'11 IN PG Marquis Teague (Kentucky Verbal)

[psax889906]

I'm literally sick to my stomach. I've got that feeling where your insides are tied up in knots... this blows.

 

[swg]

Cal is a good salesman. He's a winner, and KY has great tradition. He's like Saban at bama.

 

[Thegreatone]

I promise these kids do not care at all that Rose and Bledsoe were unfairly admitted into the universities and should never have been eligable.

I bet most dont know or care that Cal coached at UMASS and got in trouble.

I bet most dont know or care that Memphis got their FF taken away.

Here is what they know. Cal got Rose, Evans, and Wall BIIIG money and fame.

 

[JasonS]

I can't wait until UK gets what they deserve and have to vacate all of their wins over the next 4 years or so. Man, who would want to play for a coach and team who's legacy was cheating and had to vacate all their college accomplishments?

Kids whose sole excuse for going to college is to leave in a year and go to the NBA. If they play in a Final Four, the NCAA can't take away that experience. Who cares if anyone remembers it in 25 years? These kids sure as hell don't. The best thing that can happen is that Cal starts losing early in the tourney and underachieving with better talent.

 

[JasonS]

One thing I have been wondering about is how all these 1 and dones affect the APR for UK? They had 4 last year, have probably 2 more this year and at least 2 for 2011. 8 in three years has to result in loss of scholarships or probation or something, right? If not, what is the point of the APR?

 

[catsfan32]

Kids whose sole excuse for going to college is to leave in a year and go to the NBA. If they play in a Final Four, the NCAA can't take away that experience. Who cares if anyone remembers it in 25 years? These kids sure as hell don't. The best thing that can happen is that Cal starts losing early in the tourney and underachieving with better talent.

I bet most of them care about their legacy. I sure as hell would if I was the one caught at the program that had to vacate their Wins. Ask D. Rose how his college legacy is going to end up. Everyone will know he cheated forever! If he doesn't care then some people really are only about money and not morals!

 

[TheLongHaul]

I'm literally sick to my stomach. I've got that feeling where your insides are tied up in knots... this blows.

That sucks but you should have expected it. UC had little chance going up against UK or UL.

 

[adrock]

I promise these kids do not care at all that Rose and Bledsoe were unfairly admitted into the universities and should never have been eligable.

True. And they won't start caring until the players are deemed ineligible before play. The NCAA should be able to conduct an investigation and find wrongdoing (if there is any...lol) within the next 18 months. But they won't. We'll get a report telling us UK's wins from the 2011 season will be vacated in 2014.

 

[Thegreatone]

One thing I have been wondering about is how all these 1 and dones affect the APR for UK? They had 4 last year, have probably 2 more this year and at least 2 for 2011. 8 in three years has to result in loss of scholarships or probation or something, right? If not, what is the point of the APR?

It will NOT effect UK if they leave on good academic standing and we all know they always leave UK on good academic standing.

 

[TheLongHaul]

I have a vision, Teague puts on a UC cap at 1:35pm today.

Another whoopsie. Perhaps some of you can start predicting bad things to happen to UC so something good will happen for a change.

 

[Thegreatone]

Seriously. We cant blame the kid.

It is easy for us to say Calipari cheated but we dont know that. When Cal was hired by Uk it was the perfect monster.

Get Davis and Behanan and I will be happy.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

Another whoopsie. Perhaps some of you can start predicting bad things to happen to UC so something good will happen for a change.

I said 4 months ago with Ralphy said teague was good to go, that it was the kiss of death.

 

[bearcat jeff]

I said 4 months ago with Ralphy said teague was good to go, that it was the kiss of death.

That's hilarious. God bless him. I honestly don't care how many stars are by a kids name. I don't care where they are rated. I just want the program we love to win. Plain and simple. As they say on Ghost Hunters every week...on to the next!

 

[swg]

The 6-foot-2 Teague, ranked among the top five players nationally in the Class of 2011, had been the center of a battle between UK and Louisville in recent months.
But surrounded by family and friends at Pike, Teague said he would be wearing blue and white. He can’t sign a letter-of-intent with UK until November.
Teague won’t be eligible until the 2011-12 season.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100422/SPORTS02/4220356/1002/SPORTS/Marquis+Teague+commits+to+the+University+of+Kentucky+basketball+program

 

[adrock]

Seriously. We cant blame the kid.

Agreed, not his fault. I don't blame Derrick Rose for what happened with him either. The system is failing these kids.

It is easy for us to say Calipari cheated but we dont know that.

No we don't, but based on Calipari's past behavior and the rumors swirling about Lebron's phone call, we have mountains of circumstantial evidence. Enough to hold up in a criminal court of law? Hell no, but it should be plenty for the NCAA's governing body to make a decision in the affirmative.

 

[ralph1950]

I said 4 months ago with Ralphy said teague was good to go, that it was the kiss of death.

BCN and Bearcat Banter are to blame. Teague told Mick he was coming to UC in late January. His dad went to BCN and Bearcat Banter to read what was being said about the program. He read fire Mick, fire Mick, fire Mick. The negativity of these 2 websites is what caused Teague to go elsewhere.

 

[JasonS]

BCN and Bearcat Banter are to blame. Teague told Mick he was coming to UC in late January. His dad went to BCN and Bearcat Banter to read what was being said about the program. He read fire Mick, fire Mick, fire Mick. The negativity of these 2 websites is what caused Teague to go elsewhere.

If this is true then I would love to hear Teague or Mick substatiate it. Only then will people realize that what they say annonymously on a message board can affect a kids decision to go to a school.

 

[HattoriHanzo]

I would argue that Wall and Tyreke Evans were going to be lottery picks with our without a few years under Cal. They could've went to any number of schools and had similar individual success.

But perception is reality, I get it.

 

[Not Guilty]

If this is true then I would love to hear Teague or Mick substatiate it. Only then will people realize that what they say annonymously on a message board can affect a kids decision to go to a school.

My guess is that Ralph is exaggerating here. I think Teague has always been interested in UC, but no one else has reported that he told Mick that he wanted to come to UC.

However, Todd Cunningham spoke of a conversation he had with Marquis' father that they were extremely concerned with the negativity. He had no reason to make that up, yet every negative poster said they didn't believe it.

If Mick said something, people would just say he was making excuses. The negative people surrounding UC's program simply won't acknowledge what that negativity is doing to the program, plain and simple...

 

[JasonS]

My guess is that Ralph is exaggerating here. I think Teague has always been interested in UC, but no one else has reported that he told Mick that he wanted to come to UC.

However, Todd Cunningham spoke of a conversation he had with Marquis' father that they were extremely concerned with the negativity. He had no reason to make that up, yet every negative poster said they didn't believe it.

If Mick said something, people would just say he was making excuses. The negative people surrounding UC's program simply won't acknowledge what that negativity is doing to the program, plain and simple...

Yeah, you are probably right.