In the wake of there being reports or "reports" in the past few days about Caleb Swanigan and Cal, Michigan State, Kentucky and, inexplicably, Mississippi State, we just figured we would post something to remind everyone that we are still here.
In the past 24 hours or so, we've talked with multiple sources, none of which have given us any reason to believe anything has changed from what we have reported all along, but so much of it is tagged with, 'But I haven't heard anything since Thursday/Friday/Whatever' ... and that is what this has come to, trying to figure out whether things have changed in the span of days or hours while the Internet runs around in circles chasing its tail.
Again, anything can happen here and it still has to come out of Swanigan himself's mouth, but we don't have any reason to believe anything has changed here.
Cal, we believe, is out, and we do not think the Michigan State thing is reparable. Can Kentucky become a threat? Sure. But understand that this is not a group that's going to be awed by any one coach, any one program, and it's a group that covets comfort in details. Purdue has covered every detail over and over and over - then over and over and over once more for good measure - and won the inner circle over months ago and never let go.
Kentucky wasn't a true finalist the first time around and would probably be a situation anyway where he'd have to play center, because UK has Marcus Lee and Alex Poythress back and Shal Labissiere coming in, all power forwards.
That's not to say Kentucky can't pull a rabbit out of its hat - it has done that or twice before - but this is still to the point where we'd consider them getting him to be a rabbit out of a hat.
In the past 24 hours or so, we've talked with multiple sources, none of which have given us any reason to believe anything has changed from what we have reported all along, but so much of it is tagged with, 'But I haven't heard anything since Thursday/Friday/Whatever' ... and that is what this has come to, trying to figure out whether things have changed in the span of days or hours while the Internet runs around in circles chasing its tail.
Again, anything can happen here and it still has to come out of Swanigan himself's mouth, but we don't have any reason to believe anything has changed here.
Cal, we believe, is out, and we do not think the Michigan State thing is reparable. Can Kentucky become a threat? Sure. But understand that this is not a group that's going to be awed by any one coach, any one program, and it's a group that covets comfort in details. Purdue has covered every detail over and over and over - then over and over and over once more for good measure - and won the inner circle over months ago and never let go.
Kentucky wasn't a true finalist the first time around and would probably be a situation anyway where he'd have to play center, because UK has Marcus Lee and Alex Poythress back and Shal Labissiere coming in, all power forwards.
That's not to say Kentucky can't pull a rabbit out of its hat - it has done that or twice before - but this is still to the point where we'd consider them getting him to be a rabbit out of a hat.
