I don’t know that. I was just interpreting what was posted.
Trilly Scoop on Chandler (Yikes)
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It has to be hilarious to hear some of these guys give ultimatums like that and then have nowhere to go close to what they want. You know it happens all the time, players who aren’t worth close to the money they think they are.
Big change in UK bball. Last year Pope was asking the players would it take to get them.
This year he sat them down and clearly defined what their role appeared to be and what UK was willing to pay. If not acceptable ok to move on. Mo wanted a starting spot and more money. Garrison wanted the same. Jasper wasn’t guarantee over a million again. Lowe not guarantee a starting role and a raise. They moved on.
This year he sat them down and clearly defined what their role appeared to be and what UK was willing to pay. If not acceptable ok to move on. Mo wanted a starting spot and more money. Garrison wanted the same. Jasper wasn’t guarantee over a million again. Lowe not guarantee a starting role and a raise. They moved on.
It’s impossible in this day and age unless they grew up here and loved the school. Only players left who remotely care about it. It’s kind of a stupid pitch these days. It’s all about fit, money, and NBA aspirations.Yeah it was a nice thought wasn’t it?
Those kids just don’t exist anymore. Not just for us, but any school. I hate this new college sport landscape.
Chandler should get no more than a million a year max. Probably more in the 750k range.
I don't blame Colin at all honestly. Have y'all seen grocery prices? He has wives to feed
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Why Pope continues to recruit guys that can’t shoot it blows my mind. We need a distributor and athletes I get that, but you either need one guy who is a true point and surround them by 4 other guys who can shoot. He seems to be going after the same type guys who made this year not fit well together.I'm confused we want Zoom and Dedan so one is a righty and the other a lefty with another righty as the possible 3rd PG. How are we going to run the offense then.
Of course you aren't talking about Pope. We know it might be too much to commit to such a logical position.
Maybe; or maybe it's just that a bunch of our guys who have played under Pope want to get the hell out of Lexington now that they have experienced how limited he is.
It's amazing how Hurley keeps bringing back guys for lesser money who don't mind playing a smaller role. Guess that's what it's like to play for a great coach.
Can we include ball handling sessions as part of his NIL package? Maybe that's what Pope was talking to Jamal Crawford about.
Winning cures all, it yeah I agree with you to. Hopefully it’s our turn to get a team full of players who want to win.
Seem to be more and more of those lately don’t they? lol.
Even I don't know what to believe. Same group of guys three days later say they got it wrong, it was UK offered 1.5 and Chandler said it would take double (3 million) for him to go back to Utah. Otherwise he'd be at UK for 1.5. The rest of it about BYU laughing at his agent at asking for 3 mil is supposedly the same though.
For clarity, I'm not connected to the program. I just have friends and golfing buddies who are (more on the football and baseball side than basketball). I just get bored in my office and post here what they talk about. Some of it is actual true information, and some of it is probably conjecture or embellished stuff from them. This is a message board and we all speculate here. It could be worse, I could be miserable and spend all day trolling a fanbase from my mom's basement. I choose to be optimistic and share information when I hear it.
Chandler would have went back home for $2 million.
Sounds like BYU and Young are much smarter than Pope, which we all knew. So instead, we'll be the ones with our money tied up by a guy that can neither handle nor defend.
Yeah, in this case, everyone is going to believe whatever they want to believe, but to me, it just seems more believable that he told BYU it would take X amount of money to leave UK. I think he likes it here, but yeah, it's just a guess.
After talking to the guys again, it's my personal opinion that Chandler's agent was probably the one who asked UK for $3 million (because we were in the habit of overpaying last year). That lines up with other rumblings on social media about Chandler staying for around 1.5 but willing to leave if someone offered double. Don't know how reliable any of that info coming out is though really. Like that Moreno took less than offered by UK to stay in order for UK to have more money to sign a better team. That would be crazy if true for many reasons. Like is that saying UK doesn't have a blank check this year? Does that mean UK can be outbid for players? Does that mean Pope has a ceiling he can't go over put in place and hindering his ability to get the best of the best players (not that he has, but still). Why would a player of Moreno's age, talent, potential value on the open market take less? So many questions... I do believe 95% of what you are hearing the media report on is smoke. UK is interested in this player, this player is having a zoom meeting with this guy, Kentucky will be interested in this guy... All that stuff is for clicks. Outside of Dedan and Zoom for PG1, I think everything else they are doing is behind the scenes and super quiet and we won't actually know what is going on until it happens. Pope can't afford to lose this portal session or he won't get another at UK. The less people know who UK is targeting, the less chance other people can submarine it. Especially with how public the Stokes recruitment has been. We shall see. At the end of the day, we are all just fans (and a few trolls), who want to enjoy our college team.
His wife has already moved back to Utah. The $2 million he got at UK could fund a lot of flights back and forth to Utah for him and his wife, but I would think a bi-coastal relationship would be challenging and would wear on the relationship over time.
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Could be, but if so, why would Colin ask for so much coin and price himself out of a deal?
Lol saying hurley brings people back for less money is comical. Maybe he has done well with a team and it's paying off.it just takes throwing together right transfer team
Chandler got $1.5 million last year, the same as Jasper Johnson
You ask high in a negotiation and settle for a comfortable median for both parties. This is ongoing until you hear a formal announcement from Chandler that he is staying. Now that BYU is losing Wright, they may up the ante for Chandler.
Chandler is one I wanted back but I hope Pope doesn't wildly overpay to keep him.
thank god fans arent GMs. we wouldnt be able to field a team that could win at the YMCA.
He was making $1.5 million last year, same as Jasper Johnson whom Pope had to overpay so as not to lose a Lexington product and UK legacy to Alabama or North Carolina.
I'm not mad at Collin. If I were in his shoes, I'd do the same.
He's unlikely to be a long term NBA player. He can make a few million over the next 2 or 3 years and be set for life. He's got a wife. I assume they'll eventually want kids.
There's been talk that they're home sick and want to be back in Utah closer to family. If BYU will give you a raise AND you get to go back home, great. If Kentucky will give you more money, at least you feel better about not being home.
If he winds up staying in Lexington, I'll be ecstatic to have him.
If he leaves for BYU or Utah, I don't think it breaks us.
He's unlikely to be a long term NBA player. He can make a few million over the next 2 or 3 years and be set for life. He's got a wife. I assume they'll eventually want kids.
There's been talk that they're home sick and want to be back in Utah closer to family. If BYU will give you a raise AND you get to go back home, great. If Kentucky will give you more money, at least you feel better about not being home.
If he winds up staying in Lexington, I'll be ecstatic to have him.
If he leaves for BYU or Utah, I don't think it breaks us.
I thought you guys wanted all these guys gone? I mean do you want the same team back with same results or do you want to admit these guys were a bad fit or at least most of them were and move on. I am sure if Pope wanted to he could have brought most all these guys back, but that would not make sense.
Giving Jasper Johnson $1.5M last year and losing Braylon Mullins as a result should be a fireable offense!
but if they didnt, he would have gone to unc or bama. and you would be saying....letting a local kid go to a competitor is a fireable offense.
That's why Gillispie hired Tracey Webster as an assistant from Illinois to get Darius Miller. He lost Scotty Hopson to Tennessee and could not afford to lose a top 30 ranked national prospect from your own state to an out of state school.
Hold on now…. You are 100% right on greed, but Chandler supposedly also donated his entire NIL (1 million I believe) to help fund some sort of homeless home complex. It could be he wanted more for reasons like that.
Edit: I think this isn’t accurate and was bs from online.
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My apologies, I thought it was a Kentucky News website but I don’t remember, but a quick google search said it didn’t happen.
I’ll edit my previous post so I don’t get corrected 100 times.
That's BS and you know it. He donated it all to turning point.