[Doc Holliday]

No knock on you Doc, honestly, but it seems as if you do not follow recruiting as intently as myself. Jai Lucas is a SCORER. Jodie Meeks, in high school, was a SCORER, Kelenna Azubuike averaged 40 points a game in high school, he was a SCORER. Joe Crawford was a SCORER. Patrick Sparks was a SCORER. It has NOTHING to do with style, i promise. The whole Style of Play argument as to why we dont land recruits is a figment of Tubby Haters imaginations. It simply is not true.

No knock taken CD, I don't follow recruiting near as much as I used to.

But Sparks wasn't recruited by UK, and Lucas hasnet signed as of yet.

Crawford was supposed to be a scorer, I havent seen that out of him, not on a consistent basis.

Azubuike could have really been a scorer given the right system, I wish he would have stayed.

Meeks I like, he actually reminds me of am offensive threat, I think we look much better as a team with him rather than Bradley.

It used to upset me that Lofton went to Tenn but I really think that if he went to UK he would have been trapped in a system that doesn't want you to score, substitute patterns which I honestly dont understand. and an anemic offense that fails to produce points.

Tubby is a defensive coach that I will preach to anyone he believes in D but you have to play on both ends of the court.

I have 2 major issues with the man, one is simple to explain as a life long UK fan, under Rupp, Hall, Sutton, amd Pitino I felt we had a shot to win the National championship every years except for about 4 seasons while they were coaching during my lifetime.
Under Tubby I havent felt that way for sometime, and its not a lack of confidence in his coaching ability in game situations as much as his evaluation of recruits. I have always said that In a close game I would take him over Pitino up until the past 2 seasons.

I just question how we constantly lose the recruits to UCLA, Duke, North Carolina, Florida, that we used to get. Now I can understand that times have changed and we are no longer the big dog that we were, however UCLA, North carolina and Duke have been big dogs for quite sometime but they don't seem to be having the recruiting woes that we are seem to experiencing
JMO