Jerry Meyer of Rivals.com does a weekly question and answer session from his readers and he was asked if Kenutucky will ever win a championship while mostly playing freshman.
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Here is his reply.
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I share your concern. It seems to me that the safe bet is that Kentucky will always be exciting to watch and likely win the SEC regular season. Then in March they will make a run in the tournament but will eventually fall late in the tournament.
I just think experience is that important.
Now, if the right mix of one-and-done players and players with some experience who forgo the draft come together on the Kentucky roster, it is a much different scenario. You don’t win a national championship with just experience. You have to have NBA-level talent as well and typically those guys are going to be freshmen. But a mix of the two with some experience in the backcourt is critical. Having a non-freshman at point guard would be nice, but the track record under Calipari makes that seem highly unlikely.
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Looking at this year’s lineup, Kentucky will possibly start 3 freshman(Davis, Teague, and Gilchrist) and 2 sophomores(Jones and Lamb).
The bench will have it’s main contributers being 2 seniors(Miller and Vargas, 1 freshman(Wiltjer), 1 junior(Hood), and after Christmas 1 walk on transfer(Beckham).
I guess we will see if talent over experience prevails again as Cal keeps making the cllimb to #8 for Kentucky.
