Everything we are permitted to know about this guy, o, is scary, Sonny.
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Smart lawyers should be working on impeachment. I doubt that they are.
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Got the following from a friend here in Florida. Most of this I have seen before but he wrote the following paragraph. Stand by "old folks" 'cause it coming. Finally came out today that almost all the people who voted for the health care bill HAD NOT READ IT including Pelosi. That's why she kept saying we would find out what was in it after it passed...she didn't know!
Ramey
Wednesday, I was at the doctor whom I have been going to since we moved down here (he is the one who discovered my cancer).. I have to get a very expensive shot every 3 months ($3000) that is designed to keep the PSI down and help to prevent a recurrence of the cancer. Has some uncomfortable side effects, and I was questioning the need to continue with it, which he assured me was necessary. He then asked how old I was, and when I replied 70, he said that if this legislation goes through as intended by the powers that be, that I probably would not be able to get it next year, as that would be money better spent on someone else with greater longevity. I would be referred to someone to "counsel" me.
I asked him why the AMA had recently endorsed the plan. He replied that only about 15% of the nation's doctors were members of AMA, and most of them were not really on the front lines of doctor hood but in some other areas of medicine. He said he was a member, but would not be after this membership year.
This man got part of his training in London , and practiced in Canada for 16 years before coming to the US , and he has no use for socialized medicine, regardless of how you wrap it, or what kind of bow to put on it. He said that we have a shortfall of around 400,000 doctors at the present time, and many of today's doctors are of the baby boomer generation who are nearing retirement and/or will decide to hang it up rather than deal with the results this is sure to bring.
Scary, my friends. The picture for our age group is not pretty in Obamaland.
SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS:
In England no one over 59 can receive heart repairs or stents or bypass because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed.
Obama wants to have a healthcare system just like Canada 's and England 's.. I got this today and am sending it on. If Obama's plans in other areas don't scare you, this should. Please do not let Obama sign senior death warrants..
Everybody that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting close or knows somebody that is.
Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by Bloomberg with the following statement:
Bloomberg: Daschle says "health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that our esteemed Senators and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed for the remainder of their lives. Nor are they subject to this new law if it passes.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up. And we have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and its allies have begun and in the interim, we can make their lives miserable. Let's do this!
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In Military, Politics, Quotes, Religion, Stupidity, culture, thinking out loud on April 13, 2010 at 12:10 am
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race?”
–Frederic Bastiat
“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”
–Thomas Paine
“I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”
“The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”
–H.L. Mencken
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
“Law never made men a whit more just.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.”
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?”
–James Madison
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for yourself.”
–unknown
“I let go of the law, and people become honest. I let go of economics, and people become prosperous. I let go of religion, and people become serene. I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results.”
–Lao Tzu
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
“A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
“There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual but permitted to a mob.”
–Ayn Rand
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.”
–Frederick Douglass
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
–Plato
“The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.”
–Mark Skousen
“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither.”
–Milton Friedman
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain–that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
–Lysander Spooner
“The measure of the state’s success is that the word ‘anarchy’ frightens people, while the word ’state’ does not.”
–Joseph Sobran
http://www.antiwar.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com
http://www.mises.org
http://www.reason.com
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm (read less)
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You are remarkable, David! Sometmes I can tell who you are ( a funloving brainy and thoughtful guy) and sometimes I am caused to wonder. But I am truly happy to have you and Rick as fellow UK fans and friends.
These are tremendously interesting quotes.
We need to converse more about your coming books.
I also think you should contact: Blog2Print and speak with Jim at Customer support: 1-888-212-3121. I had them do my blog for 2008 (took less than a week) and it is an amazing service. Your stuff should be seen by more people.
Tell our friend Rick that I have not been able to reach him by phone.
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In Military, Politics, Quotes, Religion, Stupidity, culture, thinking out loud on April 13, 2010 at 12:10 am
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race?”
–Frederic Bastiat
“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”
–Thomas Paine
“I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”
“The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”
–H.L. Mencken
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
“Law never made men a whit more just.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.”
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?”
–James Madison
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for yourself.”
–unknown
“I let go of the law, and people become honest. I let go of economics, and people become prosperous. I let go of religion, and people become serene. I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results.”
–Lao Tzu
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
“A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
“There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual but permitted to a mob.”
–Ayn Rand
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.”
–Frederick Douglass
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
–Plato
“The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.”
–Mark Skousen
“The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither.”
–Milton Friedman
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain–that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
–Lysander Spooner
“The measure of the state’s success is that the word ‘anarchy’ frightens people, while the word ’state’ does not.”
–Joseph Sobran
http://www.antiwar.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com
http://www.mises.org
http://www.reason.com
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm (read less)
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You are remarkable, David! Sometmes I can tell who you are ( a funloving brainy and thoughtful guy) and sometimes I am caused to wonder. But I am truly happy to have you and Rick as fellow UK fans and friends.
These are tremendously interesting quotes.
We need to converse more about your coming books.
I also think you should contact: Blog2Print and speak with Jim at Customer support: 1-888-212-3121. I had them do my blog for 2008 (took less than a week) and it is an amazing service. Your stuff should be seen by more people.
Tell our friend Rick that I have not been able to reach him by phone.
Sam
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#21 Yesterday, 06:28 PM
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And don't forget a commitment from the number one player in 2011.
Tragic sign o' the times.
I've said it for months. Cal's no different than Gillispie, really. Only difference is that one guy tweets off a few inspirational quotes and the other likes Pop Tarts.
Nobody can ever convince me--nobody, ever, nobody can ever, ever ever--that this past season wasn't like pulling teeth.
Winning all those games? Bludgeoning those 35 opponents? Winning the SEC? The miraculous SEC Tournament win? The 2000th win? The highlights every night?
You know what I say to all that? YAWNY-YAW-YAWN!
As long as we're playing with these "one-and-done" mercenaries, I'll continue not to care. Wake me up when we sign a good ol-fashioned strapper who can hit a 15-footer and doesn't have tattoos.
This dominance was disagraceful and Cal simply must do better.
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#22 Yesterday, 06:30 PM
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These 4 or 5 play on different teams and they don't make the NBA draft level they did with UK, even Cousins who was a work in progress for much of the year developed under the leadership of the coaches ( all of them not just Cal) and Patterson, as well as the talent and hype of Wall.
Face it together they made a heck of a team and learned to play off each others strengths, apart who knows if Cousins would have had the metamorphosis from High school AAU player to NBA caliber JMO probably not...
I figure Cal was looking at Wall and Patterson on the out, and maybe, cousins if he grew,
Bledsoe is very very good and is Orton but they are going NBA because it looks like the right time. They might get surprised aka 04 UF team that bolted and went nowhere...
Hey "...gatorland":
What's the scuttlebut in FL over Cal plucking Knight from UF/Billy D.? I know UF quit recruiting him but I'm curious if anyone is upset that he's leaving the state, especially for UK? Or maybe no one cares since spring football began?
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#23 Yesterday, 06:30 PM
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Causing more harm than good. Maybe time away will do me a bit of good.
To the woods I go! See yall on the flip side!
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#24 Yesterday, 06:34 PM
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Causing more harm than good.
Nah. Just joshin', UFGrant. You're a valuable member here.
You do, however, love to devil's advocate the hell out of it. You know you were cheering like mad this season and would take another one in a heartbeat. You know it!
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#25 Yesterday, 06:35 PM
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Maybe Barnhart should bring back Gillispie so everyone can be happy again...
While I agree that Cal shouldn't change his methods, these arguments are meaningless. It's like people believe that you have to go from one extreme to the other, when you can find a happy medium (which I believe Calipari will).
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#26 Yesterday, 06:37 PM
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Causing more harm than good. Maybe time away will do me a bit of good.
To the woods I go! See yall on the flip side!
You're cool with me too!
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#27 Yesterday, 06:37 PM
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Maybe Barnhart should bring back Gillispie so everyone can be happy again...
not me..I would be a very unhappy fan.....maybe not a fan anymore
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#28 Yesterday, 08:37 PM
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I have no problem whatsoever with Coach Calipari and how he steers his ship. So what if he rectuits the best of the best and there one and done's. So what if his young teams go through the regular season up and down like a roller coaster as they learn a new system and way of playing basketball.
To me, it's all about the last 6 games of the season and by fluke, we played horrible at the wrong time of the year without any help from the refs
What's sad today is that were not stopping on the side of the road somewhere and purchasing our 2010 Ncaa National Championship t shirts. We could have very easily have won the title this year and Coach Cal made all the right moves and pulled the right strings all year long. Unfortunately, we came up short at the end of the year and i don't put the blame on him or his staff.If fact, i appreciate and want to thank him for getting our program back in the hunt and in the thick of things
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#29 Yesterday, 08:49 PM
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UF, thicken your skin. Don't leave - we love you here. You created the Rumor Mill, man; that in itself makes you a WCN Legend.
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#30 Yesterday, 08:54 PM
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Causing more harm than good. Maybe time away will do me a bit of good.
To the woods I go! See yall on the flip side!
Not causing any harm at all. I don't think its physically possible for you to have caused any harm as a matter of fact. You have your opinion like everyone else. I disagree with it, but its still your opinion. I do think one thing in this statement is true and thats time. Not time away from here. But just time will help with all of this change for ya. Lets give Cal a little time too.
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#31 Yesterday, 09:01 PM
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Cal recruits the highest talent available.
Most of those guys are going to be one and done type guys.
That's what Cal was brought in to do. Bring the talent level back up.
You can't have the type of talent that UK should have without having one and done players.
Are there people out there that really do not comprehend this?
yeah i'm pretty perplexed as to why the one and done thing is such a downer for some - most actually
all people have done is gripe about recruiting and gripe about the lack of consistent widespread talent and how there are players on the bench that don't deserve to wear that uniform - i know i've done it
but now we get Calipari who is a known high caliber talent recruiter that when mixed with the tradition and ALL that is Kentucky basketball is a win win for everyone - it's a problem
i can understand how people could get worried about a MASS exodus yearly....but i'm tellin ya - i just don't see that being the norm at Kentucky.....we may see a couple go after one year.....but a repeat of what we saw this season, i don't think so....
Calipari is doing what he's paid to do - bring in TOP players! he's a great ambassador for the University of Kentucky and is PERFECT for this job!
his job rating on just what we've seen since last april between a 1 and 10 scale i give him a 20!
GO CATS AND GO COACH CAL!!!!!! THE BIG BLUE STEAMROLLER IS BACK!!!!!
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#32 Yesterday, 09:23 PM
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As long as we keep Coach and he aint a 1 and dun guy then I think we're ok....He said it himslef (and some of the mock Drafts are picking up on it as well) some of these guys (Bledsoe/Orton) were not expected to go the first year.......As long as coach aint a 1 and dun - we'll be ok.
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#33 Today, 01:29 AM
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Maybe Barnhart should bring back Gillispie so everyone can be happy again...
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#34 Today, 03:03 AM
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It's simple. People should enjoy the talent while it is here. Don't worry about "how long" it will be here....worry more about "how PRODUCTIVE" they will be
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#35 Today, 03:05 AM
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Maybe Barnhart should bring back Gillispie so everyone can be happy again...
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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#36 Today, 03:18 AM
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i can understand how people could get worried about a MASS exodus yearly....but i'm tellin ya - i just don't see that being the norm at Kentucky.....we may see a couple go after one year.....but a repeat of what we saw this season, i don't think so....
Agreed. i think he should try and recruit only a few 1-and-done's a year (which he did this past year, just turned out that bledsoe and orton had higher stocks than they were expecting and they cant/shouldnt turn down the money given their financial situations).
Though we are getting Knight this year, I hope people realize he won't be as incredible as Wall. A player like Wall comes every 3 years or so. I almost hope Knight doesn't blow up next year so he can stay for 2 years and so we can get to know him a little more
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I have tried not to comment on some of the LUNACY I have read from some of our fans "concerned" about the "one and done players" but can do so no longer.. To them I say;A. GROW UP or B. Get in a time machine and go watch BB in the 1970,s. This is 2010 and "one and done's" are the way THINGS ARE. Accept it or better still ENJOY UK Basketball back at the level where it belongs. If you can't accept things as they currently are then you should probably quit watching the college game, because I have news for you, that troll David Stern has ZERO interest in changing the current system and THIS is what we have for the foreseeable future.
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I have tried not to comment on some of the LUNACY I have read from some of our fans "concerned" about the "one and done players" but can do so no longer.. To them I say;A. GROW UP or B. Get in a time machine and go watch BB in the 1970,s. This is 2010 and "one and done's" are the way THINGS ARE. Accept it or better still ENJOY UK Basketball back at the level where it belongs. If you can't accept things as they currently are then you should probably quit watching the college game, because I have news for you, that troll David Stern has ZERO interest in changing the current system and THIS is what we have for the foreseeable future.
One-and-dones are the cream of the crop yes. But it doesnt mean UK has to be the school that is known as the one-and-done capital of the world. We can be like any other top school (like Kansas, or UNC, or even Duke who has had some 1-and-done's) and try to mix one-and-dones with 2-4 year players. I think thats what Cal's plan was all along... it just didnt turn out that way this year. I dont like UK having the title of the "one-and-done" school or the NBA d-league roster etc etc and I think it is ill-founded based on one-year by the haters. I think next year things will calm down. We should be solid next year, and bring in some talent for the year after to cultivate a team over a few years.
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While I agree that Cal shouldn't change his methods, these arguments are meaningless. It's like people believe that you have to go from one extreme to the other, when you can find a happy medium (which I believe Calipari will).
There you go again. I'll leave it at that.
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#21 Yesterday, 06:28 PM
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And don't forget a commitment from the number one player in 2011.
Tragic sign o' the times.
I've said it for months. Cal's no different than Gillispie, really. Only difference is that one guy tweets off a few inspirational quotes and the other likes Pop Tarts.
Nobody can ever convince me--nobody, ever, nobody can ever, ever ever--that this past season wasn't like pulling teeth.
Winning all those games? Bludgeoning those 35 opponents? Winning the SEC? The miraculous SEC Tournament win? The 2000th win? The highlights every night?
You know what I say to all that? YAWNY-YAW-YAWN!
As long as we're playing with these "one-and-done" mercenaries, I'll continue not to care. Wake me up when we sign a good ol-fashioned strapper who can hit a 15-footer and doesn't have tattoos.
This dominance was disagraceful and Cal simply must do better.
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#22 Yesterday, 06:30 PM
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These 4 or 5 play on different teams and they don't make the NBA draft level they did with UK, even Cousins who was a work in progress for much of the year developed under the leadership of the coaches ( all of them not just Cal) and Patterson, as well as the talent and hype of Wall.
Face it together they made a heck of a team and learned to play off each others strengths, apart who knows if Cousins would have had the metamorphosis from High school AAU player to NBA caliber JMO probably not...
I figure Cal was looking at Wall and Patterson on the out, and maybe, cousins if he grew,
Bledsoe is very very good and is Orton but they are going NBA because it looks like the right time. They might get surprised aka 04 UF team that bolted and went nowhere...
Hey "...gatorland":
What's the scuttlebut in FL over Cal plucking Knight from UF/Billy D.? I know UF quit recruiting him but I'm curious if anyone is upset that he's leaving the state, especially for UK? Or maybe no one cares since spring football began?
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Causing more harm than good. Maybe time away will do me a bit of good.
To the woods I go! See yall on the flip side!
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#24 Yesterday, 06:34 PM
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Causing more harm than good.
Nah. Just joshin', UFGrant. You're a valuable member here.
You do, however, love to devil's advocate the hell out of it. You know you were cheering like mad this season and would take another one in a heartbeat. You know it!
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Maybe Barnhart should bring back Gillispie so everyone can be happy again...
While I agree that Cal shouldn't change his methods, these arguments are meaningless. It's like people believe that you have to go from one extreme to the other, when you can find a happy medium (which I believe Calipari will).
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#26 Yesterday, 06:37 PM
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Causing more harm than good. Maybe time away will do me a bit of good.
To the woods I go! See yall on the flip side!
You're cool with me too!
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#27 Yesterday, 06:37 PM
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Maybe Barnhart should bring back Gillispie so everyone can be happy again...
not me..I would be a very unhappy fan.....maybe not a fan anymore
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#28 Yesterday, 08:37 PM
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I have no problem whatsoever with Coach Calipari and how he steers his ship. So what if he rectuits the best of the best and there one and done's. So what if his young teams go through the regular season up and down like a roller coaster as they learn a new system and way of playing basketball.
To me, it's all about the last 6 games of the season and by fluke, we played horrible at the wrong time of the year without any help from the refs
What's sad today is that were not stopping on the side of the road somewhere and purchasing our 2010 Ncaa National Championship t shirts. We could have very easily have won the title this year and Coach Cal made all the right moves and pulled the right strings all year long. Unfortunately, we came up short at the end of the year and i don't put the blame on him or his staff.If fact, i appreciate and want to thank him for getting our program back in the hunt and in the thick of things
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#29 Yesterday, 08:49 PM
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UF, thicken your skin. Don't leave - we love you here. You created the Rumor Mill, man; that in itself makes you a WCN Legend.
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#30 Yesterday, 08:54 PM
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Causing more harm than good. Maybe time away will do me a bit of good.
To the woods I go! See yall on the flip side!
Not causing any harm at all. I don't think its physically possible for you to have caused any harm as a matter of fact. You have your opinion like everyone else. I disagree with it, but its still your opinion. I do think one thing in this statement is true and thats time. Not time away from here. But just time will help with all of this change for ya. Lets give Cal a little time too.
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#31 Yesterday, 09:01 PM
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Cal recruits the highest talent available.
Most of those guys are going to be one and done type guys.
That's what Cal was brought in to do. Bring the talent level back up.
You can't have the type of talent that UK should have without having one and done players.
Are there people out there that really do not comprehend this?
yeah i'm pretty perplexed as to why the one and done thing is such a downer for some - most actually
all people have done is gripe about recruiting and gripe about the lack of consistent widespread talent and how there are players on the bench that don't deserve to wear that uniform - i know i've done it
but now we get Calipari who is a known high caliber talent recruiter that when mixed with the tradition and ALL that is Kentucky basketball is a win win for everyone - it's a problem
i can understand how people could get worried about a MASS exodus yearly....but i'm tellin ya - i just don't see that being the norm at Kentucky.....we may see a couple go after one year.....but a repeat of what we saw this season, i don't think so....
Calipari is doing what he's paid to do - bring in TOP players! he's a great ambassador for the University of Kentucky and is PERFECT for this job!
his job rating on just what we've seen since last april between a 1 and 10 scale i give him a 20!
GO CATS AND GO COACH CAL!!!!!! THE BIG BLUE STEAMROLLER IS BACK!!!!!
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#32 Yesterday, 09:23 PM
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Here's the only "One and Done" that matters
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As long as we keep Coach and he aint a 1 and dun guy then I think we're ok....He said it himslef (and some of the mock Drafts are picking up on it as well) some of these guys (Bledsoe/Orton) were not expected to go the first year.......As long as coach aint a 1 and dun - we'll be ok.
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Maybe Barnhart should bring back Gillispie so everyone can be happy again...
Post of the day!!!!
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#34 Today, 03:03 AM
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It's simple. People should enjoy the talent while it is here. Don't worry about "how long" it will be here....worry more about "how PRODUCTIVE" they will be
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#35 Today, 03:05 AM
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Maybe Barnhart should bring back Gillispie so everyone can be happy again...
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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#36 Today, 03:18 AM
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i can understand how people could get worried about a MASS exodus yearly....but i'm tellin ya - i just don't see that being the norm at Kentucky.....we may see a couple go after one year.....but a repeat of what we saw this season, i don't think so....
Agreed. i think he should try and recruit only a few 1-and-done's a year (which he did this past year, just turned out that bledsoe and orton had higher stocks than they were expecting and they cant/shouldnt turn down the money given their financial situations).
Though we are getting Knight this year, I hope people realize he won't be as incredible as Wall. A player like Wall comes every 3 years or so. I almost hope Knight doesn't blow up next year so he can stay for 2 years and so we can get to know him a little more
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#37 Today, 03:21 AM
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I have tried not to comment on some of the LUNACY I have read from some of our fans "concerned" about the "one and done players" but can do so no longer.. To them I say;A. GROW UP or B. Get in a time machine and go watch BB in the 1970,s. This is 2010 and "one and done's" are the way THINGS ARE. Accept it or better still ENJOY UK Basketball back at the level where it belongs. If you can't accept things as they currently are then you should probably quit watching the college game, because I have news for you, that troll David Stern has ZERO interest in changing the current system and THIS is what we have for the foreseeable future.
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#38 Today, 03:25 AM
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I have tried not to comment on some of the LUNACY I have read from some of our fans "concerned" about the "one and done players" but can do so no longer.. To them I say;A. GROW UP or B. Get in a time machine and go watch BB in the 1970,s. This is 2010 and "one and done's" are the way THINGS ARE. Accept it or better still ENJOY UK Basketball back at the level where it belongs. If you can't accept things as they currently are then you should probably quit watching the college game, because I have news for you, that troll David Stern has ZERO interest in changing the current system and THIS is what we have for the foreseeable future.
One-and-dones are the cream of the crop yes. But it doesnt mean UK has to be the school that is known as the one-and-done capital of the world. We can be like any other top school (like Kansas, or UNC, or even Duke who has had some 1-and-done's) and try to mix one-and-dones with 2-4 year players. I think thats what Cal's plan was all along... it just didnt turn out that way this year. I dont like UK having the title of the "one-and-done" school or the NBA d-league roster etc etc and I think it is ill-founded based on one-year by the haters. I think next year things will calm down. We should be solid next year, and bring in some talent for the year after to cultivate a team over a few years.
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While I agree that Cal shouldn't change his methods, these arguments are meaningless. It's like people believe that you have to go from one extreme to the other, when you can find a happy medium (which I believe Calipari will).
There you go again. I'll leave it at that.
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Another great find in this article, WildcatRick! I luv u man!
Our good friend Dawood can stir the pot and he is never dull!
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This is great! From Dave Miller
I really appreciate this one, Dave. Thanks good friend and fellow softballer from Portsmouth, Ohio- the Cultural Center of Our Universe!
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THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND , TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE .
THEY KEPT ON WALKING, UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS, WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH .
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AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING, HE WROTE ON A STONE:
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THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM, 'AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW, YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?'
THE FRIEND REPLIED 'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US, WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE WHERE NO WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT'
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.
THEY SAY IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON, AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM, A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
BUT THEN ,
AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM.
SEND THIS TO THE PEOPLE YOU'LL NEVER FORGET.
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TAKE THE TIME TO LIVE!
DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT VALUE WHO YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE!
AND IF I HAPPEN TO GET IT BACK, THEN I KNOW MY PLACE IN YOUR LIFE
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STONE
TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT . DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE
THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND , TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE .
THEY KEPT ON WALKING, UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS, WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH .
THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING, BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.
AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING, HE WROTE ON A STONE:
'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE'
THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM, 'AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW, YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?'
THE FRIEND REPLIED 'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US, WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE WHERE NO WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT'
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.
THEY SAY IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON, AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM, A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
BUT THEN ,
AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM.
SEND THIS TO THE PEOPLE YOU'LL NEVER FORGET.
I JUST DID.
TAKE THE TIME TO LIVE!
DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT VALUE WHO YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE!
AND IF I HAPPEN TO GET IT BACK, THEN I KNOW MY PLACE IN YOUR LIFE
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Florida Newspaper article on Brandon Knight
This is from Jeanie's, and my good friend, Diane Massie, on Facebook. Diane is our next UK Alumni National President and she will be among the best ever. She resides in Chicago as a lady executive of the highest order. She, along with her lawyer friend Jill Rappis, but the two ladies have their hearts with the Kentucky Wildcats ... Come to think of it ... What better place for a sports fan's heart?
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Kentucky gets a special kid … who plays ball, too
Brandon Knight leaves a legacy at Pine Crest
Ethan J. Skolnick
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11:23 AM EDT, April 15, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE
Brandon Knight hardly needed a recommendation, let alone a glowing one, to earn admission into any college in America. A repeat Florida Mr. Basketball and Gatorade National Player of the Year? No need to waste time and trees. Son, just show up and start shooting.
Yet this is what colleges got, if they cared to read it. They got an English Honors III teacher raving about "Brandon's perfect articulation in reading Shakespeare," and describing "the stillness of the room as his peers listened in rapt attention" to his "Macbeth" soliloquy. They got an Advanced Placement statistics teacher recalling all the times he would stay for extra help, even it meant missing dinner before a game. They got his college counselor gushing, "A finer Pine Crest student I cannot imagine."
So that's what Kentucky is getting, along with arguably the greatest basketball player Broward County has ever produced, someone with skills to match those of other point guards (Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans, John Wall) John Calipari has recently coached. They're getting someone who has a 4.3 grade-point average, someone physics teacher Naeemah Owens "would love to clone," someone who would ask for further explanation about the one question missed on a test, "not because he wanted the points, but just so he could understand."
They're getting one of the most special student-athletes this area has ever seen.
Knight made his announcement Wednesday afternoon in the standing-room-only Stacy Auditorium.
The clapping began at 3:58, then silence, then whispers, then a boy turning to his mother to tell her not to cough, then silence again, all as Efrem and Tonya Knight slid their chairs slightly forward on stage, and Brandon listened through an earpiece to questions coming from a studio in Bristol, Conn.
"The place where I plan to play my college basketball…"
He fumbled under the table for the hat that would reveal the secret his mother had kept for about a month, even as she wanted to scream it to all who asked.
"…is the University of Kentucky."
That was followed by 52 seconds of cheering, whistling and a "we love you" or two — from teammates, classmates, teachers, administrators, children and even a family that had flown down from Lexington, actually arranging a weeklong South Florida vacation around this sacred event.
"It was the obvious choice for him," said Mike Rankin, 35, wearing a Wildcats T-shirt. "When he goes to Kentucky, he'll be a rock star."
Instantly, Internet surfers started questioning the decision, wondering why such a strong student would play for a controversial coach who specializes in one-and-doners. That was my initial reaction, too. Why not go to, say, Duke? But Knight will get more out of one year of education, wherever, than most college students would get from four. As he told ESPNU, "Your mind is going to last you a lot longer than your legs, so I feel I have to try to get my education so I can be ready for life after basketball."
And if it's just one year, for now?
His mother won't mind.
"You know what, everybody's goal in life is to live their dream, whether you want to be a lawyer, an NBA player or whatever," Tonya Knight said. "If he has an opportunity to go the NBA, and that's his dream, why not live it? With the AP classes, he'll walk in with 20-something credits already. Get one year out of the way, maybe the summers, you know what, he can do the rest online."
As she spoke,15 minutes after the announcement, giddy children in green school uniforms had formed a line, all holding something for him to sign. He took a photo with a much bigger kid, a school security officer, who promised, "I'll keep this my whole life."
The kid's going places. Everyone knows it. Now we know the next place is Kentucky.
Copyright © 2010, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Kentucky gets a special kid … who plays ball, too
Brandon Knight leaves a legacy at Pine Crest
Ethan J. Skolnick
Sports columnist
11:23 AM EDT, April 15, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE
Brandon Knight hardly needed a recommendation, let alone a glowing one, to earn admission into any college in America. A repeat Florida Mr. Basketball and Gatorade National Player of the Year? No need to waste time and trees. Son, just show up and start shooting.
Yet this is what colleges got, if they cared to read it. They got an English Honors III teacher raving about "Brandon's perfect articulation in reading Shakespeare," and describing "the stillness of the room as his peers listened in rapt attention" to his "Macbeth" soliloquy. They got an Advanced Placement statistics teacher recalling all the times he would stay for extra help, even it meant missing dinner before a game. They got his college counselor gushing, "A finer Pine Crest student I cannot imagine."
So that's what Kentucky is getting, along with arguably the greatest basketball player Broward County has ever produced, someone with skills to match those of other point guards (Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans, John Wall) John Calipari has recently coached. They're getting someone who has a 4.3 grade-point average, someone physics teacher Naeemah Owens "would love to clone," someone who would ask for further explanation about the one question missed on a test, "not because he wanted the points, but just so he could understand."
They're getting one of the most special student-athletes this area has ever seen.
Knight made his announcement Wednesday afternoon in the standing-room-only Stacy Auditorium.
The clapping began at 3:58, then silence, then whispers, then a boy turning to his mother to tell her not to cough, then silence again, all as Efrem and Tonya Knight slid their chairs slightly forward on stage, and Brandon listened through an earpiece to questions coming from a studio in Bristol, Conn.
"The place where I plan to play my college basketball…"
He fumbled under the table for the hat that would reveal the secret his mother had kept for about a month, even as she wanted to scream it to all who asked.
"…is the University of Kentucky."
That was followed by 52 seconds of cheering, whistling and a "we love you" or two — from teammates, classmates, teachers, administrators, children and even a family that had flown down from Lexington, actually arranging a weeklong South Florida vacation around this sacred event.
"It was the obvious choice for him," said Mike Rankin, 35, wearing a Wildcats T-shirt. "When he goes to Kentucky, he'll be a rock star."
Instantly, Internet surfers started questioning the decision, wondering why such a strong student would play for a controversial coach who specializes in one-and-doners. That was my initial reaction, too. Why not go to, say, Duke? But Knight will get more out of one year of education, wherever, than most college students would get from four. As he told ESPNU, "Your mind is going to last you a lot longer than your legs, so I feel I have to try to get my education so I can be ready for life after basketball."
And if it's just one year, for now?
His mother won't mind.
"You know what, everybody's goal in life is to live their dream, whether you want to be a lawyer, an NBA player or whatever," Tonya Knight said. "If he has an opportunity to go the NBA, and that's his dream, why not live it? With the AP classes, he'll walk in with 20-something credits already. Get one year out of the way, maybe the summers, you know what, he can do the rest online."
As she spoke,15 minutes after the announcement, giddy children in green school uniforms had formed a line, all holding something for him to sign. He took a photo with a much bigger kid, a school security officer, who promised, "I'll keep this my whole life."
The kid's going places. Everyone knows it. Now we know the next place is Kentucky.
Copyright © 2010, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Cousins press conference upon decision to go pro
Thanks Judi!
I missed this. It is a wonderfully heartfelt message from the Big Guy! I am saving it and sending it on to our fellow Kerntucky fans and to my blog. You are a great UK fan, Judi Cole.
Sam
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From: judith Cole
To: sam kegley
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 22:40
Subject: Cousin's comments at press conference
By Jennifer Smith
jsmith3@herald-leader.com
It's difficult to visualize a 6-foot-11, 270-pound man as an uncertain baby bird being pushed from its nest.
But that's how DeMarcus Cousins seemed to describe the process of making the decision to leave Kentucky after one season and head to the NBA.
He said it was Coach John Calipari pushing him from the comfortable, feathery nest that is Kentucky basketball.
"Cal's pushing me away," Cousins said on Thursday. "He said, 'You've got to go.'
"We felt it was the best decision for me. Right now my stock is high and they believed it was time for me to go."
In a 15-minute session with members of the media, Cousins discussed a vast array of topics from his decision to turn pro and hire agent John Greig, to his love for all things Kentucky, to why a fancy car won't be his first purchase with his new NBA salary.
In the back of the room Calipari and several assistants and basketball staff members watched the news conference.
Cousins, the Southeastern Conference's Freshman of the Year and an Associated Press first-team All-American, said it's people like them and his teammates that make him want to stay at UK indefinitely.
"It's the love here," Cousins said. "I could stay here forever. ... I wanted to stay to help the team keep winning. It was a hard decision."
Cousins said there has been little to no discussion about turning pro among him and teammates Patrick Patterson, John Wall, Eric Bledsoe and Daniel Orton.
When a group of them get together, talk usually turns to the 73-66 loss to West Virginia in the NCAA Tournament East Regional finals.
It was a game where the Cats struggled to shoot. He said not getting an NCAA championship "eats at me every day.
"I wish we could just play it again, but we can't," he said.
What do the players think they could have done differently in that game, Cousins was asked.
"We could have just made two shots," he said.
Cousins said he wanted to win for Kentucky, a place he barely knew a year ago when he arrived on campus but now a place that's making it difficult to leave.
He is sticking around to finish the semester, he added.
"I'll never forget this part of my life," Cousins said. "It's one of the most precious times I've ever had. I've never been accepted like this. I felt love from day one."
Cousins, known for donning a wide variety of strange hats and big glasses, felt loved and embraced at Kentucky, he said.
"Goofiness became popular," he said.
The center, who said he's hearing that he could go anywhere from top five to top 10 in the draft, said he's looking forward to playing in the NBA.
"It has to be one of the greatest jobs ever," he said. "I'm getting to do what I love to do."
He was asked what he planned to buy first with his NBA wealth.
"Whatever my mom wants," Cousins said.
But when asked if there was anything that he had his eye on, he smiled.
"It's not a car because I don't have a license," he said, adding that "eventually" he'll probably get one.
When he does one day, he'll definitely be making return trips to his nest in Lexington.
"I'll be here a lot," he said.
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I missed this. It is a wonderfully heartfelt message from the Big Guy! I am saving it and sending it on to our fellow Kerntucky fans and to my blog. You are a great UK fan, Judi Cole.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: judith Cole
To: sam kegley
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 22:40
Subject: Cousin's comments at press conference
By Jennifer Smith
jsmith3@herald-leader.com
It's difficult to visualize a 6-foot-11, 270-pound man as an uncertain baby bird being pushed from its nest.
But that's how DeMarcus Cousins seemed to describe the process of making the decision to leave Kentucky after one season and head to the NBA.
He said it was Coach John Calipari pushing him from the comfortable, feathery nest that is Kentucky basketball.
"Cal's pushing me away," Cousins said on Thursday. "He said, 'You've got to go.'
"We felt it was the best decision for me. Right now my stock is high and they believed it was time for me to go."
In a 15-minute session with members of the media, Cousins discussed a vast array of topics from his decision to turn pro and hire agent John Greig, to his love for all things Kentucky, to why a fancy car won't be his first purchase with his new NBA salary.
In the back of the room Calipari and several assistants and basketball staff members watched the news conference.
Cousins, the Southeastern Conference's Freshman of the Year and an Associated Press first-team All-American, said it's people like them and his teammates that make him want to stay at UK indefinitely.
"It's the love here," Cousins said. "I could stay here forever. ... I wanted to stay to help the team keep winning. It was a hard decision."
Cousins said there has been little to no discussion about turning pro among him and teammates Patrick Patterson, John Wall, Eric Bledsoe and Daniel Orton.
When a group of them get together, talk usually turns to the 73-66 loss to West Virginia in the NCAA Tournament East Regional finals.
It was a game where the Cats struggled to shoot. He said not getting an NCAA championship "eats at me every day.
"I wish we could just play it again, but we can't," he said.
What do the players think they could have done differently in that game, Cousins was asked.
"We could have just made two shots," he said.
Cousins said he wanted to win for Kentucky, a place he barely knew a year ago when he arrived on campus but now a place that's making it difficult to leave.
He is sticking around to finish the semester, he added.
"I'll never forget this part of my life," Cousins said. "It's one of the most precious times I've ever had. I've never been accepted like this. I felt love from day one."
Cousins, known for donning a wide variety of strange hats and big glasses, felt loved and embraced at Kentucky, he said.
"Goofiness became popular," he said.
The center, who said he's hearing that he could go anywhere from top five to top 10 in the draft, said he's looking forward to playing in the NBA.
"It has to be one of the greatest jobs ever," he said. "I'm getting to do what I love to do."
He was asked what he planned to buy first with his NBA wealth.
"Whatever my mom wants," Cousins said.
But when asked if there was anything that he had his eye on, he smiled.
"It's not a car because I don't have a license," he said, adding that "eventually" he'll probably get one.
When he does one day, he'll definitely be making return trips to his nest in Lexington.
"I'll be here a lot," he said.
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