Justified or not, Dontaie Allen has been a point of contention amongst the Big Blue Nation and Kentucky head coach John Calipari. Bluegrass natives beg for a longer leash on the in-state product while Calipari sits him for one missed defensive assignment. Allen didn’t come to Kentucky as the typical five-star recruit, but a local icon who earned a scholarship based on his high school accomplishments at Pendleton County. He was outside the top 100 prospects in the nation, which Kentucky rarely commits to. But Allen was different in the eyes of the coaching staff.
A string of early-career injuries aside, everyone has yet to see what the coaches envisioned–not to Allen’s fault, though.