Who Stays Who Goes?

[SCBlu]

Indeed, his family may have driven him to gambling!

[Joneslab]

Jemarl Baker has put his name into the transfer portal.

[lilproUK98]

Had a feeling this would happen between one of IQ and Baker. Not a huge loss IMO, especially if Allen can play this year.

[GOCAT15]

Jemarl Baker has put his name into the transfer portal.

Was afraid of that, guess he knows he will never get a lot of minutes here. BUT....another healthy off-season and he would've been a nice piece to our puzzle and a shooter.

[Joneslab]

If Baker leaves and assuming he's the last defection, then Kentucky will have lost 12 total underclassmen from the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 teams.

[J.Jennings]

Had a feeling this would happen between one of IQ and Baker. Not a huge loss IMO, especially if Allen can play this year.

Hate to see a shooter go and he did alright on both ends but would rather have a defender and a offensive player who can shoot the 3 and drive to the rim....

[DA#23]

Jemarl Baker has put his name into the transfer portal.

Very disappointing news

[Dwight Schrute]

There's just way too much roster turnover every year, especially if we're not getting the studs we used to get.

[Spiritof96]

I have to say, the current level of roster volatility dampens my enthusiasm for the team as a fan.

[KCKUKFan]

This roster turnover is concerning. We will be fine, but the early defections are really starting to pile up.

[Jload]

We need to rename our team the transientcats I just hate the current trends at UK. Don’t see it changing anytime soon so I’ll just bite the bullet and wait for a different philosophy on how to run a program, and please don’t lecture me about this is how it is in modern college basketball. It’s the way it is at Kentucky not everywhere. A bunch of folks are doing it different and some of them are having as much or more success than Cal. UK has become the Mecca of the college basketball mercenary

[40bill]

I want to see the boards when Cal starts recruiting kids the same rank as Texas Tech.

[Spiritof96]

I want to see the boards when Cal starts recruiting kids the same rank as Texas Tech.

I'm not advocating a change in recruiting strategy. But I find the go to the NBA after one year as a marginal prospect (Keldon and Herro) or transfer after two years to be a dispiriting state of affairs.

Product of the times I guess.

[Matt Dillon]

There's just way too much roster turnover every year, especially if we're not getting the studs we used to get.

This is what happens when you have a team made up of the starters and those that think they should be starting.

[Joneslab]

Kentucky is their one shot at the NBA after a year. A very select few come back and try to give it one more year.

That's about as far as they're willing to go, because at that point Kentucky has exhausted what it can do for you. You're better to transfer, take the redshirt, and then reboot your two-year career somewhere else. Or go overseas.

It's sort of a perversion of what college sports is about. I don't have a deep ethical problem with it (I think the one-and-done thing has generally given more to UK than taken away), nor do I really pine for the olden days that much, but it's definitely not what college sports is supposed to look like.