Another Bolden shoe rumor

CATS24

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I honestly think SOME of the hype around the recruitment is because he's the only guy UK is really recruiting in the spring. For the first time, they rapped up all of the guys they wanted in the fall. It's like we miss the excitement of recruiting. Since they're really only going after this 1 last guy, we put all of our thought into this recruitment lol.
 

Fawrules

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Who knows if it's true, but Bolden did just follow True Blue Customs on Instagram. Why would a guy from Texas ask a company in Lexington, KY to make a pair of custom Duke shoes??
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Didn't the guy who posted the shoe rumor a few days ago mention a buddy from Kentucky making Bolden Duke shoes?
 
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I've never seen more hype surrounding a kid who has about as much upside as Daniel Orton.

You'd think this kid was Wiggins by the way we've been slurping up every ounce of recruiting info.
I think he's got a little more upside than Orton. But yeah, the obsession over his recruitment has as much to do with timing as it does talent. He's the only big question left and we want to know the answer NOW.
 

CATS24

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Didn't the guy who posted the shoe rumor a few days ago mention a buddy from Kentucky making Bolden Duke shoes?

Yeah somebody did. That's why it's weird though because some guy on here said Duke shoes and some guy on Twitter said Kentucky shoes. WE NEED ANSWERS.
 

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I've never seen more hype surrounding a kid who has about as much upside as Daniel Orton.

You'd think this kid was Wiggins by the way we've been slurping up every ounce of recruiting info.

The issue is in the details.

He is the difference in UK playing Bam at the 4, or at the 5.

He's the difference in UK adding much needed depth to our front court.

He's the difference in Duke adding yet another stud into their arsenal.

He could very well be the difference in a championship, even if he's just another D Johnson.

Make no mistake, this is a big recruit. UK fans are starting to sour over nothing more than the majority thinks he's gone.
 

Son_Of_Saul

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The issue is in the details.

He is the difference in UK playing Bam at the 4, or at the 5.

He's the difference in UK adding much needed depth to our front court.

He's the difference in Duke adding yet another stud into their arsenal.

He could very well be the difference in a championship, even if he's just another D Johnson.

Make no mistake, this is a big recruit. UK fans are starting to sour over nothing more than the majority thinks he's gone.


And we know he'd definitely give more than 6 and 6 Lee gave last year?

And we know Humphires and SKJ won't be ready to contribute anything outside of Lee and Bam?

And we know that a big lineup is better than a lineup that features Fox, Monk, Briscoe, Gabriel, and Bam?

I want Bolden, but I'm not sold that he's difference. I'd rather have Briscoe back. Obviously I'd take them both.
 

Son_Of_Saul

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I think he's got a little more upside than Orton. But yeah, the obsession over his recruitment has as much to do with timing as it does talent. He's the only big question left and we want to know the answer NOW.

I think, for many of our fans, it has more to do with hurting Duke than it does actually helping UK at this point.

The Duke fear on this board the last two years has been nauseating. You'd think Coach K was a 45 year old coach and not a 69 year old in the last lap of his career. K won't be keeping the ship sailing forever.
 
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willyclyde

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I think, for many of our fans, it has more to do with hurting Duke than it does actually helping UK at this point.

The Duke fear on this board the last two years has been nauseating. You'd think Coach K was a 45 year old coach and not a 69 year old in the last lap of his career. K won't be keeping the ship sailing forever.
Idk why anybody would ever want a recruit in order to hurt another team more than to help your own team. I'd say ur in the minority there
 
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Fantastic memory.
I'm a real estate developer and have had other projects take lead.
The restaurant wil be part of a resort I'm currently building and is about two more years out.

How about a grand opening rafters gatheing..

..we can play pin the tail on the troll
 

uking1

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Look through the IG pictures on that account. There's a pair of Jordans with the Duke Blue Devil. Uploaded on 3/25.
That same pic of the Duke Jordans were uploaded 4 weeks earlier for the same account. so they could of just been a repost of a previous picture they they posted once duke was bounced out of the tournament around 3/25. Also those Jordan model don't seem like a shoe like Bolden would wear in a basketball game. Those are not known to be a good ball shoe.
 
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That same pic of the Duke Jordans were uploaded 4 weeks earlier for the same account. so they could of just been a repost of a previous picture they they posted once duke was bounced out of the tournament around 3/25. Also those Jordan model don't seem like a shoe like Bolden would wear in a basketball game. Those are not known to be a good ball shoe.

Well Yay!!! :D
 

CATS24

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Let's just add on to the theories...

2 weeks ago on the True Blue Customs account, they uploaded a picture of the pair of shoes Ulis wore versus IU with the caption, "I know I already posted a pair of these..but have since done a few more..this particular pair features both new UK logos..keep your eyes peeled for more of these :eyes:."

This could mean you'll probably see some other people with these shoes, ooorrrrrrrrr... It could mean watch for a certain recruit to wear them on a big stage lol.

I'm bored guys.
 

ukfan041

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I got a pair of Spaulding's in the 7th grade...too bad for me because it just meant my parents were struggling a lil back in 1990...lol
 

DCFseattle

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Reading this thread, i can't help but think the same thing i thought that time Robocop saved Sting from the 4 Horsemen...

Is this real?
 

UKCAT5FAN

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What I want to know where is the money coming from to buy all these shoes?


Oh, come on. You know where it's coming from. It's from the $750,000 that Cal and UK are giving him. Everyone knows that. Geez!
 

UKCAT5FAN

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Just as the original rumor was jokingly bad this is as well. C'mon what has the world come to where people take this kinda " scoop" seriously ? It is a scoop alright but of the brown variety.


If this does somehow come to be true and he is wearing a pair of custom shoes, Puke or UK, I will literally never know what is true or untrue on this board ever again. I will take every single bit of info posted and think......"Well, that may be true I guess. After all, the custom shoe thing was true. So, I guess this could be true too".

I wont ever again be able to take any info as complete BS. I'll always think that there may be a chance it's true. But then again, this is probably BS. I sure as hell hope so cause I don't want to live that way. I spend too much time on here to live like that.
 
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blubo

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He's gonna wear flip-flops. one with uk logo, the other with dewk. in case he suddenly changes his mind.
 

TheDude1

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Yeah, was going to say the same... If he is, indeed, having shoes made, would stand to reason he would have one pair for each team.
 

ukfan606

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First half he will wear one shoe of each team in the second half he will have only the school of his choice on.
 

DCFseattle

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I heard the left shoe is gonna be a little lighter.

How do you figure that? Duke has more letters in it, so it stands to reason that it would take more material to spell it out on a shoe. The left shoe, the Duke shoe, will have to be heavier.

Simple physics, man.
 

wcc31

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The issue is in the details.

He is the difference in UK playing Bam at the 4, or at the 5.

He's the difference in UK adding much needed depth to our front court.

He's the difference in Duke adding yet another stud into their arsenal.

He could very well be the difference in a championship, even if he's just another D Johnson.

Make no mistake, this is a big recruit. UK fans are starting to sour over nothing more than the majority thinks he's gone.

BS. Many of us have been saying this for months. And I like Bam at the 5 better than at the 4.