Goodman piling on

xmayor

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All the Pope supporters were liking Goodman as he bashed Cal and lauded Pope's hiring and "the change".

No matter what happens we will always have Pope's greatest press conference ever.
 

seccats04

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There are no rules anymore. If this is true, go steal him away from Cal. At least we'll have something we can say we won.
 
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Jimmy James

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If true, then talk about out of touch with reality. Most people aren't going to uproot from a place where they already have connections and go somewhere else for the same money. Should have offered quite a bit more $$$.
 

TheBlueMist

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Never trust a man who cant spell
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Seth_C

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If true, then talk about out of touch with reality. Most people aren't going to uproot from a place where they already have connections and go somewhere else for the same money. Should have offered quite a bit more $$$.
So that we can spend another season hearing how Kentucky overpays for everyone?

No thanks. Sounds like Wright was happy where he was at but thought he could get Kentucky to pay more than he is worth. Kentucky said no thanks. We do not need to be famous as the school you transfer to for a huge payday.
 

BookofMormon

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Pope's long term strategy should really be through Polygamy - if you can get enough tall guys to marry multiple tall women, and breed like crazy, you'll have a natural pool of gamers coming out of Utah.
 
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notFromhere

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All the Pope supporters were liking Goodman as he bashed Cal and lauded Pope's hiring and "the change".

No matter what happens we will always have Pope's greatest press conference ever.

Definitely not "all" as his ask-kissin of Pope made me more skeptical of the hire.
 
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notFromhere

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What position would we have even been recruiting Wilkinson for? He’s a very good smaller scoring guard. This is just a weird name to bring up imo

Exactly. Goodman is SO LAZY he couldn't even be bothered to see what position Wilkinson played.
 

FLBBNFAN

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Then we should have upped the offer
For sure. If he's our #1 guy then you dont let him walk if your even compensation wise with BYU. Meanwhile it seems we lost Wilkerson as well because we were in slow motion. That's where a good GM comes in to play and can show Pope the value is worth the extra $ .
 
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ZaytovenCat

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There are no rules anymore. If this is true, go steal him away from Cal. At least we'll have something we can say we won.
lol thanks for the laugh. Pope couldn’t steal a binky from a 3 month old, let alone steal a recruit from one of the best recruiters ever. At this point it wouldn’t surprise me if Kam and Moreno don’t start looking around at their options.
 
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Jimmy James

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So that we can spend another season hearing how Kentucky overpays for everyone?

No thanks. Sounds like Wright was happy where he was at but thought he could get Kentucky to pay more than he is worth. Kentucky said no thanks. We do not need to be famous as the school you transfer to for a huge payday.
Wright is a game changing point guard and in order to recruit him away from his current school, you'll probably need to pay more. Personally, I want UK getting the best talent possible and not settling for 3rd, 4th, options.

Also, if UK had played more consistent and won more games this past year, you more than likely don't hear anyone saying 'UK overpays for everyone'.
 

*Fox2Monk*

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If it’s not true, pope is the biggest idiot I’ve ever seen
I know. I hat kind of strategy is hey, you wanna come here with no players and play arbiter another school. We will pay you about the same money as they will! Dumbass.
 

notFromhere

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For sure. If he's our #1 guy then you dont let him walk if your even compensation wise with BYU. Meanwhile it seems we lost Wilkerson as well because we were in slow motion. That's where a good GM comes in to play and can show Pope the value is worth the extra $ .

Look, if he didn't want to be here, paying him more money isn't gonna buy the results yall want. That didn't work last year. Won't work next year.

If people truly don't want to play for this coach, that will be obvious when the roster is finalized. Bichin before it's even done IS RATHER UKLOD but it's a colossal waste of energy. This is so much like the first few years of Rich Brooks AND Stoops where all people did was complain and degrade both the staff and the team, begging for their firing.

It's more than annoying, because none of the LOD actually know any better. They prove it over and over again. If we were to make a final four next year, the insufferable ingrates would STILL be complaining NO MATTER WHAT, so don't let a little disappointment and some serious concerns get worked up into a frenzy by the fellowship of the miserable.