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[QUOTE="Ward, post: 2049203, member: 1958"]
To put some context in on Bledsoe, he was ranked so relatively low because nobody thought he had any chance at qualifying so all the recruiting sites hedged their bets. Helps them avoid the huge misses when people look back and see a kid who was top 10-20 and then say "huh? never heard of him". Then Calipari got the UK job, Bledsoe's academic outlook suddenly gets a lot brighter, the transcripts from one of his prior schools to back check on if any grades were altered literally go missing and Bledsoe signs with Kentucky in May of his senior year.

Overall, I don't think Cal is materially any better or worse than his peers at getting guys to the league. He has guys who have outperformed their expectations and some who under-performed. It's just the level of talent he recruits that when his guys outperform their ranking the ceiling is much higher than other programs and when they under-perform their floor is higher than guys from other programs.
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