It has become a recent trend for many top recruits to not sign to their committed schools even late into their senior years including Brandon Knight. The theory is top talent has no reason to bind themselves to a school. If a player signs, even if the coach decks or the program is put under NCAA sanctions they would still be binded to their given school.
Typically when coaches leave, programs will release any player that wants out of their contract but they don't have to. Sometimes they will only agree if the player agrees to not go to rival schools or schools in the same conference. Of course if a plyaer is released they can do what they want but it is a hassle that some recruits don't want to mess with. They want the ball to stay in their court.
5 stars Michael Gilchrist, Marquis Teague, Anthony Davis and Kyle Wiltjer are saying to heck with that, were signing as early as they possibly can..which is tomorrow.
What is great about this, is the confidence this class has that UK is where they want to be and their confidence that Cal isn't going anywhere.
Go Cats!

Yo, did the recruits sign today like they said they would?
ReplyDeleteYes all are signed and delivered. Coach Cal has a great video on all four that he couldn't talk about until signed. Check out coachcal.com for it.
ReplyDeleteWho do you think he is talking about recruiting at the end of the video?
ReplyDeleteGreat video! and i'm very excited that they are officially UK Cats now!
ReplyDeletein that video Coach Cal says he doesn't know who will stay and who will go.. and that we might add in one or two more into that class..
if we do add more who do you think they might be?
DeAndre Daniels, Trevor Lacey, or Michael Chandler? or maybe someone else?
That has a whole lot to do with our needs, which he won't know until we see who decks for the pros.
ReplyDeleteDeAndre Daniels and Trevor Lacey are our current two biggest prospects UK is involved with. Daniels thought of reclassifying just to come to UK. Lacey would have committed to UK months ago but hasn't been offered. He wanted to announce his decision but Cal told him to hold off.