Agree 100%.
It’s MAY. Anyone who actually understands basketball can see we’re one or two dudes away from an elite roster. The PG problem is fixed, the Senegal kid is real, and Williams/Hawthorne raise the floor. We still need a starting 4/5 and a Dude…that’s TWO players. Recruiting isn’t...
Wow! When Pope produces a 1st round pick we have idiot fans who are mad. When Pope doesn’t recruit potential 1st round picks idiot fans get mad. You guys are toxic and need to go touch grass or go root for Cal at Arky! SMH!
The draft is all about POTENTIAL. Moreno will be drafted in the 1st round. He will be a good pick-up at the bottom of the 1st round. His private work-outs and interviews have gone really well.
😂lol! Your sources are FB, Insta & another doomer UK board post…get out of here…fake news!
There is no credible reporting that Nike offered $2M, nor that Kentucky’s package was $6–7M with a $2M Nike component.
What is true: Stokes has a Nike NIL deal, and reports mention a $6M NIL valuation...
1. Nike absolutely could have…and normally does… give their flagship bball programs a read on where their contracted athletes are leaning.
2. Nike absolutely could have helped enforce a Decision Timeline (Standard Practice)…that didn’t leave Pope picking up scraps in the portal!
3. Nike could...
Have you doomers forgotten Mark Pope out‑coached BOTH Rick Pitino and John Calipari last season? Out‑coached them. Out‑schemed them. Out‑executed them.
Because I don’t hear a single one of the RP & Cal lovers bringing that up anymore.
Funny how that works.
Hmm…I wonder how these doomers would feel if JQ was their son with a swollen surgically repaired knee with an NBA 1st round pick future in front of them. I bet you wouldn’t be making these stupid comments!
If that was Nike helping, then I’d hate to see them sabotage us. Agree. Nike can’t force Pope to recruit or stop recruiting someone. But Nike can signal whether a Nike kid already on contract to wear Nike shoes is leaning UK. We just have to agree to disagree on this one.
The poll is STUPID and should be pulled down. People acting like JQ “quit” or “did UK dirty” need to stop pretending they know more than the literal medical staff and a head coach who spent four years in pre‑med and was accepted into multiple medical schools before choosing basketball.
Pope...
Just saying Nike could have helped shorten the decision process…that’s all. Stoke was already on Nike’s payroll. He visited UK after he already signed a Rev-share agreement with Kansas. Not blaming it ALL on Nike…but it is odd Nike didn’t do more for one of its flagship bball programs. If you...
I am just saying Nike could have helped more. Stokes was already a Nike kid. Kentucky is supposed to be one of Nike’s flagship bball programs. And Nike STILL let him string us out for months and walk to Kansas. They let this kid treat UK like an unwanted side piece.
That’s on Nike for not...
Let’s lay out the actual, factual headwinds Pope dealt with…not the fantasy‑land versions the doomers keep recycling.
1. Injuries weren’t an excuse..they were the literal storyline of Year 2.
2. Nike let a kid string out a recruitment for MONTHS… and he went to Kansas. This would NEVER happen...