Tar and Feather me!
- By Fox2monk
- Rupp Rafters - Basketball Forum
- 39 Replies
Well to be fair we the fans and boosters, university stakeholders, former rich players, etc. need to make sure NIL is flush with cash now too. It sucks but it’s a large part of recruiting. The sole reason that Johnson was though to go to Bama or UNC was because of their NIL offer and Pope didn’t want to spend his expected budget so much on freshman this early. The boosters said”we won’t lose an in state kid ranked this high due to a couple hundred thousand dollars if we need it go get him and it will be there.”Pope signing Johnson when other coaches have been recruiting him for years, just shows the power of the Kentucky name. Any coach at UK with an ounce of work ethic will have no problem signing 5-Star recruit after 5-Star recruit.