BB: Michael Ruzic -Moreno replacement option

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Kentucky has continued to recruit Michael Ružić, ive been told.

LSU remains a dark horse, but BYU or Kentucky seems to be the consensus from people I’ve talked too.

#BBN #KentuckyBasketball
 
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Padsfs07

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BYU has a massive hole at center on their roster.

They have a class of 22 guy that went on a 2-yr mission, then was sitting the bench at TCU the last two years in Adam Stewart. A 3-star freshmen center in Openshaw. Then a couple PF types in Jake Wahlin from Clemson and Tyler Betsey from Syracuse. Also 6'8 Khadim Mboup from Senegal that was a fringe role player last year.

Their 5 spot is wide open.
 

Padsfs07

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On the other hand, we had a Croatian on the squad last year in Jelavic and, without Moreno, would also have a large hole at center with Kepnang and Potter.
 

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Kentucky has continued to recruit Michael Ružić, ive been told.

LSU remains a dark horse, but BYU or Kentucky seems to be the consensus from people I’ve talked too.

#BBN #KentuckyBasketball
If he came here there would be a lot of you would be bashing him and saying over and over how bad he is even before he has played a game.The attitude of a lot of you people is hurting the program more than coaching, injuries or anything else
 

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If he came here there would be a lot of you would be bashing him and saying over and over how bad he is even before he has played a game.The attitude of a lot of you people is hurting the program more than coaching, injuries or anything else
Yeah it’s definitely the fans fault pope has lost 26 games in 2 seasons and can’t recruit
 

Anon267536

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Yeah it’s definitely the fans fault pope has lost 26 games in 2 seasons and can’t recruit
I mean they’re right though a lot of “fans” on here have some sort of mental block to getting a good player and immediately will act like they suck, you and all the other pope haters can still hate pope but give flowers to good players
 

TotheMoon88

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I mean they’re right though a lot of “fans” on here have some sort of mental block to getting a good player and immediately will act like they suck, you and all the other pope haters can still hate pope but give flowers to good players
Except they’re not right at all.
 

AJG-15

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Less physical than Big Z or his brother. Better wider base than BiG Z when shots the ball. Can he play defense?
 

Anon267536

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So you are saying that the 5 million dollars that is given to Mark Pope and the millions given to the players is nothing. If the fans would be quite, then UK would win championship every year.. Got ya...
Lmao now you talking bout sum random ****.

I never said anything you talking about
 

*Fox2Monk*

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If he came here there would be a lot of you would be bashing him and saying over and over how bad he is even before he has played a game.The attitude of a lot of you people is hurting the program more than coaching, injuries or anything else

 

ChocolateBiceps

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If he came here there would be a lot of you would be bashing him and saying over and over how bad he is even before he has played a game.The attitude of a lot of you people is hurting the program more than coaching, injuries or anything else

I can promise you recruits do NOT give a **** what we (a bunch of way too emotional Kentucky fans) say on a random message board lol. First of all nobody even really does message boards anymore except dorks like us. Teens/young people probably don’t even know wtf a message board is.

Even if they did… 20 or so random middle aged men typing comments is NOT “hurting the program” lol. I promise you we (Rupp Rafters) is not that important.
 

20MRoster

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BYU has a massive hole at center on their roster.

They have a class of 22 guy that went on a 2-yr mission, then was sitting the bench at TCU the last two years in Adam Stewart. A 3-star freshmen center in Openshaw. Then a couple PF types in Jake Wahlin from Clemson and Tyler Betsey from Syracuse. Also 6'8 Khadim Mboup from Senegal that was a fringe role player last year.

Their 5 spot is wide open.
If those same players were on the UK roster, the pumpers here would be talking Final Four.
 

UKgrad22

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I can promise you recruits do NOT give a **** what we (a bunch of way too emotional Kentucky fans) say on a random message board lol. First of all nobody even really does message boards anymore except dorks like us. Teens/young people probably don’t even know wtf a message board is.

Even if they did… 20 or so random middle aged men typing comments is NOT “hurting the program” lol. I promise you we (Rupp Rafters) is not that important.
Feel like people overestimate just how much these forums matter to players. Social media in general allows for endless criticism, Instagram, X, etc. are much more direct to the players because they actually have accounts on those sites. A recruit would have to actively open his browser, search up this forum, and sift through threads to find hatred directed towards them and even then if he really cared, he’d notice it’s the same ~50 (being generous) people. I highly doubt anyone is dense enough to think that the entire UK fanbase is represented on this forum alone.
 
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If he came here there would be a lot of you would be bashing him and saying over and over how bad he is even before he has played a game.The attitude of a lot of you people is hurting the program more than coaching, injuries or anything else
Stokes gave a silent verbal to Pope on his last visit, and I stalked him back to the airport and cornered him and told him, me and some other fans on here thought he sucked and that he should choose KU instead, and if he didn’t, we would say bad things about him on the internet, and run him and Pope out of town, if he called my bluff…

And the rest as they say, is history!

Mark my words… Pope will never be successful at UK, if we have our way! Now, I’m heading over to Momcilovic’s socials and I’m going to turn him away as well, buhahahaha😂
 
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I mean they’re right though a lot of “fans” on here have some sort of mental block to getting a good player and immediately will act like they suck, you and all the other pope haters can still hate pope but give flowers to good players
I was ready to give flowers for stokes. I think zoom and Wilkins were solid gets. I think Franck shouldn’t still be in college. Dude graduated high school with hunter Dickinson, Devin askew, Cade Cunningham, bj Boston and Terrence Clarke. I think if ndiaye and McBride play any significant minutes, we are screwed. I think kam is a solid piece to come off the bench and give a good 8-15 minutes a game. I like Moreno. I’ll give flowers to good players. Problem is, pope rarely gets those. Unlike many is popes cult, I give flowers to Oweh, and think he single handedly saved popes job this past season. A lot of pope supporters don’t even give Oweh flowers so GTFOH.