I won't believe any "pundit" or "sports blogger" concerning Vaughn's future. Until I hear the words out of Vaughn's mouth, I won't count us out or in, when it comes to getting him. He hasn't said anything or done anything in the past month in terms of recruiting, yet somehow all these "pundits" seem to think Kentucky or UNC will get him. I get the UNC argument, because he visited and they recruited him hard, but when he was doing that the majority of the "analysts" still put us up near the top. Nothing has really changed since then... so why is everyone thinking suddenly we have no shot? Because he hasn't shown any "twitter" love lately? It's july... I'm sure he's enjoying his summer with his friends and family. When basketball season comes and he goes to make those visits, then I could see us changing in his rankings... but he himself has not ONCE announced that he has shortened his list.
Are we a longshot? Probably... Have we changed at all in Vaughn's public announcement of where he would like to go? Nope
Keep in mind just like I have an Iowa State bias, All of the "analysts" and "pundits" you listen to and read articles from, share a bias themselves. Whether they are public about it or not is a different story. Everyone on ESPN loves the SEC and Kentucky and KU and UNC... of course they are going to say they are in the lead for him.