Josh Selby was heavily recuited by Kentucky, if you'll remember. Do college coaches actively try to keep one-and-done talents on campus for sophomore seasons? Sure. Do they do so by sabotaging a player's draft stock with minimal playing time and off-the-record rumor generation? If so, it's rare. Coaches want to be the guy that gets elite prospects to the NBA; if there's one reason Kentucky coach John Calipari has been so successful as a recruiter, this is it. No coach wants the opposite reputation. The short-term gain isn't worth the long-term damage.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.