CBS Sports continues with their “Critical Coaches” series whe re they asked 100 anonymous basketball coaches to answer a bunch of questions that feel like they are indirectly directed at John Calipari and Kentucky.
Today’s topic is [URL=”http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/19865011/critical-coaches-which-player-had-the-dirtiest-recruitment”]”Which player had the dirtiest recruitment?” [/URL]and surprisingly enough, the winner didn’t go to Kentucky.
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[*]Shabazz Muhammad: 15 percent
[*]Anthony Davis: 13 percent
[*]John Wall: 7 percent
[*]Kyle Anderson: 7 percent
[*]O.J. Mayo: 7 percent
[*]Derrick Rose: 6 percent
[*]Renardo Sidney: 6 percent
[*]Terrence Jones: 3 percent
[*]Tobias Harris: 3 percent
[*]Chris Obekpa: 3 percent
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The list does include several Kentucky mentions and John Calipari mentions as well while he was at Memphis.
Here are the quotes that stuck out:
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[COLOR=#333333][FONT=arial]On Shabazz Muhammad: “This deal was done for a long time. The other rumors and stuff were just smoke and mirrors. People on the inside knew this deal was done. I mean, he turned Kentucky down.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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On Anthony Davis: “I’ve never seen a recruitment get shut down as quickly as that one got shut down. I don’t know they did it. But it was a strong play.”
On John Wall: “Baylor hired John Wall’s AAU coach and that still wasn’t enough to get that deal done. That recruitment was on another level. And remember, Roy Williams basically stopped recruiting him. Best player in the country is from North Carolina, and North Carolina didn’t really want anything to do with it. What does that tell you?”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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These anonymous coaches are really laying it on thick and I still think it would be better if we knew who the coaches were.
I would think with all these questions there would be a whole set of different answers.
