Is this the worst UK recruiting class in UK history?

PDX_Blue

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Tubby’s 2005 class was pretty bad:
Rekalin Sims
Jared Carter
Adam Williams

Sims was a JUCO-AA, Carter was a 3-star and Williams was unranked.
This is the worrst recruiting class in UK history, bar none. Willaims wasn't even actually offered a scholarship he and his dad just interpreted that it was offered, accepted it, and Tubby was too embarassed to say no.
 
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Artlaibesghost

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Once again some of you must be really young. There have been worse. Also IT ISNT EVEN FINISHED YET! Tubby didn't recruit a point guard for 2 years so his son could start.
 
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Goingfor9

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Someone tell me the answer to this level of incompetency. How is it? We had Tubby Smith who couldn’t recruit Pitino came back to college and we didn’t hire him to come back????? it wasn’t just that one time it was other times friggin Pitino has more happening in Kentucky than he does in New York even currently. I’m not opposed to bringing them back for a final stretch run give us time have this guy on the interview committee or bringing in the coach and waiting. It’s just mind-boggling. I mean Kentucky fans were conditioned to hate Pitino because he was at Louisville. He wanted to be UK the whole time. One of the greatest coaches of all time was a massive blender. Buyer athletic Director I mean, athletic directors that blender. I don’t know what your pitino came back but without a doubt, tubby should step aside that should’ve even been part of the contract with them, if pitino were to return
 

Catphright23

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classes aren't the same thing. there is tons of team that didn't have a single top 100 freshmen michigan, and florida included. teams do things through the portal. Zoom was a mcdonalds all american and averaged pretty good numbers. Wilkins bigger teams like Alabama wanted him. Moreno wasn't he a mcdonalds all american and will hopefully improve next year. Mcbride probably a liability on defense but offensively has played for bigger teams and can shoot the 3. NDiaye is athletic and can shoot 3 and is mobile and played pro basketball. Hawthorne was red shirted last year and year before was a top 40 player can shoot the 3 and is 6'9.
 

paulcalhoun_rivals397471

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Someone should check on Paul Calhoun he likes to bash me FN troll rider
Your were being a pompous troll shutting down anyone who dared mention Blackwell with your Nostradamus act declaring Illinois and Michigan as the only possible landing spots. Have you got that crappy crystal back from the repair shop yet? Three consecutive posts you followed up proclaiming this. Then when you got called out you lied and tried to claim they DM'd you asking for your opinion. Don't blame me for high jacking when you are the one doing the baiting by calling me out in unrelated threads I had not even posted in.
 
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Your were being a pompous troll shutting down anyone who dared mention Blackwell with your Nostradamus act declaring Illinois and Michigan as the only possible landing spots. Have you got that crappy crystal back from the repair shop yet? Three consecutive posts you followed up proclaiming this. Then when you got called out you lied and tried to claim they DM'd you asking for your opinion. Don't blame me for high jacking when you are the one doing the baiting by calling me out in unrelated threads I had not even posted in.
Because you don't comprehend PAUL I stated in the thread i was WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. I stated off things i read on other sites about the possible leaders and I was WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGG like i said.
 

paulcalhoun_rivals397471

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Because you don't comprehend PAUL I stated in the thread i was WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. I stated off things i read on other sites about the possible leaders and I was WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGG like i said.
That much is obvious and did not require further input. What you never admitted you were wrong about was crapping on other people's posts (3 consecutively) the way you did in the first place.
 
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preacherfan

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Once again some of you must be really young. There have been worse. Also IT ISNT EVEN FINISHED YET! Tubby didn't recruit a point guard for 2 years so his son could start.
Tubby often scrambled after most teams had their rosters set because he couldn't get a PF or to fill the roster. As I recall, Ramon Harris was brought in mid-year after another Tubby scramble.
 
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philstat

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Nice thing, this class and portal job locked in Pope’s last season at UK, he has no one to blame but himself, this team loses 15 games, easily. I wished things would have gone differently, I really do, though this is unacceptable.
 
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kfwa

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I bashed Tubby's recruiting among other things; his work ethic and his belief that he could take any player and turn them into a college contributer played into his sub par recruiting, but he did say something once that few people really locked into and didn't put much weight into it.

He said, in regards to recruiting, that he wasn't going to be the guy that gets Kentucky put on probation again. You can read whatever you want into that, but also remember when someone said UK paid Anthony Davis $200K to come to Kentucky and UK fans thought that number was so high it was absurd and not even within the realm of possibility?

How does $200K look for Anthony Davis now?