Regarding Goodwin, I'm trying to look at things from his perspective. He's a top recruit in 2012. He buys in to the Kentucky promise of elite preparation for the NBA and making a deep tournament run. Virtually the entire NCAA championship team turns over from the year before. He gets there and the team turns out to be a huge disappointment. Yes, everyone's young, but the team just isn't that well put together. There's no PG. The bigs don't score the ball. They have maybe one or two shooters. No one replaces the role that Michael Kidd-Gilchrist played. They don't run plays or pass the ball well. There's no floor balance. The whole team concept is to defend aggressively and push in transition, but only a few of the players can even do that. Archie is asked to take on a big role in running the offense, he gets criticized when he can't make it work, and now somehow it's Archie's fault that UK has a bad season.
Meanwhile, a guy like Victor Oladipo settles in at Indiana, he plays alongside solid talent and solid coaching, he makes some good plays, and all of a sudden he's a top-5 pick. If I were Goodwin, I might flip off UK and enter the draft too. Archie had a bad experience at UK, and I think a large part of it is Calipari's fault. Despite everything, he's still projected as a mid first-round pick. So why go back to UK?
