The problem is the idiot Iowa fans want to wish the buck tooth bastard well. Most don't care if CJ transfers or not. The problem is CJ quit on his team. He quit and Fran was too stubborn to adjust his rotation when it was obvious CJ and Connor shouldn't be out there. Quitting on your team is one of the worst things a player could do. Pathetic of any player that wished that quitting foot princess good luck. He quit on your team during the season and you want to wish him luck. They should grow a pair and straighten CJ's teeth.
After Kentucky lost its last game of the season, some guy on Facebook posted:
"Sarr takes a 3 up 1 with 30 seconds left? That’s a really smart move from one of our only Seniors. Then a 3 to win when down 1? Good riddance 20-21 Ky basketball."
He's referring to Oliver Sarr, a 7-foot center. The poster's point here was that in neither case did they need a 3-pointer. I think that's pretty clear. They certainly didn't need their 7-foot center taking one.
You'd have to be a real bonehead to think the answer to this problem is CJ Fredrick. No, the answer would be a really strong big man who could take it up strong and, even with a lot of contact and no foul called, make a bucket.
Somebody like, oh, I don't know, West Virginia's 6'9", 260 lb. Oscar Tshiebwe? Whose FG% at West Virginia was 54.5%, and who never shot a single 3 pointer.
At West Virginia, Tsiebwe played with a guy named Miles McBride, who happened to be their leading scorer. Miles graduated from Archbishop Moeller High in Cincinnati.
Guess who played them Miles's senior year? Covington Catholic.
The guy who posted the complaint on Facebook? That was Hunter Kuykendall, who years before was Joe's neighbor a few doors down and Joe's older son's best friend. Hunter also went to Covington Catholic, by the way.
If this was ever posted on some "Kentucky board", as it's usually presented, it wasn't by Joe. Maybe the screenshot that leaves out the original subject of the discussion, which completely changes the context, was posted by somebody wanting to suggest CJ was coming.
But "help is coming" had nothing to do with CJ, even though that's how Hunter interpreted it. And I'm sure you still believe it did.
And you've got Joe Fredrick's relationship with Fran all wrong. Joe was little more than a go-between between Fran and CJ's dad. Those calls Joe made to Fran? They were to tell Fran to call Chuck. You want to know why?
Because Chuck was very concerned about Fran's lack of any incoming big men after Nunge got hurt. With Garza gone and no guarantee that Nunge would fully recover from his knee injury, Chuck was concerned that with no real inside presence, CJ would have a really tough season next year. Heck, what if Nunge blew out a knee again? So yeah, Joe made several calls to Fran asking him to call Chuck. He never did.
And CJ didn't want to leave Iowa. He loved his team and his teammates. He didn't sit around waiting to announce his transfer, he sat around waiting for Fran to get some bigs. How many posts were there on these boards asking "when is Fran going to get some bigs from the transfer portal?"
After Nunge entered the portal, it made it that much tougher to stick around knowing there were no bigs coming in. Keegan Murray is a great player and a great athlete, but even his dad doesn't really want him to play the 4. What other bigs did Iowa have? Josh? Patrick?
Maybe if Iowa was in a different conference. One where the refs don't let you grab and hold guys trying to get open running off screens. But in the B1G CJ would have really struggled next year without a solid inside presence to keep the defense honest.
So yeah, CJ waited and waited and waited for Fran to get some bigs, and stuck around with the best of intentions, hoping Fran would get somebody from the portal, but it didn't happen and CJ was running out of time to find a better situation. Kentucky was never a given. There was no tampering. I think the tampering rumors started after people began discussing CJ going to Kentucky after this article:
Where does Kentucky get shooting and scoring help in 2021-22?
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But that's ok, keep on bashing CJ and his family. Call them names, insult them. Call them pieces of shit, scumbags. Doesn't matter if you're right or wrong - it will make you feel better.
An inbred quitter like his nephew.
So CJ left because Fran wouldn't call his Dad back about what big guys he was getting in the portal? Even though Fran tried to get Atkinson who went to ND or Robbins who went to Vandy. If that was the case why didn't he pull his name out of the portal once they got Rebraca from UND? If he loved Iowa so much you'd think not having one proven big would be a reason to leave let alone a reason to be as impactful on team? If so that's a pretty sad and pathetic excuse.After Kentucky lost its last game of the season, some guy on Facebook posted:
"Sarr takes a 3 up 1 with 30 seconds left? That’s a really smart move from one of our only Seniors. Then a 3 to win when down 1? Good riddance 20-21 Ky basketball."
He's referring to Oliver Sarr, a 7-foot center. The poster's point here was that in neither case did they need a 3-pointer. I think that's pretty clear. They certainly didn't need their 7-foot center taking one.
You'd have to be a real bonehead to think the answer to this problem is CJ Fredrick. No, the answer would be a really strong big man who could take it up strong and, even with a lot of contact and no foul called, make a bucket.
Somebody like, oh, I don't know, West Virginia's 6'9", 260 lb. Oscar Tshiebwe? Whose FG% at West Virginia was 54.5%, and who never shot a single 3 pointer.
At West Virginia, Tsiebwe played with a guy named Miles McBride, who happened to be their leading scorer. Miles graduated from Archbishop Moeller High in Cincinnati.
Guess who played them Miles's senior year? Covington Catholic.
The guy who posted the complaint on Facebook? That was Hunter Kuykendall, who years before was Joe's neighbor a few doors down and Joe's older son's best friend. Hunter also went to Covington Catholic, by the way.
If this was ever posted on some "Kentucky board", as it's usually presented, it wasn't by Joe. Maybe the screenshot that leaves out the original subject of the discussion, which completely changes the context, was posted by somebody wanting to suggest CJ was coming.
But "help is coming" had nothing to do with CJ, even though that's how Hunter interpreted it. And I'm sure you still believe it did.
And you've got Joe Fredrick's relationship with Fran all wrong. Joe was little more than a go-between between Fran and CJ's dad. Those calls Joe made to Fran? They were to tell Fran to call Chuck. You want to know why?
Because Chuck was very concerned about Fran's lack of any incoming big men after Nunge got hurt. With Garza gone and no guarantee that Nunge would fully recover from his knee injury, Chuck was concerned that with no real inside presence, CJ would have a really tough season next year. Heck, what if Nunge blew out a knee again? So yeah, Joe made several calls to Fran asking him to call Chuck. He never did.
And CJ didn't want to leave Iowa. He loved his team and his teammates. He didn't sit around waiting to announce his transfer, he sat around waiting for Fran to get some bigs. How many posts were there on these boards asking "when is Fran going to get some bigs from the transfer portal?"
After Nunge entered the portal, it made it that much tougher to stick around knowing there were no bigs coming in. Keegan Murray is a great player and a great athlete, but even his dad doesn't really want him to play the 4. What other bigs did Iowa have? Josh? Patrick?
Maybe if Iowa was in a different conference. One where the refs don't let you grab and hold guys trying to get open running off screens. But in the B1G CJ would have really struggled next year without a solid inside presence to keep the defense honest.
So yeah, CJ waited and waited and waited for Fran to get some bigs, and stuck around with the best of intentions, hoping Fran would get somebody from the portal, but it didn't happen and CJ was running out of time to find a better situation. Kentucky was never a given. There was no tampering. I think the tampering rumors started after people began discussing CJ going to Kentucky after this article:
Where does Kentucky get shooting and scoring help in 2021-22?
But that's ok, keep on bashing CJ and his family. Call them names, insult them. Call them pieces of shit, scumbags. Doesn't matter if you're right or wrong - it will make you feel better.
Fran also thought Connor deserved to start so what's your point dumb ass? I'm glad the foot princess is sucking up a scholarship on your team, and not the Hawks.
I'm going to assume you didn't see the glowing farewell that Rebaca's coach posted about his departure. When you compare it to McCaffery's post about CJ, it was more like a proposal for canonization for sainthood.
There's the ole arrogance Wildcat fans are famous for. Obviously you are so special that the state of Kentucky was spared the virus.
