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StraightFrom40216
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 Posted: 04/26/16 2:30 pm ::: What's Going On At Kentucky? |
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In the last 24 hours the UK women's team has lost a starting front-court player (Batouly Camara is transferring), an assistant coach (Tamika Williams-Jeter resigned) and two big-time recruits (Lindsey Corsaro, a 2016 McD AA and Madison Treece, a 2017 top-30 commit).
Wow!
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| Posted: 04/26/16 3:57 pm ::: |
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| Even Marvin Gaye don't know.....
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UK1996
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| Posted: 04/26/16 5:23 pm ::: |
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One of the coaches was let go, I'm not sure if that really had anything to do with it or not. One thing is for sure, if there isn't an investigation by the school, the coaches need to sit down and look for any problems and address them. They might even need to sit down talk to the players, and hear their opinions. I've met Mitchell he seems like a good guy. I don't take him to be a coach who is overly harsh. I do wonder if a lot of transfers at not just UK have to do with the entitlement of this generation. Too many people think they can reap benefits without putting in the work and have a me first attitude. Before anyone jumps on me, I'm the same age as these players and I see it everyday. I kind of wonder too if has to do with jealousy of Epps, she is kind of regarded as more of a celebrity than most women's basketball players because of her success and her dad winning a championship here. When you are a basketball player here you are a celebrity even as a walk on.
Here's a summary of the transfers and decomittments
Chrishae Rowe- Dismissed for violating team rules (I wasn't really surprised.)
Morgan Rich- Never met standards to practice, didn't get to participate in big blue madness (I was surprised only because she was a Kentucky native)
Linnae Harper- Reportedly wasn't happy (Big surprise)
Kyvinn Goodin-Rogers- Left reportedly due to playing time (wasn't a surprise)
Ivana Jacubkova- Never really cracked the rotation (wasn't a surprise)
Batouly Camara- This one really surprised me
Lindsay Corsaro- I understand where she is coming from, the transfers do really seem fishy.
Madison Treece- She's still young only a HS junior, I understand her decomittment too.
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| Posted: 04/26/16 11:51 pm ::: |
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| The problem sounds like Matthew Mitchell. Too authoritarian to work for and play for?
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| Posted: 04/27/16 9:47 am ::: |
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| But Kyra is back, so now what? It's a revolving door there. Perhaps they will hire some former players, or pick from more of Pat's coaching tree; they are both branches of it.
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| Posted: 04/27/16 9:52 am ::: |
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This seems to be one of those cases where there is a fire underneath all the smoke ...
But I'm a long way away, and maybe it's all just coincidence.
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| Posted: 04/27/16 10:25 am ::: |
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It's not like this is new. Players and assistants leaving has been an annual event in Lexington for a while. Although this year seems to be taking it to a new extreme.
One would think that there's probably a limit to how long that can continue before recruits and potential assistants start staying away.
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FollowtheCardinalRule
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| Posted: 05/04/16 7:51 pm ::: |
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| Time for Kentucky to hire Michelle Clark Heard away from WKU?
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| Posted: 05/04/16 11:16 pm ::: |
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| FollowtheCardinalRule wrote: |
| Time for Kentucky to hire Michelle Clark Heard away from WKU? |
Or advertise for some walk-ons? I think they're down to eight players, 4 of whom are new to the team.
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UK1996
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| Posted: 05/05/16 12:08 am ::: |
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| It's kind of ironic, right before Camara announced her transfer, I was cisiting a friend and saw these 3 outside her apartment complex. Maybe the transfers have to do with problems between the players.
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UK1996
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| Posted: 05/05/16 12:10 am ::: |
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| We are down to 7 considering Thompson graduates. We also only have two posts, Akhator and Rice.
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| Posted: 05/05/16 12:16 am ::: |
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| UK1996 wrote: |
| It's kind of ironic, right before Camara announced her transfer, I was cisiting a friend and saw these 3 outside her apartment complex. Maybe the transfers have to do with problems between the players. |
Who do you mean by "these 3"?
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| Posted: 05/05/16 1:08 am ::: |
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| UK1996 wrote: |
| Morgan Rich- Never met standards to practice, didn't get to participate in big blue madness (I was surprised only because she was a Kentucky native) |
UK, can you explain that one in more detail, please? I'm curious because she just finished her redshirt year at (my beloved) OK, and I haven't heard any back story on how that came to be. Was she considered an exceptional talent?
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| Posted: 05/05/16 5:20 am ::: |
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| Howee wrote: |
| UK1996 wrote: |
| Morgan Rich- Never met standards to practice, didn't get to participate in big blue madness (I was surprised only because she was a Kentucky native) |
UK, can you explain that one in more detail, please? I'm curious because she just finished her redshirt year at (my beloved) OK, and I haven't heard any back story on how that came to be. Was she considered an exceptional talent?
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That statement(never met standards to practice) was all that was said about her. She's had knee issues in high school so I assumed it was physical but it could have been academic or an attitude issue too. I don't think she was an exceptional talent. She chose UK over Vandy & had offers from Western Kentucky, Alabama, Middle Tennessee & Dayon. I'd heard she was heading to WKU(after UK) but the scholarship situation didn't work out.
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StraightFrom40216
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| Posted: 05/05/16 7:46 am ::: |
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| On two different message boards I've seen reports of "rumors" that the players have been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements in order to gain a release. That sounds unlikely to me, but stranger things have happened.
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| Posted: 05/05/16 8:02 am ::: |
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| StraightFrom40216 wrote: |
| On two different message boards I've seen reports of "rumors" that the players have been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements in order to gain a release. That sounds unlikely to me, but stranger things have happened. |
That is completely false. From the newspaper writer that covers UK WBB:
Ive been asked multiple times, so I checked with UK. The departing players have NOT been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements.
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| Posted: 05/05/16 9:59 am ::: |
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| ~UK~ wrote: |
| StraightFrom40216 wrote: |
| On two different message boards I've seen reports of "rumors" that the players have been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements in order to gain a release. That sounds unlikely to me, but stranger things have happened. |
That is completely false. From the newspaper writer that covers UK WBB:
Ive been asked multiple times, so I checked with UK. The departing players have NOT been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements.
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But if they had, how could they disclose it ? (lol)
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UK1996
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| Posted: 05/05/16 11:43 am ::: |
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| From what I understand it was academic standards that she never met, probably nothing more than adjusting to a tougher course load.
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| Posted: 05/05/16 11:45 am ::: |
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| Jacubkova, Camara, and Jennings, it was probably nothing more than a coincidence in reality.
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