Mike Bianchi, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, is upset about Kentucky beating Florida on Senior Day.
Erving Walker, the only senior on Florida’s team, was supposed to be sent out with a win but Bianchi is upset because Kentucky beat the Gators with a ton of talented freshman.
Last I checked, Kentucky actually had 2 seniors this season, with 2 sophomore hold overs.
Here are a couple of quotes that I am sure will peak your interest.
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[*][I][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]But that nostalgic, idyllic world gave way the real one Sunday when Walker and the Gators were overshadowed once again by Kentucky’s high-flying One-and-Doners, whose 74-59 victory was UK’s 22nd straight and completed an undefeated 16-0 romp through the SEC. This, sadly, is what college basketball has become — a temp agency for rogue UK coach [/FONT][/COLOR][I]John Calipari[/I][I][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]’s whooping, swooping, alley-ooping rent-a-stars.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[*][I][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]”That’s just the way college basketball is today,” Florida’s Walker said. “You see a lot of young stars with some older players sprinkled in.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Especially at Kentucky, where seemingly the only thing that can stop the Childcats is the [/FONT][/COLOR][I]NBA draft[/I]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial].Freshman center [/FONT][/COLOR][I]Anthony Davis [/I][I][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]is the centerpiece of Calipari’s current crop of freshmen slambinos and you could certainly see Sunday why he has already been tabbed as the consensus No. 1 pick in the upcoming June draft. By the time he was finished and the sellout crowd had filed out, Davis had scored 22 points, yanked 12 rebounds, blocked six shots and fielded three trade requests from the [/FONT][/COLOR]
[/I][I]Magic.[/I][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial].[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]
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[*][I][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]That may be true, but Calipari has built the nation’s most dominant basketball team by becoming the sport’s ultimate baby-daddy. Who will ever forget two years ago when Kentucky — after finishing with a 35-3 record and advancing into the Elite 8 of the [/FONT][/COLOR][I]NCAA Tournament[/I][I][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]— had five players, including four freshmen, taken in the first round of the NBA draft. Calipari, obviously forgetting the seven national titles the storied Wildcats have in their history, called it “the biggest day in the history of the Kentucky program.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
[/I][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Translation: Sending players to the [/FONT][/COLOR][I]NBA [/I][I][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]is more important to Calipari than all that other stuff college is supposed to be about. You know, stuff like growing up, developing as a person, going to class, getting a degree, blah, blah, blah.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[*][I][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Calipari, though, refuses to apologize for signing the best players in the country even when he must know his program is nothing more than a glorified AAU squad.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]
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[*][I][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Welcome to college basketball’s worst nightmare.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Freshman Day in Gainesville.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]The Kentucky Childcats.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]No. 1.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]And done[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]
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[/LIST][LEFT][URL=”http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/os-bianchi-kentucky-gators-0305-20120303,0,5550949.column”][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Link to this trash[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][/LEFT]
Now the craziest thing about all of this is lifetime Cal hater Dan Wolken even thought this was ludicrous.
[COLOR=#111111][FONT=Arial][URL=”http://twitter.com/DanWolken”]DanWolken[/URL][URL=”http://twitter.com/DanWolken/status/176498380590153728″]9:44pm via Twitter for iPhone[/URL][COLOR=#32363F]People who call Kentucky a “glorified AAU team” should take the day off from writing.[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#111111][FONT=Arial][IMG]http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/93961017/Dan-Wolken_t100_normal.jpg[/IMG][URL=”http://twitter.com/DanWolken”]DanWolken[/URL][URL=”http://twitter.com/DanWolken/status/176497561253838848″]9:41pm via Twitter for iPhone[/URL][COLOR=#32363F]Not going to link it but the Orlando columnist can’t come up with anything off UK-Florida other than *****ing about one-and-done rule? SMH[/COLOR]
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Haters hate…and Florida loses.
