Hopefully they go get good players who fit. Get to work, shut up about roster cost, and find a way to win.
This place will be a riot when we miss out on all the portal studs
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Seriously, a lot of those “booms” are more like “pfffts”. I don’t need a “boom” for a 3rd team ACC player and a cripple that might play half the season if we’re lucky.
Kentucky Wildcats News: UK Basketball Fan Behavior
What role does fan behavior play in recruiting?
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Which abundant data do ‘we’ have that suggests we won’t get any good portal targets. I’m curious. We have basically unlimited $$$$. Isn’t that the most important element to score big in the portal? What am I missing?
The last two portal seasons have had mixed results, at best.
No I agree, I meant if he laid a complete egg. If he even gets the haul he did the last couple of years that's going to make a decent team. Decent won't get him a 4th season though
Lets all be honest, a lot of people here would convince themselves we got a great portal class no matter who we sign.
If you’re too damn soft to take anon accounts commenting on social media (when they could be burners of other teams fans) then you have no business playing here under the pressure this place provides. Whoever wrote that article is a jackass who has no business anywhere near this program.Kentucky Wildcats News: UK Basketball Fan Behavior
What role does fan behavior play in recruiting?
The only thing that matters to these kids is money and who is coaching them. I promise you it’s not the fans.
Nobody cares and it’s only brought up because we are the standard and always will be.
if you cant take jakekx saying how much your 4-21 shooting night on rupps rafters sucked then go play for Villanova or something.
If we have significant season altering injuries to four key players then probably so.
If you would stop trying to get the coach fired, maybe some players might want to come to Kentucky.
He will get 7th and 8th on the list after pursuing number one target and then convince the fanbase that they are the ones he wanted because they are a fit to his program and pretend they are very talented.We all know some of them can't shoot or even dribble and can't guard a fence post then reality sets in that Pope cannot recruit even with money to burn.
I'm planning on rioting no matter who we get
We should riot. No one has actually told the true story on how JQ ended up here.
Pope has nothing to do with it
Pope has nothing to do with it
I can 100% guarantee you Pope is going to over-correct his recruiting this year. Last year he focused on defense and getting power five higher minute bench players who could be given an opportunity to shine with starters minutes at Kentucky. That did not work out so he is going to completely change it up. This year he is going to focus on a ton of mid-major guys who will resemble his first year squad. He may actually get better results with that type of roster as they will probably be more receptive to what he wants to do. But I don't think that is a long term path for success. Not at Kentucky. Not saying you can't build a successful transfer team (look at what Michigan just did) but I don't think Pope is the right coach for it.
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To who? Joseph Smith? Brigham Young? The actual Pope? Or for the coach Pope? To Muhammad and/or Allah? Or Yahweh? Or someone else?
I’m going to Riot if we sign another player that is coming off of a injury, to many players that are not injured
He's basically Tubby with slightly less coaching ability.
He didn’t say people will riot. He said it will be a riot. He laughs when UK loses or misses on a recruit but trust him he’s the biggest UK fan. He loves this guy —>
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Except Tubby didn’t want 5 Star guys, Tubby wanted 3-4 Star players that were hungry to prove they were worthy of 5 Stars. Pope wants the Best players he can get, he just can’t relate with the kids these days and they laugh at him for being dopey. Of course, that is just his personality, I’m sure if we were recruiting players from only Amish and Morman communities, we would have a Top 10 Class every year. IMO
Yeah, it's people on a message board and definitely not the coach and money involved. Sure thing.
And everyone knows that no other sports fans are ever critical online.
Hey we would suck, but those Amish work hard. Lose by 50 and then go out and build someone a barn.Except Tubby didn’t want 5 Star guys, Tubby wanted 3-4 Star players that were hungry to prove they were worthy of 5 Stars. Pope wants the Best players he can get, he just can’t relate with the kids these days and they laugh at him for being dopey. Of course, that is just his personality, I’m sure if we were recruiting players from only Amish and Morman communities, we would have a Top 10 Class every year. IMO
Just getting 1 stud from the portal goes a long way.
Surrounding him with 5-6 solid to good players would get us into the top 10.
Surrounding him with 5-6 solid to good players would get us into the top 10.
Why would anyone riot? It would just mean that Pope is for sure getting fired after next season.
I expect it. I'm checked out until Pope is gone. I'll still watch the games, but my actual fandom or true care is very low. I skipped many games this year. I didn't even watch the Santa Clara game. Because I knew we'd just get thrashed by Iowa State.
I remember when NCAAT losses would hurt my soul. Those days are long gone. It kind of reminds me a worse version of the 2000-2002, 2006-2008 eras where I knew we had no shot and our team was mediocre.
Apathetic about college sports in general, really. Find myself just rooting against other teams more than entertaining that we will be competitive.