Hope for a speedy recovery for Brady! Glad to hear he will get the redshirt. You can play up to 30 percent of your teams games. We have 29 qualifying regular season games (I know we play a total of 31 games but the games in the Bahamas against Baylor and Georgia are MTE "exempt games). He will have played in a total of 9 of the 29 qualifying games. When calculating the number of games, the NCAA includes a max of one conference tournament game and does not include NCAA tourney, NIT, etc. So including the one BE tourney game, he will have played in 9/30 or exactly 30 percent of games and qualify for the redshirt.
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Brady will clearly want to know he is somewhere he will get lots of minutes next year as he should. If that is with us great, if not he should do what is best for him. Clearly a great kid who has taken far too much criticism on this site imho.
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His dad tweeted during last portal season that his son's development was being hindered. But I can't remember if that was directed toward the portal in general, or fifth-year guys.
I have no clue what Brady's plans are, but my expectation at the time of the injury was that he was going to go home for the holidays and never return.
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The redshirt might actually help him get closer to being a starter as a junior and senior. Right now he's a top 8 guy. Is that enough?
I’m pretty sure fifth year guys
Zach said Brady said he would like to return.
If you are correct, not losing a year of eligibility had to weigh on his decision. Any athlete has to weigh the impact of portal imports to assess his future. For Brady, to come back next season as a sophomore and not a junior could be a positive factor in returning here. I see him as a 4 year college player, so even if he did not establish himself as a starter or top 7 rotation player, could have 2 years somewhere else. I do think the interest in him staying is mutual, but Rick's primary goal is getting the best players here in order to win, while Brady wants regular p.t. i would think that by junior year Brady would want to start here or elsewhere thus the redshirt is critical.
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Rick Pitino familiar with reception John Calipari might receive during Kentucky return
Rick Pitino hopes Kentucky’s fans take it easy on John Calipari in his return to Lexington on Saturday night.
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Posting it here for the Brady section.
“Obviously, it’s my dream to play on a top-15 team,” Dunlap said. “It’s kind of why I came here in the first place, so it’s pretty disappointing. But at the same time, I just have to look at it as positive from my personal perspective. I get another year in college with the medical redshirt. College is such an old game now, so I have to take it as a positive for myself and just cheer my guys on.”
Dunlap said he is hopeful to be back next season at St. John’s.
“It’s really up to Coach Pitino at this point,” he said.
You can tell the guy is a coach's son, in terms of understanding the broader dynamics of the game. Two quotes from a player can't be more succinct in showing the difference of the game ten years ago to now. Not to start an NIL/portal argument all over again, but this is the flip side of it for players -- while you may be able to make more money if you test the open market, you can also get thrown into it if your coach doesn't want you.
I love college kids being kids and having fun. Good kids, hope Brady and Reuben are here for awhile. Love Brady's clan adopting the mop as celebratory in games.
Very classy...
What did I say wrong? He seems like a great kid and teammate. I wish him nothing but success on and off the court. But I’m not going to shed a tear if he decides to explore his options elsewhere. I doubt I’m the only one who feels a similar sentiment. Welcome to the NIL era.
Well, he has been on the bench so I guess he has returned! His future is undetermined, but I hope he is a Johnnie next year.
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That's why I said "at the time of the injury"
Apparently he wants to return and I can't imagine he gets the heave from the staff, so I'm assuming he's back. Having a re-do of his soph year makes decision to return infinitely easier I imagine. Wouldn't be staring at a senior year where he's still a bench player as. junior.
Thought i recall Dunlap was pursuing degree in business and important to him & family. Part of reason he was initially headed to Notre Dame coming from an elite HS.
If so, he'd be entering jr year academically. Would wonder if keeping continuity here credit wise for 1-2 years (depending how fast he's moving through summer credits) and then if he had interest in exploring other school for bball or MBA consider it then.
If so, he'd be entering jr year academically. Would wonder if keeping continuity here credit wise for 1-2 years (depending how fast he's moving through summer credits) and then if he had interest in exploring other school for bball or MBA consider it then.
You make some really good points about Brady, who certainly is a good kid who also appears to be pretty bright. Notre Dame is academically at the top of all Catholic universities, a top 20 school, and that was a factor in his initial decision to attend there.
It could be possible that he gets a degree here and transfers to an elite school for his mba with a year or more of eligibility remaining.
I do think for now, Brady rightfully wants to see how far he can go in basketball. That being said, developing under Rick and at a school he loves is the best place for him right now. If he cracks the starting lineup next season or becomes a top 7 rotation player as a soph is likely a factor too.
I don't think Mattc was being deliberately harsh in his comments. After all, how many of us really care about the kids purged when Pitino arrived, doubly so with our success this year. They are pretty much a distant memory at this point. Posh? Dylan, Omar?
Brady is an end-of-the-rotation guy at this point. He's not one of our stars, and even if healthy this year would've still just been a bench player for us. So if he goes, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Doesn't mean I don't think he's a great kid and teammate, or that I don't wish him well in life. And sure, I'd love for him to stay just because I think there's something to having some continuity. But he's not a star player for us, that's just a fact, and that was the basis of my whole point.
Before he injured his hand he was 12 for 19 from 3. After, 2 for 13. From two, before injury was 6 for 7, after 2 for 4.