Juke Harris to UT
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The differences between the talent of the top SEC teams and UK is as far as I have seen in years.
Sadly it is. What have we spent on this team $7-8 million I have no idea. We’re shopping at Big Lots these days
Would have been the perfect guy for the players on our team to build around. Depressing to think about.
Why didn’t Pope go after this guy hard?!? Pope’s incompetence is unrelenting...
What kind of excuses are people going to make for Pope?! Tennessee and Louisville are loading up. Kentucky is cooked until we get a good coach.
At this rate, our rivals will be "our Super Bowl."
Mark Pope and Mitch Barnhart have really killed this program! Absolutely inexcusable
I feel like we should go back to recruiting 8th graders again. Worked out well for us before....
Who says he didn't?
lol you sure we could land ONE
UT Duke UL and Arkansas …. What a rough offseason for us
Toss UF in there as well
But But uconn doesnt have stars to be good, so popes doing it like them!!!!
The way some of these teams have loaded up, we will witness a historic average margin of defeat in our losses. We are legitimately 30+ points worse than multiple opponents.
I’m sure there will be fans on here that blame the fanbase in some way or another.
20 point UL beatdown next year. UT gonna sweep us. Kansas will boat race us and Stokes will have 25 and 10. SEC record will be at best 10-8.
year four incoming
year four incoming
Would have been the perfect guy to replace Oweh but once again we watch as others load up, he basically put all his eggs in the Stokes basket and here we are. I just am holding hope that Wilkins and Hawthorne are those “dudes” and maybe Ndiaye can give us something with Moreno but so many “ifs” and we’re supposed to be above the “if” game.
I wonder how much money Nike poured into Tyran Stokes' recruitment, but it seems like UK has plenty of money to grab some big-name guys.
Duke, KU, UL, UT, Florida, UConn….all top teams or rivals are loaded and getting a ton of players.
Meanwhile Pope continues to crap down his leg.
Meanwhile Pope continues to crap down his leg.
If they keep ament what will starting 5 look like?
Holy hell did Pope drop
The ball in the most important off season of his career.
Holy hell did Pope drop
The ball in the most important off season of his career.
It's just bizarre how we can't get guys to start and Duke has Rippey, UL has Folgueiras, Arkansas has Andrews, and now Tennessee has Lundblade.... alll likely to come off the bench. These are all guys we would give starting spots to.
Mark Pope is effectively a form of probation for the program.
We are getting left behind. Really hoping the Boise State AD coming here is a thing. Stuff needs to be shaken up in a major way
I’d take 10-8 right now. I think we are likely looking at 6-12. Not sold on Kansas either at the moment. Stokes is vastly overrated IMO and seemingly extremely selfish. I don’t think he has a good game against us at all. Could be wrong, will see. All I know is I have zero expectations for making the tournament next year. I will not tune in to a single game against a P5 opponent expecting to win. I’m old enough to remember Eddie suttons last year but honestly don’t remember what I felt at that time but I do think we are going to have a season that mirrors that although we will win more games as more weak teams on our schedule now vs then. Problem is we will be the weak team against other P5 opponents.
Texas A&M, Vandy, Alabama and Missouri are rated Top 20 in the portal also. Even Cincinnati is a top 20 team.
Night and day difference and I don't ever remember us being so lowly in the SEC ever. Depressing really.
And, Big Lots is out of business, kind of like Kentucky basketball.
I posted this before, but I don’t think UK has as much as people think. The Stokes money (at least a portion 3-4mil) was only for Stokes. That’s no longer available…I think maybe it was agreed that it could be moved to Momcilovic but that’s it.
Here’s what I think they’ve spent based on what people have posted.
Moreno, Kam, Hawthorne, Noah, and Potter = $5.5 mil
Zoom + Williams + N’Diaye + McBride + Morton = $9.5 Mil
Freshmen Hawthorne and Williams $.5 mil
That totals $15.5 mill. Even if that’s off by $1 -1.5 mil, my guess is that Pope only has about $4 mil left. That’s why he’s bargain shopping in Europe.
Nike put 2 million towards Stokes if he came to UK.
He has been a UT lock for a month
UConn may have the best backcourt in the country with Demary/Mullins. Hurley is the smartest coach by a mile. I'm not sure they brought one prospect in that wasn't signed, often in stealth fashion. These top programs really don't do this.
Relax, Rainman said we'd have a top 3 portal haul when all is said and done. Unless "something changes"
But but, the coaching experts told me that Pope is whiffing because of personality shortcomings, meanwhile, Mr. Wet Blanket personality himself, is loading up to contend with the best of the best next season!
Folks, take your head out of the sand… The boosters gave Stein the “Stokes money”, and told Pope, “Here’s some crumbs for mid majors and washed up Euro bums.”
UK has a men’s basketball NIL problem, not a dorky nerd coach problem. How much more do you need to see?
Folks, take your head out of the sand… The boosters gave Stein the “Stokes money”, and told Pope, “Here’s some crumbs for mid majors and washed up Euro bums.”
UK has a men’s basketball NIL problem, not a dorky nerd coach problem. How much more do you need to see?
I posted this before, but I don’t think UK has as much as people think. The Stokes money (at least a portion 3-4mil) was only for Stokes. That’s no longer available…I think maybe it was agreed that it could be moved to Momcilovic but that’s it.
Here’s what I think they’ve spent based on what people have posted.
Moreno, Kam, Hawthorne, Noah, and Potter = $5.5 mil
Zoom + Williams + N’Diaye + McBride + Morton = $9.5 Mil
Freshmen Hawthorne and Williams $.5 mil
That totals $15.5 mill. Even if that’s off by $1 -1.5 mil, my guess is that Pope only has about $4 mil left. That’s why he’s bargain shopping in Eutope