Not true. Cal would have signed Dickerson if he had committed. I bet he’d take Kobe brown if he had interest. How do we know that others aren’t holding off in case Oscar, reeves and Livingston return?
Dickinson was never coming here im fully convinced of it now, he wanted money and used Kentucky to get that. Cal is in some forms being held hostage, he is letting a guy who most know is gone and not making a decision, and with Oscar they waiting until the last minute when it seems he is gone
I guess you haven’t been around the last month. He went all in on Dickinson for Oscar’s spot. He is getting Keshad Johnson to fill Livingston’s spot. He knows Reeves is coming back so he isn’t filling his spot. He now has guys holding out on commitments waiting for Oscar’s final decision.
What guys are holding out waiting for Oscar's decision?
We don't know and for a lot of fans that's the frustrating part.Thing is,we wait and wait for these players to decide and then the portal players that MIGHT have interest in us bolt elsewhere while we continue to wait only to end up with our players leaving for the draft anyway.....then we end up with nothing
Who are the so called guys holding out commitments waiting on Oscar, I would like to know
The two Kansas transfers and Grant Nelson are the ones we know of. There are also a few guys doing the same Oscar draft testing who will become available as transfers when the pull out of the draft.
I hope your right but forget the Kansas transfers...give me Nelson for sure and perhaps Cisse and I'll take it
Well the staff hasn't been getting what they need for several seasons now.
When Wheeler is your starting point guard for 2 seasons you are asking for problems.
Who knows? I don’t and I’d bet the “insiders” don’t either. What we do know is, Cal tried hard to get Dickerson. And that Oscar told him to not worry about him coming back or not. As to other players waiting? Again, we don’t KNOW. We guess. We hang on every rumor. We listen to so called insiders but we won’t know until it actually happens.
Yikes.He's more a Lance Ware replacement.
Exactly, how many times has Cal been played like a bass fiddle the last few years...if he were a horse, he'd already have been taken out back...
local media/insiders love to spin things when we miss out on a recruit
Agreed, why look to add another shooter to your roster. In todays basketball climate one shooting guard is plenty.
Don't be shocked if Brown transfers here just to sit on the bench until he's draft eligible. Because that's what "transfer to UK if not drafted" sounds like.
We will have three first rounders starting at the 1/2/3 spots next year. All are capable shooters. We will have Reeves and Sheppard coming off the bench who are great shooters. There aren’t any stud shooters who want to come and sit the bench behind those 5. Hell, CJ saw the writing on the wall and left.
When I read "capable shooters" I envision a March filled with bricks
And therein lies the problem. Why would a proven stud shooter suspect they will never see the floor over 4 unproven freshmen (3 really) as I suspect Sheppard rarely sees the floor aside from bunny competition. Sheppard will become Cals new whipping boy with a leash an inch long.
So should he try to get guys? You can’t have it all ways. If he tries, the guy uses him, then he shouldn’t have tried at all? Or should he not try, assume that he is being used, and move on? Either way, the fan base has him on a catch-22.
Those two Kansas transfers aren’t making a difference on this team in my opinion. It better be someone like Kobe Brown or Nelson if Oscar doesn’t return to have a solid team.
He's painted himself in that corner, Shadey Sharpe fully pulled back the curtain...he's now a victim of his own demise...he could never win without an overwhelming talent advantage, and now with NIL, he's in real school with a level playing field and the in-game coaching ability equal to Billy Gillispie.
Cal is the commanding officer of a rudderless ship, he will have a very nasty departure from UK, just like he’s had everywhere else.
