and to be very, crystal clear, this has not happened at any other school with this many high profile players that were essentially locked up. This is 100% an outlier with Pope and Kentucky right now. And also a reminder Pope got 0 high school recruits this cycle (not counting mason williams or zyon hawthorne).
Milan to UK?
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Within 8 hours I go from nice car/house to studio apartment and an ex wife
Said the same thing. I’m torn on wanting him to come and maybe us being decent but I don’t want pope extended. That experiment failed.
Shocker. The worst recruiter in college basketball history is doing what he's done for like the 20th time.
Bat cats won!
Im gonna put on WCW v NWO Revenge and pretend Mark Pope isn't our coach for a bit.
Im gonna put on WCW v NWO Revenge and pretend Mark Pope isn't our coach for a bit.
I appreciate it. My friend is pretty well connected to UL. He's a good dude other than being a UL fan. I hope the UL staff is wrong on this one. But of the two, Kelsey seems to read the room way better than Pope. And either way, Rainmaker is still a phony and a fraud.
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Don’t want to believe this but damn, seems to be the norm anymore.
This always seems to be issue with Pope. We make the biggest offer, but the top guys always seem to wait and wait just hoping another offer gets close enough so they won't have to pick Kentucky. If he really wanted to come here, then it should have been a done deal by now with us having the top offer. If that gap is getting closed, then I don't like the apparent trend.
Idk what that means but I’ll take it. lol
If we can't get a non guarantee second NBA draft drop out kid to come here for 7M then it is over for us until change is made. That same kid would have broke Cal's arm to grab 4M from him. It is a disaster whether he comes or not. If this was not the NIL area then we would be bottom 5 SEC.
It's very likely nothing has changed in 8 hours and people just make up things because it's supposed to end soon.
This isn't about recruiting anymore. It's about agents and checkbook.
If numbers are true. You have a kid considering choosing UL over UK with UK offering a million dollars more. It’s absolutely about recruiting ability.
If it were just about the highest offer than Kentucky would have Rob Wright, Stokes, Milan and many others.
I just can't believe it, I mean the op said it was trending on x and everything.
Matt’s connections to UL have often seemed stronger than those he has at UK.
What the hell? Spent the day working on my car and didn't check in until now. Did UK screw the pooch again?
This is extremely accurate...unfortunately.
Because Matt Jones said?
PS. He said the difference has closed to under a mill.
Really? How much did we offer those guys, and how much did they accept?
Please show your work
This whole thing has reflected how far UK has fallen as a program. People are freaking out about a guy who makes us a sweet 16 team.
Thats not on Mom as he's a good piece but pope's massive failures with the rest of the roster prevent a proper ceiling.
Thats not on Mom as he's a good piece but pope's massive failures with the rest of the roster prevent a proper ceiling.
It was widely and publicly reported by many people, national people, that Kentucky had a higher offer for Wright, Stokes, Milan, etc. That's not my fault if you don't believe that.
Also, skepticism itself and baiting people to pull direct numbers and reference out, on the spot, is not an argument and seems to be your default. Essentially your default way of arguing is "Quote the exact details right now or you're wrong." Not a reasonable way to engage in discussion.
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It still would make no sense to me for him to go anywhere other than UK. He would be the highest profile player on a resurgent (hopefully) UK team and would be a legit All-American candidate because of it. If he wanted to increase his exposure for the next draft, that would be one hell of a way to do it.
His role would be diminished on a UL team. Would make no sense to go there.
His role would be diminished on a UL team. Would make no sense to go there.
Will have another zoom meeting tomorrow followed by Pope flying to Pakistan for another top center of 2027. When he arrives back we will see Mom at UL or AZ... consistent!!
I'm signing up for sports agent school. This has to be the easiest way to make millions there is.
Let me get this straight. None of us have seen this team play together, so we have no idea how well the “fit” will be. Also, at least on paper, this team look’s better than Pope’s first team (that went to a S16). But you, in your all-knowing wisdom, say that even if we get MM we are no better than Pope’s first team?
Can you share next week’s power all numbers and the winner of the 2027 Super Bowl while you‘re at it?
Yep. And Matt openly admitted to engagement farming earlier. I couldn’t believe he said it
Just reading this reinforces a truth about the pope era in particular, I think a lot of this fanbase is willinv to tune out a whole bunch in hopes to win a game in march or two
Which I think is outrageous, a big reason why Pope is on the hotseat is because oc the fact that his playstyle will put anyone to bed, and his rosters lack juice that a top program should have
Anyone else having that? Let’s just roll with the guys who are proud to wear this jersey and forget about the guy trying to milk more money out of us.
Not worried
pope will be out with or without him
pope will be out with or without him
Unfortunately the only guys that are proud to wear the jersey under pope are bums and future accountants