5 players enter the NBA draft...amazing.
Five UK players, including John Wall, declare for NBA draft - ESPN
Five UK players, including John Wall, declare for NBA draft - ESPN
5 players enter the NBA draft...amazing.
Five UK players, including John Wall, declare for NBA draft - ESPN
Calipari should not be allowed to coach college basketball. Bobby Knight has said this publicly because he leaves and shortly thereafter his FORMER school goes on probation.
This makes me like Coach Cal even more. Who cares what Bob Knight says? Cal has got it going on and he took a team from the NIT to the Elite Eight. Not a bad job on his part.
A couple things:
1. I'm pretty sure players that go to the NBA and don't graduate aren't calculated into graduation rates. For instance, if there are 3 players, 1 graduates, 1 flunks out, and 1 goes to the NBA, then that is a 50% grad rate. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think that is how it works.
2. I honestly don't see Kentucky fans putting up with this for very long. They aren't going to sit around and watch all their players leave year after year when paying that kind of money unless major championships are being won.
3. In the last nine years, Calipari has had his starting point guard leave after his freshman year 4 different times. That is unreal to me. If UK lands Brandon Knight, and I fully expect them to do so, it will likely be five times in ten years after next year.
I think they still have to be in good standing just like transfers. If they fail all of their classes this semester then I think they count against UK.