Prediction: UK Will Be 20-0 And #1 When We Visit Kansas January 30

[bucsrule8872]

I totally agree. I am confident we have another great team. But these wild predictions that we see here every year in August and September are based on nothing but bluster. All I care about is winning #9 and doing it by the rules.

Agreed.

Still, there's not much to talk about this time of year, so please cut us some slack. LOL!

 

[Blue Decade]

Talk may be cheap but recruiting services just dont hand out 5 stars to just any player.
Those are earned and UK has six players that are 5 stars.
When you have a McDonalds All American coming off the bench, you are officially loaded.

I would be very careful with that line of reasoning. We have key players like Ulis, Mulder, Matthews, Humphries who are not 5 stars. Our 2 commits Wynyard and Killeya-Jones are not 5 stars. Kentucky has 6 players who are 5 stars but some of them have sat behind better 4 stars like Cauley Stein. Recruiting services hand out stars for lots of reasons, and big talk never beats performance.

 

[Blue Decade]

Agreed.

Still, there's not much to talk about this time of year, so please cut us some slack. LOL!

I would respond, but I don't want into another joust.

 

[dlh331]

Ulis was very much a 5*

Darryl

 

[bucsrule8872]

I would respond, but I don't want into another joust.

LOL!

That's cool. I agree with you on that for sure.

 

[brianpoe]

Here's my prediction, and feel free to file it until January to taunt me if I'm wrong: There will be comments on this board about 'Briscoe's body language is terrible' and 'Murray is wasted when he's not playing point' and 'Ulis should be coming off the bench against taller PGs' and 'Skal just stands around on too many possessions' and 'Poythress just doesn't have his explosiveness. He needs to sit.'

In other words, this team will take time to mesh, and sometimes it won't look pretty to our more impatient fans. I'm already on record predicting more than a couple losses through early January. We'll hear some of the same stuff we heard about the 2014 and 2011 teams early. Remember? "Jones is lazy" and 'Knight is not a PG, he's a 2G' and 'Disappearious Miller' and 'the Harrisons only care about themselves' and 'Young takes plays off on defense' and so on.

What are you trying to say? Our fans lose their minds and rush to judgemental critiques of our players and coach? No way...

 

[turkeywildturkey]

OOC we have a losable game versus Duke but I think we are better/more talented.

At UCLA is dangerous but the Bruins are not as good as last season and we are just a better team.

We "ain't" losing at Rupp to anyone.

SEC road games before that night:

at LSU
at Alabama
at Auburn
at Arkansas

Very...very possible we are 20-0 which would make us 58-1 over the last 59 games.

Darryl

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we lost our top 6 players. Besides Ulis and Poy, who's coming off major knee surgery, I think 20-0 is Unrealistic, considering our inexperience from our newcomers. At the very least, it's unfair to players and coaches. Let's just hope that we get better as we go through the season and have a shot at the prize at the end of the season. That's enough for me.

 

[kentucky_wildcat_#1]

I think it will take some time for our team to gel, but having a leader like Tyler Ulis will help speed some of these growing pains some fans are worried about. I really don't think we will need to worry about Briscoe. Cal will let the kid know pretty quick that Ulis is the leader and we can win games with him on the bench, with as much talent we have at guard.