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[QUOTE="Frozen, post: 180241, member: 167"]
My favorite story about Kentucky is from Jerry Tarkanian's autobiography:
 
Tark had read an article about the #1 recruit in the nation, Sam Bowie of Lebanon, PA. In the article, Bowie listed the things he was looking for in a college: good weather, pretty girls, and a good hotel management program. UNLV had the #1 hotel management program in the US, as well as the weather and the girls, so he started recruiting Bowie.
 
Eventually it came down to UNLV and UK. Everytime Tark flew in to watch Bowie play or meet with him, he always asked the lady at the motel front desk if any other college coaches had checked into the motel. And he was always told that Leonard Hamilton, then an assistant at UK, was checked in. Always. Tark said that it must have been incredible to have the recruiting budget that an elite school like UK had.
 
After Bowie started playing at UK, Tark ran into Leonard Hamilton and told him that he heard that he was practically camped out at that motel in Lebanon. And Hamilton told him that he wasn't actually at the hotel all the time, but UK permanently rented the room so they could go there anytime they wanted.
 
Tark came to find out that UK actually rented the room for Bowie to use at his discretion. Bring his girlfriend there, study, hang out with friends, whatever. Bowie also started driving a used (but late-model) Cadillac during his recruitment.
 
It's hard to compete with that. By the way, I recommend Tark's book to any college hoops fan. It has great recruiting stories.
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