Lol @ the CCM haters

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#251
OrangeBalls said:
No, it's not. If you can get the best high school players, you get them. Cal can and does. You'd have to be a moron to turn them down. What's he going to tell them? Nah, I want to only recruit 4 year players so see ya Davis, Kidd-Gilchrist, etc. That's absurd. That doesn't have a damn thing to do with promoting it.
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And how do you get the best high school players? By pandering to the system. You either promote the system by contributing to it or you don't promote it by not contributing to it.
 
#253
#253
patrick said:
I think that loss seals their fate and banishes them to a repeat NIT bid....

Wish McRae would have had some help out there; everyone else looked like they were going through the motions!
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Meaning you don't think they can win 4? Or you don't think winning 4 gets them in?
 
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#256
There will be at least one, maybe two teams get in by winning their conference tourney. That's bad news for bubble teams. If Belmont and MTSU don't win their tourneys they are still getting in. That's just a local example.
 
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#258
JoseDaMofo said:
And how do you get the best high school players? By pandering to the system. You either promote the system by contributing to it or you don't promote it by not contributing to it.
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What system? I'd say every player that plays hoops wants to play in the NBA one day if they're serious about the sport. Cal isn't recruiting a bunch of scrubs. He's recruiting players that will be in the NBA. They'll make more in one year than most college graduates will in 20 years. What is the primary purpose of going to college? To increase your chance of getting a good job and making more money. You can throw whatever pie in the sky theory you want out there about education and all that other bullsh*t, but you go to college to get a good paying job. That is exactly what they're doing. They would skip that if it wasn't for the stupid NBA rule. If they're serious about finishing their education, they'll do it after their NBA career.
 
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#259
bigoleorange said:
There will be at least one, maybe two teams get in by winning their conference tourney. That's bad news for bubble teams. If Belmont and MTSU don't win their tourneys they are still getting in. That's just a local example.
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Not necessarily. Belmont? Probably. MTSU? Toss up.
 
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#260
OrangeBalls said:
What system? I'd say every player that plays hoops wants to play in the NBA one day if they're serious about the sport. Cal isn't recruiting a bunch of scrubs. He's recruiting players that will be in the NBA. They'll make more in one year than most college graduates will in 20 years. What is the primary purpose of going to college? To increase your chance of getting a good job and making more money. You can throw whatever pie in the sky theory you want out there about education and all that other bullsh*t, but you go to college to get a good paying job. That is exactly what they're doing. They would skip that if it wasn't for the stupid NBA rule. If they're serious about finishing their education, they'll do it after their NBA career.
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There are jobs out there that require the education you receive in college but I am sure you know that and you were just generalizing.
 
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patrick said:
There are jobs out there that require the education you receive in college but I am sure you know that and you were just generalizing.
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Anyone with a brain would take the money that the NBA offers over a college degree. They can always go back and get the degree, but they'll never make more in a regular job than they will in the NBA unless they became a doctor, lawyer, etc and that is if they were only in the league for a few years at the minimum salary. There aren't many of those players running around in the NBA that would meet that criteria anyway.
 
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JoseDaMofo said:
And how do you get the best high school players? By pandering to the system. You either promote the system by contributing to it or you don't promote it by not contributing to it.
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Did he just jibber jabber about jibber jabber???
 
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#267
JoseDaMofo said:
I don't blame him for them leaving early. I blame him for promoting that tactic -- for better or worse. For him, it's turned out to be better, for the most part.
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I'm no Calipari fan, but honestly he the way he runs his program is more fair to the players than any other program in college basketball. He tells them that if they come to Kentucky, he'll get them ready for the NBA - and he holds up his end of the bargain. After every year, he gives them an honest appraisal about whether or not he thinks they're ready to enter the draft, and doesn't try to get them to stick around another year when they could go off and make millions of dollars instead. It's actually refreshing to me that his players don't get screwed by the NCAA and their school the way everyone else does.

That said, he's still a giant dick. Boo Calipari.
 
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