FIVE KENTUCKY PLAYERS HEADING TO DRAFT

Freshmen John Wall, Demarcus Cousins, Daniel Orton, Eric Bledsoe and junior Pat Patterson are all set with amateur athletics and have declared themselves eligible for the NBA draft. Along with a few seniors graduating, this leaves Kentucky with just five players coming back next year.

I knew this was going to happen and I shouldn't be too upset but I am. I hate this. And it isn't anyone's particular fault but it kills me that this is the type of stuff that is going to be happening as long this rule enforcing kids to wait a year is in place.

I made a comment about a week ago on someone's post asking "are John Calipari's Kentucky teams just going to be loaded with one year mercenaries every year?" Apparently he is on that path.

Hey, listen, I get it. If there wasn't a rule in place John Wall and Demarcus Cousins would've most likely been in the NBA. But they can't and they have to do something for a year so they might as well screw around at some college. Again, no one's fault. But isn't something imperatively wrong here? I don't about you DC fans, but I love college basketball and I hate to see it be a made a mockery of by this age rule. With every diaper dandy that takes off to the NBA, especially when they leave a Calipari coached squad, I feel like the integrity of the game, the heart of and soul of the game, whatever the stuff is that makes the NCAA tournament pure and fun, is simply winked at with a wry smile that says "what a joke." I don't know, it just gets under my skin a little bit.

Back to John Calipari. Hey, I don't mind the guy, but I'm not a big fan of his either. Let's set a few things straight: 1. He looks like an asshole. And people who look like assholes usually turn out be assholes and therefore have asshole tendencies. 2. He's a token college coach scumbag. UMASS and Memphis have had their best season's stripped away because of NCAA infractions that this clown apparently didn't know about. 3. Great recruiter, not a great coach. He's a car salesman who knows about basketball is the way I look at it. At the end of tough games against good teams when it matters, his team breaks down and loses.

I shouldn't be mad at John because the rules allow this stuff but it makes me feel better to rant on him. And, I think most people would agree, that this sucks. It shouldn't be like this. But it is what it is as someone once said, and that's the way it's going to be.

So, Kentucky fans, get ready! Because next year you're probably going to have a top five recruiting class and be ranked in the top ten to start the year! It's going to be sick! (Just don't get too attached to the players. Because after the season is over they are going to go in the NBA and make millions of dollars and crack jokes about what a waste of time it was playing in college)

You know who won't be leaving college anytime soon..The Undertaker. He just became 18-0 at Wrestlemania. One more and he'll do something the Patriots couldn't do.



-The Diesel