Pope recruiting

[Slowwalker]

That's not true. He pulled a miracle in the form of landing Jasper. He will land 3 or 4 top 25 guys every single season.

3-4 top 25 high school players every year?

You want to put some money on that?

 

[DreadLox]

3-4 top 25 high school players every year?

If he lands 3 top 100 HS seniors, he's ahead of the game.

 

[Darrell M1234]

It certainly helped in recruiting Perry. Noah and Johnson that they could see how Reed Sheppard was treated by the fans of UK. That is not to say he wouldn't have still gotten all three of them.

I do wish Pope the very best. I think he is going to do well.

 

[Slowwalker]

If he lands 3 top 100 HS seniors, he's ahead of the game.

That’s not what the poster claimed.

 

[Montana81]

We’re laughing at your ignorance.

Cal's been recruiting Johnson for over two years. He kept recruiting him when he went to Arkansas. Try reading an article instead of smoking your piggy pipe. https://247sports.com/article/jaspe...-in-top-5-john-calipari-recruiting-234124731/

Cal knew he was a very distant fourth place on this one. You Hog fans are delusional. Go back and play in the pig pen if you're not going to bring strong arguments here.

Time to go home, pig.

 

[Montana81]

We've only had one coach at UK who could not recruit.
Billy G was too drunk or lazy or whatever.

Cal had too much success. Cost him/us in the end.

I believe Coach P can and will use his passion, UK's rep, the NIL + Portal to take us where we ain't been lately.

Even BCG got players. Got Patterson, Liggins, Miller, Harrelson, Orton. That’s 5 guys that played pretty big roles in our success in Cal’s first two seasons. Harrelson, Miller and Liggins were part of the core of a team that broke a 13 year final four drought.

Billy G also had Deandre Jordan committed at Texas A&M before he bolted. He probably could have convinced the kid to follow him but decided to play nice. He also helped us land John Wall by getting him on campus twice so When Cal took over Wall didn’t have to try and schedule a last minute visit.

Billy G was a good recruiter and a overall strong basketball mind. He just went insane.

 

[DreadLox]

That’s not what the poster claimed.

It's just plain statement.

 

[Ukgold]

So how many freshmen does Pope take next year. We know of 7 spots to fill. Do you take 3 more top guys if you can get them or do we try to limit our freshmen class to 4. Finish the class with portal.

 

[502 Wildcat]

Coach Pope and staff out recruiting again this week, after trailblazing both coasts last week. That private jet is racking up some miles as of late.

 

[North Carolina Blue Wildcat]

A 2026 kid I hope we are able to land. 7 foot kid that is dangerously good from 3 point range.

 

[zoid1]

So how many freshmen does Pope take next year. We know of 7 spots to fill. Do you take 3 more top guys if you can get them or do we try to limit our freshmen class to 4. Finish the class with portal.

Assuming we get back SR- Oweh JR- Garrison SO- Chandler/Perry/Noah FR- Moreno/Johnson that's 6 player's he can add. I think we get 2 of Yessoufou/Ament/Cenac/Mullins/Brown/Wilson then add 4 experienced portal guys. Perfect mix of players coming back, experience and young talented frosh imo.

 

[zoid1]

Pope has done well so far. Johnson was a bigger fight than you would hope though. I’m from the same town as his family and it personally feels it shouldn’t have taken as much fight to get a Ky kid to go to UK. He never been a top 15 player though so what do I know. He needs to pull some players from other states and then win games to prove he has what it takes. Honeymoons end quicker at UK than anywhere, which, is one of the reasons other coaches didn’t want this job. I think he can do it and I really hope he does.

In another topic, If the creator of this post, Zoid1, has the initials JS and knows CSMS, he knows me and my UK fandom.

PM me

 

[chevyman 50]

Putting together a team that will be playing this year with mostly transfers in a short time is very impressive of course no body really know how good this team will be and getting a couple of the best recruits in the country, Moreno and Johnson not bad either and getting an endorsement from Pitino.