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9 McDonald's All Americans. Only 5 can play at a time. That means, no matter what,..at any given time during a game Kentucky will have 4 McDonald's All Americans sitting on the bench.

http://collegespun.com/features/the-2014-15-kentucky-wildcats-will-feature-9-mcdonalds-all-americans

Of course, during the recruiting process for this upcoming recruiting class, Calipari and his staff certainly could not have expected this type of unprecedented return in talent. Aaron and Andrew Harrison, Alex Poythress, Marcus Lee, Willie Cauley-Stein, and Dakari Johnson make for an amazing core by itself, but the �Cats also have four blue-chip recruits coming in. Trey Lyles, Karl Towns Jr., Devin Booker, and Tyler Ulis are each five-star recruits according to ESPN, and they are each one of the top five players at their position based on ESPN�s rankings. While many of them probably expected to start right away, there is now a log-jam for minutes at Kentucky.

thats ok. None of the jiggaboos will stay more than a year. Hell, half of them won't qualify academically anyway.

I smell violations.

Calipari is a low down snake. Enjoy your negroes while you can B.

Actually, Cal is the most honest NCAA coach out there.

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/101252046/john-calipari-kentucky-ncaa-amateurism-season-preview

"People jumping at money is not particular to basketball," Calipari writes in his most recent book, "Or sports. It's just part of the human condition. It's what most people do, given the opportunity. And by the way, we're not talking about money that's out there for getting involved in something criminal. No, what these kids are faced with is having a big pile of money put in front of them for something they already love -- playing basketball. Are you kidding me?"
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Sure, Coach Cal is no saint. He will, in his own words, forever wear the "black hat" as far as the NCAA, his peers, and much of the media are concerned. But in an operation that runs on pretense, and hypocrisy, and deceit, there's something to be admired about Calipari's brazen way of getting things done. Yes, he's going to recruit the best players in the world. Yes, he's going to help make them millionaires. And yes, he's far more concerned about their ball handling abilities and their quick first step than he is about whether they're still around for senior year. College basketball has become big business, and John Calipari is the ultimate tycoon. But at least he's living in reality, and not the absurd amateurist fantasy that the NCAA so desperately clings to.

He's left a trail of collateral damage in every place he's ever been.

My prediction is that he'll continue to win at Kentucky until the shtf and then he'll skip town and go to the NBA.

One thing is for sure, Kentucky is friggen loaded. It's almost unfair!

Things are changing in big time college sports,..and right now the NCAA infraction people are under the microscope.

If they don't completely hammer North Carolina, they will lose all legitimacy.

And,...to hammer them in a manner that goes by the rules, they're going to have to make NC vacate almost 2 decades worth of wins and championships,...which will never happen.

Big time college sports have outgrown the NCAA organization.

In light of football activity the SEC may just need basketball this and next year.

Thanks Kentucky!!

BTW Virginia will a player this year as well.

Yeah that North Carolina thing is pretty egregious. It'll be interesting to watch it play out.

You might be right about the whole 'too big to fail' dynamic.

Halftime of the Kentucky/Buffalo NY game right now.

Kentucky down by 5 at *home*.

who-eee,...I wouldn't want to hear the halftime rant.

With the loaded talent they should be up by 20 over Buffalo.

True enough.

It's been an ugly game so far.

And just like that it's tied up.

Trey Lyles, a freshman forward, comes out and scores 5 points in the first minute of the second half.

Go Kat's.

does this in any way affect the availability of the McRib sandwich?

I'm the least knowledgeable person re: basketball at the fire but if the five players for a team are not playing as a team they're in trouble. If you have five players fighting each other for the glory and the limelight you don't have a game, you have a free-for-all.

Youth is Kentucky's issue every year. This year is a bit different. There's a bit of experience back from last year, but there's a lot of freshmen also.

The freshmen don't really understand how aggressive the college game is and there's no way to explain it to them. They've got to get beat up a while before they know.

Buffalo has some big, aggressive players. It's a good learning experience.

In any event, Kentucky is up by double figures now,..so all is right with the world in the Bluegrass.

In a related note, my Gophers got stomped last night by Louisville 81-68.

The battle between father and son coaches. Father kicked his youngster's ass.

Rick Pitino's teams always play hard. He had a dynasty going on here before the Celtics offered him 50 million dollars.

Then we got Tubby Smith.

Then you got him.

Yeah...he really sucked.

I remember the day we hired Tubby and was thinking, this is it baby! Good times ahead!

Wrong.