Hearing Vanderbilt and Gabriel
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Cal even said they should all declare, so what's the problem?
They have to navigate their own lives and path. Plus, between G League, Euro, Aussie, etc. there are tons of places to play ball, make money, possibly see the world while they are young. NONE of those are bad things. What we want and think is best has little to no bearing on what a young man might want. We should all take a page from Cal's book ........ listen, encourage, give advice when asked, and support their decisions once finalized. Let their mommas and pops give advice. It's one thing to access where a player stands , it's another to say they're dumb if they don't do what one of us suggests.
Just one weasel's opinion.
They have to navigate their own lives and path. Plus, between G League, Euro, Aussie, etc. there are tons of places to play ball, make money, possibly see the world while they are young. NONE of those are bad things. What we want and think is best has little to no bearing on what a young man might want. We should all take a page from Cal's book ........ listen, encourage, give advice when asked, and support their decisions once finalized. Let their mommas and pops give advice. It's one thing to access where a player stands , it's another to say they're dumb if they don't do what one of us suggests.
Just one weasel's opinion.
No one is whining but you. We are discussing the reasons why these guys do it and how meaningful it is. You are having issues for no reason.
Right off the top of my head TJ Walker talked about it a bit before he left the site that overseas was a legit option for Gabriel. We've got a guy on House of Blue that's been pretty on point(pretty sure it's a media guy I just don't wanna say his name because I'm not sure he'd like me doing that here), and he's been saying it for going on a month now.
I think Kyle tucker has at least hinted at it.
Not a reporter or a UK guy but Andrew Slater has hinted at it too and he's a guy that likely got pretty close to Gabriel when he was covering his recruitment for the Duke 247 site.
Well Incase you haven’t noticed, this board went ballistic when each one of them declared.
I have heard that as well. However, if that were true, why would he not go ahead and sign with an agent, as well as travel the state and get autograph money? I do not see him going overseas next year for those reasons alone.
My thing with this is why isn’t Cal actively recruiting someone to potentially fill their spot? I believe he encouraged them to get the free feedback with the expectation to get all 3 back for one more season.
I’m still hopeful everyone returns other than the five who are gone, and I honestly think it will be to their benefit. Yes I’m a UK fan, I want to see us win every game by 50 and claim a national title every year. I know that’s unreasonable, but gosh darn it we are UK. It’s my birth right isn’t it?
Your post is dumb. The players get feedback at no cost. In what universe is their declaring dumb other than yours?
I would think so too. If 2 of the 3 of pj, Vando and Gabriel leave we will be very thin in the front court.
You can win going 4 guard in college though. That may be Cals plans and why we're loading up on guards.
I'm still hopeful one of Gabriel or Washington makes a decision that makes sense. I think Vando is all but a lock to come back at this point. I assume he just wants to be able to talk to scouts and gms and hear first hand what their opinion of his game is. If that's the case id order Gabriel over Washington because he stretches the floor.
I think/hope Richards will be able to fill the role of go to back to the basket scorer that we depended on pj for when he wasn't uselessly standing on the perimeter. Cal and staff seemed to be trying to develop him for that role.
I hope you’re right, but I’m not holding my breath on Richards. He looked somewhat similar to SKJ during his freshman year. I think he’s still ways away from being a force. Unfortunately we will probably only have him one more year regardless if he’s ready or not.
That is interesting Cindog, what is his name? Do you know if Cal has shown any interest? Also, is he ranked in the top 150? Sorry for all the questions..lol
It's not their one opportunity. They can enter the draft two times and pull out both times. The third time they enter the draft they have to stay in or can never enter the draft again.
I'm more concerned with PJ Washington spending last week in Texas working out, when it was the week before finals.
Gob Gabriel. Offers from Rutgers, New Hampshire, St. Bonaventure, and UMass Lowell.
The weekend of Zion—-> Duke and the UF loss was a bigger (but just as absurd) meltdown
Not til around the deadline as they can still go talk to teams and what not on their dime. JV will be back , I don't think there is any question about that.
I don't know, even if you knew you didn't have a chance getting to go and rub shoulders with some pro scouts might not be all bad.
I mean isn't that a general statement for ALL the recruits who will not go into the first and second rounds.
Yeah and unless some of these guys are making like a $250,000 salary somewhere in Europe, I just don’t see what the rush is to leave. Maybe I’m crazy but if making good money like that meant I had to move to some ******** like Lithuania I’d say thanks but no thanks.
I still think we get all 3 of them back. Gabriel is just a year away from getting a degree so it will be in his best interest to get that and then take a shot at the NBA or play overseas.
To teenagers having to do term papers and take history exams, with friends that work at Wendy’s, $50,000 for playing ball with some potential to move to the next level is tempting believe it or not
Didn’t say it wasn’t tempting. But their situations as players at UK are far better than the typical G-League life.
These guys are rock stars. Literally BMOC. They don’t believe it now, but it may never get any better. At least for some of them.
This, absolutely no question in my mind that PJ, WG or any high profile UK player really lives more “lavishly” has better gear, facilities, living quarters trainers, parties, coaches .., etc etc than some random and obscure g league team that takes mediocre buses and averages 170 fans per game.
Lol. In the immortal words of the Indian from family guy, “ It’s funny cause it’s true”. That made me laugh more than it should have. Lol