Jodie Come Back!
As the Lakers win the NBA Championship and Kobe Bryant celebrates, "winning one without Shaq," As ESPN seems to express, The Big Blue Nation and the State Of Kentucky and the entire college basketball world awaits the decision of Jodie Meeks. Tomorrow, Jodie will have to decide another year of college or the chance to be drafted and the possibility of making millions of dollars in the NBA.
What an off season this has been! Billy Clyde Gillispie gets fired, Coach Cal gets hired. When coach Cal is hired, the entire kentucky fans start thinking about all the recruits that Cal had at Memphis who could possibly decommitt and who could commit. The first recruit to join Cal was Demarcus Cousins the big, athletic power foward, who has skills on the perimeter and ranked as the 2nd best player according to rivals.com.
After that a lot of buzz goes on about Daniel Orton possibly decommiting and going elsewhere but Coach Cal is able to sell Orton and Orton's father to make Daniel come back, so he does and that was put to rest.
John Hood, Mr. Basketball of Kentucky remains committed and is considered to be a top 40 player according to rivals. Hood is very athletic and a good perimeter player. So at the time we had 3 top 40 players enough for Kentucky fans to get excited in a long time.
As time goes by, Patrick Patterson and Jodie Meeks puts their names in the 2009 NBA draft. Kentucky Wildcat fans went into a frenzy. After about a month, Patrick Patterson finally announces that he's coming back, and with that the UK fans calmed down and we got our big man back for another year.
Then....all the attention points toward John Wall and Xavier Henry. Xavier Henry is known as a big time player and was originally comitted to the University of Memphis and signed to play with Coach Cal but their was a catch their, Xavier's brother was there too. C.J. was already a player on the Memphis roster...so Xavier had an intent to go there and play for coach cal and play with his brother. After Cal leaving, Xavier decommitted from Memphis and his brother who was a walk on with Memphis leaves the team as well. Where's Xavier going was the big question for the entire college hoops world. A lot of speculation was that he was a UK lean that ended up being false and Xavier and C.J. both decided to attend to Kansas University. Coach Cal being the recruiter he is went to a second option and found another once committed Memphis Tiger, Darnell Dodson and sold him to coming to UK.
So now the UK roster...had, Demarcus Cousins, John Hood, Patrick Patterson, and one of the top 5 Junior college players in Darnell Dodson.
UK still needed a good point guard, and that's when Eric Bledsoe came into play. Bledsoe is a strong and athletic point guard and is better than what UK had the previous season. It came down to Memphis and Kentucky, he chose Kentucky. Bledsoe joined the team of great recruits and UK was moved to the #1 class according to rivals.
Then...then....who can forget the whole Wall saga. John Wall is considered to be one of the best players in the 09 class if not the best. Every time Wall was interviewed on television he was adding another team on his list. After many weeks and months of speculation he came to a decision, he chose UK.
After that a lot of buzz goes on about Daniel Orton possibly decommiting and going elsewhere but Coach Cal is able to sell Orton and Orton's father to make Daniel come back, so he does and that was put to rest.
John Hood, Mr. Basketball of Kentucky remains committed and is considered to be a top 40 player according to rivals. Hood is very athletic and a good perimeter player. So at the time we had 3 top 40 players enough for Kentucky fans to get excited in a long time.
As time goes by, Patrick Patterson and Jodie Meeks puts their names in the 2009 NBA draft. Kentucky Wildcat fans went into a frenzy. After about a month, Patrick Patterson finally announces that he's coming back, and with that the UK fans calmed down and we got our big man back for another year.
Then....all the attention points toward John Wall and Xavier Henry. Xavier Henry is known as a big time player and was originally comitted to the University of Memphis and signed to play with Coach Cal but their was a catch their, Xavier's brother was there too. C.J. was already a player on the Memphis roster...so Xavier had an intent to go there and play for coach cal and play with his brother. After Cal leaving, Xavier decommitted from Memphis and his brother who was a walk on with Memphis leaves the team as well. Where's Xavier going was the big question for the entire college hoops world. A lot of speculation was that he was a UK lean that ended up being false and Xavier and C.J. both decided to attend to Kansas University. Coach Cal being the recruiter he is went to a second option and found another once committed Memphis Tiger, Darnell Dodson and sold him to coming to UK.
So now the UK roster...had, Demarcus Cousins, John Hood, Patrick Patterson, and one of the top 5 Junior college players in Darnell Dodson.
UK still needed a good point guard, and that's when Eric Bledsoe came into play. Bledsoe is a strong and athletic point guard and is better than what UK had the previous season. It came down to Memphis and Kentucky, he chose Kentucky. Bledsoe joined the team of great recruits and UK was moved to the #1 class according to rivals.
Then...then....who can forget the whole Wall saga. John Wall is considered to be one of the best players in the 09 class if not the best. Every time Wall was interviewed on television he was adding another team on his list. After many weeks and months of speculation he came to a decision, he chose UK.
Now...The decision lies in the hands of Jodie Meeks. 2nd team all american, 54 points vs UT, 23.7 ppg last season, Jodie Meeks is really really good. Meeks wants to go to NBA but knows that if he comes back to UK, he could possibly help bring back a national championship to the commonwealth and rise his draft status. The world must wait though for Meeks's decison tomorrow at 5:00pm. The world is waiting, so am I. I can't wait for him to decide so I can began to think about #8 rolling in for the state of Kentucky! Below are some video's dedicated to Jodie Meeks's decision....
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