I really don't understand wanting a minutes restriction. Seems like a talented player would want all the minutes they could get.
Travis Branham crystal ball Kentucky
- Thread starter Anon953436
- Start date
We need a codicil to the "We Didn't Want Him Anyway" for this 17-year-old: "We didn't want him for a maximum of fifteen minutes a game so he could audition for a bigger contract in his mandatory second year in college anyway."
In this case, it isn't a rationalization, it's just sanity.
In this case, it isn't a rationalization, it's just sanity.
Don’t you love it when the players dictate the terms of them making millions in college ball!
This NIL program is for the birds. It’s completely out of control.
The minutes restriction is an issue. We mau need him to play more due to foul trouble.
I think you hit the nail on the head about Calipari’s coaching. Once he decided to live or die with freshmen the smart thing was to create a simplified approach and rely on effort and athleticism.
I also think you’re right - at least partially - about Calipari’s motivation, because I believe he was a good guy at heart. But I suspect he was also heavily motivated by his desire to build a legacy tied to OAD freshmen being chosen in the 1st round of the NBA draft. After 2012, if not before, I think he decided putting freshmen in the NBA would be his primary goal; and while he would love to win a championship, he would ultimately sacrifice it to his primary goal.
Dusty May leaving opens up a couple possibilities: Kentucky takes the money offered this kid and poaches someone from Michigan's Top Five roster, now all available, or Kentucky goes back to Kustirica's agent and says, "you're leverage has evaporated. Two years. No minutes restriction. Sign now or we are moving on."
But Michigan was saying Pope wouldn’t be around year 2 and stuff. Another dumb made up take by our “insiders”
and if UM slaps an interim tag on an assistant coach, there is a chance he wont be there in year 2 of that 2 year deal he could be locked in too.
He can get bent if he won’t agree to stay year two. He’s not gonna come in making 6 million a year and play like crap for 15 minutes a game only to leave when he gets used to the game.
Get Brandon McCoy from Mich and forget this foreign kid
Him, Cudeau, or Estrella would all be great pickups. McCoy would be fine as well.
Cadeau yea if we didn’t have zoom and Wilkins. Estrella no thanks.
Thiam probably best on team. If we hadn’t have gotten Franck I’d take thiam
All you need is an “I heard” quote from an “insider” with no named source, evidence, or logic for the usual suspects to accept a vague claim as fact and argue against it.
Is this really who you want to play for, Costa Rica?
This dude really came in when Kentucky was looking to close on Kusturica, said "Pope might not even be there," and then bounced to the NBA lmao
Why are you quoting some random dude on Twitter like it means anything at all? Jesus dude.
I just don’t buy that they’ve “known for a while”, Kustarica follows Dusty May on IG, that says to me that he was going to Michigan to play for that coach.
It means everything to these people. Now Kusturica is demanding a 15 minute restriction. All because some random guy on the internet quoted another random guy and he heard from anonymous sources. They’re told what to think and blindly believe it because they can’t think for themselves. It is now just accepted as fact. Just like a player not wanting to go on a foreign trip. They believe it with their whole heart and now the inmates are running the asylum. They’ve spent the last 7 months lying and telling everyone about NIL restrictions at UK that don’t exist. This is how these people operate.
With how NIL works, can you really prevent someone from jumping into the portal if they want to? Seems like getting him here this year gives us about as much of a leg up on retaining him as you can really get. If we have to renegotiate next year, that's just the name of the game these days.
UCLA? I admit I haven't been following this one, just checking in here and there (and this thread was so hijacked I started to ignore it). But I don't recall UCLA being in that mix - just today in this thread it was Michigan, then UL vs. UK, and suddenly some Twitter dude says just UCLA and Michigan? Now another poster just said UK is out?
So much for "94% crystal ball"...
For real. Why post a random twitter?
If people wanted to read randoms ideas on Twitter then they would sign up for it.
You aren’t very media literate are you?
Get off it JMI guy.nobody gives a damn what lies you spew today. Every, this is the same guy who claims to be the president of JMI, the one who repeatedly abuse the rest of us dumb, and claims we aren't fans, always says we can't think for ourselves and we are all liars.je is only here to spew pro JMI propaganda and spread lies about every one else. Total pos.
Nope sorry you stupid idiot but I don’t want to download twitter and the resistance is literally carrying this forum. **** off loser
I appreciate the posts. Im not a Twitter person, so the only time I see these are here
In the last 2 hours Rothstein and Robert’s both say we’re out
I'm fine with us being out. No more bidding wars for unproven players at the college level wouldn't bother me a bit.
Funny thing is no real credible info we was ever in it. Branham even said he was tricked.