**UPDATE: The Sun Sentinel is reporting that Knight has cut Miami from his list and has added Syracuse.**
Brandon Knight’s parents would like him to attend Kentucky while Knight himself is more inclined to stay local, multiple sources close to the situation said.
“The parents like UK. Brandon likes the idea of staying local, but he’s definitely not opposed to going away,” one source said.
A second source with direct knowledge of the situation went so far as to say Knight’s parents had already made up their mind in favor of Kentucky.
“You’re right,” the source said. “Do I think they made up their mind already? Yes, I do. It’s hard for me to believe they’ll stay locally.”
Added the first source: “Kentucky is probably where he ends up.”
The 6-3, 185-pound Knight is now considering Kentucky, Kansas, Florida, UConn and Syracuse. Miami is now out.
“I’m pretty ready,” Knight told Gainesville.com on Tuesday. “I’m not bothered or anything. I want to make a decision.
“It’s my future.”
The first source said Knight’s parents liked Kentucky coach John Calipari’s “no-nonsense” style and his track record of sending players to the pros.
“They are going program and where he can be an impact player with the ball in hand, and get better to play in the NBA,” the source said.
6-9 power forward Patric Young of Jacksonville has committed to Florida and could try to sway Knight when the two play together in the McDonald’s All-American Game and the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Ore.
“He would mean a great deal to Florida,” Young told Gainesville.com. “He’s a great player who would make a big difference as a freshman. He’s a gym rat who loves the game and always works to get better. He’s also going to be great in the pros.
“I’ve been trying a little bit [to convince Knight to be a Gator], but I don’t push. He’s got to do what he wants to do.”
Cal is a cheater, he just hasn’t got caught , because he is a good at it. Come on people. He has had two final four vacated, he is dirty. Lol! Now, if you want to question the character of the kids he recruits, you may be on to something… FINE! He is my coach, he is better than the last two we had and I am happy. Until, he is implicated in anything or tied to anything…I will back him. I like Self and Miller, don’t care for K or Roy, Calhoun I hope he comes back…he is one of a kind. Can we get back to talking about Knight and Selby?
Well, I’ve spoken with a few Memphis fans ON THIS SITE. Go searching and have fun. Proof of a statistic for an argument always needs a link or a source, but you are indeed “correct” that I didn’t provide one for my “conversations.” But, I am GLAD you are challenging my non-source. Let’s examine this challenge. If you “claim” that I didn’t talk to someone with from UMass, then you are poking a hole in the point I was trying to make which was that not everybody from both schools think that Calipari is a cheater. Logical enough right? Try to keep up. Therefore, the negation of the claim of, “at least some people believe this” is “nobody believes this.” At this point you may not believe this alternative, because it seems binary. Which infact, it is not, because with ‘n’ people (where n is a positive integer that represents the population of either school because the argument is symmetric) then there are n squared possible different sets of that population that either believe that he is innocent or guilty. Therefore since there is only one possible outcome such that everybody at UMass hates calipari, then 1/(n squared) is your probability which, now, we can plug in a number! lets assume, for arguments sake that there are only 100 UMass fans! This is incredibly wrong, but will do just fine for this probability! Then 1/10000 is the probability all UMass fans hate Calipari…… LOL, a fool hardy suggestion that no UMass likes Calipari. Now, that was an equiprobable computation, lets assume, then, that 95% of all americans hate Calipari, it would be reasonable then to infer that there is indeed .95 probability that a UMass fan, selected among any UMass fan, would hate Cal. Then, by binary probability, which is indeed appropriate for this case, then the probability of all UMass fans hating calipari is equal to the magnitude of the combination of n choose n times the magnitude of .05 to the zero power times the magnitude of .95 to the n power. The combination of n choose n is 1 and the magnitude of .05 to the zero power is 1, therefore the product is solely, .95 to the n power. Now, instead of 100, we will need to use 1000 as our still very untrue because its so incredibly small use of the population of the UMass fan base. What probability did you get? .000000000000000000000053? OMG, so infact, the probability in EITHER formula, approaches zero. Therefore the notion of all UMass fans hating Calipari is completely ridiculous. Of course, the converse that all UMass fans LOVE calipari is just as ridiculous. Since I made a disclaimer in my argument, it is therefore a true point in my argument which was that there are SOME UMass fans that like Calipari, which was my point, and is true. A parallel argument can be made for all but one all the way to all but .05% of fans. Wow, so logic proved my point even though I didn’t provide a link? OMG, amazing. This argument transparent enough for you or are you still that stupid? Btw, if you don’t believe my claim at all, go ask your local mathematical Ph.D guy if anything I said was WRONG. Lol, Have a great day moron! lol
Maybe I am a douchbag, but I’m a douchbag with facts, not speculation, and a douchbag with logic. Btw, nice link for the KU allegations, are you that stupid to put up KU allegations and not UK allegations? Can you even read? Have a good one.
Asterisk next to the two final fours vacated because the Memphis situation is under review.
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1) The Cal haters don’t hold the consensus view, and that’s their right. They have information the rest of us don’t have about Cal’s “hookups” and “shady dealings” and about Cal “not being happy”. If only these haters would share these details with someone who could do something about it. Someone who could investigate the cheating, blow the lid off this whole thing and have Cal banned from coaching in the college ranks ever again.
Please tell us that you have shared your information with the NCAA. They need to know about this stuff. It’s important! What’s that? Why the heck not? How can you just sit there and allow that … that coach to get away with it? You don’t want to be an enabler, do you? You have a chance here, Cal haters, to correct a grave injustice. Stand up, do the right thing and report what you know to the NCAA.
What’s that, haters? You don’t really have anything to report? You just want to spread innuendo and make unsubstantiated allegations on message boards? As long as people don’t know who you are. Oh. I see. Well, that’s disappointing. You got us all worked up there. So what you’re saying is, maybe we should get our news from more reliable sources. Okay, good to know. Sorry about all that.
2) To all of the previous posters regarding Cal – Prove it! We need facts, not speculation or guesses or even heresay, PROOF, FACTS, EVIDENCE!
To bad there is no relation to anything being talked about. Regardless of how you FEEL, the FACTS are that he has ZERO NCAA major violations, and if you think the “shady” business doesn’t happen at all schools, you are blinded by idiocy. Until all of these posters have EVIDENCE, you will not be taken seriously. The MORONS are out in DROVES today!
GREAT POST. You know, I honestly don’t mind people hating cal and people thinking he’s a cheater. That’s fine with me. Just don’t bring false info and absurd reasoning and accusations to the table when “proving” he’s a cheater. I’ll simple agree to disagree if they don’t.
Oh my God, you are more pathetic than I thought. Thanks again for the laugh.
You are so determined to come across as intelligent but you are not fooling anyone. It’s like people who claim to have money- they usually don’t.
Now go compare a blogger calling Calipari a cheater to women being burned at the stake. That was great.
I personally don’t have a huge issue with Cal, just idiots like you who blindly defend him.
Also, as a UK student, don’t you think you are a little biased about Cal?!? Ever thought of that? You could not be any less objective.
Now go throw out some big words, talk about fires and statistics to sound intelligent. You aren’t fooling anyone. But you are pathetic.
I never said all UMass fans hated Cal. Quit making stuff up. Your pathetic “analysis” might work if that’s what I said.
I never said that you said all UMass fans hated cal, quit making stuff up or learn to read, which ever one is more applicable to your situation, which is probably the latter. And I’m not blindly defending him you moron, You forgot to cite your source on that. And, rooting for another school makes you less biased? Child please. Your logic is as flawed. Go back to college because you obviously didn’t get a good enough education. If you are already in college, don’t become a math physics major, because you would fail, bad. Politics sounds like your cup of tea!
2 vacated final fours and leaves right before the penalties hit that is all you need to know he is a cheat, and a greaseball.
Maybe now that he is at kentucky he can play by the rules and win with all the tradition, but that wont be enough for him. But only time will tell at kentucky.
Btw, UofA BJ, cite one place where I shrug off the final fours* (asterisk is needed since Memphis is appealing the ruling.) Please, quote where I say it’s not a big deal. It is a big deal, but to say that it is the reason calipari is a cheater is faux reasoning, period. You can speculate he is a cheater, but nothing more. Get off your high horse because you sir, are the *bleeping* idiot.
No its not, you also need to be mentioned in the allegations. Thanks for playing.
If you don’t understand that UK fans are biased in regards to Calipari, then you are much dumber than I origninally thought.
Fires, statistics, witch trials….repeat
You are not fooling anyone. Except yourself.
Clearly you don’t respond to actual arguments. Sorry I didn’t know you were autistic. You clearly can’t understand implied reasoning. Let me help you out. I said that YES I AM BIASED, but I also said, YOU ARE BIASED TOO. Clear enough for you dumbass?
Blasphemy I bet you would suck cals dick, faggot.
you’re a loser, thanks for playing.
i get why you are so mad…your team just lost to the pathetic ucla bruines. but take your anger out where it belongs. your team and coach.
Well ….. Cal’s W /L record ….coach of the year awards …conference championships etc will get him in the hall of fame without a NC ….but its likely he wins a couple at Ky . He’s going to win 30 for the 5th year in a row this year ….. hottest coach alive ….. rage on haters …. the freight train is heading right at you.
not mad just disapointed thats all.
didnt UofA beat Kentucky for a national title?
This coming from a guy that has BJ in his name, we call this projection in psychology.
Yes, but Kentucky also beat UofA for a national title.
bringing something up that happened over a decade ago and is completely irrelevant isnt going to make you feel better.
direction your anger where it belongs. miller and his players.
Scum of the earth, you never admitted you were biased.Show me where you wrote that. You can’t…waiting…waiting. Is it actual argument or implied? You are contradicting yourself.
Above all, for you to drop an autism comment just shows how truly pathetic you are. Seriously, who says shit like that? You are the SCUM OF THE EARTH. SCUM OF THE EARTH. FUCK OFF AND DIE
Gosh you are so smart scum of the earth. Fucking pathetic piece of shit. SCUM of the EARTH. If there is karma, and you can pay some woman enough to bear your child, it will be autistic. We will see how big your mouth is then.
BostonCat yes we are mad but basketball is just basketball. SCUM OF THE EARTH Blasphemy, who gives every humna a bad name, just brought it to a new low though.
No they didn’t SCUM OF THE EARTH. Please educate me since you are so smart; when did UK beat UofA for the title. SCUM
Hello, I would like to tell everybody a little about myself. I go to sleep at night hating on Calipari an UK. Sometimes, I will wake up and scream “THEY SHOULD BE VACATED!!” The doctors say that as the years go on, the dreaming will get worse until Calipari leaves UK. I often times find myself trolling the message boards looking for UK fans to harass because I think that they are the devil. During the molestation process, I often times find myself saying the same things. “He’s had two final fours vacated, that’s the evidence,” “He’s an oily and snaky car salesman, so of course he’s a cheater,” and who could forget the classic line, “Where there’s smoke there’s a fire!” Don’t let this fool you, my real passion is avoiding any actual debate though! I have mastered it. Anytime a person with a legitimate argument comes, I will simply belittle them and avoid talking about anything they just talked about and use some other “method” or “fact” to prove Calipari is a cheater. That’s about it for me, I’m a pretty simple person with simple PTSD. I look forward to befriending all of you when we are talking about Calipari and UK so we can gang up on them, but I also want to be able to belittle all people who don’t root for the same team I do when something goes their way and hurts my team. Let’s get to hatin’!
I misread that it was the national title so I ADMIT I WAS WRONG. But, UK won the national title that year and beat Zona on the way to the title. I see somebody hasn’t had their coffee today? getting all cranky over a detail of mine, but can’t see your own mistakes. For instance, you are a moron. A minor detail you can work on.
My mouth is big enough to piss you off, the only size it needs to be hahahahahaha.
IMPLIED you dumbass! lol, STILL???? You STILL can’t understand!!!! LOL you are truely autistic. HAHAHAHAHA
Dude Blasphemy I don’t care about your opinions on hoops or witch trials. I could really care less. And I’m not a Cal hater. No I am cranky over your autism comment. Truly pathetic and completely inexcusable.
Just curious,when did UK beat UofA en route to the title?? Umm wrong again. You are on a roll. In 1996 UofA lost to KU and in 1998 to Utah. Wrong wrong wrong.
Actually I don’t really care, I just couldnt beleive you would make fun of autism. I’m never encountered such low class.
Keep up with the “facts” though, like UK beat UofA for a title (WRONG) or UK beat UofA en route to the title (WRONG).
LOLZERZ
1946…. maybe the autism is setting in so much you can’t do your own research. =)
Lol, you really shouldn’t start stuff up if you can’t handle being hurt. Calling people idiots is fine but not autistic? So your fine with calling dumb but noooooo not autistic. Take your double standards and shove them, should have thought twice Sr. autism.
I think it fair to say blasphemy is a douche, citing this message board as hard evidence
Glad you think autism is funny.
1946? Oklahoma A&M won the title. Not UK. Strike three.
I’m out- you have no facts and are scum
Ya, you are clearly a great person. Way to go humanity!
Only scum of the earth, and a total moron, would compare making fun of autism to calling someone an idiot. Then again, you claimed UK beat UofA en route to the title game, in the title game, and you compared bloggers ripping on Cal to women burned at the stake. Why am I surprised?
Um, actually we did win the national title…. ya…….. You googled the ncaa tournament……..ya…………. you needed the NIT 1946 google to get the correct answer……….. ya…………. the NIT was the way to go here because the NIT champion was considered the national champ for many years up until the 50′s I believe……. obviously a mistake due to your brain lapses and zoning. Rock back and forth now.
Your not suprised because you are autistic.
It’s “you’re” you fucking moron.
“We”? Were you on the team?
I’m done. Please fuck off and die
AWWWW, poor baby, need a bib and a bottle. Actually, you are right, you are not autistic, you are borderline. Binary thinking, sarcastic overtone, people are either good or bad. Yup, sounds like borderline personality disorder.
Oh, die? Ya, even though I didn’t make fun of autism, (calling you autistic is not making fun of the disease) if I did, hoping me to die is hardly comparable to making fun of an entire disease. I hope you get help, you need it.
Now that Calhoun is officially back for “several years” Zona fans can stop with the Lute comparisons. Time to accept that UConn will get one (MINIMUM) of Knight, Joseph, Selby, Lamb and Leslie. Just watch and learn
If Calhoun wasn’t bringing in top talent he woudn’t waste his time rebuilding….he’s already convinced Kemba to return. Get ready
Actually HuskiesNYC, Olson had a contract through 2012. So just because he still has a written contract for another 3 years, it doesn’t mean Calhoun will be head coach at that long. Well, you already are as heartbroken as I and thousands of other Arizona fans are that our powerhouse programs will not be dancing so I am going to leave you alone. Good luck to your program.
how would you know if Bledsoe attended more classes than you if you weren’t in class?
I would like to thank all of you that have posted on this string. Sincerely enjoyed reading your diatribes. I hope you all have something in your life you can be just as passionate about as college basketball – something healthy – because it’s obvious this is not a healthy outlet for many of you.
I’m disappointed but feel better because we made the Final Four last year. I watched UConn in 06′ blow a huge opportunity for a 3rd title (with 6 NBA players drafted that year!) and last season made me feel better. Final Fours and NC’s are the only thing that matter. Arizona and UConn are both great programs regardless of this season. I expect UA and Conn to get a peice of the HS recruiting action. Calhoun is too competitve to retire w/o 1 more DEEP NCAA run. He also wants to leave the program in good standing. BTW – Calhoun is much younger than the great Lute when he retired. 67 is NOT old in coaching standards it’s just the media trying to push him out of the game
I’ve talked to him. I’ve been to class many times, just not all the time, as it is a 100 lvl class and frankly it’s cheese to me.