Milan to UK?

UKortho

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It doesn’t matter to me ultimately whether he does or doesn’t. I have my reasons for believing he is getting fed real info. I just think it isn’t as reliable as we’d want. I think that’s true for literally everyone with an ear to this stuff right now. Stuff is very, very complicated in the NIL portal era.

I think the issue with Rain is he has tripled down on the fact it’s a done deal. If he is right, I’ll sing his praises. If he is wrong- then he should self ban.
 

JASUN74

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He never backs down. What's your point? He doesn't know anything he hasn't read on Twitter
I have no idea what he or anyone else knows, I’m not really into calling other Kentucky fans out just for the sake of doing it. Everyone can read and put thoughts together, they sure don’t need me at anyone else spending months doing nothing but watching and waiting for someone to post, just to call them out. It’s obsessive and sad, more than that, it just clogs up the whole site and makes zero sense. Rainmaker is a good poster in my opinion. You may not like him, I just don’t care about that and I’d imagine no one else does either.

Maybe he missed a couple predictions to where HE THOUGHT a player might end up, should we cast him off a high rise building? who in the world cares? No one knows how every single player/young man thinks, and kids change their minds as the drop of a hat. I had a triple bypass/open heart surgery a few years ago, and have more things to worry about than if someone gets everything right or wrong. Time is to short man.
 
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I have no idea what he or anyone else knows, I’m not really into calling other Kentucky fans out just for the sake of doing it. Everyone can read and put thoughts together, they sure don’t need me at anyone else spending months doing nothing but watching and waiting for someone to post, just to call them out. It’s obsessive and sad, more than that, it just clogs up the whole site and makes zero sense. Rainmaker is a good poster in my opinion. You may not like him, I just don’t care about that and I’d imagine no one else does either.

Maybe he missed a couple predictions to where HE THOUGHT a player might end up, should we cast him off a high rise building? who in the world cares? No one knows how every single player/young man thinks, and kids change their minds as the drop of a hat. I had a triple bypass/open heart surgery a few years ago, and have more things to worry about than if someone gets everything right or wrong. Time is to short man.
Oh he never just says he THINKS something. It's always a done deal. Good poster? I think not. You have low standards. He's perhaps the dumbest.
 

FilsonCat

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We'll find out later that a deal was effectively done the night he withdrew from the draft. Maybe even before that. This whole thing being dragged out has a bit of a groundhog day feel to it. At least we didn't have to put up with embarrassingly self promotional live streams from Rupp.
 

20MRoster

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How about the fact that Derek Anderson helped Pitino land Yessoufou along with some other former players . Saw that article yesterday. Yessoufou gave the same reason for committing as Freeman. Pitino's street cred.
See this is what Pope doesn't have. I don't think it's personality/ "weirdness", though that doesn't help him one bit. I think it's more that elite players can't get any elite references for Pope. Like look at the competition -- Kelsey was on staff at WF when they had Chris Paul, Jeff Teague, and Al Aminu. If those guys vouch for him, those are amazing references. Lloyd built the Gonzaga pipeline and got a guy like Corey Kispert drafted in the first round. Thats impactful to a guy like MM who aspires to be elite. MM does not look at Koby Brea and say "I wanna be him"
 

CardfanZou

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I think the issue with Rain is he has tripled down on the fact it’s a done deal. If he is right, I’ll sing his praises. If he is wrong- then he should self ban.
Well all the Louisville insiders are saying it’s done ,And they said the Iowa St coach told him to go to Louisville ,If he wasn’t coming back to Iowa st
 

TheApostleSaulSmith

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Not to defend the guy but what about him is 'weird' exactly? We tend to speak about people as if we've known them for years. Hell, I'm about to do it too...I think Pope may be someone who says he understands the current landscape but his pitch may be something you'd see in Hoosiers or some Hallmark movie about the plucky basketball team. The UK swagger is gone and has been replaced by a Mr. Nice Guy attitude. Pope appears to be the one trying to close and maybe he's just a dude who'd lose every hand of poker at a casino. That's not 'weird', some people just aren't good in these situations.

As far as Louisville goes, what they've done they won't be able to do every year but I hope no one is shocked that the main university in the largest and most powerful city in the state (the state as a whole is poor btw), who's been attached to several big local companies, is able to find the money for at least this offseason. They've got UPS, Yum! Brands, they brought back the crazy pizza man, etc. Who thought no one would give them money during the NIL Era?
not sure if serious …
 
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See this is what Pope doesn't have. I don't think it's personality/ "weirdness", though that doesn't help him one bit. I think it's more that elite players can't get any elite references for Pope. Like look at the competition -- Kelsey was on staff at WF when they had Chris Paul, Jeff Teague, and Al Aminu. If those guys vouch for him, those are amazing references. Lloyd built the Gonzaga pipeline and got a guy like Corey Kispert drafted in the first round. Thats impactful to a guy like MM who aspires to be elite. MM does not look at Koby Brea and say "I wanna be him"
I think it’s because he thinks mark pope is content with 46-26, and is incredibly proud of his sweet 16 and round of 32 departures. I think it is because, pope doesn’t accept accountability and doesn’t want to get better and grow, he would rather throw the players under the bus. Using injuries as an excuse, when Milan just saw how his Iowa state team adjusted without JJ to beat Kentucky by 19, when JJ played 35 games last season. And he was way better than what Lowe, JQ or anyone on our team could have given us except maybe Oweh. I think MM would be better off going elsewhere, but I hope he picks Kentucky. But if he doesn’t, I completely understand and I don’t blame him.
 

UKgrad22

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So theoretically if Louisville lands him, they roll out a 30 million+ dollar roster, if they achieve anything less than an ACC title, and national championship (at least an appearance), are we really thinking donors are gonna continue to pour that much funding?
 

JASUN74

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So theoretically if Louisville lands him, they roll out a 30 million+ dollar roster, if they achieve anything less than an ACC title, and national championship (at least an appearance), are we really thinking donors are gonna continue to pour that much funding?
If they love the game like a lot of us here, and have the money to blow, I really don’t see why not. Kelsey has gotten a lot of excitement back there, where a long time it was stagnant. I will forever hope they lose every game, but if I was a fan of them,(yuck), I’d be over the moon with the direction of the basketball program and be happy to throw in the pot, Compared to the last 7 or 8 years, it probably does feel like they’ve won the championship. lol. 😆. I don’t know how far they’ll go this season but they’ve done a great job this offseason in my opinion. They definitely have a chance to win a lot of games I think. (Yuck again)!
 
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This was posted on a UK pages IG story earlier in case anyone hadn’t seen it!
UK and UL are reporting numbers directly to Matt Jones after each offer. Everyone knows in negotiations you want the other entity and the public to know your offer so it can be used against you. Good to see basic common sense and logic are alive and well.
 

TheApostleSaulSmith

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I think it’s because he thinks mark pope is content with 46-26, and is incredibly proud of his sweet 16 and round of 32 departures. I think it is because, pope doesn’t accept accountability and doesn’t want to get better and grow, he would rather throw the players under the bus. Using injuries as an excuse, when Milan just saw how his Iowa state team adjusted without JJ to beat Kentucky by 19, when JJ played 35 games last season. And he was way better than what Lowe, JQ or anyone on our team could have given us except maybe Oweh. I think MM would be better off going elsewhere, but I hope he picks Kentucky. But if he doesn’t, I completely understand and I don’t blame him.
I agree with the lack of accountability...but which players did he throw under the bus?
 

*Fox2Monk*

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I checked HOB just to see if any new threads or updates had came out, looks like usual our “insiders” don’t know squat and haven’t even posted since Saturday. Maybe one of our members there can chime in and let us know what they are saying(or not saying). Seems like a waste of money.
 

*Fox2Monk*

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Kelsey has apparently upped the offer to Milan, which is the reason for the delay. Either he will go to Louisville, or Pope will have to go up even more.
He better get whatever it takes to get him. If it’s $8 million get 8. He can’t lose this recruitment, especially to Louisville. Yet another (lock) elite recruit we were always favored for and missed yet again.
 

TheApostleSaulSmith

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I checked HOB just to see if any new threads or updates had came out, looks like usual our “insiders” don’t know squat and haven’t even posted since Saturday. Maybe one of our members there can chime in and let us know what they are saying(or not saying). Seems like a waste of money.
...when are people going to realize that Hack Pilgrim doesn't know d*ck??