Pope sent a recruit home after just 3 hours

ftp000

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Yes. We sent out a lot of offers (as do all teams) Crow, Rippey, Kinney, McCoy, Smith Jr, Alozie, Holt, Thompson, Oladotun, Howard, Samuels, Adams, Ariza, Cloer, Stokes, Collins, Muurinen, Cam Williams, Ekezie, Diane, Taylor, Irving.

To be fair, it's no different than Calipari, except we didn't get anyone.
Source?
 
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I don't know the details of this, but if any of the rumors from last year are true I wouldn't want anyone here that wouldn't fit or cause drama.
Maybe Pope knows this next team HAS to gel or we are screwed.
Those rumors came out because our loser coach made up some bs excuse about a locker room incident before the Louisville game. The coach started the rumor, and whether it’s true or not, he should not be airing it out publicly.
 

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If you're lazy and log in via a Google account or something similar instead of signing up, they give you an anon user name.
Also, they’re new accounts but not always new people. Many are the same person. Chooses the lazy(easy) way because they’re creating new accounts one after the other.

Sometimes they’ll create a username mocking the poster they’re trolling and other times just jumping back on with an anon. Most of these trolls are made up of very few people. Maybe only 2 or 3. Heck, maybe even one. lol. It’s nuts.
 

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I can't help but wonder who Pope is talking about...I think we can rule out Stokes since Stokes was playing him and we can rule out Wright because they thought they had Wright. I think it has to be Holt, Crowe, Collins, Rippey Jr., or Kinney.
 

Lameguy

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I can't help but wonder who Pope is talking about...I think we can rule out Stokes since Stokes was playing him and we can rule out Wright because they thought they had Wright. I think it has to be Holt, Crowe, Collins, Rippey Jr., or Kinney.
I think he was referring to a Portal guy
 
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UKBB4Ever

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Those rumors came out because our loser coach made up some bs excuse about a locker room incident before the Louisville game. The coach started the rumor, and whether it’s true or not, he should not be airing it out publicly.
And we came out and jumped all over Louisville early. So it was a stupid excuse to start with.

Pope is clueless about every aspect of coaching.

Or, he’s trying to get fired!

I’m going the latter because no one can be as stupid as Pope is pretending to be.
 
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It was probably Gabe Dynes, like someone said, since he is from Ky so no big deal to go home. Just a little bit north of Lex. He may have gotten a better offer from UL (NIL, PT, whatever) and it wasn't going to work.
 

Catfan in Tn.

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He should have sent Lowe and JQ home. Would have saved us tons of money for nothing.
Once again, it was an in home visit and Pope realized, whoever it was didn’t fit his system.
####Ok it was an on campus visit. ####
 
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Lameguy

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I make a joke, you get offended and sensitive, and proceed to call me a snowflake? Interesting.
You need to work on you’re writing, your joke came off as snarky. I’m not offended, just thought you were the one offended. That’s why the snowflake comment. I stereotyped you as a young person that gets offended over the slightest comment. So with that here’s a name that’s not taken “Limpguy”. 😆just joking! Seriously I just didn’t understand all the anon screen names.
 
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You need to work on you’re writing, your joke came off as snarky. I’m not offended, just thought you were the one offended. That’s why the snowflake comment. I stereotyped you as a young person that gets offended over the slightest comment. So with that here’s a name that’s not taken “Limpguy”. 😆just joking! Seriously I just didn’t understand all the anon screen names.
I thought it was an obvious joke, my bad. But have a good day. 🫡 I honestly signed up and was given the name. I don’t even remember a section to pick a name and honestly, I don’t mind just being anonymous. I have no sources, I’m not relied on info. I’m just a frustrated Kentucky fan. That’s all.
 

Lameguy

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I thought it was an obvious joke, my bad. But have a good day. 🫡 I honestly signed up and was given the name. I don’t even remember a section to pick a name and honestly, I don’t mind just being anonymous. I have no sources, I’m not relied on info. I’m just a frustrated Kentucky fan. That’s all.
Thanks
 

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It’s kind of odd for Pope to be boasting about sending a kid home after 3 hours when he had 14 of the top 20 kids visit and all say no.

He had all three bedsheet guys in town for at least 36 hours and struck out on them as well. Does he think it’s impressive that he turned someone away?
 

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It’s kind of odd for Pope to be boasting about sending a kid home after 3 hours when he had 14 of the top 20 kids visit and all say no.

He had all three bedsheet guys in town for at least 36 hours and struck out on them as well. Does he think it’s impressive that he turned someone away?
It sounds like he's saying "not all of them rejected me, some of them I said no to". Like...ok maybe, but you're still the whiff king so who cares??
What's your point, Pope? He's so lame
 
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Beatle Bum

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This thread is just more proof that any little piece of news about Mark Pope will encourage posters to force that news into their preconceived notions and opinions. There is some real speculation gymnastics taking place in this thread peppered with redundant snark. Therapy sessions are failing.
 
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Did he? I think this statement makes the point that not every visitor got an offer.
I know he missed on targets. We just don't know how many. People here have used the 14 visits as the number of misses. But obviously not all 14 got an offer.
If you think Pope didn’t offer one of those 14, all top 20 recruits btw, then I have a bridge to sell you.
 
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ftp000

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If you think Pope didn’t offer one of those 14, all top 20 recruits btw, then I have a bridge to sell you.
I'll take his word over message board scuttlebutt. He said sometimes you can just tell that the fits not right. I doubt he offered in those cases. Then there's the value based offers. We have no idea who was offered, or what they were actually offered based on their value vs their demands.

Now, about that bridge...
 
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Lameguy

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This thread is just more proof that any little piece of news about Mark Pope will encourage posters to force that news into their preconceived notions and opinions. There is some real speculation gymnastics taking place in this thread peppered with redundant snark. Therapy sessions are failing.
I started the thread wondering who he could have been talking about. I figured all these posters that claim they had sources could enlighten us. Instead nothing but people complaining about Pope.
 
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