Are we losing willis too?

If he goes to UK, he’s doing himself no justice. He’ll be recruited over, and have to compete with Wiltjer. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

If Willis is truly just down to UofL and UK (meaning IU and Purdue are off the board), I really think it is in his best intrest to be a Card. He would be a backup for both schools his freshman year, but Cal is recruiting 3 PFs that are rated higher than Willis in the class of 2013. If Cal’s legendary recruiting role continues, it would be logical to think UK will sign at least one of those 3 guys. And the following year, they will sign one of the top 3 PFs in the class of 2014, 2015, etc. Meaning Willis’ PT wouldn’t be great as a frosh, but might in fact get worse over time.
At UofL, he would be Chane’s backup…but would get minutes as a frosh and start to see his PT increase as he learns the system. Willis could be the highest rated post player that RP pulls in over a 2-3 year period…unless something weird happens in Lexington Cal will nab at least 4-5 post players that are better than Willis in the same time period. If you aren’t a top 20 recruit the only arguement for signing with UK in this day and age are front row seats to ballgames, because you are only going to get garbage minutes in games.
As someone who despises all things UK, I hate to admit that Cal has a monopoly on the All-American/5* guys, but the silver lining to that is that 4* guys who know what they are doingshouldnever play for Cal. Cal’s teams will evolve into a team of 4 NBA lottery picks, 3 guys with delusions of grandeur (who could star at WKU but will be neglected and ignored at UK) and 6 future middle school PE teachers/insurance agents in hicktown Ky—whose only job in school will be to pump up the team’s GPA.

recruiting is creepy

This is news? Why are some people shocked by this?
IMO CRP probably told the 6’8 190-200lb fwd that he needed to get his body fat % down if he wanted to play for us…

because of his height. No one really matches up to him. Surrround him against BE centers and I bet he doesn’t really do much. Looked slow to me when I saw some clips. Plus why would anyone ever think a recruit would come to UL when UK is involved.

I’ve defended Pitino as much as anyone. I think he’s a good coach. But, Calipari is killing him in recruiting. I don’t think a reasonable person could say otherwise. He’s killing everyone, but especially pitino. Anyone they both want goes to UK, except sexy bullet.

Rick is like a Bullet right now and Cal is the 20 ton Atom bomb. Speaking of bullet. If you’ve got a name like that wouldn’t you have to be fast..or fast at something? Rick gives our players some weird nicknames sometimes….He sucks at nicknames. If Bullet is the only recruit we beat Cal for it is not going to look well for us till 2017.

screen. When these recruits visit UK, WWW puts them on the phone with rap stars. How the hell are you suppose to compete wit that?

Coach Cal primarily targets 5 star recruits (with the occasional 4 star here and there). He knows exactly what these kids want and at that level, they all want the same thing. The NBA. And that’s what he’s selling. With each passing year, he can point to more and more players that played for him/Kentucky, in a lot of cases for only one year, that are now in the NBA. NBA scouts visit the Craft Center on a regular basis. The team wears Nike/LeBron shoes. Hell, LeBron has even attended a game or two since Calipari took over. Drake and Jay-Z have both visited the locker room. When the lockout was going on, there were NBA players playing pickup games with the team. How many 5 star high school recruits aren’t intrigued enough by all that to at least consider Kentucky if Calipari is actively recruiting them? Obviously he doesn’t end up getting every player he wants but if you look, as someone just did a few days ago in an article posted here, at the top 10 players in a given recruiting class, how many of them list Kentucky as a school they’re interested in? A lot. I’m a huge UK fan and alum but I’m also realistic enough to realize that kids today aren’t so much interested in UK because it’s UK but rather because of what Coach Cal is selling. No matter what you think of the man, you have to admit that he’s a master marketer. He knows his target audience, he knows what they want, and that’s what he sells.

Any more talk about Coach Jones going after him? That dude is a beast and would destroy a Willis, point blank period. Seems like I rember reading something about Jones recruiting his older brother as well. Any info on this?