OT: Kentucky Loses 7(!!!?!?!) Players to NBA Draft

Those are the rules for baseball. You can't go straight to the NFL from HS football, not that many kids could possibly make that jump physically. I do agree that either straight to the NBA or stay in college 3 years is the way to go for teams and the fans. Unfortunately, AAU agents, I mean coaches, will never go for this and they seem to be the ones running the show.

Everyone goes in the draft the year after they turn 18, or when they graduate high school. Teams have four years to sign players, but must sign them to contracts that are guaranteed through their college eligibility plus a year. This still allows players like Trey Burke to blow up as sophomores and leave, but discourages a GRIII from leaving when another year might have done more good. It also allows the rare LeBron type player to jump straight out of high school, as he should have. Most importantly, it gives the player more freedom and information, because they know exactly what they would get for leaving, rather than just hoping for the guaranteed salary that comes with a first round pick and maybe not getting it.

DraftExpress agrees with you. They have Andrew Harrison going late in the 2nd round and Aaron Harrison going in the 3rd.

Nike would never allow that.

Calipari is probably really smooth about it.  He accepts commitments from the absolute minimum of guys he knows he is going to have room for.  Then probably continues to recruit everyone else hard but says something along the lines of "I don't want you to commit yet until you see exactly what we have coming back and where you would fit on the roster.  I want you to come to Kentucky, but I don't want you to step into a situation where your development would be slowed due to a lack of playing time."   It can't be a coincidence that there are so many top-25/top-50 caliber players still undeclared when the rest of college basketball recruiting has sped up.  

you realize that if UK didn't get even one more blue chip recruit AFTER all 7 leave, they'd still have 3 McD All Americans on the team right?

you realize that if UK didn't get even one more blue chip recruit AFTER all 7 leave, they'd still have 3 McD All Americans on the team right?

The hat reads, "K CLUB".  The K stands for Ketamine perhaps?  

That's too bad. I always respected him as an actor 

But from my understanding it stems from Cuonzo Martin, who is now their coach (was the Tennessee coach).

Former (briefly) NBA player, Purdue Alum, from East St Louis. Young, black, can relate to what a lot of these players are going to through his own upbringing. And has had pretty decent success, though not great. Combine that with Berkeley being beautiful and a great school, I can get guys wanting to go to Cal.

I believe Rabb is from Oakland so Cal is his hometown school. But you're right the other two are head scratchers.  Although I remember them pulling Shareff Abdur-Rahim out of Georgia, but have they really recruited this well outside of 'Reef and Jason Kidd (also an Oakland kid)?

mentor muhammad abdur rahim goes back with cal coach i think and pointed jaylen that way. just like he helped point jaylen to us because of a bacari connection. 

 

BACARI DONT LEAVE

enough guys in the NBA to stay relevant the last few years (Allen Crabbe, Ryan Anderson, Jorge Gutierrez), and Cuonzo Martin has the program moving in the right direction. As for Rabb, he's from the Bay Area, that can't hurt Cal's chances.

I think Calipari's trail of violations he has left at his previous stops is the reason people suspect he may be doing some shady things here as well. I don't know him personally, but often we are judged by the deeds of the past.

until you wrote model student

They are a semi-pro like team and I don't like that influence on all of college basketball. And I don't want a coach whose primary recruiting line appears to be shortest path to the NBA.