2024 Roster (Enter Antonio Reeves & Tre Mitchell)

[George]

Seth Greenberg says that he expects Oscar to return to UK.

I highly doubt it.

[GOCAT15]

Louisville’s El Ellis is in the portal.

That surely won’t be Kentucky with the young guards we have coming in but somebody is gonna get a baller.

For sure, hopefully it's not an SEC team.

[KCKUKFan]

I highly doubt it.

Text from my Source: "not as absurd as it seemed just a week ago."

[TrueblueCATfan]

Louisville’s El Ellis is in the portal.

That surely won’t be Kentucky with the young guards we have coming in but somebody is gonna get a baller.

I just saw this...do they even have enough to have a team next year

[KCKUKFan]

Text from my Source: "not as absurd as it seemed just a week ago."

Then, immediately after: "still wouldn't get your hopes up lol"

[DA#23]

With the comments about possible dissent in the locker room I can’t imagine he’ll be back.

Greenberg is Cal’s friend though, so it could be the case that the comments are to be taken at face value and also possible that Cal is using the media for some purpose. Hard telling with this group.

[George]

Then, immediately after: "still wouldn't get your hopes up lol"

I’m not sure my hopes are up. Best rebounder of our lifetime, puts up fantastic offensive numbers, gives the team so many extra possessions, but may still lower a team’s ceiling to the point you’d rather not have him.

Not sure I’ve ever seen anything like that.

[SCBlu]

It is. Yes, it certainly is.

I think my issue is with how common this become at this point. What are we doing with recruiting?

For a large part, I believe UK is beyond "recruiting players in the traditional mode. Now, we're buying players via the NIL.

[Joneslab]

For a large part, I believe UK is beyond "recruiting players in the traditional mode. Now, we're buying players via the NIL.

I’m pretty sure this is the case with everybody.

[lilproUK98]

I’m not sure my hopes are up. Best rebounder of our lifetime, puts up fantastic offensive numbers, gives the team so many extra possessions, but may still lower a team’s ceiling to the point you’d rather not have him.

Not sure I’ve ever seen anything like that.

So wild that I would rather not see a UK player that was a unanimous national player of the year come back. But I don't.

[George]

So wild that I would rather not see a UK player that was a unanimous national player of the year come back. But I don't.

It makes no sense that it makes sense.

[SBCatMan]

Oscar may or may not come back. I do not think it is far-fetched if he does. The NIL money is significant. However, if he does return, that almost certainly eliminates the faintest hope of getting the transfer from Michigan.

[justford]

Oscar may or may not come back. I do not think it is far-fetched if he does. The NIL money is significant. However, if he does return, that almost certainly eliminates the faintest hope of getting the transfer from Michigan.

Unless Cal made some promises in the zoom call to Dickinson about playing time regardless of what Oscar does.

[George]

I'll preface this by saying I'm still highly skeptical that Oscar will return, but as the smoke thickens a bit, I'm curious about something: do you think he could actually improve his deficiencies over the summer?

The primary concern is defense, obviously. Yeah, he could stand to improve his quickness and flexibility, but if he were even a serviceable defender I think you'd have a guy who could repeat as NPOY. But is it realistic to think a player entering his fourth season can become a better defender, when the very thing we're talking about is as fundamental as it gets? Part of me thinks that's precisely why he could improve, but the other part thinks that's why he won't; it's relatively simple stuff and shouldn't be hard to sharpen, but it's also possible he'd have gotten it by now if it were going to happen.

[Joneslab]

Oscar may or may not come back. I do not think it is far-fetched if he does. The NIL money is significant. However, if he does return, that almost certainly eliminates the faintest hope of getting the transfer from Michigan.

I think it’s possible the rumors of Oscar coming back were planted by another school who’s in the mix for Dickinson.