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"Monk the Punk"

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samloren

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Yes, all praise to Cal and that glorious institution Kentucky! Lord knows he owes all of his basketball success to both!
 
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skcatfan

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Does Arkansas only recruit instate players? Because if they don't that would make the portion of their fan base that is whining a bunch of hypocrites. The answer is they do so what's the difference between out of state players coming to play there but for some reason Monk isn't allowed to come play at the best basketball program there is which is UK. It's not like he strung them along because he signed last year in the early signing period. And even with Monk their chances at making a Final Four this year would be pretty much be slim and none anyway.
 
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Bryo72

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dmacforheisman said:
I guess I just think differently. $5M is still a lot of money to me, and it would suck being tied to a random university for the rest of my life because they are good at basketball instead of being accepted back home where I'm from. If I had enough confidence in myself to be a great NBA player I wouldn't worry about my rookie contract anyways because if I'm good enough that will take care of itself. Players used to not even need colleges at all to develop until they were forced to.
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Bryo72

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BigBlueDiehard said:
Don't have any raw numbers to back this up, but I would guess a very small percentage of professional athletes end up living back home in the small towns they grew up in. I would think most either end up settling in the cities where they played professionally or back in the area where they experienced stardom as a college athlete (or often both for the really successful guys with multiple homes). Lexington is littered with former UK players (that originally came here from all over the country) living off of their status as a former UK basketball player.

Although it seems Monk often makes it a point to acknowledge his roots with shoutouts to "The Woods" during interviews, etc., it may not be his long-term dream to live out his post-playing days in Arkansas. Just a thought.
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How many NBA players? NFL yes....
 
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dmacforheisman

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KYtotheCore said:
This guy is a perfect example of realizing the importance of going with a top program. He left Ft. Knox (?), KY to play for 'Bama. He turned down an offer from UK. He could have possibly turned our program around . . . or it could have swallowed him whole, and shat him the same way. Was it the best decision? I'd say he has no complaints, and I think most people from KY consider him a native son.

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Sorry if we value Arkansas basketball's past success, fan support and tradition more than Kentucky football. Corliss would have kicked Monk's *** for doing this haha

Montana81 said:
When monk begins putting hundreds of thousands to possibly even millions back into the community in Arkansas I doubt they'll care where he played college ball.
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I mean former NFL TE Keith Jackson has been on our football broadcasts for the past decade but people still don't like him because he spurned us for Oklahoma back in the day. If you think we are bad you should have seen how LSU fans reacted when Landon Collins went to Alabama and Speedy Noil went to A&M lol
 
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buckkiller said:
Just add another thing IF YOU DO NOT DEVELOPE AS A PLAYER OR DEVELOPE ON THE DEFENSIVE END OF THE COURT YOU WILL NOT PLAY FOR CAL. ITS DEVELOPE OR SIT ON BENCH!! OMG THE IGNORANCE!!
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Is a "develope" a cross between an antelope and a software developer?
 
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