Emeka came here as barely a top 100 recruit and had a range of one foot as a freshman. Who knows if his NBA career turns out a little better if he doesn't bulk up too much, shred his ankle and lose his lift, but he was a consistent double-double guy for seven or eight years - and he was actually finding a nice role at the end of last year with Washington too (averaging about 11 and 11 for three months in only around 30 mpg, before tailing off in April after the Wiz were out of it and his minutes went down). He's certainly not on his way to Springfield, but he's not an NBA scrub either - even just last year he dominated some games.
Davis is a transcendent talent. Would have been more than happy to borrow him here for a year too. Guys like that don't come along very often. He even got a little better as his season at Kentucky went on with improving his offensive game, so he's a guy that it is tough to argue against as a big plus in their legacy/development column. But you could argue Terrence Jones got worse in his two years at Kentucky. He was a stud at first, looking like a sure one and done, then there were all sorts of "what happened to this guy" stories after he fell off a cliff, but he put the pieces back together and salvaged his NBA prospects when he found a good role as a complementary piece on their NC team. DD's career was uneven, too, and there were times this year when it seemed he'd regressed - but there's no question he was a better player when he left than when he came in. Debatable with Jones.
Kentucky doesn't make me lose my mind. If it weren't for us, they'd have three of the last four titles and they'd be the envy of the hoops world with their basketball factory system and everyone would be discussing how they are becoming a UCLA-type unstoppable juggernaut. We should make them lose their minds - they're just another strong program right now since we wrestled two banners from them. It's the notion that we should somehow be jealous of their system or their NBA alumni team is silly to me. Like the banners we're hanging aren't good enough or something. Thank goodness we got Bazz instead of Brandon Knight, even if Knight will almost surely put up better NBA stats.