Kansas has one less win than we do over the last two seasons but they are doing fine and holding serve?
Travis Perry: So why exactly did he transfer out ?
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The 2019-20 team that went 25-6 was much worse than folks want to remember as well.
KenPom actually has us ranked higher today than that season. There wasn’t another SEC team in the top 30! Wild how much has changed. They played 3 ranked opponents all year. Louisville and Auburn at home and at Auburn. Also had the home loss to Evansville of course.
Disclaimer: this post has nothing to do with Pope. Not some overly pro Pope extremist lol
Probably so. Some are trolls too, man I can’t find one person in Lexington that’s arguing for him in any form except 2 women, one doesn’t pay attention and says he just got here, the other watches a little bit more and says we need to leave him alone because she likes him. Everyone else I find is like welp this guy sucks. So I come here and 2/10 are riding my *** for wanting a coaching change.
Country is getting worse. Ran into a few seemingly intelligent guys both college grads last Friday that believe the earth is flat. That I won’t do, I refuse to argue flat earthers. I’ll walk right by. I’m walking by a lot these days.
You’re absolutely right. They were a consensus 4 seed, possible 3 seed. People remember us as being super hot and playing the best basketball in the country. We were playing much better than earlier in that year but people have skewed that in the memory as well. We finished the year winning on the road versus a 19-12 Florida team by one point — they were a projected 9 seed and 32nd in KenPom. The game right before that we lost at home to Unranked Tennessee, a 17-14 team who was 68th in KenPom and was definitely not going to the tournament. That team didn’t finish with a loss so fans remember it being elite. Yes, they were ranked high in the AP poll and won the SEC title in a very bad conference year but that team was just good, not great.
Multiples reasons Travis left.
1. He saw the writing on the wall for his depth chart position with the roster (remember he didn't put his name in the portal until the final day players were allowed to)
2. He was offered significantly more money at Ole Miss, guaranteed money for 2 years, more promised playing time, and his sister was also offered a scholarship to Ole Miss.
3. He already had a strong relationship with Chris Beard from being recruited hard by Ole Miss in High School.
4. He and his family did NOT like the constant negative comments and attacks on him on social media, including multiple "fans" direct messaging family and friends being ugly about him.
5. He is pretty soft and emotional (some kids just are), thinks he's way better than he actually is, and wasn't enjoying his time in Lexington.
Take that for what you will. I know his family and see them often, and grew up and played sports with his dad Ryan whom I'm still friends with. I like Travis, but he was never built to play meaningful minutes at UK and was too high on himself to play at a smaller college like Murray St. He almost went to Purdue but couldn't turn down that UK offer from Cal. I give him credit for staying and giving Pope a chance.
1. He saw the writing on the wall for his depth chart position with the roster (remember he didn't put his name in the portal until the final day players were allowed to)
2. He was offered significantly more money at Ole Miss, guaranteed money for 2 years, more promised playing time, and his sister was also offered a scholarship to Ole Miss.
3. He already had a strong relationship with Chris Beard from being recruited hard by Ole Miss in High School.
4. He and his family did NOT like the constant negative comments and attacks on him on social media, including multiple "fans" direct messaging family and friends being ugly about him.
5. He is pretty soft and emotional (some kids just are), thinks he's way better than he actually is, and wasn't enjoying his time in Lexington.
Take that for what you will. I know his family and see them often, and grew up and played sports with his dad Ryan whom I'm still friends with. I like Travis, but he was never built to play meaningful minutes at UK and was too high on himself to play at a smaller college like Murray St. He almost went to Purdue but couldn't turn down that UK offer from Cal. I give him credit for staying and giving Pope a chance.
Be careful dude don't quote facts, that doesn't fit the Legion of the Miserable's agenda.
Yes they are.......hang around...........lusting after players that never made it here is a common practice on this board.......
The last person you want to ask about a player's abilities is a parent........
Takes some peanuts to correct another poster with wrong info. LOL
Vandy won the first game by 25. 25 is less than 30. Math can be hard.
Pretty pedestrian numbers.
Do you have literally any data to back up your claim that blowouts are more common now. You can’t just say **** to say ****.
You are simply wrong about the 19-20 team. That team was very good. The only issue was temporarily with Hagans.
Had SEC POY (Quickly), had I believe a 2nd team SEC C (Richards), had Maxey too. That team was not the favorite, but it was one of the top 10-12 teams who had a real chance to win it all. And that's really all that you want, a realistic chance; after that luck is a big factor.
And relying too much on KenPom or any other ranking is not good, they all have their flaws & hidden biases.
I want Pope gone as much as anybody, but the revisionist history of some is a bit over the top.
All this board did was rag on Perry, say he was too slow and small to play at UK, cuss Pope for even having him on the court when Butler was hurt, and say Cal was right if the rumor was true that he allegedly offered him publicly while telling him through backchannels to not accept.
Perry's numbers didn't massively improve any more than a typical Freshman to Sophomore season under Beard (who I do think is a better coach than Pope if sober), and they missed the tournament while giving him decent minutes.
Perry is what he is. He might be a decent contributor on a NCAA tournament team by his senior year. Ole Miss took him for the same reason Tennessee took Lofton (who probably turned out much better than they expected), SC wanted Noah, and other SEC schools have historically tried to have an "overlooked" KY high school player on their roster. They get a guy hungry to stick it to UK and if he helps them pull off the upset their coach has got that feather in his cap win that keeps him employed for another year.
All this board did was rag on Perry, say he was too slow and small to play at UK, cuss Pope for even having him on the court when Butler was hurt, and say Cal was right if the rumor was true that he allegedly offered him publicly while telling him through backchannels to not accept.
Perry's numbers didn't massively improve any more than a typical Freshman to Sophomore season under Beard (who I do think is a better coach than Pope if sober), and they missed the tournament while giving him decent minutes.
Perry is what he is. He might be a decent contributor on a NCAA tournament team by his senior year. Ole Miss took him for the same reason Tennessee took Lofton (who probably turned out much better than they expected), SC wanted Noah, and other SEC schools have historically tried to have an "overlooked" KY high school player on their roster. They get a guy hungry to stick it to UK and if he helps them pull off the upset their coach has got that feather in his cap win that keeps him employed for another year.
Yes, evidence suggests that blowout games—defined as wins by 20 or more points—have been becoming more common in college basketball in recent seasons
, driven by increased offensive efficiency, faster pacing, and the impact of the transfer portal and NIL on team parity.
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Data from the 2024-25 season indicates a sharp rise in lopsided games, particularly in power conferences:
- Big 12: 27.8% of games were blowouts, compared to 11.8% over the previous 10 years.
- SEC: 24.1% of games were blowouts, up from 14.5% historically.
- Big Ten: 22.6% of games were blowouts, up from 12.6% historically.
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- 3-Point Variance & Pace: Modern college basketball features a higher volume of 3-point attempts and faster game speeds, allowing scoring margins to expand rapidly.
- Transfer Portal/NIL: While intended to increase parity, the transfer portal has also allowed top programs to hoard talent, leading to wider skill gaps between top-tier and low-tier teams.
- Offensive Focus: Teams are shooting at highly efficient rates, leading to more high-scoring games where one team can easily dominate.
IDGAF what KenPom had us ranked. We were peaking and we had Quickley and Maxey coming into form. That team could have been a FF team if those guys got hot in the tournament. We had won 9 of our last 10 before the China Virus ended our season.
Agree to disagree. They had a few nice pieces and a cupcake schedule. Acting like the computers are wrong and we’re right is allowing more bias to enter the discussion imo.
It was obviously a pretty enjoyable season as we enjoy winning and those were great personalities.
A few nice pieces? A nice piece is versatile forward. We had Tyrese f'ing Maxey and Isaiah Quickley. Two starting NBA guards, one of which is a top 8 player in the league.
How many of those 10 games were against teams in even the top 30?
They rattled off close wins vs teams equivalent to Georgia, Texas, Auburn, Oklahoma this year. Obviously it’s better to win than lose, but that was not some peaking juggernaut no matter how much you’d like to think so.
Isaiah Quickley lol. I love me some IQ. He was extra valuable that year on drawing Harden esque fouls.
What they eventually became in the NBA is immaterial to that season. Neither were some lottery picks anyways.
Don't know what they paid him at UK but have friends in Eddyville that says he got 800K at Ole Miss, cannot fault him for leaving, Pope was going to try to recruit over him and you can't blame Pope for that...just too many key injuries that really made it tough for the Cats. Like a foot all team losing its QB. Perry could go to Ole Miss not be under constant scrutiny and enjoy his college career, and Ole Miss is actually closer to Western Ky than Lexington...
Quickley was literally the SEC Player of the Year and scored almost 20 pts a game after Cal realized how good he was. And Maxey averaged 14 a game as a freshman. Has this site been taken over by dimwitted AI bots?
Numerous of my posts pointed to how bad the SEC was that year. Dimwitted AI bots? C’mon man, you just made a post about Isaiah Quickley. Be serious.
Anyone that refers to a score as 45-65 knows little to nothing about sports. And no, "20 point beat downs" are not "the norm now." You don't know what you're talking about. We didn't lose to Vanderbilt by 30+ as you claim. It was "55-80" (and yes I posted the score that way intentionally...to mock you. It's cringe when discussing sports).
For anyone still thinking that Travis could have a Chris Lofton type college career, keep in mind that he was an All-American as a sophomore.
Where did computers have the Harrison twins runner up team Going into the first weekend of the tourney?
Good grief. This is not just wrong- it’s trollish (I am not saying you did not hear it). Right up there with someone saying he was stalking a girl and he took a pay cut to go to Ole Miss. Now, I do agree there were issues between Travis and Mark.
To be fair to TP, the difference between a stalker and a romantic is whether the gal eventually says "okay, I'll go out with you" or not.
I’m unsure whether this is a “gotcha” question or was out of genuine curiosity. Regardless you sparked my curiosity.
That team was 17th in Kenpom going into the tournament and then went on a historical close game run.
I know it ain't Kansas City, but they have some damn good-looking coeds in Oxford. I wonder how he's doing down there ??
I posted the below information on another thread but to answer your question:
Travis Perry's Stats
Jasper Johnson's Stats
Jasper was better than TP in every category (freshmen year verses freshman year) except for turnovers per game. And basically the same player as Sophomore TP. And everyone was SOOOOO thrilled by how well Jasper played this year right? We thought Jasper was the next John Wall, all of us, right?
And Amari Williams had to bring the ball up against pressure.
Ha yeah the 2020 team had a great record in a bad SEC. The conference has been a different beast the last couple of seasons.
They look bad in computers because opponents an elite team could beat by 10-15, they’d barely win. They didn’t have the same ratings as 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2017 who also were in a weak conference because their average margin of victory was slim.
One can laud the brilliance of Maxey, Quickley, and Richards. The all are having successful NBA careers. Maxey was not up to is NBA quality yet, sub 30% shooter from 3, but Quick and Richards certainly were fantastic. Despite that, the team barely cracked the top 25 in offensive efficiency and outside the top 50 in defensive efficiency. They were good offensively, but couldn’t defend up to Cal’s historical standards.
They look bad in computers because opponents an elite team could beat by 10-15, they’d barely win. They didn’t have the same ratings as 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2017 who also were in a weak conference because their average margin of victory was slim.
One can laud the brilliance of Maxey, Quickley, and Richards. The all are having successful NBA careers. Maxey was not up to is NBA quality yet, sub 30% shooter from 3, but Quick and Richards certainly were fantastic. Despite that, the team barely cracked the top 25 in offensive efficiency and outside the top 50 in defensive efficiency. They were good offensively, but couldn’t defend up to Cal’s historical standards.
Funny how numbers and stats are so easily changed to fit an agenda….