It’s a symptom of hiring pope. He pumps more sunshine on recruits than he can deliver. All we hear are positive things from our local media. I’m looking for massive changes this year or I expect for us to get back to the top. We are a coach away from fixing our program. I told everyone pope would try to stack the class so he’s unfireble. He knows that a lot of UK fans live a year ahead. Looking forward to the next class even while we re in the midst of the season. At the end of the day this guy needs to win. No excuses no bs about having a healthy squad. This team like last season is very deep if he’s not winning big this season he never will. But make no mistake. Pope is trying have a back up plan if this season goes sideways. He cares about having the job not the job itself. Well I take that back he cares. As long as the position is his.
Sound like Rosser decision coming soon
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The promise of money isn't enough anywhere. Playing time and how they will be utilized matters, probably more for most. They are still thinking next level.
Rosser is just one example. For a decade, it really didn't matter who the "home" team was, now we just make excuses for all the guys who aren't choosing us.
Times are a lot different now. If you can stay home for same or close to same money why wouldn’t you? I’d personally take Benji berrouet over him anyway.
Why do fans not understand that Pope will never get a recruit when other Bluebloods are involved they will always use ky for leverage.Insanity repeating the same behavior over and over again expecting a different result but always getting the same one!
So all the guys we miss out on are just staying home? Are you actually attempting to argue that Pope isn't a bad recruiter?
Not sure why people are freaking out over him, he’s literally 6’10 200 lbs. I think Benji would be a better fit.
I didn’t say that at all. Making your own assumptions I see. He’s done a bad job winning big recruitments and I’ve never said he has been a good recruiter.
The reasons he is missing out aren't just "the times" changing like you suggested. Many of the top recruits aren't staying home for close or the same money because the coaches recruiting them know what they are doing.
When you say know what they’re doing, does that mean their ability to coach or their ability to recruit. Take Cal, can’t coach a lick but getting top recruits. Or Houston’s coach, good coach but usually doesn’t get top talent. BYU gets some top talent but haven’t produced on court results. It seems like there‘s no rhyme of reason. UL just over pays, what exactly do they have to offer other than money. This isn’t meant to be a troll question, I just wonder what the real issue is.
The best recruiters can sell you on what their vision is, past success, etc. Whether it's true or not doesn't always matter to an 18 year old. I think it is very hard for Pope to relate to just about anybody but especially recruits. That why you see him be able to make a top 3, have a great NIL offer, and basically every top guy is still not on board.
This guy literally has sent me DMs before begging for my "pee pee juices" and has said "it doesn't matter if it's yellow, white, or the rare stained glass mix, I want it all." I let them go unanswered and then like a week or so later he'll just send something blunt like "straight from the source" or "straight from the tip" at like 2 a.m. on a Tuesday with a gif of someone drinking a milkshake. It's wild.
He also has close to 120 posts on here since Friday. I think he's just a sad, lonely boy who craves for connections he can't get in real life. It's kind of sad.
We’ll just preserve this psychotic ramble here just in case Creepers takes his meds and wants to edit out his lunacy.
[edit: Creepers is upset he revealed his affinity for man boobs - we get it - might be the one sane thing implicit in his post]
I think it was just another one of those things and Pope is going to strike out again. He's going to treat it like the card game and tell us to go fish....
I am telling you. I feel good about this one
“Additionally, as the sport continues to get older, Rosser is reportedly uncertain whether a freshman-heavy supporting cast led by a relatively new collegiate coach is the best environment for his individual development. And…Jordan never gave CJ a call. This is worth monitoring”
sounds like Jordan doesn’t want to offer up anymore money.
sounds like Jordan doesn’t want to offer up anymore money.
Who the hell are you lol? Joined 2026- some retread?
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That sounds promising. Perhaps the longer it goes, the better chance we have? I read on the pay side that UNC (if successful) would be paying approximately $15MM for two freshmen. That's a lot of capital and perhaps they are still deciding on what to offer. Who knows.
No, I got a subscription when Stein was hired so I could read JDrum and Rowland's articles about football. I read the free boards for a long time so I know you have a connection to Perry/Lyon County. I actually asked you a question about Jack R. several months ago when he announced he was transferring. Travis was always a good kid and I don’t know many people who know him who would say a bad word about him...but Ryan is a whole different story. I'm pretty sure your connection to that group is Michelle R.
Recruits will get paid anywhere they go. They find their value and they get that no matter what.
They want to go to a school they feel comfortable at and can have fun. Its college. Top recruits want to go have one heck of a year to remember. Maybe two. Pope just doesn't connect or create the type of "lit" environment.
Sometimes I wonder if Pope is holding onto 96 too much. Coming off like hes a UK king with all the sacred cloth stuff and that rubs recruits wrong. Make this completely about them. Don't make all this stuff like this is a sacred place and you have to do certain things.
Its basketball. Go hoop and win some games. Can have a players first program and still have a national championship be the objective.
They want to go to a school they feel comfortable at and can have fun. Its college. Top recruits want to go have one heck of a year to remember. Maybe two. Pope just doesn't connect or create the type of "lit" environment.
Sometimes I wonder if Pope is holding onto 96 too much. Coming off like hes a UK king with all the sacred cloth stuff and that rubs recruits wrong. Make this completely about them. Don't make all this stuff like this is a sacred place and you have to do certain things.
Its basketball. Go hoop and win some games. Can have a players first program and still have a national championship be the objective.
I haven't felt this low about the state of the program since Tubby's last season.
Times is hard.
Times is hard.
It included 10 for Henry and Rossser no way get all 4 for that
Yeah, really hard to figure out what’s correct right now.
Yeah, that's not surprising as Beatle Bum dm'ed me before with some gross stuff as well. Like he kept pushing this weird idea for us to get ***-to-*** and fart into each others stinkholes as forcefully as possible. He kept going on about how awesome it would be to "take turns blastin" and "see who the real man was." He's messed up.
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