Antonio Reeves expected to return to Kentucky
Antonio Reeves back on Kentucky campus, expected to return
As many predicted, possible portal target Antonio Reeves appears to be returning to Kentucky next year. He was significantly short of the required credits to graduate, and Kentucky may have been preventing him from attempting to earn those credits elsewhere over the summer so that he would be immediately eligible as a grad transfer.
Was awaiting better news that he had gotten sufficient credits at Illinois State to become a grad Xfer and come to Michigan. Not a good development.
Kentucky may have paved the way for them to get sued, so I hope they consulted their legal team before moving forward with interfering with another school. This whole story makes no sense.
took one less class per semester
Clearly you're more informed on this topic than I am. Not sure why there was so much buzz about it if there wasn't a possibility of him coming here. We are truly in the offseason, lol.
Yea it is hard to imagine anything approaching a good hoops season with the current roster. They desperately need another guard/wing player who can be at least a solid contributor if not more.
Unless YoYo makes a DJ Wilson like leap, I just don't see this team going anywhere without more additions. And at this point, Mulcahy is the only name left that I have seen.
Yo Yo...he's the key.
It was NBA or UK?
It would be nice to get some clarity on the rules regarding "inverse transfers." A compliant version of what Reeves attempted here (transferring credits from his new school to his old school in order to graduate from the old school) could be a blue print for Michigan to accept junior transfers without compromising its 60 credits transfer limit.
For example, last year Terrance Shannon potentially could have enrolled at Michigan, earned the last ~15 credits, then transferred those credits back to Texas Tech to earn a Texas Tech degree. That seems like an easier path than attempting to transfer 100 credits from Texas Tech to Michigan, only getting 60, and then attempting to make up a large difference.
Yeah but the problem there is that you need Texas Tech to be on board with accepting the Michigan credits and giving him a degree. I don't think they would do that for someone who left their team.
This is such a weird situation. He clearly isn't crazy about being at UK but seems to be sticking around because transferring seemingly anywhere would be a big hassle and he's not inclined to go to the NBA for whatever reasons. I don't know how many credits he still needs to graduate (to read it here he's still 25-ish short) but the bouncing back to Illinois St. never made a ton of sense from a practical standpoint.
I think he didn't get an invite to the NBA combine so probably figures he will go undrafted. And yeah now Kentucky has decided to hold him hostage.
Makes sense - I didn't know about the draft invite as I only heard he had gone to some G League draft event. So that makes sense regarding the NBA decision.
Still feels like being stuck at UK one more year when you clearly aren't happy probably isn't great for team chemistry but who knows.
The NBA option dried
I don't know the details but it also seems like Kentucky does not necessarily do a great job of keeping players on pace to graduate (or at least keeping them up to date of progress). But maybe there are reasons for that in this case.
actually closed the gap
Got it. Thanks, that makes more sense.
As a Michigan fan, what else did you expect?
Idk man, being a UK fan also, I’m not sure how to take this. Part of me is excited as this team was going to be VERY thin. So having some experience back helps. OTOH, him extorting Cal (despite my feelings for him) and leveraging UK leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Doesn’t seem to really want to be at UK, so not sure how hard Reeves will work. Regardless, this team is going to be hard to watch with this offseason at UK.
Go Blue! Dug is going to be electric this season!
Lol, he wanted to transfer. Your school blocking that isn't the issue you have here, but the kid wanting to transfer is the problem? Nah.
I think it is fair to note the fact colleges and universities can’t block a student athlete from transferring. If the student athlete’s transfer application doesn’t meet NCAA requirements for immediate eligibility, all the student athlete has to do is sit out a year. Nobody can block a student from leaving their institution. All the student has to do is sit out a year
I know it won't. But I wish this shady shit would hurt trash programs like UK that pull this shit.