I mean…we spent almost like $25 MILLION DOLLARS last year and had like 14 losses and got absolutely blown out in the round of 32 in the tournament.
Joe Tipton is reporting Louisville has just signed Issac Ellis from Ote he's a guard averaged 31 a game,hopefully this takes Them out on Momoscolivic
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Kelsey going nowhere- with $3.3 million salary & 95% buyout till 2030. In fact he’ll be there for a while as long as they win 25+ games a year & get to round of 32 .
UL paid Kenny P. $8 million buyout 2 years ago.
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Strictly speaking he didn't promote it but he sure came just short. I think it was Goodman or maybe Katz who asked him about it and Pope responded that UK wants to be known as an elite nil destination.
Did he confirm it? No. Did he imply it was true? Absolutely.
At the beginning of the year he was happy to let it be fact and said we were a Ferrari. We were loaded. It wasn’t until it was obvious the team was severely flawed and injuries took effect that it changed.
lol you think Louisville cares about money? They’ll pay that in seconds if Kelsey doesn’t prove it this year
Even after reading that 75% of our fans will continue repeating the 22million bullcrap. In what world do you think Mitch Barnhart raises the most NIL in the country?? Not in 22 million years could a guy that detests paying players have the most expensive roster.
Mitch did nothing. Coaches had to raise their own nil. That's also why Mitch was bought out of his time here with that nice little retirement package.
More businesses in Loovulle than Lex is my guess. Being a larger city means more donations most likely.
Exactly my point. Calipari complained about our NIL, Stoops complained. Now, you expect us to believe all the sudden we put together the most expensive roster under Pope?? It was complete bullpiss. Duke had the most expensive roster under Pope, followed by Michigan.
We probably weren’t in the top 10.
You're conflating two points. The nil was left to the coaches which was both 1) pathetic and 2) both felt it was something they shouldn't have to do.
So when Pope came in, he mended the connections broken. Stein turned up the dial on connections stoops cultivated.
So all of the following is consistent and true 1) mitch sucks and refused to help with nil 2) previous coaches as a matter of pride and struggle had a difficult time raising nil 3) new coaches reversed that trend 4) we're still behind in nil because Mitch for a few years refused to even let coaches discuss money with recruits.
That was never going to happen.
My point is things have kind of changed somewhat. Yes spending that much money only to have 14 losses, get blown out MULTIPLE times by mid teams…then not even make it past Day 1 in the SEC tournament…THEN get absolutely sphincter thrusted in the 2nd round of tournament (after barely winning against a trash team in Game 1) is horrible. Awful. But I don’t think “if a team spends $15-$30 million on a roster and they don’t win a title it’s a colossal failure” is accurate.
Last year for example- had we gone say…24-7… beat some solid teams during regular season. Maybe made it to the SEC championship (or won it). Got a top 4 seed and got to an EE but lost that EE game by like 7 points, I would not consider that a “colossal failure”.
With the landscape having changed dramatically and substantially our old mantra of “FF/Titles or bust” or “We expect FF or Titles every year otherwise it’s a disappointing season” is out of touch and lowkey absurd. Mostly because that means we’ve had “disappointing seasons” for like 36 out of 46 seasons since 1980. But also because that’s just now how college basketball is anymore.
What we CAN and should expect though is to, more or less (weird years happen) be able to say we’re a “contender” to make a FF/Title run.
Yeah, that’s not even one good player at this point. Pocket change to them.