Long before John Calipari ever got to Kentucky, he was known as one of the elite recruiters in all of college basketball. He signed Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans at Memphis. John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Karl Anthony Towns, Anthony Davis, Jamal Murray, and too many others to count at Kentucky. If John Calipari wanted a high school kid, well crap, there was a darn good chance he was going to get him.
But let’s be honest: High school recruiting is soooooooo 1999, and now all the cool kids are doing their recruiting in the transfer market. Well, after Kentucky picked up its third transfer commitment of the off-season on Wednesday and filled every hole on its roster, it’s worth asking: After dominating high school recruiting for years, did John Calipari just take over the transfer game too?