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Sports => Frank Martin's OOD sponsored by the "Angriest Fans in America" => Topic started by: yosh on May 19, 2009, 07:36:05 AM
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The real GRCOAT is complete. Move over Fab 5. :eek:
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xavier henry. :lol:
what a loser. picking ku basically confirms the guys wants nothing to do w/winning.
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:gocho: < Cal, the best in "the biz"
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LOL @ SEC basketball
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:gocho: < Cal, the best in "the biz"
Hard to argue against that. The man year in and year out is able to bring in the top talent it doesn't matter where he is at.
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LOL @ SEC basketball
This.
Cal probably had better competition at Memphis.
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LOL @ SEC basketball
Not with Alabama soon to be stealing our recruits.
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Wow.... huge surprise. Nice to see the Xavier Henry commitment is still eating up fatty.
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Yeah, the son of a two ku alums and a ku basketball legacy committing to ku . . . that's shocking. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Yeah, the son of a two ku alums and a ku basketball legacy committing to ku . . . that's shocking. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Who said it was "shocking?"
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Somebody did . . . somebody out there said it was shocking.
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Hmmmm.... okay?
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Leonard Nemoy said it was shocking on an episode of "In Search Of" - I'm sure of it.
LOL @ SEC basketball
Not with Alabama soon to be stealing our recruits.
K-State fans need to start delineating between the word "our recruits" versus "the player's (fill in the blank) knows Frank" because it's obvious that our recruiting has already made a B-line for the toilet.
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So Kentucky is basically gonna have to reload once all their freshman leave after this yr
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Calipari knows the right people. (http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_5735&pageNum=3)
In 2001, Wes’s godson and Milt’s son, Dajuan Wagner, was the consensus best high school basketball player in the world. If Dajuan had entered the NBA draft after his junior year at Camden High, he might have been the number one pick. But Wes persuaded him to let the NBA wait and spend a year or two playing for John Calipari at the University of Memphis. The deal came with plenty of strings attached: Wes made it clear to Calipari that Dajuan was more inclined to sign with a school that also gave a free ride to his best friend, Arthur Barclay, an all-state player who’d been passed over because of poor test scores. (Done.) Then Milt, despite lacking a college degree, was hired to be Memphis’s head of basketball operations. When news of the deal leaked out, the media crucified Calipari, painting it as nothing more than legalized graft. Wes answered accusations that something shady had gone down, saying, “Man, I’ve heard the second-guessing. It’s simple: Juanny needed to improve his defense and prove that he can play on the next level. Coach Cal can help him do that. What do I have to gain by him going to Memphis?”
Wes had been managing Dajuan’s career since the boy was 11, and so when it came time for Dajuan to head to Memphis, Wes went along. After only one season—in which Dajuan averaged twenty-one points a game—Calipari called Milt and Dajuan into his office. “I tore up Dajuan’s scholarship in front of him to make sure he understood he wasn’t coming back,” Calipari says. Dajuan was ready for the NBA. The Cavaliers selected him in the first round of the 2002 draft, and as Dajuan made his move from college to the pros, Wes was there to ease the transition. In his first year, Dajuan was among NBA rookie leaders in scoring, assists, and minutes played.