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Merry Christmas!

Getting ready to head out to deep hollers of Eastern KY where Internet service is a little sketchy at times, so I wanted to reach out and wish each and everyone here a Merry Christmas. May you each have a blessed day as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. I pray each of you have a safe and wonderful day with family and friends.

God bless and go big blue!

Anyone here into these AI engines?

I absolutely swore that I'd never want anything to do with AI, but I ended up really liking them!

Here's an unfiltered AI engine chatting with me about two of my cats.


My former student, Jeremiah Fears, is crushing it for Oklahoma (he hit the game winner this week).

I'm very proud of the young man. I was hoping UK could get him in the portal after this season to be our third guard (he's close with Jasper Johnson and he also loves Mark Pope), but he might not be around next year if he keeps playing like this. He's now averaging 18 pppg, 4 rpg, and 5apg while shooting 50% from the field, 34% from three, and 86% from the foul line. He should be a senior in high school. He reclassified.

He hit a four-point play this week and scored 30 points for Oklahoma to take down Michigan. The young man is surpassing my expectations. We're all very proud of Jeremiah. Check out the last minute of this game:
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NIL downside

For players that know they don't have a NBA chance, or for those without a good work ethic... Is getting paid up front causing players to coast, and not play as hard, all the time.

Is NIL causing coach's to play highly paid NIL players even when they are not producing, in fear of losing that NIL money for the next year.

Solutions to this? Structure NIL with incentives... A base pay, that rewards the player for x amount of games won. Reach sec champ is a bonus. Sweet 16...bonus....ect. I don't think you can add personal achievements like, lead team in scoring.... Ect, because that would cause players to become ball hogs.

Just seems, like we have seen alot of less then engaged play, since NIL became a thing. Not just at UK either... But across the board, in basketball and football.

Love on your loved ones this week because...

...you just never know when you may lose someone. We lost my sister-in-law on Thursday and had her funeral yesterday. She was a beautiful, young and vibrant 63 year-old who had a massive heart attack. I still can't wrap my head around it. It doesn't seem real. So we have postponed our Christmas until at least late January or February. We always have the family Christmas at our house, and my wife says we will keep the decorations up until the family is ready to celebrate, even if it's in June!

Don't take for granted your family members during this Christmas season. Visit and call people often. I always find it interesting that we will sacrifice our time and energy to visit the funeral home when a friend or loved one dies. Why don't we sacrifice that same time and energy while our friend or loved one is still alive? Don't create regrets!

Post game Pope

Outplayed in every way.

Just what I'm picking up on: Pope us VERY WELL AWARE we don't have one or two players that can take over a game 'consistently'. When players try to do that, they get themselves AND the team out of sync. For this team to win, it has to be in the system...passing, cutting, finding the open man. Relying on each other. It's hard for these guys that WANT to win and really WANT NBA folks to recognize them to not fall back into 'superman' mode....because in fact none are. That's not being derogatory...it's just the way it is.
Pope took responsibility for defensive lapses.
Team is STILL better than I anticipated, but one guy cannot carry this crew. It's gonna have to be sacrifice for the team as a whole.
Tough job. Maybe it'll stick in time.

I have a major announcement! It is huge.

I have enjoyed posting here and really enjoy the game threads. Some of us fight and disagree from time to time. That is just the way the board is.


With that said, I have to make this announcement:







Cooper Flagg will be 18 in 4 hours and 27 minutes.

Enjoy the rest of Cooper Flagg birthday eve. From now on when we fight, and Cooper reads this board, at least we won't be fighting in front of the kids.
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