Stokes to Kansas

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How many total wins do you have?
How many titles you have?

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You gonna count those ones in the 40s and 50s? haha. No one cares anymore about the past buddy
 

blueblood2767

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this may not be a bad thing. Pope has dug himself a hole now. Next year may be his last. I think UK backs up the Brinks truck and tries to land Donovan.
 
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Broker

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So is Pope.
Stokes is a high school senior and the best classy thing we can do is not bad mouth the kid and let Pope's inability to recruit be our frustration. I hope the kid has a great future and if we face Kansas I hope we kick his and Kansas butt to the curb. We need to hope Pope can find a couple more kids that are actually starter level talent.
 
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FitchandMurray29

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The kid has always been an immature clown.

Our coaching staff was a bunch of desperate clowns that got strung along.

Glad to move on from him.

Bad night for Pope. But could you imagine him handling Stokes when things aren’t going well? Would have been a disaster.

Get Morton, a star(Joksimovic is my guy at this moment as he could play the 2 and 3), and I’d like a backup big too potentially.

See what happens from there
 
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Vek96

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Well we are stuck with a loser coach who can't recruit.
He’s not a loser. Maybe he doesn’t work out. CaliparI didn’t work out his last 4 seasons here.
Calling him a loser is just being immature.

Pope will get 1 more year. If he does well this season, he’ll get another year. If he doesn’t, we’ll be looking at a new coach. It’s not the end of the world either way.
 
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cornbreadnmilk

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The kid has always been an immature clown.

Our coaching staff was a bunch of desperate clowns that got strung along.

Glad to move on from him.

Bad night for Pope. But could you imagine him handling Stokes when things aren’t going well? Would have been a disaster.

Get Morton, a star(Joksimovic is my guy at this moment as he could play the 2 and 3), and I’d like a backup big too potentially.

See what happens from there
Pope is a clown that good players won't come for. He's a dead man walking
 

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For them maybe
How is it possible to know if Kansas does not have any money left? Where do we look to see how much money schools have left? Does Louisville, Florida, Tennessee, or Vandy have any if so how much do they each have?
 

paulcalhoun_rivals397471

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You’ll be saying this same dumb **** after our 14th loss next season.
So you also contend that our program is on life support?

We have a lot of Drama Queens around here.

Do you think this a problem so severe that a coach of your preference could not turn it around quickly? If not then this definitely does not qualify as a program on life support.

Can you at least concede that Kenny Payne's Louisville tenure was exponentially worse? Is their program officially dead as a result? Did it take decades to return to respectability?
 
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Nightwish

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this may not be a bad thing. Pope has dug himself a hole now. Next year may be his last. I think UK backs up the Brinks truck and tries to land Donovan.
This is where I'm at. We'll have to suffer through next season but that'll be it. At that point put a package together for Donovan and if he's still flakey and says no, offer Jai Lucas. Everyone, including Pope, knew he had to deliver with this class and he's failed.
 
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Is that a promise? I definitely support you in sticking with your decision. Just cease all interest and comments until we have a coach that you can be something other than 100% non-stop negative about.
Definitely! Team Stein! Have fun watching uk lose 20 games! Louisville, Florida and Kansas will be blowouts btw
 

Static Cat

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I wonder if we could have gotten Stokes if this was a year ago when Pope had much more support. But the rumors that NIL money is being pulled, combined with Stokes being a "must-get" for Pope's job being on the line.. and we still cant just outright buy ourselves the first big recruit in 3 years.. really says something.

Like others have said, dead man walking.
He's the deadest of dead men walking!
I wonder if we could have gotten Stokes if this was a year ago when Pope had much more support. But the rumors that NIL money is being pulled, combined with Stokes being a "must-get" for Pope's job being on the line.. and we still cant just outright buy ourselves the first big recruit in 3 years.. really says something.

Like others have said, dead man walking.