Gary Parrish on Calipari and Anthony Davis

[dawgatUSM]

Love or hate Parrish, the guy has some unbelievable sources on college basketball. There are plenty of things I take issue with politically with Parrish but when he's talking basketball, he's on.

Anyway, he shared a story today about Anthony Davis. As has been documented, Davis wasn't a high recruit until he grew 7" late in high school. When he did, Illinois tried to sneak in on him and get to him first which they did. Davis was thrilled and went into so much detail with the coach to tell him that his mom is a huge Illinois fan and it would be a dream come true to play for Illinois and he couldn't believe this was happening and so on. The coach said they would be in touch. Between the initial contact and the attempted next contact, Calipari and his crew had gotten involved and he never so much as even talked to anyone on the staff at Illinois anymore (and not because of a lack of trying by Illinois)

I thought that was hilarious and goes to illustrate what we all already knew.

 

[Maroonandwhite]

It's a miracle that he didn't sneak in, State's FB team is overrated or Mullen sucks.

 

[57stratdawg]

I like Parrish, but he was kind of a douce with the Malik Newman commitment info.

 

[olblue.sixpack]

Love or hate Parrish, the guy has some unbelievable sources on college basketball. There are plenty of things I take issue with politically with Parrish but when he's talking basketball, he's on.

Anyway, he shared a story today about Anthony Davis. As has been documented, Davis wasn't a high recruit until he grew 7" late in high school. When he did, Illinois tried to sneak in on him and get to him first which they did. Davis was thrilled and went into so much detail with the coach to tell him that his mom is a huge Illinois fan and it would be a dream come true to play for Illinois and he couldn't believe this was happening and so on. The coach said they would be in touch. Between the initial contact and the attempted next contact, Calipari and his crew had gotten involved and he never so much as even talked to anyone on the staff at Illinois anymore (and not because of a lack of trying by Illinois)

I thought that was hilarious and goes to illustrate what we all already knew.

http://kentucky.247sports.com/Bolt/...il&utm_term=0_b5300ae947-a2e193b6fb-221312801

 

[dawgatUSM]

Man he's so easy to hate. He addressed this today. He said that its been a few years since he first told this story but it just got picked up this past week.

He also said that Derrick Rose never even had a conversation with another coach with the exception of Calipari.

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

http://kentucky.247sports.com/Bolt/...il&utm_term=0_b5300ae947-a2e193b6fb-221312801

Outside of maybe UM fans, there probably isn't a group of people I hate more in the entire sports world than Kentucky basketball fans. Those 17'ers truly believe that they have a birthright to any basketball player they want- and any bball player who chooses another school over them (see Malik Newman) is considered morally weak, selfish, a ball hog, lazy, etc. Said player is then attack mercilessly on social media for having the nerve to attend school and play basketball anywhere other than Kentucky.

Kentucky basketball fans make the Branch Davidians seem normal.

 

[patdog]

Those 17'ers truly believe that they have a birthright to any basketball player they want

If we'd won more SEC championships than the rest of the league combined, I'd probably feel the same way.

 

[coach66]

Jack hated Kentucky basketball with a fiery passion, that's all I need to know.

nm

 

[BiscuitEater]

Kentucky ..

I thought that was hilarious and goes to illustrate what we all already knew.

has been and remains the dirtiest program in college BB.

Back when I was attending State and before the team moved to the Hump, I was sitting in bleachers right behind the Kentucky bench .. to do my part yelling at the coach and players. Happened to sit by a nice couple who introduced themselves as the parents of Rick Roby. They were from New Orleans .. he was a postman .. traveled to EVERY Kentucky BB game .. were not bashful about the fact that travel arrangements were 'compliments' of UK.

 

[RebelBruiser]

I like Parrish, but he was kind of a douce with the Malik Newman commitment info.

Why? Because he leaked what everyone suspected?

That's what reporters do. How many times does a guy hold a press conference to announce his commitment and people don't already know? It's not often anymore.

I just couldn't believe Courtney Cronin worked so hard to get to be the insider on that whole thing and got basically nothing for it.

 

[dawgman42]

He hated Vandy at Vandy more.

 

[Seinfeld]

No... because he leaked what everyone expected, and then when Malik's camp tried to calm things down by saying that the decision would not be final until the press conference, Gary went public in calling Malik himself a liar. Just a bush league move any way you slice it

 

[KurtRambis4]

I thinK

It had more to do w that "adult" calling the kid a liar.