Recruiting high school kids and the portal, in the eyes of a 55 year old fan. No joy. Hate all of it. Put a team together however you have to do it. Win games…don’t care how.
SIAP: So Stokes Is Apparently a Bit of A Drama Seeker
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Do NOT want this dude anywhere near Lexington. Team cancer and drama queen waiting to happen.
You love somebody at least said to "not turn your back on your home state".
At least I know he knows it now.
He replied to it.
He knows.
There's no excuse for being a traitor now.
Do what you do. 🫶
At least I know he knows it now.
He replied to it.
He knows.
There's no excuse for being a traitor now.
Do what you do. 🫶
We are screwed either way,
1. We get him he is a drama queen that fakes an injury and we lose over 7 million to watch him sit and go pro.
2. We don't get him and he dominates for Kansas.
I think in the end, you just do not want a kid that does not fully want to be here. I agree with the others, go out and grab some portal guys that can play.
Man I wish we could get a Tom Brady type, if he said give me 3 million and go spend the money on the rest of the roster and lets go ball out. A great roster would improve his draft stock by taking the focus off of him. Not like that 3 mil isn't still life changing money.
1. We get him he is a drama queen that fakes an injury and we lose over 7 million to watch him sit and go pro.
2. We don't get him and he dominates for Kansas.
I think in the end, you just do not want a kid that does not fully want to be here. I agree with the others, go out and grab some portal guys that can play.
Man I wish we could get a Tom Brady type, if he said give me 3 million and go spend the money on the rest of the roster and lets go ball out. A great roster would improve his draft stock by taking the focus off of him. Not like that 3 mil isn't still life changing money.
I’m sure Kansas has radical idiot fans too, some of them are on here.
Actually, that was really smart move by that Kentucky fan because it flushed him out
Is there a single Kentucky fan Twitter account that isn’t ran by the biggest douchebag you’ve ever met? That is the place that the losers from here must all meet up once they get laughed off this site. Every single one of those Kentucky fan twitter accounts are just awful in every single way possible.
Some of the drama queens on the board
Meanwhile, 18 year olds are sitting in the Middle East wondering if they will come home in a body bag or see their moms again. All of sports sucks.
Hell no, AJ put up 25ppg, highly doubt TS does that.
So many trolls on Twitter
Yeah, you can never tell who is actually a fan and who trolls or is another team making us look bad.
If Pope would have already gotten guys like everyone else, we would be in this awful situation with this guy.
You know I'm 61 years old. It's absolutely blown my mind how much these young kids are getting paid to play college ball. They're going to make in about an 8-9 months time frame more money than most folks my age have made in their entire life. Major college sports has turned into a business, big business. I don't think that's a good thing but it is what it's become.
"What the h3ll is the world coming to?" - Buford T Justice
"What the h3ll is the world coming to?" - Buford T Justice
Yes. Hopefully the fanbase pushes away more top recruits, since the current staff has really killed it with recruiting...
I'm not trying to be morbid, but I don't understand how that relates to this situation at all.
It doesn't. All the brave young men and women that are over there are doing it by choice. We didn't have a military draft. The kids that are playing D1 college Hoop are often there because God Blessed them with physical ability and genetics that a very small percentage of the population have. There's no reason to hate on the athletes, and its frankly hypocritical because the person doing the complaining likely watches several hours a week of the very kids he is dogging out
I'd be okay to prioritize Juke Harris instead...
IMO, the kids aren't in the wrong. They aren't holding out or threatening strike, and even if they did, colleges have the ability to say no. But let's be honest....no fan of UK would have given a diddly squat about the $22M number if it had resulted in a Championship...and if UK stood up and said "We refuse to pay one cent to NIL" and the team fielded a hard working group of kids that went 6-26 the entire fanbase would go on tilt
Yeah but how do you do that with a huge offer on the table to Stokes?
Hard to be high bidder for both players.
Stokes should have already had a deadline to accept but today should definitely be the day to commit or the money should be offered to other players
Maybe he is a headcase, but I don't get it from this post...I mean, ya'll seem to be completely overlooking the fact that some random UK fan he doesn't know, made a tik tok post and completely lied about him committing to UK? How is he supposed to respond to that? If you went inot work tomorrow and found out your coworker told your boss you took a job at a different company, I bet your reaction would be much stronger than his wasa.
Maybe it's just me but if my big decision was who would pay me millions I would be pretty damn happy and not worry about what anyone said.
I'd rather him just not say anything but if he was that seemed pretty measured and reasonable to me.
Some of you are just overly sensitive/obsessive and need other hobbies badly.
Some of you are just overly sensitive/obsessive and need other hobbies badly.
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Other fan bases are going to come around to holding this kids accountable.
No one is going to tolerate poor effort as fans when they see the 19 year old kid get in a Porsche after the game that donor money paid for.
And they are going to tolerate the kids family even less when they get on social media talking about how he hates being held accountable and blames the fans.
Stokes comes to UK, Stokes goes to Kansas, he says it ain't just the money
narrator: It is just about the money.
The kid believes he has 1 year in college and is gone to the pro's. He cares about 2 things - how much he'll get paid and where he will go in the NBA draft. I don't know Stokes but I know human nature, and I've had the benefit of learning it from the kids Calipari recruited year after year.
No one is going to tolerate poor effort as fans when they see the 19 year old kid get in a Porsche after the game that donor money paid for.
And they are going to tolerate the kids family even less when they get on social media talking about how he hates being held accountable and blames the fans.
Stokes comes to UK, Stokes goes to Kansas, he says it ain't just the money
narrator: It is just about the money.
The kid believes he has 1 year in college and is gone to the pro's. He cares about 2 things - how much he'll get paid and where he will go in the NBA draft. I don't know Stokes but I know human nature, and I've had the benefit of learning it from the kids Calipari recruited year after year.
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Agree ... praying that the recruiting challenges to this point are not entirely due to Pope himself, and that he is able to get it shored up and get the right guys this time around. I'd be lying if I said I was optimistic that it happens, but def NOT hoping that he fails. That would mean another season like the last one, and I don't know if I can endure that again!
But man, if he doesn't get it done with recruiting over the next few weeks ... don't want to think about it.
Ignore it. And that’s not a real comparison. He’s not employed by anyone yet.