Quade Green is transferring after a season and a half in Lexington. What should we make of his career as a Wildcat? It’s a complicated question that speaks to the core of one of the biggest issues facing the program right now: what do you do with the five-star recruits that aren’t good enough to be one-and-dones?
Like most recruits, Quade came to Kentucky with high expectations. A five-star prospect, he was considered a top five point guard, described by Evan Daniels as “arguably the most balanced point guard” in the 2017 class. At 6’0″, he didn’t have the size of a typical John Calipari guard, but Tyler Ulis proved that size isn’t an issue right?