Everyone saying how he is one of us and to support him more than anything after this dumpster fire
of a second season
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Everyone? I’d say a vast majority are saying the opposite.Everyone saying how he is one of us and to support him more than anything after this dumpster fire
Yes but some guys still care about winning and go where they want to go. He would be unhappy just here for the biggest deal. The worst kind of situation. Kansas State player like.
I’ll be shocked if Pope doesn’t overpay every player who decides to return and whatever scraps we get from the portal because most of our money is gonna end up going towards guys like Garrison and Lowe along with some team’s 6th man and whatever mid-major’s 2nd or 3rd options.
Depends on what site you go toEveryone? I’d say a vast majority are saying the opposite.
I don’t think he gives a hoot what the fans want honestly.
i think Big Blue Nation needs an emotional recruiting win.
Guess you just work for the love of it?
I dont know if any player is worth $2.5 mil more than another blueblood can offer, I would hope that doesn't hamper the rest of the roster if we get him.
Maybe he prefers Kansas so he can load management himself to the NBA.
If that is the case, let him go there.
If that is the case, let him go there.
It would make this season a little easier to swallow.
Dude you are totally lost, that is how it works now.
The school is not writing checks to anyone currently, they are NIL deals, they are coming from endorsements and agreements in terms of Name, Image and Likeness.
Schools currently do NOT pay players at all, they are 100% via NIL deals that are through endorsements, that is it. We had $22 million in NIL this year, which does NOT come from the school, it does NOT come from the school's budget, the school's AOP (Annual Operating Plan), NOTHING.
You are just completely incorrect here.
This is unfortunately true. A very small percentage worry about winning, they want the bag.
Stokes is our emotional support recruit.
Yeah…. we don’t have room to talk on that one bro.
This has Peterson part II written all over it. But the kid is probably talented enough to risk it. He’s quite a bit above anybody in this class IMO.
Hat on the table is what they use to call it. Now its called NIL leverage to get more from where you really want to go.
Pope has to get the recruiting straightened out or he won’t be here long.
It’s no longer leverage. Kansas has capped their offer which is why we are back in the mix.
hows that going to happen when no good players for next year means another horrible season and that makes it that much more impossible to get good players to get on board? The downward spiral that can not be stopped is already here. The question is how much like Indiana and UCLA will we become before the AD makes a change
The only difference now is that rev share was started the 25/26 academic year, and any deals outside of that have to pass through NILGo. Collectives are still alive and well, and UK can pay as much money as they want to pay.
It’s amazing how wrong you are. You can’t even use the internet to find the answers. We had 22 million for the team this year because the players were signed before the Rev share ruling was made. Won’t be the case this upcoming season.
I’m not so sure I’d want to make a known petulant teenager a millionaire. Kansas has taken a beating with Peterson and his BS this season.
IMO, you don’t pay that much for a Freshman with questionable ethics, an entourage of handlers and an inflated sense of entitlement.
Pope made a couple of mistakes in the portal that can be learned from and corrected. Lowe and Dioubate are not Kentucky- caliber players and the coaching staff whiffed on those 2. It was a mistake to sign JQ and not find a way to develop Garrison to his potential. Without these missteps, our season would have gone a lot differently.
If Stokes chooses Kansas for millions less than UK, bye bye Pope.
What if this season, the Final Four consists of at least 3 teams like Iowa State or Virginia or Nebraska or Vanderbilt to join Duke/Mich/AZ (teams with $10+ million NIL budgets)? That would put downward pressure on the "wage" for these top line players like Peterson and Dybantsa and presumably Stokes. Paying $4+ million for a future top 2 pick and not even getting to the Final Four could be deemed unwisely spent.
Duke had Boozer in the bag but next year, they signed 3 top 20 recruits but couldn't get the 4th in Jordan Smith (a consensus OAD top 3 pick). So that's a clue that even Duke with their dark money has a limit of what they think they should have to spend to field a FF contender.
But if Duke, UK, AR and other big spenders populate the Final Four year after year, the sport will have to incorporate the typical professional league approaches (salary caps, multi-year player contracts including buyouts) to ensure the viability of all in the sport.
Duke had Boozer in the bag but next year, they signed 3 top 20 recruits but couldn't get the 4th in Jordan Smith (a consensus OAD top 3 pick). So that's a clue that even Duke with their dark money has a limit of what they think they should have to spend to field a FF contender.
But if Duke, UK, AR and other big spenders populate the Final Four year after year, the sport will have to incorporate the typical professional league approaches (salary caps, multi-year player contracts including buyouts) to ensure the viability of all in the sport.
If he’d rather go there and prefers them I say let him go. He knows how much Kentucky wants him and willing to pay. I’d rather use the money on Veterans who are willing to be a team instead of one guy going through NBA tryouts all year.
You could be 100% right. But most 17 year old humans want to be a rockstar for a year. He has that kind of influence. BBN has always been here. We are still the biggest. We just haven’t had the star power to go crazy over in a long time.
even back to Cals days. We had the player of the year in Oscar. We loved him. He was a star but still didn’t have that influence like a Mashburn/John Wall.
like the poster above said. He would be our emotional support recruit. The way we went crazy for Pope at the Pep Rally would be a season long Pep Rally if Stokes came here and brought more talent with him.
I agree with 95% of stuff you say. But on this one I do feel like a kid like Tyran absolutely does care about being THE MAN. And he will absolutely be the man at UK. He will be bigger than the coach. That ain’t happening at Kansas. He won’t be getting left hanging at UK. Not by the coach or the fanbase.
To you and the three douches that liked what you wrote, what fact. Where is the fact that he's absolutely not coming
yeah we spent the money on veterans the last two years and have almost 30 losses idk why u wanna keep doing it
I’m not a social media guy… but why doesn’t UK twitter ppl flood his page with love? Like make us be felt. Ik that’s an easy thing to do for BBN. Maybe he goes somewhere else. But it won’t be because we didn’t try.