Zak Irvin picks up 5th star

Zak Irvin picked up his 5th star. He is at #24 overall in Rivals new rankings. Walton sits at 37 overall.

This is great for the program to show that we can recruit the better kids out of high school but to people like us hail I think this comes as no surprise.

And the sweetest cut of all---they will both (a la many of their incoming colleagues, now and later) become NBA draft picks, thanks to the superb coaching they'll get in JB's system.

To say nothing of how that translates to success for the Maize and Blue...witness this year's Big Dance.

Just means he'll be gone sooner, Nice to have but tough to build a progarm with.

Well, you can take your Stu Douglass and Zack Novak types. Give me McGary and GRIII every day.

Your Zack Novak and Stu Douglass types are fantastic to have from a leadership and unselfish role play standpoint. Trey said several times this year how much he learned from them about leadership.

You need the uber talented guys too but I don't ever want to be a Calipari KY team.

'shopes

'shopes is my new handle--JK

'shoes

And we get that type of player from Donnal. 4 year players are nice, but you aren't going to win at this level without NBA talent.