Cal brings in talent every year, why will the results be any different at Arkansas?

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Here's what he had done at Kentucky through the transfer portal, since transfer rankings were established:

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Kentucky used the portal. You can ague their "rank" or whatever, but they used it extensively the last 3-4 years (and got good players out of it).

2024 team - transfers
- Tre Mitchell (Sr) (West Virginia)
- Antonio Reeves (Sr) (Illinois State)

2023 team - transfers
- CJ Fredrick (Senior) (Iowa)
- Sahvir Wheeler (Senior) (Georgia)
- Antonio Reeves (Senior) (Illinois State)
- Jacob Toppin (Senior) (Rhode Island)
- Oscar Tshiebwe (Senior) (West Virginia)

2022 team - transfers
- Davion Mintz (Sr) (Creighton)
- Kellan Grady (Sr) (Davidson)
- CJ Fredrick (Sr) (Iowa)
- Sahvir Wheeler (Jr) (Georgia)
- Jacob Toppin (Jr) (Rhode Island)
- Oscar Tshiebwe (Jr) (West Virginia)

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Seeing this question asked a lot. Every time Arkansas adds a new player this seems to be the go-to by certain fanbases.

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You are probably surprised to hear this, but outside my BAMA sports sites and podcasts, which are numerous, it really doesn't come up as often as you think.

If your thread comforts you, then good. I said this in one of the first threads after he left UK.

He won't say it, but he will do things differently because he know what he was doing doesn't work anymore. His reputation is in shambles and his ego can't take that. He will do things a bit different to try to make a run or two. Will it work? Time will tell.

His stubbornness at UK should give way to doing what UK fans wanted him to do for years. Will it and will he change for his own good? Time will tell.

I will say this, the knock on his has been coaching, and he didn't bring his best 2 assistants with him. Buyer beware.

I see reason for Arky to hope he can raise you from the ashes, but I would be at best cautiously optimistic. No one wastes more talent than Cal.

Exactly Cal had a tough time in the portal. Stated he had to go out and beg for NIL money and then even if they wanted to sign had to get through KYs ridiculously high transfer acceptance standards. Probably why Dope could only get role players and no stars in this class

Exactly Cal had a tough time in the portal. Stated he had to go out and beg for NIL money and then even if they wanted to sign had to get through KYs ridiculously high transfer acceptance standards. Probably why Dope could only get role players and no stars in this class

He will bring in talent.

And he'll coach them as he has in these, his lackluster golden years

Just last night I watched a NBA second round playoff game where SGA, a MVP candidate, was being guarded by PJ Washington, a starter. It dawned on me that these guys were teammates at UK. That same UK team actually had 7-8 NBA players on it.

Then I read this thread and was reminded of all the transfers UK has had recently. UK just had an all-american in Reeves. Before that was a unanimous NCAA national player of the year with Oscar. Along with that was an all-sec transfer in Wheeler. The list goes on and on.

Despite all these great freshman and all these great transfer players, UK fans were still ready to run Cal out of town.

But Arkansas fans still try and trash talk Kentucky fans.

Look, you’ll win some games and have some great players. No one has argued otherwise. Kentucky was just done with Cal’s best being not that good enough. If you all are fine with, it then have at it.

You Arky people seem to overlook the fact that your coach was sent packing by Kentucky. You are constantly chest thumping over a discarded coach that you found dumpster diving.

Arkansas will be stacked with talent and will have good to great teams as long as he's there

Probably won't win a title or anything but you couldn't really ask for much more