All the top teams are included....except UK. Great job Pope!
ESPN's top recruiting classes
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Really, all you can do is laugh right now.
The ones not there have the top Transfer classes
Loserville
tennessee
Florida
Loserville
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Pope is awful at recruiting.
I've never seen anything like it. 14 of the top 20 recruits visited Lexington and he signed none of them.
That's garbage level recruiting. I almost feel sorry for Pope at this point. It's got to be a painful reality that he's facing right now - knowing that he's in over his head.
I've never seen anything like it. 14 of the top 20 recruits visited Lexington and he signed none of them.
That's garbage level recruiting. I almost feel sorry for Pope at this point. It's got to be a painful reality that he's facing right now - knowing that he's in over his head.
Is this composite or high school only? (Not that it matters for UK this year)
If it’s high school only, I don’t care other than obviously would like to be higher. We won the high school recruiting championship 15 years in a row and it didn’t produce jack spit after 2019.
If it’s high school only, I don’t care other than obviously would like to be higher. We won the high school recruiting championship 15 years in a row and it didn’t produce jack spit after 2019.
So what they got freshmen, we got McBride, fair trade, IMO.
It seems this is Tubby two point O. Tubby was a decent coach but couldn't get the top recruits and that eventually ended his tenure. Cal could get the recruits but was a terrible in-game coach and eventually became arrogant to the program and fans. Pope's demise will be if his transfer recruits don't exceed expectations because his overall recruiting was awful.
Writing.on.wall.
You can't win if you can't recruit - it's easily the most important facet of the profession. If you can't do this, you can't coach UK.
If there was an immediate solution, I'd be all for moving off Pope now (Donovan).
I think Xyon Hawthorne and Mason Williams class will turn out to be underrated .
I think there's a very real possibility we don't see them after their freshmen season.
I could live with it if Pope was doing great in the transfer portal but he's struggling there too. Recruiting always seemed to be the biggest worry when he was hired and sad to say it's all coming true.
and you are happy living in mediocrity land
Currently the number 12 transfer class. Add one good player and we'll jump considerably. I know, it seems unlikely.
Did Hurley or Golden have Top 25 recruiting classes their 3rd season at UCONN or FLA?
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Dan Hurley and Todd Golden can get away with thatDid Hurley or Golden have Top 25 recruiting classes their 3rd season at UCONN or FLA?
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Pope cant
Are u comparing them
Transfer Rank 13
Overall Rank 61
Composite Rank 90
On 3 is worse we are almost dead last in conference portal ranking so I think ole 247 is way off
2026 College Basketball Team Transfer Portal Rankings
The 2026 college basketball transfer portal team rankings.
Appreciate it. Here's one showing UK 78 (net xfer, so they factor in what we are losing).
2026 College Basketball Team Transfer Portal Rankings
The 2026 college basketball transfer portal team rankings.
LOL yes i edited my post with On3 alsoAppreciate it. Here's one showing UK 78 (net xfer, so they factor in what we are losing).
2026 College Basketball Team Transfer Portal Rankings
The 2026 college basketball transfer portal team rankings.www.on3.com
I think they could be better than Wall and Bledsoe!!!
Tubby could coach. Cal could recruit. Pope is BCG level.
Thank you. Looks like they slid to 13 there, but obviously in the ballpark
To have a chance to place in the upper portion of the SEC, this team isn’t close to being talented enough. We’re not returning great players like UConn and Duke. We lost so much that to really be at that level to compete for a sec championship we needed a top 5 class, imo.
I don’t think it will be that bad, but I believe we will be anywhere from 5th-10th place in the conference. Sometimes I think 5th place is being to optimistic even. Popes not a bad bench coach, he just can’t recruit well enough to get UK back to being an elite program. Hopefully the next AD makes a better hire that can handle the pressure of the job and does a better job recruiting and building teams. Pope will do fine at a smaller school but he’s not able to coach at a blue blood. It’s just a bad fit.
The assumption was with our resources and his style of offense he would have no problem recruiting, but the lack of charisma was completely overlooked.
Pope doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman wearing white gloves and you need that in recruiting.
Pope would do good at a smaller school. That way he wouldn’t have to deal with the media as much and trying to recruit top players.
Anyone the least little bit surprised he's over on another continent trying to score some player no one's ever heard of.
Do you think he even gets it? Serious question and if he does get it why he doesn't just step on down....