Change of scenery for Adou

sosoblue · 2024-09-17T19:10:20-0400

I hate that he didn't feel the love to stay at UK. Adou was someone that I liked and wished he would have finished his career in a Kentucky jersey. I believe Coach Pope would have improved his shot and percentages of hitting three pointers.

Adou Thiero talks Arkansas, John Calipari, development and more https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/adou-thiero-talks-arkansas-calipari-development-and-more

kywildcatsfannumber1 · 2024-09-17T19:12:53-0400

I believe he would have come back to Kentucky had Cal remained and was going to Arkansas all along once CCC left. A bunch of smoke at the time which amounted to nothing after putting his name in the portal. I liked Thiero here and thought he played hard for the Cats last year.

will1976 · 2024-09-17T19:17:40-0400

Good luck young man.

YardCat · 2024-09-17T21:13:09-0400

He will be missed, I hope he plays like crap when we play them. Any other time I wish him well

bookerfan66 · 2024-09-17T21:16:25-0400

Screw him. Cal treated him like crap and the idiot still followed.

Dontworryboutit23 · 2024-09-17T21:21:38-0400

I liked adou, but big z was the one who would have flourished under pope

LineSkiCat14 · 2024-09-17T21:29:45-0400

It's hard to really keep much of a connection with the players who followed Cal to Arkansas. If it was a scenario where Cal was doing well, sure, I'd get it. But they really followed this guy who didn't play the right guys. Adou even said how hard Cal was on him (and not in a very positive way).. so he follows him to Arkansas? Which in turn makes me think "Was staying at UK to help Pope get his feet on the ground THAT big of an ask?"

I get the players following the coach.. but after the year we had, I don't know why anyone other than Wagner would have followed him.

Wonky · 2024-09-17T21:31:38-0400

bookerfan66 said:
Screw him. Cal treated him like crap and the idiot still followed.

This. Same with Big Z. Cal totally wasted both players at UK and yet they have some sort of bizarre loyalty to him. Adou’s father had a weird, misplaced grudge with the fans even though we were the ones calling for his son to play more and play his natural position all along. The whole state of Kentucky saw what Adou was after the Kansas game. Bill Self saw it too… saw our whole team for who they were. The only one who didn’t see it was dumb shit Cal.

LmdCat · 2024-09-17T21:59:16-0400

sosoblue said:
I hate that he didn't feel the love to stay at UK. Adou was someone that I liked and wished he would have finished his career in a Kentucky jersey. I believe Coach Pope would have improved his shot and percentages of hitting three pointers.

Adou Thiero talks Arkansas, John Calipari, development and more https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/adou-thiero-talks-arkansas-calipari-development-and-more

Adou's decision to follow Cal after what he did to him suggest that he isn't smart enough to play at UK. I am glad he made the decision to go. Reed is the only player Cal signed who came to Kentucky because of the name. The rest came because of Cal, so I good that they went with him.

yoshukai · 2024-09-17T22:02:00-0400

Wonky said:
This. Same with Big Z. Cal totally wasted both players at UK and yet they have some sort of bizarre loyalty to him. Adou’s father had a weird, misplaced grudge with the fans even though we were the ones calling for his son to play more and play his natural position all along. The whole state of Kentucky saw what Adou was after the Kansas game. Bill Self saw it too… saw our whole team for who they were. The only one who didn’t see it was dumb shit Cal.

It was Z’s handlers that were bizarrely loyal to Cal . The decision was made for him before he even spoke with Pope .

Wonky · 2024-09-17T22:04:04-0400

MdWIldcat55 said:
I just want to thank everyone who goes the extra mile to post on Rafters everything related to Kentucky’s former coach who people say they are glad is gone and yet can’t let him go.

We may still talk about him, but we were calling for his job for the last half decade, while you will always be remembered as someone who stuck your head in the sand and slurped him till the end.

catzfanjim · 2024-09-17T22:05:18-0400

He needed a change of scenery but he still has a idiot as a head coach.

LmdCat · 2024-09-17T22:07:25-0400

catzfanjim said:
He needed a change of scenery but he still has a idiot as a head coach.

I think they are a perfect match.

WildcatNC · 2024-09-17T22:09:11-0400

Dontworryboutit23 said:
I liked adou, but big z was the one who would have flourished under pope

That's the two I wanted to keep that were realistic to keep.

LmdCat · 2024-09-17T22:09:12-0400

MdWIldcat55 said:
People say they are glad the former Kentucky coach is gone, and yet every word uttered about him and his former players is dragged here for debate and dissection.

As far as I’m concerned good riddance to him and everyone who followed him to that squalid pig wallow where he went. You know what would bug him the most? If every Kentucky fan completely ignored him, and when he snuck a peek at this board he saw no mention of him or his new gig.

Yes, we are glad he is gone. The only thing that would make it better is if you go too.

uk78 · 2024-09-17T22:10:19-0400

No one knows what goes on behind the scenes. Cal may have done a lot of work to get Z eligible and so the appreciation of that effort could be the reason for the loyalty. Plus, Cal may have been communicating with Z's family even before he came so again for a foreign player he was the connection. Yes, Cal didn't use him correctly and from Cal's statement now at Arkansas it sounded like that will continue. It may be another Skal in the making and would have driven the fans here insane so let Arkansas fans have that pleasure. Also wasn't Adou's father a former player for Cal or somehow connected?

A major difference I see so far is Pope is selling the program and Cal always was selling Cal. So, the lack of program appreciation for those players falls back again on Cal. Hope he continues to perform like he did for us the past few years.

LmdCat · 2024-09-17T22:10:31-0400

WildcatNC said:
That's the two I wanted to keep that were realistic to keep.

The fact that he followed Cal is proof that he is too dumb to play for Kentucky.

TTTblue24 · 2024-09-17T22:11:31-0400

Who cares, he left for a rival with a coach that never really gave him a chance. Being part of uk is about family & Pope understands that & has embraced the belief, if they don’t want to be part of it then it’s their decision but I wish we would stop talking about those guys. They could have transferred to any other school across the country but yet stayed in the sec with him.

Dontworryboutit23 · 2024-09-17T22:26:23-0400

The cal fanboy acting like he didn’t suck off cal any chance he got and is acting like he wanted him gone is a hilarious attempt at a heel turn on his end.

NociHTTP · 2024-09-17T23:11:07-0400

Dontworryboutit23 said:
The cal fanboy acting like he didn’t suck off cal any chance he got and is acting like he wanted him gone is a hilarious attempt at a heel turn on his end.

Well said.

Skyguyb27 · 2024-09-17T23:42:16-0400

uk78 said:
No one knows what goes on behind the scenes. Cal may have done a lot of work to get Z eligible and so the appreciation of that effort could be the reason for the loyalty. Plus, Cal may have been communicating with Z's family even before he came so again for a foreign player he was the connection. Yes, Cal didn't use him correctly and from Cal's statement now at Arkansas it sounded like that will continue. It may be another Skal in the making and would have driven the fans here insane so let Arkansas fans have that pleasure. Also wasn't Adou's father a former player for Cal or somehow connected?

A major difference I see so far is Pope is selling the program and Cal always was selling Cal. So, the lack of program appreciation for those players falls back again on Cal. Hope he continues to perform like he did for us the past few years.

I agree with what you said except the hard work to get Z in. He was paid 9 millliiiooon dollars a year to work hard to get guys eligible.

HerrosHeroes · 2024-09-18T00:16:01-0400

Brick layer

sosoblue · 2024-09-18T00:38:11-0400

Wonky said:
This. Same with Big Z. Cal totally wasted both players at UK and yet they have some sort of bizarre loyalty to him. Adou’s father had a weird, misplaced grudge with the fans even though we were the ones calling for his son to play more and play his natural position all along. The whole state of Kentucky saw what Adou was after the Kansas game. Bill Self saw it too… saw our whole team for who they were. The only one who didn’t see it was dumb shit Cal.

Wonky first time I heard about this "weird, misplacsd grudge with the fans..." regarding Adou's Father. Can you elaborate further on this scenario?

RunninRichie · 2024-09-18T00:56:24-0400

sosoblue said:
I hate that he didn't feel the love to stay at UK. Adou was someone that I liked and wished he would have finished his career in a Kentucky jersey. I believe Coach Pope would have improved his shot and percentages of hitting three pointers.

Adou Thiero talks Arkansas, John Calipari, development and more https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/adou-thiero-talks-arkansas-calipari-development-and-more

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