"youngguns99" Wrote:Its pretty simple. Tubby Smith is not a good coach. The best thing that could happen to UK is for them to keep losing so that they will get rid of Tubby. He is destroying the UK name. For example, Lofton wanted to go to UK but the wonderful Tubby said he was not good enough. Stupid!!!!
That's ridiculous and sad to hope UK keeps losing...If Kentucky can survive the years last few years of Sutton and Pitino's first year, Kentucky can get through one bad season in an era of basketball where anybody can beat anybody on any given night..
As for Lofton..I'm about out of breath saying this but,
Chris Lofton - NR (Not ranked-no star recruit) Not recruited by Kentucky or Louisville...Tennessee got a diamond in the rough there..Nobody could have ever predicted he was going to do that...So get over that...
However Tubby got the following in last years class:
Rajon Rondo: 5 Star PG, 5th Ranked PG of class....
Randolph Morris: 5 Star C, 2nd Ranked C of class...
Joe Crawford: 5 Star SG/F, 2nd Ranked SG of class...
Ramel Bradley: 3 Star SG, 20th Ranked SG of class...
Patrick Sparks: Proven SG out of Western Kentucky that most would have loved to have at the time...
Where exactly would Lofton fit in, with three 5 Star recruits, a highly ranked 3 star, and a high profile transfer? This was a top 10 class for Kentucky and Lofton wasn't even a ranked player...Tubby would have taken him, but had no schollies to offer him...Looks like a top notch recruiting class for Tubby here is it not?
Next year Tubby has three highly profiled 4 Star recruits including the #8 SG in the nation Meeks, #15 ranked PF in the nation, and oh yeah, the #5 PG in the country is coming to UK next year...Not to mention the fact that UK might land 6'10 C/F Phil Jones....
So obviously Tubby Smith wasn't the only person to miss Lofton..Pitino didn't make any room for either, nor did Cinci...I don't recall Smith saying Lofton wasn't good enough to come to UK but there just wasn't any room at the time...