I agree to an extent. I think it's a #23 #24 type team. As for tournament team? I'm hesitant to say that too. Because the SEC is so loaded nowadays. Gonna have to fight hard for conference wins.
Official: Wagner to the Hogs
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No, I think you're correct. I read the same thing about him offering for Rob or Reed to take his starting spot. He was a good teammate.
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Chris Smith of Clutch Points? said that Kentucky lost their coach now have lost another weapon in Wagner. Thought it was an odd way to say those things, it's like the guy doesn't understand the deal. Made it sound like we keep losing things and now Pope has to try and put it all back together.
It's been a strange ride hearing all the opinions of people that are not UK fans thinking they know more about what has happened here than we do!?
It's kind of sad these days the way the media has everybody hypnotized with overflowing loads of BS. It's almost like there's a consensus effort to hide the last 5 years under Cal like it never happened.
Did Calipari sell Fland on the Reed/ Rob angle, telling him that he can be the next bench player to go top 5?😭😭😭
Wagner will start the game, but head to the bench at the 16 minute mark with Arky down 8-12! This is Arkansas’ rerun problem now😂
Wagner will start the game, but head to the bench at the 16 minute mark with Arky down 8-12! This is Arkansas’ rerun problem now😂
We’ve been in the top 10 preseason every year for like the last 10 years due to always being one of the most talented teams and have a top 1 or 2 class almost every single year.
Every SEC just got better because of his decision. We can finally benefit from his airballed layups and 12% from 3. Poor Boogie Fland, he probably thought he had a shot at playing more than 20 minutes a game.
Really though, this is great news for us. Was hoping this would happen all along. That Arkansas team will shoot a combined 28% from 3, at best. Write it down.
Really though, this is great news for us. Was hoping this would happen all along. That Arkansas team will shoot a combined 28% from 3, at best. Write it down.
Give these kids a year maturity and we might be grinding our teeth in what could have been, but they wanted to go somewhere else. Besides their game against UK, it doesn't matter what they do now. If it happens to be Cal and the Hogs that get the one year benefit, so be it.
Looking forward to next year and what it may bring at Kentucky.
Looking forward to next year and what it may bring at Kentucky.
This thread is sad. Full of grown adults genuinely hating on a kid.
Omg, Kal has been hanging around Obama too much. It’s literally fried his brain.
Wagner is an adult who is getting paid very handsomely for what amounts to professional basketball. He also (like every Cal recruit not named Perry) chose to go to "anywhere but Kentucky." The fact that the entire team left without even considering staying on is going to rub some people the wrong way. Deal with it or step off.
Who do you think will make a better NBA prospect between Wagner and Bronny? Serious question.
Both guys have a lot to improve on obviously but it’s possible that one or both could still improve tremendously with good NBA coaching.
Both guys have a lot to improve on obviously but it’s possible that one or both could still improve tremendously with good NBA coaching.
Why do we have fans that give a damn how these disloyal mercenary Calipari players are treated? Wagner isn’t a UK guy, never was. He’s strictly a Calipari mercenary who doesn’t give a damn about Kentucky and didn’t give competing against Kentucky a second thought. Why even care what anyone thinks about him at all? It’s just weird.
Wagner might improve but it doesn’t matter. We moved away from Calipari because Calipari cannot produce. If a few of these players end up better this season then so be it. We knew that was possible when we went ahead and pulled the plug on Calipari’s time here. We moved on not because of Pope’s first team and Calipari’s current class / players. We moved ahead to begin the process of rebuilding this brand and it would have been stupid to wait another season to do it over guys like Fland and Wagner.
Wagner will improve a little bit but probably not a lot. Severely overrated players like Wagner don’t typically because the top 5 prospects they were thought to be.
Wagner might improve but it doesn’t matter. We moved away from Calipari because Calipari cannot produce. If a few of these players end up better this season then so be it. We knew that was possible when we went ahead and pulled the plug on Calipari’s time here. We moved on not because of Pope’s first team and Calipari’s current class / players. We moved ahead to begin the process of rebuilding this brand and it would have been stupid to wait another season to do it over guys like Fland and Wagner.
Wagner will improve a little bit but probably not a lot. Severely overrated players like Wagner don’t typically because the top 5 prospects they were thought to be.
I generally agree, but Thiero made the choice to go let his coach do that to him AGAIN. So it's on him and his handlers.
And this list is actually incorrect because the Hogs have 12 on current NBA rosters . The same as another small program Kansas . Matter of fact only 3 teams with more on NBA rosters KY DUKE and UCLA . After this upcoming season Arkansas will probably take over the #3 spot there . By the time Calipari is done at Arkansas I'm sure we will pass Kentucky with only Duke being ahead . LOL
https://www.interbasket.net/news/10-colleges-with-most-players-on-nba-rosters-2023-24/38340/
The word 'defense' is not in his understanding or knowledge, whether playing against it or using it.
I can’t listen to him. The way he says the subscribe “buttn” just cringes me up. Then commits to say absolutely nothing about every team and offer some foggy opinion on some matter of the day.
Where are these guys coming from….
Arkansas is a regional program it’s not nationally relevant. No one thinks about Arkansas as a major program that’s why they are doing what they’re doing in the first place. It’s a decent program it’s just not nationally relevant in either of the major sports. None of these players care anything about Arkansas and you’ll see that very soon.
When Calipari was thrown out and landed at Arkansas the national media collectively became confused because they didn’t see Calipari going to a program with smaller prestige like that. Calipari himself wanted to go to Ohio State, UCLA etc. he didn’t want to be there either.
So it’s not a bash it’s just not what you want to hear and I really don’t care. Arkansas is a regional program that wants national relevance. I get that too but it doesn’t change anything.
Calipari would be proud of you though, not speaking toward your program prestige and accomplishments and instead naming a few NBA players. lol. 30 years of total irrelevancy will do that, at UK we expect a lot more.
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Relevant enough that your HOF and last National Championship coach just walked out the door giving up a $33,000,000 buy out and a higher salary . That's how bad he wanted out of Kentucky ! LOL
The best way to know just how badly Cal wanted out of Kentucky due to it being so toxic due to his awful coaching is that he actually left for………..Arkansas 😂 Hope he doesn’t pull a Musselman and do everything he can to get away from the gay orgies in your alls locker room 😂
Breach of contract and such, but we can gloss over that so you all can feel special.
Hey look forward to all those 1st round losses coming. Tons of round of 64 banners to be hung at the worst arena in the SEC.
I don’t feel too sorry for Fland. Cal is notorious for starting players over others for no reason and he still chose to play for him, I don’t understand
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I'm a Kentucky fan too, and I don't obsess over Cal either. However, not watching the Wisconsin game film was a colossal, discrete blunder.
Not glossing over that at all . Do you honestly think Cal would meet with another school knowing more than likely the ONLY thing keeping him at Kentucky WAS that contract ? You think Cal didn't know it was a breach of contract if he met with another school ? That he would lose that massive buyout and higher salary ? You don't think Cal knew Barnhart and the fan base wanted him gone ? Barnhart wanted to fire him but he couldn't afford to ! Just so happens a job came open at the right time that Cal felt would give him the support from the AD , High powered boosters and the fan base . Cal left because it had become toxic and he did BBN a favor by saving the athletic department 33,000,000 and ultimately Barnhart (and the fanbase) got what they wanted . Arkansas is Happy and Kentucky is Happy .
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