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Re: 2013 Recruiting Thread
Harrisons are going to be lottery picks no matter which school they pick. They can either go play with their AAU buddy Cleare at Maryland, jack up a bunch of shots and get bounced in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Or, they can come to Kentucky, play for a coach who has sent 15 players to the NBA the past three years, take less shots but play for a national championship on a team that projects to have the most freshmen talent since some team named The Fab Five.
From what I've heard, both Aaron and Andrew are smart kids who thrive at making easy decisions. :wink:"He who controlleths the backboard, controlleths the game." - Adolph RuppComment
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Re: 2013 Recruiting Thread
It's like Kentucky fans can't stand the idea of anyone suggesting that a top recruit not go to UKSaints, LSU, Seminoles, Pelicans, Marlins, LightningComment
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Right.. It's not the same thing as Shabazz or Jabari Parker where no one was ever confident we would get those guys.. It's more like the MKG level of confidence with the twins and Andrew Wiggins..Comment
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Wrong. UK fans follow recruiting closer than any other fan base in the nation.....so when someone posts information that is clearly misleading (like the Harrisons leaning Maryland which you will find hardly anywhere on the Internet), they're going to get called out on it."He who controlleths the backboard, controlleths the game." - Adolph RuppComment
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It is impossible for UK fans to follow recruiting than any other fan base in the nation because UK is never going to give kids ranked #50 on down a look.
You..nor your fan base..can't speak on a kid thats ranked #95 (for example) because UK will never recruit or follow a player that low.
Talk about Final Fours and SEC championships...but not recruiting.Comment
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Who is Derek Willis? It's hilarious that you threw out that number when that's the EXACT number that he's ranked on rivals... Killed your whole argument right off the bat.
I'd be willing to bet that the average UK fan that only loosely follows recruiting could name more obscure names than an average fan of any other fanbase in the country.. and especially obscure possible transfer names.. Mamadou N'Diaye ring a bell (No, not the one that played in the NBA in the early 2000's.)? Negus Webster-Chan, Montrezl Harrell, LJ Rose, Braeden Anderson, Tony Trocha are a couple more off the top of my head that have been associated with UK that weren't highly rated.. As soon as those names hit KSR and the other UK news sites, UK fans become obsessed in finding anything they can about them..
I have random old men at my church asking me about "some guy from Central Florida that might be coming here (Keith Clanton)" when they never listen to one second of Kentucky Sports Radio or read any recruiting site.. The extent of their recruiting knowledge comes from the local news and I'm pretty sure Rob Bromley doesn't talk about kids who MAY come here, and those people still recognize those names.. To act like just because we get John Wall, Demarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, that we don't keep up with the rest of the recruiting scene is a bit ignorant on your part. No offense, don't have anything against you personally, just telling it like it is. PhantomPain and wildcatchild are two of the most level headed UK posters on this site and hardly exaggerate.. But let me know when you can name a fanbase that can name as many players that have never put on the jersey as ours can.. Dakotah Euton, Michael Avery, GJ Vilarino, KC Ross-Miller, Vinny Zollo, Konner Tucker are all players who never played one second of a basketball game with Kentucky across their chest (unless you count Western ketnucky for Zollo) and any average fan can name at least 3 of them..Comment
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Re: 2013 Recruiting Thread
PG Tyler Ennis to announce tomorrow at 7PM EST.
All signs point to Syracuse.Comment
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Yes, they have a radio show, but I'm referring to what has become arguably the most popular sports blog of its type in the country. They pump out constant basketball recruiting news. The owner of the website, Matt Jones, is very well connected with the UK program and usually breaks news ahead of the major media outlets. So yes, I would put UK fans' knowledge of recruiting ahead of everyone else's in the country. I know I'm biased, but I also live here, and I know how nuts our fans are.
Actually, Matt Jones wrote probably the best article that explains exactly how nuts are fans are when it comes to basketball. Here is a snippet that hopefully drives home my point:
In Kentucky, we care more about basketball than you do. In fact, we care more about basketball than you probably care about anything. No program's fans in America are more committed, passionate, or crazy than those of the Big Blue Nation. In college basketball, only three programs consistently matter: North Carolina, Duke, and Kentucky. The two Triangle schools have the unfortunate burden of being located where the citizenry has the most college degrees per capita in the nation. We in Kentucky don't have that distraction. North Carolina's wine-and-cheese crowd (as Sam Cassell so aptly termed them) has the Panthers, the Hurricanes, NASCAR, and the best college town in America to divert their attention, while Duke's nerdy, elitist-chic student body is too focused on entering our nation's top tax bracket to truly replicate our obsession with one college basketball team. I don't care what ESPN, its announcers, or HBO documentarians try to tell you … we care more than they do, and it isn't even close.
I went to grad school at Duke and lived in Chapel Hill, expecting that my neighbors would share my passion for the greatest sport in the land. I was wrong. North Carolina and Duke fans care in the moment, but they don't live and breathe basketball 24/7, 365 days a year like we do. Triangle fans don't camp out for three days simply to attend a glorified practice (Krzyzewskiville is extremely overrated), don't wear jean shorts throughout basketball season in honor of a onetime benchwarmer's nickname, and don't watch Cougar Town simply because one of the stars is a fellow fan. We don't just like our team, we obsess over it constantly. Ask any college basketball writer what happens when the masses go on alert after a critical column or the occurrence of even a small factual error in a piece on the Cats. In the new-age world of Twitter, with our ability to communicate with journalists, antagonizing the Big Blue Nation is not for the faint of heart, and to do so can put one in great nerd-fight peril.
We do this because Kentucky basketball simply means more to us. We have no professional team in our state. The primary reason you even know we exist is because of one horse race and fried chicken. The Wildcats are what we rely on not only for entertainment, but also for our state's collective self-esteem."He who controlleths the backboard, controlleths the game." - Adolph RuppComment
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Re: 2013 Recruiting Thread
Oh your so wrong.
I am an IU fan and live 3 miles from the Kentucky border.
Hence I know ALOT, no TOO MANY UK fans.
99% of them know their basketball, its their lives. They live on the internet (many of them in their mom's basement) and they following everything that has to do with UK basketball which includes recruiting. They have to following recruiting because UK isnt getting any local kids from Kentucky to play for them. To have to go out and visit recruiting websites or they wouldnt know who was going to be playing for them soon. They bring up players to me i have never heard of, from the #1 HS player to the #500. Believe me they follow it all, there is nothing else for them to follow. Most of them dont follow football or pro baseball, its UK basketball 12 months a year and that is it.
This is why many of them (i am not talking about my fellow OSers, I am talking about my frineds and coworkers) are so annoying. They are so immersed in UK bball and its all they eat, breath, and sleep-that the are bound to be wrong and annoying alot. Now on the flip side they are right alot too but i would never tell them that.
DONT EVER UNDERESTIMATE THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF UK BBALL, it really is all most of them have or care about.
I will give you a great example.
I work in Cincy and with a ton of UK fans.
Yesterday after Jay Bruce's walk off HR the night before i asked a coworker who is a UK if he watched the Reds game. He said yes but then immediatly asked me what i thought about Trey Lyles and the possiblity of him going to UK. The Reds are his favorite baseball team and just won on a walk off hr to go up 6 games on the Pirates. He spend 2 seconds talking about it and went straight to talking about UK BBall. I go out of my way most days to not talk to this guy because all he wants to talk about is UK BBall. I cant do it 12 months a year but he can and most UK fans can.Last edited by jake44np; 08-16-2012, 07:07 AM.ND Season Ticket Holder since '72.Comment
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