Lee Corso was the bestJack Pilgrim says the GIF is not related to Stokes
Thought I read we only contacted 4 of the top 20 portal guys. A couple of which (Wright, Byrd) he has somewhat of a past relationship with. And I think we almost got Yessoufou to Big Blue Madness last year. He's going after guys he's recruited for a long time and still can't get them.
Diallo and Wilkins weren’t even 4 million total. We have plenty left, it’s not an NIL or $$$ problem.
You're right. I thought it was obvious.
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Then something's going on. I don't care how weird Pope is. These guys would play for Carrot Top if the money was right. Our likely options right now is a tweener forward from James Madison and a couple Kentucky natives, one of which is a 7-5 project.
The $30M kind of tipped it off for me. Lol
It's not even close. Neither coach should have ever been hired to coach here (Thanks Mitch), but dude, BCG had better rosters both years, but he:
Tryst meh. Did you eat hamburgers yesterday? Was it raining yesterday in Jersey?
This is all true. My one comment would be that if we end up with the roster we have now (adding nobody else) and the season goes off the rails to the tune of 20 losses -- the program might be in even a worse shape than BCG left it. UK's futility is now a talking point for the KY governor and the US president.
BCG was the worst. I think people have forgotten or may not have been old enough to know how bad he treated the players too. Popes a good guy, it’s terrible that he’s struggling with recruiting like he is. I don’t gamble, but if I did I believe that’s what’s going to keep from making it here as a coach. I’d be real happy to be wrong about that though.
Yeah, any hole Mark Pope digs, can be easily fixed, but I'm hoping there is no hole. I don't want to go through a 15, or 20 loss season. That would suck.
A lot of people are arguing that BCG, by being so bad, is actually better than Pope since we were able to fire BCG so quickly. It's like an NBA team. You'd rather tank and get a top draft pick than just be in no-man's land of barely making the playoffs with no real hope of advancing.
Yeah, the internet back then isn't close to what it is now, but if it was, nobody would be comparing Pope to BCG.
You remember the stories that came out about BCG making players run till their feet bled, even on game days. That guy was crazy lol I can remember reading that the players parents were threatening to make their kids transfer if he didn’t get fired.
LMAO, my Lord and savior… John Calipari? Where did you get that?
I just wish we had more insight about recruiting right now. I don’t remember seeing a coach struggle this bad recruiting. I do like the backcourt guys we signed though. Oh well, we will see when the rosters ironed out completely what we have and go from there.
I never thought I’d ever see the day you would ever be accused of being a Calipari guy lol
Jeff definitely didn’t like Calipari. The guys that did like Cal picked arguments with Jeff all the time
This is correct with one minor nitpick - Billy won a Thursday SECT game in 2009, before losing to league champ LSU in the quarters. LSU got an 8 seed on the NCAAs that year. That’s how piss poor the league was back then.
The BCG years were so bad. Pope struggles recruiting but he’s not even close to being as bad as that drunk was.
That we are even comparing really tells us what a mess this program is right now. We have to get an AD who can make a great hire after next season.
Billy Clyde was a disgrace, the worst hire ever at UK.
BCG won 59% of his games at Kentucky.
They shouldn't be. It is nonsensical and can only be done out of all context as you have illustrated.
