Brandon Knight to Kentucky

[bocabull]

It will be fun to watch Kentucky reload with another all star recruiting class.

Calipari is awesome.

Hopefully Capel can land Terrence Jones to pair with Cameron Clark and Tiny is back and OU will be fun to watch too.

 

[brumFTW]

I don't know if I'd call Calipari awesome. He certainly knows how to appeal to one and done's. I'd be curious to see how well Calipari would do if the kids he typically recruits were allowed to go straight to the nba.

 

[soonerczech]

He's awesome at getting every school he has coached at in trouble with the NCAA.

 

[NorthCarolinaSooner]

Calipari makes Kelvin Sampson look like a choir boy.....he is dirty as they come. He left two programs in a mess of trouble with the NCAA.

 

[ousooners1baby]

This is not good for ncaa bball. Nor is it good for Kentucky in the long run.

 

[Cheno]

Calipari makes Kelvin Sampson look like a choir boy.....he is dirty as they come. He left two programs in a mess of trouble with the NCAA.

Who Calipari or Sampson?
Oh yeah, both.

 

[Seymore Cox]

Sampson was the biggest ncaa railroad job ever. Of all the crooks we have in this game, we're going to get a guy who's making too many phone calls to mid major type recruits.

 

[Sawyer]

I don't know if I'd call Calipari awesome. He certainly knows how to appeal to one and done's. I'd be curious to see how well Calipari would do if the kids he typically recruits were allowed to go straight to the nba.

Here's an interesting timeline for you...

2000: Calipari was hired as the head coach of the Memphis Tigers.

2000-01: 21-15, 3rd in the NIT.

2001-02: 27-9, NIT champions

2002-03: 23-7, NCAA first round

2003-04: 22-8, NCAA second round

2004-05: 22-16, NIT semi-finals

Summer, 2005: The NBA agrees to a new CBA, including a new rule regarding a minimum age for entry into the draft.

2005-06: 33-4, Elite Eight

2006-07: 33-4, Elite Eight

2007-08: 38-2, NCAA runner-up (season vacated)

2008-09: 33-4, Sweet 16

March 2009: Calipari signs a contract with Kentucky

2009-10: 35-3, Elite Eight

Interesting, isn't it?

 

[SoonerTraveler]

OU could possibly play Kentucky in the Maui Invitational this November.

http://www.mauiinvitational.com/teams/fieldsfuture.asp

 

[Sid]

Here's an interesting timeline for you...

2000: Calipari was hired as the head coach of the Memphis Tigers.

2000-01: 21-15, 3rd in the NIT.

2001-02: 27-9, NIT champions

2002-03: 23-7, NCAA first round

2003-04: 22-8, NCAA second round

2004-05: 22-16, NIT semi-finals

Summer, 2005: The NBA agrees to a new CBA, including a new rule regarding a minimum age for entry into the draft.

2005-06: 33-4, Elite Eight

2006-07: 33-4, Elite Eight

2007-08: 38-2, NCAA runner-up (season vacated)

2008-09: 33-4, Sweet 16

March 2009: Calipari signs a contract with Kentucky

2009-10: 35-3, Elite Eight

Interesting, isn't it?

I can't put my finger on it but something seems to be missing from your list.

 

[Sooner Quick]

OU could possibly play Kentucky in the Maui Invitational this November.

http://www.mauiinvitational.com/teams/fieldsfuture.asp

At least it isn't Alaska!

Trav will you be going? I'm heading there myself. A little warm Thanksgiving!

 

[Sawyer]

I can't put my finger on it but something seems to be missing from your list.

Not as far as the modern era of prolific one and done players and the new age limit. His time at UMass was certainly impressive, but college basketball was different then. You could pay a star player to play for you (through an agent, of course) and expect him to stick around for a good three seasons.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

At least it isn't Alaska!

Trav will you be going? I'm heading there myself. A little warm Thanksgiving!

The Alaska trip a few years back was fun! I am not sure I can make the trip to Maui, but I would sure like to. It looks like a great set of teams.

Have a great trip! It will be fun!

:OUbball-logo:

 

[sys]

Sampson was the biggest ncaa railroad job ever. Of all the crooks we have in this game, we're going to get a guy who's making too many phone calls to mid major type recruits.

amen. i can't understand all the people that act like he did something reprehensible. he made lots of phone calls, bfd.

 

[stoops4pres]

amen. i can't understand all the people that act like he did something reprehensible. he made lots of phone calls, bfd.

And when you add it up, it only equates to 1 extra phone call per week. Just 1.

Not condoning what Sampson did--clearly it was wrong--but there are a ton of coaches that have done worse that don't receive the same amount of criticism as he does.

 

[SoonerNorm]

And when you add it up, it only equates to 1 extra phone call per week. Just 1.

Not condoning what Sampson did--clearly it was wrong--but there are a ton of coaches that have done worse that don't receive the same amount of criticism as he does.

Not only did he have a problem here making unauthorized calls but the problem didn't stop at OU...it followed him to IU as well. If he would have stayed at OU I have no doubt the phone calls would have continued and when he got caught the second time, it really would have landed us in hot water. We are lucky he left when he did.

 

[stoops4pres]

Not only did he have a problem here making unauthorized calls but the problem didn't stop at OU...it followed him to IU as well. If he would have stayed at OU I have no doubt the phone calls would have continued and when he got caught the second time, it really would have landed us in hot water. We are lucky he left when he did.

No doubt, what he did was foolish after being punished.