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Cats192

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Don't worry everyone. Everything is ok! After all...

"I’m working out for NBA teams now. So I guess I did something right.”

Translation: the scheme to play the system, with help from Cal, to avoid having to play a single college game, worked.

M'fer's.
This.

This is the thing that makes me detest the kid.

He's basically saying "the plan worked." Which is hilarious. Lots of guys "work out for NBA teams." The fact that you're getting workouts proves nothing.
 
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UKWoodford

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These Quotes coming out by Sharpe are a result of our Ky finest throwing threats at his family and Washington, it might come out or it might not! It just was inevitable! I hope we find out who did it!

I wouldn't worry about it. Add it all up and it's 3 rivals fans with their hands down their pants and a handful of UK fans that don't consider it a full day unless they fake-outrage about something..
 

dcw62

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No doubt. Hell, Bird chose to play with a back so broken that he had to lay face first on the floor when he came out because he couldn’t sit on a chair.

Sharpe’s mentality is an utterly foreign concept to the four players you just mentioned.
This^^^^ And why I don't give a rats *** about the NBA anymore.
 

*Fox2Monk*

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Two quotes stand out in that article:

1) “At the end of the day, it was my decision to not play.”

2) “ I see myself as one of the greatest players to ever play basketball.”

Hmm …I wonder how many of the other “greatest players to ever play” were known for choosing not to play?
He’s the best bench warmer in the history of the sport.
 

Pickle_Rick

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I don't think he was alluding to a paddling. 😀
 

Bluefaithful

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If he wants to avoid criticism he should have played basketball instead of earning money while sitting on his butt . He’s got some sort of victim complex if he thinks he doesn’t derseve criticism after using the program. Did he think we’d be happy as long as he got drafted?!😂

Why the hell does it bother you more that the fans went after him than Sharpe using the program?
I can’t stand talking about it, Sharpe is a nobody, listen to Jordan at Kobe’s Funeral around 3 minute mark when he visited Phil in LA. Kobe came up to him and asked Jordan if he brought his shoes? Kobe was always looking to get better, always. Sharpe would of went up to Jordan and asked for his keys so he could go home. Let’s quit talking about him. He has nothing to do with the history of Kentucky Basketball. Chris Gettlefinger has 1000 times more to do with the history of Ky basketball than piss poor Sharpe does! He has a Natty!
 
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Susan2361

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You're the one who's off here brother. Why would he need to show that he was in control of a controversial decision? Nearly all kids say they sit down with coaches, parents, blah, blah and come to a consensus. Nope, you think this guy NEEDS to show he's in charge. It's the dead wrong approach. He looks like an ***.
He stole nothing. Good lord.
You're wrong!!! He did steal. Think about all of the things he got at UK. By accepting a scholarship he entered into a contract with the University. He agreed to PLAY for the school and they agreed to give him an education, coaching, training, medical, etc. Just the training and equipment use would have cost him or his family if he had to pay for those services. If he just sat out until the draft, he would have had to PAY for those things. But by going to KY, he got those things for FREE! And since he didn't PLAY, he violated his part of the deal. To me that is fraud and/or theft.
On a side note...he is delusional if he thinks he is the greatest player ever. No wonder our team seemed to get worse as the season progressed. With his attitude, he was a cancer to the team. Yeah, the greatest player who is too scared to play and show us what he's got, therfore hurting his teammates. He is DISGUSTING!!!
 

UKWoodford

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You're wrong!!! He did steal. Think about all of the things he got at UK. By accepting a scholarship he entered into a contract with the University. He agreed to PLAY for the school and they agreed to give him an education, coaching, training, medical, etc. Just the training and equipment use would have cost him or his family if he had to pay for those services. If he just sat out until the draft, he would have had to PAY for those things. But by going to KY, he got those things for FREE! And since he didn't PLAY, he violated his part of the deal. To me that is fraud and/or theft.
On a side note...he is delusional if he thinks he is the greatest player ever. No wonder our team seemed to get worse as the season progressed. With his attitude, he was a cancer to the team. Yeah, the greatest player who is too scared to play and show us what he's got, therfore hurting his teammates. He is DISGUSTING!!!

But the Sharpe situation is a minuscule thing in our lives that we barely even think about, right?
 

ScottGreene22

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Sharpe‘s fiasco is just a sign of the times. It will be interesting to see if his stock drops due to refusing to play. If his stock doesn’t fall your going to see more kids pull this crap. CAL is at fault for keeping the kid on the team after it was obvious he wasn’t going to play.
 

Rick Honcho

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Because he has class and he knows the smart thing to do.
Class? Ego-centric jagoff who left two previous stops with forfeited wins and couldn't coach his way out of wet paper bag is your definition of class? You and Calipari both need help.

Calipari is a tool. Sharpe knew it and took full advantage of Calipari and UK's fan/NIL-base. The only thing that can potentially make the optics even worse would be for Calipari to show up at the NBA draft and slobber all over Sharpe.

The Omaha newspaper recently ran a great quote from the Creighton head basketball coach [McDermott]: "We're probably not in the market for transfers who bring baggage. I'm too old to coach knuckleheads anymore. That shipped has sailed." Not only does he lack coaching skills, but Calipari doesn't have the confidence, maturity or onions to ever make that kind of we-don't-want-selfish-turds pronouncement on the record to the media. Instead, Big Blue Nation is stuck with his players-first culture. And that is one big root of the problem.
 
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Johnfarrel

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I consider Enes a Wildcat and I guess Sharpe if he claims Kentucky. The kid will be a really good player, I have a feeling as he gets more publicity and fame, that more fans will claim him with an asterisk.
Enes wanted to play. The NCAA would not let him. Sharpe did not want to play. He wanted a safe place to sit and some NIL money while he waited for the NBA draft. They are not the same to me but that does not matter to either one of them.
 

UKWoodford

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Class? Ego-centric jagoff who left two previous stops with forfeited wins and couldn't coach his way out of wet paper bag is your definition of class? You and Calipari both need help.

Calipari is a tool. Sharpe knew it and took full advantage of Calipari and UK's fan/NIL-base. The only thing that can potentially make the optics even worse would be for Calipari to show up at the NBA draft and slobber all over Sharpe.

The Omaha newspaper recently ran a great quote from the Creighton head basketball coach [McDermott]: "We're probably not in the market for transfers who bring baggage. I'm too old to coach knuckleheads anymore. That shipped has sailed." Not only does he lack coaching skills, but Calipari doesn't have the confidence, maturity or onions to ever make that kind of we-don't-want-selfish-turds pronouncement on the record to the media. Instead, Big Blue Nation is stuck with his players-first culture. And that is one big root of the problem.
Yet he sits in the Hall of fame and you are ragging on him, anonymously. Yawn.
 
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Snarks

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I consider Enes a Wildcat and I guess Sharpe if he claims Kentucky. The kid will be a really good player, I have a feeling as he gets more publicity and fame, that more fans will claim him with an asterisk.
Difference is Enes wanted to play at UK and the NCAA was completely wrong not to let him. Sharpe had zero desire to play here.
 
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I am angry with the decision to not play him/him not want to play. Let's be real here though it is ultimately on Cals shoulders.
On a side note, I sure hope no future recruits, or current players for that matter are reading this board. It seems like they would be turned off for sure to come play for us (or not play... like Sharpe lol).

I know everyone wants what is best for the program but all a rival recruiter would have to do is direct him to our forums and say just go see what they say about you if you aren't playing good or aren't doing what they want you to.

Sad thing is that I know that most of you all are NOT like this and don't post things like I have seen in this tread so horrible about a kid failing, etc. That being said... MY GOD!!!
 

JoeSwag

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Class? Ego-centric jagoff who left two previous stops with forfeited wins and couldn't coach his way out of wet paper bag is your definition of class? You and Calipari both need help.

Calipari is a tool. Sharpe knew it and took full advantage of Calipari and UK's fan/NIL-base. The only thing that can potentially make the optics even worse would be for Calipari to show up at the NBA draft and slobber all over Sharpe.

The Omaha newspaper recently ran a great quote from the Creighton head basketball coach [McDermott]: "We're probably not in the market for transfers who bring baggage. I'm too old to coach knuckleheads anymore. That shipped has sailed." Not only does he lack coaching skills, but Calipari doesn't have the confidence, maturity or onions to ever make that kind of we-don't-want-selfish-turds pronouncement on the record to the media. Instead, Big Blue Nation is stuck with his players-first culture. And that is one big root of the problem.
Calipari took Tyreke Evans after being in a drive-by shooting where as Pitino pulled the offer.

Cal is a politician whose moral compass is , well...