Kentucky reportedly has a massive NIL budget for 2025 and 26 sea of blue
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Mahaney was viewed as the superior player by who? Some random dudes that randomly threw together a ranking? Anyone who thought Mahaney was better than Brea was proven a fool. Luckily Pope was smarter than that.
That's just the way I read it of the SoB article that was linked.
Man I hate to be “snarky “ like the “untouchable “ guy called me but it’s frustrating when I try to drop hints or leak a little premium stuff and people want to argue and call me out on it . ( not talking about you) .
We don’t have to win all the NIL recruiting battles but we can’t lose them all. Imo which I’ve said ad nauseam the past two days it’s absolutely critical that we win one NIL recruiting battle this cycle if we really want to be relevant at the highest level.
How many other players of Dent’s caliber are there or will there be in the portal? You’ll have a hard time convincing me there even are any others.
Sue me for saying this:
Come right down to it, I trust Pope more to finish out the rest of his roster and win even with only four million dollars left after breaking the bank on Dent than to compete at the highest levels without anyone of Dent’s caliber.
The portal is closing soon by most accounts. A lot of people here are saying it’s very early in the portal cycle but it’s actually quite late by most people’s reckoning.
How many other players of Dent’s caliber are there or will there be in the portal? You’ll have a hard time convincing me there even are any others.
Sue me for saying this:
Come right down to it, I trust Pope more to finish out the rest of his roster and win even with only four million dollars left after breaking the bank on Dent than to compete at the highest levels without anyone of Dent’s caliber.
The portal is closing soon by most accounts. A lot of people here are saying it’s very early in the portal cycle but it’s actually quite late by most people’s reckoning.
LOL Yosh, you have been here for a quarter of a century and Rafters still frustrates you? Even good deeds are not safe from the toxicness of some.
Dent isn’t THAT GOOD. Now someone like Yaxel Lendeborg ….yeah he’s THAT GOOD .
LOL , I know brother. This is a knew for me though. For 20+ years I was just a rafters guy and I always thought “why won’t some of those premium guys throw us a bone every now and then “ . So I finally bite the bullet and subscribe, and when I try to help my old gang out they throw it back at me . My mistake though, I should have known better. lol
What is Sac State? Sacramento State?
UConn had to scrounge together money to give Hurley a respectable contract that was still less than what UK reportedly offered. They have significantly more NIL money than we do now?
Bring us a Yaxel. I’m cool with that.
I still maintain that someone on Dent’s level is what we need at a minimum. You can say he wouldn’t make a difference compared to what we’ve signed already but I don’t think many people would agree with you.
Almost 10 mil a year isnt just respectable.
Based on market indications - yes.
Sorry if I came across as a Richard. I post at work, and sometimes lose tact while crafting a response. Lol
You didn’t at all . Never had a problem with you buddy. But there’s a couple in this thread………lol
No I’m not saying he wouldn’t have made a difference. Just the gap between him and a few other point guards we’re still after is much narrower than a guy like Yaxel . If you’re going to spend half your budget on a dude , he has to be special.
So, wait. Sac State is indeed Sacramento State? They are top tier in college basketball?
Several freshmen made an impact this year. They were on teams where they had to be the focus. Fears and the other guard freshmen.. can’t remember his name were the best players on their team.
We haven’t inked anybody on Dent’s level. Ever. (In the Pope era).
That alone makes him special. Not sure why you wouldn’t be able to see that.
We need someone like that.
Not sure why you think it makes a bit of difference that we are also after other people not as good as Dent but not too much worse than Dent with no sign we’re actually going to get any of them and with the portal drying up soon.
Yaxel would be even better. But Yaxel’s existence is a strange reason to try to argue we don’t need someone at least as good as Dent.
Your own modus operandus is calling people out on things. You try to hit other posters with sniper fire far more often than you just post your own thoughts in threads. It’s only okay to dish it out?
The fact that you see “no sign we’re going to get them” means nothing. Dent was from LA and would have probably chosen UCLA out of high school if they had offered . He always wanted to go back there . How much would you have offered to bring him here ? The whole budget? Three quarters of the budget? Half ?
Lets get a Doctor that can keep us healthy. In my mind the health of the team was this years downfall from the get go.
$6-$8 million in just the revenue sharing. Add the NIL money and other projects (boosters / The Blue fund fans donate to / ect.) to generate $$, UK will have plenty. Football in BOTH the Big conference and SEC will receive the bulk of revenue sharing (football is the reason for it to begin with and by far biggest revenue generator). Only about 25-30% of each schools revenue sharing will go to basketball(that is a high figure some will get less than the 25/30%). Read the Maryland / Kevin Willard story on CBS, it talks about revenue sharing in great detail. It is not a UK thing, it is the college football thing. Teams like Villanova who do not have a D1 football program, while not getting near the revenue sharing the SEC / Big 30 gets, will have a nice advantage of not having to see most of it go to football. Basketball is the big show on campus. Which is the EXACT reason Willard left Maryland (Big 30) to go to Villanova. He wasn't happy with the $$$ he was going to be allotted (although it was a very significant amount) and took the Nova job hours after being eliminated from the tournament. He knows Nova will pour a huge portion of their $$$ into basketball, he will be the big man on campus, not play second fiddle to football.
Dent put his name associated with UK but he was always going to UCLA.
“Funny that you think we got “outbid “ by UCONN for Mahaney but we didn’t “outbid” them for the player both teams preferred.”
Your above language is both snarky and demeaning. Was that honestly not your intent?
Seriously?
How silly.
We haven’t ever signed anyone of that caliber.
We need to.
That is true and is what my original post was based on. All your hypothetical dick measuring is what means nothing.
Dent is a all american. They do not give those awards to scrubs. Lendenborg a All American ? he is very good, but not Dent good. Different positions anyways.
I sincerely believe that forming an opinion on Pope and staff's philosophies and/or competencies with regard to roster building and recruiting the portal, HS, etc. based on what we saw last year is premature. There were so many unknowns at that time for Pope, the recruits, and everyone involved with everything having to be done from the ground up and later than everyone else that it's not likely apples to apples compared to how they'd do it now (or how well they'll do) with a year under their belt, a full staff in place and results from a successful first year out there for recruits to see. Building an initial roster and managing an existing roster are two totally different things and were done in two totally different sets of circumstances.
Then I apologize for getting aggressive with you. If you have premium info that both UCONN and UK preferred Brea I could be wrong. I went back and checked the industry rankings at 4 places and Mahaney was higher in two and Brea was higher in two so my original assessment in our discussion wasn’t as accurate as I thought to be honestly.
Their NIL is insane in trying to move their athletic program forward. Just google "Sac State NIL".
Totally agree…just trying to have some basketball discussion as the season ended abruptly and I’m not ready to let go for 6 months with college basketball yet.
No problem man .And I didn’t mean to sound like an Ahole . I only know what our insiders put on the portal board as to what they are hearing is CMP’s priority . Sometimes that list doesn’t match up with industry rankings. But I’m going to need to slow down over here anyway. Eyes are watching, lol.
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Just hate to see untrue things being reported and try to correct them with a more informed view. But you’re right, I just need to stay over on HOB . A lot less arguing when everyone has the same info . It’s not fair for me and it’s not fair for you.
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The Sac-12 has not specified whether it has amassed the funds, or if they’re just commitments at this point; they used the word “secured” in a formal statement.
Tells me all I need to know if they are being shady about the language. I know they just recently hired Mike Bibby and all, but they are not outspending other programs to "get whomever they want" or whatever point is being made in this thread.
Who knows where the money will go. Just answering the question about why Sac State was mentioned.
Exactly. If someone was unaware sac state was an nil player, they definitely should avoid debating nil issues.
No chance! However, hindsight is, he was going to UCLA all along, so it’s a moot point.
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