ROB STOKES FREEMAN Monday news

ChocoChicken

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If Pope whiffs on Wright. Is there any group with enough clout to just put a halt to things? And force Pope out now so we can actually have a roster next season?
We’re in the middle of portal season. Who the heck would we even get to coach for us right now? If boosters wanted CMP out, they would’ve done it after losing to ISU. We have to just accept that next year might suck a whole lot and let it go and hope we can get a better coach to replace CMP at the end of next season.
 

BookofMormon

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At some point you just have to accept CMP for who he is. And to put it frankly, he isn’t capable of running a program as large and prestigious as UK.

If CMP whiffs on Wright and Stokes, it’s pretty much the beginning of the end for his tenure at UK. And to make it worse, the guy down the road is getting multiple top 10 portal players and he was hired the same year as CMP. That’s going to put a lot of pressure CMP.
If I'm UK, I'm letting him do one more year under the 80% rule that he's done. I've seen enough in the portal recruiting season already. And I'm putting feelers out quietly throughout the year to agents of top coaches to see who would be open.

Donovan could be on the beach, possibly. There guys that UNC just went through, cross off the list. Look for good coaches who would see UK as a real upgrade - perhaps Vandy, TT coaches. Even the St Louis coach is worth taking a look at. I think the guy PC just grabbed could have been great at UK.
 
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exo6desmo

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I’m legit asking, who is saying this? I have no reason to believe you or not believe you. It’s a message board for these exact purposes.
You're good people. I'll tell you. My VP is LDS and his wife is related to Kevin Young. Both are directly descended from Brigham Young. I've known my VP and his wife for over 20 years. Her name starts with a B. So yeah I'm getting direct info on it. But no this Rainmaker clown knows better
 
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MegaBlue05

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I feel like there's something going on being the scenes that intentionally sabotaging our recruiting and that it’s not just Pope. Pope is just not the answer to counter. This has been an ongoing problem since Cal’s last few years
The only thing I can think of is Nike poisoning our well after Cal pissed them off. Sometime around 2018-19, all the top Nike recruits suddenly started going to Duke and we got the scraps.

I have no evidence to back this up, just spitballing.
 

RoyKent

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The only thing I can think of is Nike poisoning our well after Cal pissed them off. Sometime around 2018-19, all the top Nike recruits suddenly started going to Duke and we got the scraps.

I have no evidence to back this up, just spitballing.
This is beyond stupid.
 
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Hunting9

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I’ve said some bad things about Pope. I had hoped I was wrong and I’m still hoping we get some good players … which COULD still happen. But it really looks like he’s a huge flop. Seeing UK fail at landing any recruits is sooooo bizarre. He has to be a complete moron. I can’t believe where we stand. What could be doing to screw up every single recruit ?