Well, let's see ... Owen Freeman just finished his Sophomore season playing in the Big Ten at the University of Illinois.
Have you seen him play? How do know he is a down grade?
If this is the case! This administration needs to either get with it or be fired! Now I'm not saying you get stupid and play 3-4 mil for a freshman, unless you know he is absolutely elite! But if Pope wants a certain guy and feels like this "one" will put him at the top, they better have the money available for him!
From what I have read, he and his family were unhappy with the situation at Iowa. Iowa found out he was going g to transfer, and the injury story was used as a cover. True or not, just what I read.......may have been on this board
If he is no better than almonor, uk needs to pass
To be honest, he has to me as well. Was expecting a much better rebounder and shot blocker
I trust that if he doesn’t fit as a great character person, Pope will have none of him. For the best too.
NIL isn’t the administration. It’s us, the fans. At least until the day revenue sharing is allowed. Did you think you had open runway for the “Farrrrr Mitch” angle with that one, only to find out it applies to you and me instead lol?
Regardless, I’m very concerned with Garrison. His inability to control himself and make good decisions drives me crazy. Can’t go into next year with him as our starter
A dependable scoring threat inside would help open up the 3 point shots. Big, strong should help rebounding as well
I disagree. I'm not advocating to fire Mitch without cause. But he wasn't NIL friendly, and isn't proactive with the current state of college sports! Other programs embraced it and you can tell they jumped ahead of us. By the time we got Nil rolling, other programs jumped to another level!
Stoops wasn’t complaining at the administration, bud. He was complaining at us. He was telling the fans to pony up. Regardless of whether Mitch was on with NIL before or not doesn’t matter now. He’s with the program but it doesn’t change what NIL is. UK is not allowed to pay the players directly. That’s why fans and corporations are having to do it. If you want to hate Mitch feel free but NIL isn’t on Mitch at this point. It’s on us.
So are you saying the coaches need to start/organize NIL funds, and do all the media work to make fans aware of what is needed, along with handle and hire all the people to work on that front? Coaches pay out of pocket?? There is a whole lot I could say on this front, but with respect to your opinion, we would be in a different place if we would have done what happened the past year at uk 2 years ago like other SEC programs did!
No I’m not saying any of that. At this point, our fans KNOW what NIL is, how important it is, where to contribute etc. we can argue all day every day but it won’t change a thing. If you aren’t happy with NIL, just like Stoops said, pony up. People got mad, but it’s the truth. If you want to win, pony up. The days of being mad at the administration over lack of talent are behind us. We are in the put or shut up era of sports. I hate that it’s this way but it is.
We are gonna have to pay for elite talent, it is what it is.
Antonio Reeves, Oscar, Williams, Brea, Butler, Jackson, Mitchell (last year), Knecht… heck, almost everybody is a transfer these days.
You can absolutely move the needle with transfers. You just gotta find the right ones
Shoot, give me a transfer junior or senior that has proven himself over a non transcendent high school kid any day.
Had 35 blocked shots before going out with the injury in early February. Lead his team.
Well, the *most* important in this day and age is MONEY in the NIL, but otherwise I agree with your other things that we have that are attractive to top portal players.
Maybe he just needs to be in a better system. He wasn’t happy at Iowa, I’m sure that reflected in his play even though he lead Iowa in blocked shots and scoring before he went down. Scored in double figures every game he played this year and much of that was against big 10 competition. Was named a top 5 sophomore by somebody, can’t recall who. I think he would be just fine here.
Yep. I think there's better fits for Kentucky out there than Freeman. I truly believe Pope and Kentucky will be of great interest for Portal players as a destination school moving forward.
Not for our team.. how did our transfers do? Butler wasn't tough enough to even make it to SEC play. Williams probably the only SEC ready player we got and he's raw.
