Good post, but you didn't answer my main question.
Do you think Chris Mach has financially motivated a player to go to X or UofL?
I'll also add, do you think anyone associated with CM has financially motivated a player to go to X or UofL?
Me, I don't think Cal has paid a kid or organized any kind of a scheme to have others pay kids to come to any school he has been at.
Most people that have agendas, just throw out what happened at UMass and Memphis and Call Cal a slimy cheater, but that's because they never bothered to look at what happened in those cases. Apparently D. Rose had his brother take his SAT, what did Calipari do wrong there? He certainly didn't pay anyone.
An NBA agent got to Marcus Camby and gave him a bunch of money. How did that benefit UMass or Calipari? How does that mean Cal paid MC?
If it comes out that Cal did something underhanded while at UK, I will call him out.
Just ask Rupps Rafters about ole KYJeff1, I've had plenty to say about Cal, his lack of offensive coaching abilities and his stupid "NBA first" system that he has in place at UK. I'm not some huge Calipari fan, I'm a UK fan.
I answered in my first sentence. I have no clue whether Mack is paying players, I’d like to think he’s smarter than that being how we are already in trouble, Hell double trouble. And I also have no clue if anyone associated with him has paid a recruit/player to come to Louisville during his tenure.
Just like u have no idea whether Calipari has or hasn’t. U can “think” or “believe” whatever you want, but you said it best, none of us on here know what’s going on behind the scenes of our favorite programs. But everyone is entitled to their opinion and no one persons opinion is more important than anyone else’s on a free anonymous message board.
Where did u hear that rose had his brother take the sat for him bc the only time I remember Rose being asked about it when the news broke, he simply said, “I dunno you’d have to ask calipari”. And followed up every other question with no comment. I know there was much speculation about why Rose took the “cheating” sat in Detroit when he lived in Chicago. But again it’s all speculation. But still I have a hard time believing Calipari didn’t know whether his prized recruit in that class was gonna be academically eligible or not, but who knows. So much has changed since then as far as eligibility is concerned, I can’t even remember the last high profile recruit that was deemed academically ineligible at any school, and I don’t hardly believe it’s a case of all the kids being smarter these days.
The main problem I have is the entitled attitude of the fans of blue bloods, like when u say “UK, Duke, and UNC, shouldn’t have to pay players, like any kid would happily turn down 6 figures elsewhere to get to play at one of the blue bloods, and they’d be stupid not to. Like how fans of blue bloods think their programs recruit themselves. Well the allure of UK didn’t work out quite so well for billy Clyde or tubby, nor Matt Doughtery (sp?) at unc, so UK and UNC didn’t exactly recruit themselves in those instances. Ks been at duke so long they don’t have any similar examples, but when he retires I doubt just anyone can step in and continue to recruit at the level K has been recruiting just bc it’s Duke, but I guess time will tell.
Also Cal had every one in his first class at UK lined up to play for Memphis (Wall, Cousins, Bledsoe etc) before the rose shit hit the fan there (well besides Orton and obv X Henry decided to go to Kansas after being a Memphis commit) And Lexington and Memphis are about as far apart on the opposite end of the spectrum as you can go as far as the cities are concerned. Just like Memphis and UK are about as far apart as programs go.
UK and Duke haven’t landed top 3 classes every year the past decade bc every recruit in the world dreams of playing For UK nor Duke (some do, there’s always exceptions, but not every kid) they have top 3 classes every single year bc of John Calipari and coach K.
And had Cal stayed at Memphis, had the rose scandal never broke and Memphis used their fed ex connections to make Calipari the richest coach in the nation there, then every single out of state recruit that played for UK since Cal arrived would more than likely Have went to Memphis, not UK. Despite UK being a blue blood and Memphis being Memphis.
As far as people with agendas throwing out theUmass and Memphis situations bc they don’t like Calipari, well most UK fans had the same opinion of Calipari as the rest of the nation before he was hired by UK. Kinda like superfan Matty Jones has that now infamous quote about how he had to root for Kansas in the NC game against Memphis bc he had no respect for the way Calipari runs his program from info he had learned in recruiting circles, or something along those lines. I even think he went as far as to call Calipari dirty in that post but I don’t remember it word for word. 12 years, numerous final fours, one title and 50 draft picks later and I’m pretty sure Jones would volunteer to be Caliparis toilet paper if he wanted him to.
But I get it, he’s the coach of ur team. I wasn’t as thrilled as some with the Pitino hire at the time it happened, bc I didn’t much like Pitino’s elitist attitude and that he appeared to be a bit of a snob. But I knew he could coach and after a few years of getting used to his style of play I felt we were extremely fortunate to have him as our coach. But alas Hindsight is 20/20 lol and like you I’m a fan of the program not the coach, regardless who the coach is.
