Also listening LOL.
If coach O wants to stay Pope should be happy to have him. Easy top 5 recruiter in the country.
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If coach O wants to stay Pope should be happy to have him. Easy top 5 recruiter in the country.
I’m good with O staying personally
Matt Jones is insinuating some big news on the staff side. Also if they land a certain assistant, the guy will have a couple players come or stay with him
Coach Antigua was responsible for the only good years we had in 2 decades, and having him recruit exclusively while Pope handles the practices and x and I part of the job is a great thing. The other 2 assistant coaches can worry about the rest. At least one assistant needs to worry about recruiting and he's top tier. Don't let our hate for Cal make someone who is begging to stay leave when he's great as that part of being an assistant
He does the same on the KSR board. Brings info from there to here and says a source told him. LOL
Saint Thomas playing for the Pope. Won’t that be a storyline.
Would not retaining an existing assistant coach like O be very valuable in helping to a new coach know his way around a new environment such as UK and dealing with all those new people that the new coach will need to have contact with? I would think someone like that would be invaluable?
I’m torn on it, I can see the benefits but I can also get why pope wouldn’t want him
I mentioned this in a previous thread but I'd be fine with Antigua staying of all the members of Cal's previous staff. And from all reports, he REALLY wants to stay in Lexington. If he's all-in on the new regime, I'd keep him if I were Pope.
I read Antigua is owed a sizable bonus from UK in June. He's also making $900K a year. I don't know what Pope's new assistants will make but I'm guessing it's nowhere near that.
If they keep him on board and continue to pay him almost a $1 million he better hand-deliver a few studs per season. Because the scouting and game preparation under Cal has been atrocious.
If they keep him on board and continue to pay him almost a $1 million he better hand-deliver a few studs per season. Because the scouting and game preparation under Cal has been atrocious.
i will ask a simple question
was our recruiting better or worse with coach O being an assistant
was our recruiting better or worse with coach O being an assistant
I gotta laugh at this point. Y’all are so ate up with hate that nonsense like being a Trojan Horse is a thing. This is college basketball, not a war.
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At this point this is kind of a weird story. You hear Pope don’t want him and if that is the case and he’s trying to still recruit for UK. How does he know what kind of players Pope wants to move forward with???? Man this is really bizarre…
Y’all real life think Coach O is out recruiting random players for UK on his own? Seriously, that’s a plausible thought in your minds?
Orlando Antigua fills the role as an ace recruiter. If he wants to stay, it is a no-brainer. Forget Cal and look at the bigger picture. Coach O brought in great talent here and even for another coach with Brad Underwood at Illinois without the 'Cal One And Done NBA Brand'.
If O is such a good Coach and recruiter while is CAL not taking him to Arkansas? Also O seems to be a yes man as he went along with CAL’s snake oil gig and didn’t seem to offer much resistance.
So you would rather have Chin Coleman, Bruiser Flint, Chuck Martin, and Brad Calipari over O? Since Cal took them?
Perhaps Antigua is fed up with Cal, won't stick with him like Welch too, so he won't follow him to another coaching stop. Working for someone who knows it all, never listens to anyone else gets old. Guess we'll see. Things are different when you are winning. Antigua can recruit anywhere from Memphis, UK to Illinois. No wonder the latter also has interest in bringing him back for a reason.
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Hey I was just going by what I was reading in here. Not saying it was the gospel or anything
Hope he stays at Ky one of the best recruiters around.
Nice guy. Keep the original Big O! Has the connections. Experienced in the SEC.
Richie, you on KSR+?
I share some stuff from that site but always say where I'm hearing it. Don't have HOB so can't speak to it....also don't remember usernames well enough to recognize the trend.
Like the change of pace on that board. It is funny though, I feel like my attitude about Cal changed around the time I joined there.
wtf is wrong with some of you and why would you want anything to do with Cal to still be here? Cleanse everything of his stank
So you wouldn’t welcome back Reed Sheppard and want Travis Perry not to come here, correct?
Should we take the banners down too because you have a personal grudge against the old coach?
Then hell, tell him if he wants the position so bad to take a pay cut? If he wants it bad enough, I'm sure 750k a year is still doable. Or maybe less but a bonus him on recruiting victories? I don't know how contracts work but it's hard to consider Pope not wanting an elite recruiter who WANTS to stay, regardless of wanting to cut ties with Cal or not.
The Trojan horse thing makes me laugh. If he was so ferociously loyal to Cal that he would risk doing something stupid at his job, why did he not go to Ark? Keep the best recruiting assistant in the country if you can.
Everybody gets along with Pope. Everybody gets along with Antigua. This is not Chin we're talking about.
Everybody gets along with Pope. Everybody gets along with Antigua. This is not Chin we're talking about.
That's how Matt Jones got his start. He was known for stealing information from Rivals and posting it out as his own. Hell he even got caught here multiple times and called out.
By all means I am not 💯 on board with Coach O just yet.
But his wife has ties here, his wife and daughter DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE Lexington.
They are building a new home.
So I kinda understand were O is coming from.
Now is hiring him the right thing to do long term? That’s for someone who signs his checks and Pope to make that decision.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Antigua wants to stay because nowhere else is going to come close to laying him $900k a year and UK owes him $400k retention bonus on June 1.
Plus, there HAS to be some loyalty on his part to Cal. Unless they grew to dislike each other (which nobody has heard is the case) I don’t know how Pope can take the risk of keeping him.
Plus, there HAS to be some loyalty on his part to Cal. Unless they grew to dislike each other (which nobody has heard is the case) I don’t know how Pope can take the risk of keeping him.
This is a "you heard it here first" thing.
I call it " The good, the bad, and the ugly"!
I'll say the same about O as I just did about KP in the thread about him.
Have to put Cal beef aside.
Those two can recruit. They have the connections to all the former players in the league and could keep them close to the University, which has never been more important than now in NIL era.
All that "La Familia" stuff...well O and KP can run La Familia Wealth/Philanthropy office and tap into money, resources, big names and help build the collective.
They don't have to be on the bench directly involved in Xs Os.
Have to put Cal beef aside.
Those two can recruit. They have the connections to all the former players in the league and could keep them close to the University, which has never been more important than now in NIL era.
All that "La Familia" stuff...well O and KP can run La Familia Wealth/Philanthropy office and tap into money, resources, big names and help build the collective.
They don't have to be on the bench directly involved in Xs Os.
