with UK basketball to varying degrees. Nothing is wrong with it, most schools do it, and UK should as well. Rajon's son coming up should be on recruiting radars. UK should seriously look at him.
You dont get an offer for an automatic seat on the bench as the "15th player" because you made your high school public basketball team and your dad played here. That is ridiculous. Surely, you are aware of how political dynamics between families work in high school sports. A lot of high school teams aren't exactly merit based. What happens when you get multiple years of former players children going to college? Are you going to have an entire bench of honorary "15th players"?
Of all those players you listed, who knows if any of them turn out to be any good? The priority should be winning not nostalgia. The latter leads to resting on your laurels. It's the "WINNING" part of "A Winning Tradition" anyone actually cares about. UK would recruit these players naturally if they were talented enough.
Dude you are talking about the 15th player. Before the portal/NIL thing teams weren't even allowed to have more than 12 players on a roster. This year we cut two paid players off our roster just to preserve their eligibility. We left them there despite three rotation-type players missing much or all of the season because 15 players is just more than you need. Show me a team anywhere in Division 1 that ever in history played their 15th player in a game and it mattered at all what they did.
"What happens when you get multiple years of former players children going to college"? We're 118 years into our history—when's that gonna happen for the first time?
Some of your arguments make sense if you don't consider the fact that what you're really talking about is whether or not to replace Zach Tow with some legend's son for a couple of years. What did you think was the worst that could happen. Also, how often did you think it could happen, even if for some odd reason we did make this an official policy and do it with "former players" like some soccer league communist slophole as opposed to coming at it sensibly and limiting it to people whose dad's jerseys are hanging in the rafters or should be—because those are the kids whose hearts are gonna break if you start sending them bizarro unspoken messages like being Kentucky Mr. Basketball doesn't make you good enough to fill the shoes of Walker Horn.