First season Pope was predicted 8th in the SEC, finished 6th. Second season we were predicted 2nd, finished 9th. Honestly 6th-8th sounds about right considering his average. I’m assuming we’ll end up 10-8 again, considering that’s where we finished the last couple seasons. And the SEC will be much harder to boot.
Radical changes needed for UK's Basketball Program
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Agree, it's a guy who probably never even played organized sports giving an opinion. Last year these same experts had us as FF contenders . We'll know soon enough.
The expectation should be that we are one of the handful of teams that can win it all at seasons end. If we aren’t that, Pope has to go. Till then I’m just gonna watch and hope and see what shakes out. That’s really all any of us can do.
Probably the same gaggle that had our fb team unranked last week.
Arkansas being picked so high is curious.
Florida will likely win the conference.
Outside of Florida, there are a bunch of teams who probably will be pretty close. There might be 6-8 top 25 caliber SEC teams other than Florida.
Florida will likely win the conference.
Outside of Florida, there are a bunch of teams who probably will be pretty close. There might be 6-8 top 25 caliber SEC teams other than Florida.
That’s about right.
Several of Pope’s Hail Mary attempts at a 15th recruit would have put us in the top 3 and two of them would easily have put us second. But with what we actually got we’re not going to be wowing anyone with our roster.
We could still wind up getting some kind of gestalt thing going on.
Several of Pope’s Hail Mary attempts at a 15th recruit would have put us in the top 3 and two of them would easily have put us second. But with what we actually got we’re not going to be wowing anyone with our roster.
We could still wind up getting some kind of gestalt thing going on.
We’re more like a “handful of teams who are borderline top 25 teams and will have a chance with a fortunate draw to make the Sweet 16 before losing to a superior team.”
Maybe Will Stein can pick up basketball and do some kind of iron man coaching thing.
The media still respect Cal. He did win the SEV tournament last season. We currently have a coach who does not garner respect from his peers, opposing fanbases nor the media.
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Folks all the forces that are leading to football landscape changes are also reshaping basketball.
Chief among changes is the fact that SEC has gotten very good to great in basketball. More quality and depth than ever.
Chief among changes is the fact that SEC has gotten very good to great in basketball. More quality and depth than ever.
He might prefer us regularly going for 2, rather than shooting so many 3s ...
I agree with your sentiment ... hoping that pre-season rankings are as inaccurate as football sure have been. Football prognosticators have really been way off, to say the least.
These teams are all mostly dog crap other than Florida. They are clear favorite.
So what im saying is if we can win a game or 2 or lose a game or 2 more can be the difference between a double bye and finishing 7th to 9th for sec tournament.
Pope can't keep showing up unprepared. No more tons of double digit deficits to overcome.
So what im saying is if we can win a game or 2 or lose a game or 2 more can be the difference between a double bye and finishing 7th to 9th for sec tournament.
Pope can't keep showing up unprepared. No more tons of double digit deficits to overcome.
And yet it’s basically the same teams winning every year…
Its about 1. Having a good to great coach and 2. Having a good to great nil war chest
Thats it. The teams that have those both are doing well.
Which do we not have? Hmm
I’m very excited to watch Pope get this team into a 1 seed . If the team stays healthy
Recruiting top players from the portal and highschool sets the stage to compete at a high level in this money take all. era.I hope Pope can breakthrough this down cycle of recruiting and bring in a stud or two with some decent portal players.
This should be on Batt's mind from the moment he wakes up every day. This is his whole job, to fix this.
This will always be a basketball school, that will never change nor should it.
. That is so weak. We're known for having great men's basketball program, but football needs a fair share of resources to get better. I'm talking nil revenue share. 75 football 15 basketball 5 Olympic and 5 back in general sports fund.
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I reserve criticism until we actually play some game, and then, only when we have enough games to have a resume worth critiquing.
With Pelfrey in the mix, it’s gonna be really bad if Pope doesn’t far exceed expectations. I think another crappy season fans are ready to revolt. I did talk to a body of mine that’s connected with NIL and he made a point to tell me that Stein really likes Mark Pope. Which was his way of saying if Stein has a say in it Pope will be around for a long time.
Basketball gets what it needs and then we go from there. Maybe a better basketball coach won't need quite as much money and we can spread it around better, but who knows. Basketball eats first.
Can we at least play a few games before some of you drama queens grab your pitchforks?
Pope will be the Ky coach for at least 5 more years. 2 more Sweet 16’s gives him 7 more years.
Will Stein will be offered several big time jobs over the next few years including Penn State & several NFL JOBS.
And he’s on year 3 here with a roster that, at least on paper, looks like his best yet. We all know he’s probably gone if he has another bad year, so why not at least let the year get started before you go full 13-year-old-girl after getting dumped by your first bf?
Then you go ahead and be miserable before the season even starts. Fun way to go about being a fan.
I'm not having any fun at all, I assure you. You seem to be though, with your head in the sand.
You saying you’re having no fun about a season that hasn’t seen a single game yet says a lot more about you than it does about me.
2 seasons going 46-26 hasnt been much fun. losing isnt fun. getting down double digits all the time isnt fun. missing out on elite talent isnt fun. having a coach that makes an *** out of himself every time he speaks isnt fun. not being hyped to start a season because the roster construction looks mid isnt fun.
i suppose if you try really hard and reduce uk basketball into the tiniest thing and completely ignore all other context.....you can fabricate a scenario that might be fun. but as a uk basketball fan....i shouldnt have to do all that
Doesn’t matter. This board has basically dead since on3 took it over and mutilated it. All that excitement this weekend and the traffic was a fraction of what it was back at Rivals.
No basketball team overcomes 3 injured starters. Not the 1996 UK team. They are starters for a reason. Even Florida this year. Pope has had that for his first 2 seasons.
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