Aberdeen Listed as Probably against Auburn

FatCatMan

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At this point we should just put every player as probable. I’ve never seen so many injuries in two years. I’m really questioning the S&C program.
There’s been too many injuries the last two years under Pope for me to believe it’s merely coincidence. Either the players aren’t as hurt as Pope is saying or our strength and conditioning is some of the worst in the country. Might be a bit of both. Like is he practicing load management without telling us?

I’m not willing to go as far as to suggest Pope is Gillispie-esque with his practices, but something is wrong.
 
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Based on how tired guys looked last few games, despite not carrying much load, id say we'll see alot more questionable with turned ankles and hang nails.
 

FatCatMan

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If we end up with an injury bug next year with Pope, that should absolutely, under no circumstances, be allowed to be used as an excuse to give him another year. But I know that the parasocial Pope fanboys will be shouting it from the rooftops.

You don’t get to have an unusual amount of injuries every year and people should be expected to shrug them off as misfortune. 2 is coincidence, 3 is a pattern.
 
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Anon1768287303

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There’s been too many injuries the last two years under Pope for me to believe it’s merely coincidence. Either the players aren’t as hurt as Pope is saying or our strength and conditioning is some of the worst in the country. Might be a bit of both. Like is he practicing load management without telling us?

I’m not willing to go as far as to suggest Pope is Gillispie-esque with his practices, but something is wrong.
I feel like the "injury" bug has plagued the CATs for a lot longer than just the past two seasons. I recall people questioning the strength and fitness crew for several years now.
 
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CATALCOHOLIC

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There’s been too many injuries the last two years under Pope for me to believe it’s merely coincidence. Either the players aren’t as hurt as Pope is saying or our strength and conditioning is some of the worst in the country. Might be a bit of both. Like is he practicing load management without telling us?

I’m not willing to go as far as to suggest Pope is Gillispie-esque with his practices, but something is wrong.
If you watched the game and saw the replay a UG big him in the shoulder hard. Don’t know why a foul wasn’t called. He started holding his shoulder funny.
 

TFCat11

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If we end up with an injury bug next year with Pope, that should absolutely, under no circumstances, be allowed to be used as an excuse to give him another year. But I know that the parasocial Pope fanboys will be shouting it from the rooftops.

You don’t get to have an unusual amount of injuries every year and people should be expected to shrug them off as misfortune. 2 is coincidence, 3 is a pattern.
Well get ready, because it’s coming! Pope has lost control of this program, and I’m not quite sure he ever had it! Dude does not have the disposition to be leading 20 something millionaires, or the personality.
 

K_TIME

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At this point we should just put every player as probable. I’ve never seen so many injuries in two years. I’m really questioning the S&C program.
How can you blame or credit the S&C program....these dudes just got here and there is little time for S&C to make a difference.

Kam
Lowe
Quantenance

Butler
Robinson
Carr

All of these guys showed up a few months before bball began.
 

Ridinwithpope

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The true reason for the weird substitution pattern against Georgia. That and oweh banging his knee and limping around. Though they both played over 30 minutes, neither one was fully healthy out there. We needed Aberdeen to play to get back in the game due to jaspers ineptitude and now here we see Aberdeen on the injury report. Not surprised.
 
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Farsight Clone

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There’s been too many injuries the last two years under Pope for me to believe it’s merely coincidence. Either the players aren’t as hurt as Pope is saying or our strength and conditioning is some of the worst in the country. Might be a bit of both. Like is he practicing load management without telling us?

I’m not willing to go as far as to suggest Pope is Gillispie-esque with his practices, but something is wrong.
What is wrong is that Pope said many times he doesn't believe in conditioning because he allows analytics to tell him when to play players. This is one of the main reason why he has bad substitution patterns in game. And why he said recently that the players get tired so he has to sub more. And his bad subbing patterns against Georgia is one of many reasons why we lost.

If these kids were conditioned, most injuries would be negated unless you have those phantom ones.
 
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Smeegs

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We are not winning this game with or without him Auburn has enough talent to play with any body in the country on a given night we don't.
This is clueless nonsense. You do realize this is not last year’s Auburn team, right?

Perhaps you hadn’t noticed, but Auburn stinks this year. They’re only 5-8 in the SEC and barely above .500 overall. It’s laughable to suggest that we don’t have enough talent to compete with that.
 

mhs1964

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Blaming the S&C and coach for these injuries doesn’t make sense. The upper body injuri are the result of allowing an obscene degree of physicality in the game these days as well as the the opposing team making UK the ultimate white whale. The fractures have always been around. We lost Sam Bowie for an entire season and he was never the same. There was a high chance we would have another title if he had remained healthy. Looking back we can thank our lucky stars that we had a healthy AD for an entire season.
 
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This is clueless nonsense. You do realize this is not last year’s Auburn team, right?

Perhaps you hadn’t noticed, but Auburn stinks this year. They’re only 5-8 in the SEC and barely above .500 overall. It’s laughable to suggest that we don’t have enough talent to compete with that.
I really think a lot of the doom and gloom is a coping mechanism for some of these clowns. That way they convince themselves they won't be too disappointed and can say "I told ya so." That or the old reverse jinx
 
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RunninRichie

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What is wrong is that Pope said many times he doesn't believe in conditioning because he allows analytics to tell him when to play players. This is one of the main reason why he has bad substitution patterns in game. And why he said recently that the players get tired so he has to sub more. And his bad subbing patterns against Georgia is one of many reasons why we lost.

If these kids were conditioned, most injuries would be negated unless you have those phantom ones.
"Doesn't believe in conditioning ". And he tells guys to tip a rebound instead of going up with two hands. Is it any wonder we suck? How is this the head basketball instructor at Kentucky?
 
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seccats04

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How can you blame or credit the S&C program....these dudes just got here and there is little time for S&C to make a difference.

Kam
Lowe
Quantenance

Butler
Robinson
Carr

All of these guys showed up a few months before bball began.
And every game MM subs himself out every 4 minutes because he's gassed.

Of our second year guys, Chandler, Noah and BG don't physically look any different than last year. Look at the better teams in the conference and it seems most of their guys are more muscular and physical.

Something is off with the S&C program.
 

UKCowboys

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And every game MM subs himself out every 4 minutes because he's gassed.

Of our second year guys, Chandler, Noah and BG don't physically look any different than last year. Look at the better teams in the conference and it seems most of their guys are more muscular and physical.

Something is off with the S&C program.
Chandler, Oweh and DA all played big minutes last game and were all playing great at the end