That says it all. Guy was afraid. He didn’t believe in himself, and so he’s better off in Mormon land playing mid-major ball then disappearing.
Haarms Announcing Tomorrow
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You will recall that the gaping hole in our roster appeared rather late and really had no business appearing at all.
No. The guys who said we had him are already apologizing and changing their tune. It's BYU.
I'm not sure he's a fit.
I also think Cal knows more about who will be moving around than we do. Mintz came out of nowhere and was done before we knew he was an option. This is going to be a crazy summer of transfers.
Haarms
McDaniels
Blackshear
Dante
We've sucked the last two summers.
McDaniels
Blackshear
Dante
We've sucked the last two summers.
I don't frankly care about any of this business of predicting who comes or not. But, you involved yourself, and broadcast to the world "100% Kentucky" that can only mean one thing, that he's coming to Kentucky. Now, you say that you "still believe he is coming here." Do you see any problem with that? I certainly do. Again, I care less about someone coming here or not, but care a lot more about someone on here delivering the equivalent of fake news. If you do not know, it's best for all of us if you don't make brash statements.
Cal will pull a rabbit out of the hat. Banchero or Kuminga would be better than Haarms.
We all need to be calm on this one, man. It isn't like we're losing recruiting battles to schools like BYU, Washington, Florida, and Oregon.
We got this. We're Kentucky, where we're always going to be "fine" and "have enough."
Let's get someone out on the mid court and make the C-A-T-S sign! Cats-Cats-Cats! GooooOOO CATS!
You know, the initial negativity of this actually makes it pretty clear that it's probably not as big of a deal as it seems.
I don't think any of those guys drastically changes UK's fortunes. McDaniels would have been nice, but I'm not sure we're better with him than what EJ was giving us, especially if it had pushed Brooks to transfer instead of return.
Is that it?
Could it be that the kid just liked their sales pitch more?
Why disparage his personality? We have no idea what his thought process was.
There is no reason to take my word since I didn't have a source.
Somehow I feel I should have expected the freakishly tall white kid to end up at BYU...
Sure we do. He had an offer to play for a coaching staff that just turned Nick Richards from a project into a first rounder, and that had produced guys like Davis and Towns and Noel and Randle and Cousins and WCS and on and on.
Or he could play for a mid Major that gets on national TV twice in November and hasn’t produced an NBA big since Shawn Bradley.
So you take on the challenge and go for it or you take the easy road, then go play in Belgium.
The thought process is the same as the above average guitar player who gets a shot with a top national act, but decides to stay in Milwaukee. Or the promising scholar who gets invited for a semester try out at Harvard, but decides to stay at Cleveland State.
Some people don’t believe in themselves so they rationalize staying small time.
And part of it is the posters who start threads that quote tweets from random people who are just guessing. Someone in the thread will lend the tweet some form of street cred and off we go, with the board igniting and BBN penciling in a kid we "really need"; then only to not land him and watch the same folks write, "we didn't really need him."
I hate the late-spring/early summer period. It's usually bad news regarding departures followed by a whole lot of "meh."
Damnit...go out for the first time in weeks and come back to this.
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$@#%$@#$@#$%@##$@#$!
Where are you getting that Nick Richards is supposedly "a first rounder"? Not according to the mock drafts that I've seen.
And I might point out that Nick started out as a Five Star McD All American, which ain't exactly the place where "projects" typically begin. He was a disappointment his first two years, it took him three years to finally become the player folks thought he'd be when he started.
So did Marcus Camby "not believe in himself" when he chose flyweight Calipari and UMass back in the 90s over the established UConn Huskies? I'm certain he liked Cal's pitch better. There is this remarkable thing called "paradigm shifts" in a program, and they usually come when there's a competent coach in charge of a program. Mark Pope is that type of coach.
Thus, BYU has a newer coach who makes all of their former program ineptitude largely irrelevant. Haarms seems to have preferred their system more. None of the guys you mentioned at UK under Cal had a green light to do anything from the perimeter. Maybe that's what Haarms is looking for. Does that essentially mean he's an emotional cuck? No. Is it possible you're right? Maybe. We simply don't know.
But it is good to know that every year we're only losing kids because they're A. emotionally inept in that they don't believe in themselves B. taking cash or prizes from other schools or C. don't care about winning.
Every recruiting loss spawns the same narratives from one of these options.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Has Calipari ever lost a kid in a recruiting battle when the playing field was completely even?
actually relieved with this news. Haarms is a bit of a stiff. Sure, a 7’3” stiff, but stiff nonetheless. I think we’ll get someone better once the temporary transfer rule goes into effect.
if not, we already have 3 guys that will be taking most of the shots. Haarms would have been some extra fouls.
And the puns all week were awful.
if not, we already have 3 guys that will be taking most of the shots. Haarms would have been some extra fouls.
And the puns all week were awful.
He can worry about his damn hair somewhere else..you don't say you want to go somewhere to help you go to the pros and choose BYfnU! What a scrub...
The kid didn’t even play basketball until 7 years ago. Rankings are based on two things, politics and potential and he had plenty as an athletic, 7’ player. Absolute project player unless you think 4 years of basketball in high school is all you need to hone your skills and dominate.
I agree, and think this points to a larger problem: making late moves for inferior players.
I'm sure you aren't a troll, right?
And we'll still kick a lot of *** next year and don't you forget it.
Nailed it. Someone posts a tweet from random UK homer, next thing you know caneintally is giving complex breakdowns of the roster that are more involved than the chess game on Star Trek, with half the guys not even being on the roster. And at the end we are destined for 40-0.
The part about caneintally....[roll]
It's true! And half the kids aren't even on the roster, yet!
I do enjoy how he projects about five or six McDonald's All Americans being okay with coming off the bench each year in his depth charts.
Yes! And roughly 37 players on the roster, all of which are top 50 players.
I love his passion, don't get me wrong. He just gets so carried away
I legitimately chuckled just a bit at that one.