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Nate Ament

Exactly. And further.. what about this 5mil a year we are saving by not having Cal, or worse having to do part of his buyout?

Imo that $5mil a year should go right towards NIL and improving the basketball program.

Now I know that can't happen for many reasons.. but man, if we could just take a few million of that, we could really set ourselves up.
I’m sure there are ways.. but yeah we just need to convince our big boosters that he is needed.
 
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Ament or not, we need 8 total for next season
We have three in the fold.
Idk what the total price tag will be on 8 additions.
Oweh will get a bump.
Garrison, Perry, Noah and Chandler probably all stay the same.
I know we have 15 scholarships next season, I just think it will be hard to fill all those unless we take a flyer on an under the radar HS player
I could see Walker and Grant on scholly next season.
 
Ament or not, we need 8 total for next season
We have three in the fold.
Idk what the total price tag will be on 8 additions.
Oweh will get a bump.
Garrison, Perry, Noah and Chandler probably all stay the same.
I know we have 15 scholarships next season, I just think it will be hard to fill all those unless we take a flyer on an under the radar HS player
I could see Walker and Grant on scholly next season.
Jasper, Lewis, Moreno, 3 Ky boys, Oweh, and garrisson. Potential for Almanor back. With that group I say you need a PG, wing scorer, another big, and another shooter
 
Wilson was coming here until UNC opened the purse, too. That's the rumor, anyway.
Wilson was going to UNC with or without NIL. We did not get outbid and I don't think we would have gotten Wilson to come here or anywhere besides Duke regardless of Money offered. Most kids don't go to highest bidder that are high school recruits. Portal kids are a different breed, most of the portal kids are money hounds. Every time a kids chooses some school besides us does not mean they were bought. Do you actually think that every kid that chooses us is because we offered a bigger bag of money?
 
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Jasper, Lewis, Moreno, 3 Ky boys, Oweh, and garrisson. Potential for Almanor back. With that group I say you need a PG, wing scorer, another big, and another shooter
Yeah a starter level PG
Starter and back up PF
SF with length to compliment OO.
Athletic 2G to compete/ compliment(especially defensively) Jasper.
Perry and Noah will be our bench shooters.
 
U of L is collecting a huge amount of NIL and Ament is their #1 priority ( at least from those contributing to NIL). If Ament goes to the highest bidder, don’t be surprised if it’s not U of L.
 
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Lewis will start to out Krissa as his backup.
You can't be serious about competing for a title with Lewis and Kriisa as your PG's 1-2.
We need a replacement or even a slight upgrade from Butler with Lewis backing him up.
Would love to have Kerr this year but he is really a combo.
Kerr, Perry and Chandler are redundant players.
We need to diversify the line up.
Need some athletes .
 
You can't be serious about competing for a title with Lewis and Kriisa as your PG's 1-2.
We need a replacement or even a slight upgrade from Butler with Lewis backing him up.
Would love to have Kerr this year but he is really a combo.
Kerr, Perry and Chandler are redundant players.
We need to diversify the line up.
Need some athletes .
And could use another center also who could play pf. Can’t have too many big guys.
 
And could use another center also who could play pf. Can’t have too many big guys.
I hear ya.
May be a tough sell but Pope can't be concerned about "taking someone's heart"
Truth is players like Garrison, Perry, and Chandler haven't performed well enough to have a " I got next" mentality.
I would say those guys spots could be on the line for possible portal upgrades.
 
Wilson was going to UNC with or without NIL. We did not get outbid and I don't think we would have gotten Wilson to come here or anywhere besides Duke regardless of Money offered. Most kids don't go to highest bidder that are high school recruits. Portal kids are a different breed, most of the portal kids are money hounds. Every time a kids chooses some school besides us does not mean they were bought. Do you actually think that every kid that chooses us is because we offered a bigger bag of money?
This is in line with what I've heard which is UK offered more but he wanted to play at UNC.
 
You can't be serious about competing for a title with Lewis and Kriisa as your PG's 1-2.
We need a replacement or even a slight upgrade from Butler with Lewis backing him up.
Would love to have Kerr this year but he is really a combo.
Kerr, Perry and Chandler are redundant players.
We need to diversify the line up.
Need some athletes .
Underestimating how good Lewis is, and Krissa is a excellent backup.
 
Trilly said Kentucky will be the last visit he takes.

A big factor in his recruitment is NIL, would love to see Pope pull this off and land Ament.
Ament cancelled his last scheduled visit to Kansas State after watching Duke beating UNC. I don’t think he even has a visit scheduled for Kentucky.

Last time I saw him at Highlands was wearing Duke shorts. I would be very surprised if he doesn’t go to Durham.
 
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