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Wednesday Signing Day

Da Coach said:
There are more rich Kentucky boosters than at any school. That's why they can pay Coach Cal his many millions, and still afford to pay off Gillispie's extra millions. Plus don't discount the shoe money coming from "Worldwide Wes" and other independent brokers.
http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/200706/william-wesley-worldwide-wes-nba-basketball

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wesley
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Let's not carried away here, I believe Harvard has the most millionaires followed by Yale. It's just those schools concern themselves with things that really count and put their money towards the respective endowments of the institutions not the sports program. As I have said all along is that I take the value of an education over any sport accolades. Schools like Duke and Stanford are far above the norm and that is what I'd rather aspire to then a KY.

BTW...On a side note my nephew turned down a full ride to Kentucky for a partial scholarship to Vanderbilt. One smart kid!:D
 
I am sure there are a lot of rich alums at those Ivy League schools. But few of them care at all about their athletic teams. I used the term "boosters", because that is where the money comes from for the basketball program, and no program raises and spends as much as Kentucky does on basketball.

I have seen lists before that place Kentucky in a class by themselves as far as revenues and expenditures for basketball. This list shows them in the top 5, but as we've said before, these numbers can be very inaccurate as it's difficult to separate money for the football programs vs, basketball, vs. other sports, plus the coaches salaries may not be included in these figures..-
http://www.bbstate.com/info/schools-hoopsbudget
 
tornado said:
Wichita was hoping to be able to land juco All American Marquis Carter who was juco teammate of their incoming center Ehimen Orukpe...
however, Carter just verbaled and will sign with Gonzaga...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/collegesports/2011570906_zags10.html..
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Shockers were hoping to land this guy...and when time came to sign his LOI - he hesitated, and was going to reopen his recruitment!!
http://fwix.com/oklahomacity/articl...arget_carter_signs_letter_of_intent_with_zags
http://www.slipperstillfits.com/2010/4/15/1424496/just-spoke-to-marquise-carter-and

I guess it kinda makes me laugh that these guys appear, if we are to believe all this, that their decisions are so shaky and that they really just aren't sure...
 
tornado said:
Kentucky fans hoping to land ....
#2 ranked Marquis Teague...
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indeed the #2 ranked kid in the Class of 2010 also verbals to Kentucky, so they now have #1, #2, #4 and more...

Louisville had hired the kid's high school coach but it didn't help.......
 
tornado said:
indeed the #2 ranked kid in the Class of 2010 also verbals to Kentucky, so they now have #1, #2, #4 and more...

Louisville had hired the kid's high school coach but it didn't help.......
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The one and done(s) will keep them in the top 10 but never will they win a championship unless the core stick around for at least 2 years. Calipari came close with Rose but they also had other players that played in his system longer then a year. If Paterson and Bledsoe stick around they'll have a chance.
 
Yeah, we have arrived at an era where "one and done"s will pretty much be the sole property of Calipari with few outliers. Pitino recruited the kid for 2 years, also coached his father, but at the end of the day, Freshman seldom get huge sums of playtime in Pitino's systems. Calipari on the other hand, designs his system on the concept of building a brand new team every year so kids can always count on that play time. Astounding really. It seems the other big programs, the UNCs, Dukes, UofLs, Uconns, etc. will have to go to 'plan B', good coaching and player development to continue to have success - bummer.
 
CzechBrave said:
Yeah, we have arrived at an era where "one and done"s will pretty much be the sole property of Calipari with few outliers. Pitino recruited the kid for 2 years, also coached his father, but at the end of the day, Freshman seldom get huge sums of playtime in Pitino's systems. Calipari on the other hand, designs his system on the concept of building a brand new team every year so kids can always count on that play time. Astounding really. It seems the other big programs, the UNCs, Dukes, UofLs, Uconns, etc. will have to go to 'plan B', good coaching and player development to continue to have success - bummer.
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I'd say Coach K has done pretty well with that philosophy. He will not recruit a one and done.
 
Coach K will recruit one and dones. He might not of a couple of years ago but he is now. Im a pretty big Duke fan and they have Kyrie Irving coming in next year. He will prolly stay two years but nothing is guaranteed. Also they are prolly going to end up with 2011 stud Austin Rivers.
 
GoBirds said:
Coach K will recruit one and dones. He might not of a couple of years ago but he is now. Im a pretty big Duke fan and they have Kyrie Irving coming in next year. He will prolly stay two years but nothing is guaranteed. Also they are prolly going to end up with 2011 stud Austin Rivers.
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I have heard quite the opposite. He will check them out and if they want to be a one and done he'll look for another stud. What I heard is that John Wall wanted to go to Duke and Coach K said, not if it is for just one year.
 
SFP said:
I have heard quite the opposite. He will check them out and if they want to be a one and done he'll look for another stud. What I heard is that John Wall wanted to go to Duke and Coach K said, not if it is for just one year.
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I wanted to go to Duke too. Coach K said the same thing to me. I decided to screw playing at that time.
 
SFP said:
I'd say Coach K has done pretty well with that philosophy. He will not recruit a one and done.
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Hehe yeah I agree. In all honesty most of the success those teams listed have had in recent years has been on the backs of long term players. Sure they lose some guys in the second and third year relatively often, but that is still a far cry from starting 5 entirely new players every season.

Perhaps the biggest turn in all this is that in 5-10 years all those programs will still have their souls. Kentucky will at some point realize that it is a shell that is far less important than Calipari.
 
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