I mean, I love it, but I get skepticism from other fans.
We would be saying the same about another team. Only one ball.
Rob Dauster crying too…country is getting nervous
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We would be saying the same about another team. Only one ball.
We have like 12 healthy players and with all due respect 3 of those on our team combined for 6.4 PPG last year when you factor in their healthy DNP’s.
JQ in my mind is a planned mid season addition for spot 13 and chances are at least one of the original 12 have an injury by then.
JQ in my mind is a planned mid season addition for spot 13 and chances are at least one of the original 12 have an injury by then.
Does he love us? Or was he just cool with us as a non-threatening 3 seed type?
I don’t know the answer. But this tweet was not from someone who was happy to see us field an elite team.
Dauster is an unabashed UConn fan…he is definitely not happy to see Kentucky return to form!
Everybody loves when Kentucky sucks. That’s why they were all in on Cal staying at Kentucky. Now we have a coach that loves us like he’s a fan. Let the rest of the country cry for years to come.
I object to his characterization that Aberdeen was just chasing the biggest payday. Kentucky can’t add a piece that takes them from Final Four contender to title contender?
Aberdeen can’t see the writing on the wall and believe he can help Kentucky win a title?
Has to be about the money and it was somehow unfair to poor pitiful Florida, coming off their 3rd national title in 2 decades?
I don’t see it as an attack. If he’s just talking then so am I.
None of it matters if Pope can’t find the reason we have gotten the worst whistle in college basketball for a while now. There is most definitely a bias. Where it’s originated, and by whom is the only question. Hopefully Pope can find the source and mend that bridge. Higgins cost us 2 titles. Shows, Ayers, sermons and Olgelsby are the go to guys come tournament time. We have the worst win percentage with all of them. It’s real.
Why work so hard to be miserable?
Oscar Combs tweeted earlier that there's a billionaire from here in eastern ky that's a big UK fan with coal money,, went to UK in the 60s.. Two richest around here are Mitch Potter (62) and Jim Booth (76).. Booth is the only one lines up with that and was on UK board of trustees at one time.. No idea just guessing.. Worked for both of them and just know they're both mega mega rich.. Plus you have Tim Short a huge UK fan..
**Its Jim Booth..
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I figured by now most people were starting to realize that this is simply what happens at Kentucky. If we're successful then that means Duke and UNC can't be (Or can't be AS successful). We've seen two very different styles of coaches in Cal and Pope.. and both got absolutely hosed. Could Pope maybe flex his muscle with the refs more? Sure, and I think he will in year 2. And I think he will become more established.
But our officiating problem isn't a coaching issue.. it's an NCAA issue. Until the school decides to make some phone calls, it's going to continue.
Agreed on this. Us and Aberdeen are being painted as the bad guys here. At the beginning of the offseason Florida had the money to pay Denzel Aberdeen. It’s their fault for choosing not to do so. They chose to pay their front court and Lee. They’ll still be really good.
He never won a NCAAT game at BYU. If he does not get past sweet 16 next year there will be some of our fans wanting Pope gone. There is a higher percent that Pope does not get to elite 8 than that he does. That is true for most schools going into 2025 - 2026 season. Single elimination in NCAAT is easy to get caught with a bad night and go home.
And honestly, I watch Field of 68 a lot. Definitely give us better coverage than the likes of ESPN.
But this was just a bad take all around, imo. “Playing behind” Jasper Johnson. “Chasing the biggest payday.”
Comes across as sour grapes. He’s worried about incentivizing people to stay? Florida can spend as much money as they want to keep him. They aren’t some broke mid major.
Aberdeen apparently wants to be at Kentucky. That’s been good enough for a few hundred other transfers but it’s a problem when it might shift the balance of power from UF to UK?
Guys, every fan base in America thinks the refs are out to get them. It is calld human nature, to view calls based on how you want them called. We did not lose one single game this year because of the refs. We had some bad calls, so did every team that played this year and every team that we played this year. I thought the worst called game I watched in person this year was the Florida game. We certainly got the best end of the calls in that game. That is not why we won but it was still a really favorable whistle at critical times in the game.
That’s not that much of a mega hot take. On an early preseason list they had UofL at #3 and UK at #5 so who knows.
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I'd say that the TAM Spike ball, the LSU missed goal tend, and the Wisconsin Shot clock violation, are three distinct instances where we 100% lost because of officiating in a critical moment at the end of the game.
Coach Pope himself said that he and his staff were going to have to study the way the officials called the game because in their eyes, it wasn't making sense.
In my opinion, no team ever plays a perfect game. You play well enough to win a game by say 6 points. But if the calls are bad or going one way, then that 6 point difference might not be enough, and you lose. So two things can be true: Sure, we could have played better at some spots so that the officiating didn't matter and we still win.. and bad officiating absolutely can change the outcome of a game.
Said it once, and I'll say it forever: You shouldn't have to be perfect to win the game, and you should never have to win the same game twice.
They didn’t want to play dirty pay for play with tiding money until the Utah Jazz owner said it was totally cool and they realized they could actually compete at the highest level now so it’s all good. Joesph Smith came down from the mountain with a new tablet that said thou shall spend 20M a year on basketball to spread the word!
I mean, he literally said in several different episodes over the course of last season that he saw us as a strong dark horse title contender. Like at least four or five episodes. If that was his way to call us a non-threatening 3-seed, okay.
That’s awesome. Sorry to rattle all the Rob Dauster fans. Just thought it was a terrible tweet.
Why would this require me being a Dauster fan? I just think this being hate from him would require him to be unstable emotionally in a way I can't really buy having watched him so much. Disrespect, sure. Call it disrespect especially combined with him saying he thinks UL is stronger now even with us adding Aberdeen. I still think this is him searching for clicks and narratives more than anything else.
I mean if he's got an issue with the NIL era in general, that's his issue. That aspect is just business. From the UF perspective, it sure seems to be reported that he brought what was being offered and they refused to meet that-so that's on Florida if they didn't want match, so not sure what his point is about the higher payday, etc....and where he ended up. If they chose to match what he/his representation said was out there, it's a moot point. Aberdeen will be far from the last guy to do this moving forward. Sentimentality means nothing. That being said, he was addressing this departure/where Aberdeen was going-if he was going to Houston or Texas Tech, I truly think he'd be saying the same thing based on what he feels about this-which again I think he's living in a bubble that doesn't exist.
Now if you take that as being anti UK or not liking that Kentucky got a talented player...I guess I just didn't see it the same because the guy has made time and given Pope plenty of praise everywhere he's been and talked him up as a Coach/the program, etc...so I think it's a bit over the top to say he's "nervous" that Kentucky is getting good players. He was one of the first people to celebrate the hire and tell his followers/BBN that Pope would succeed and do great things.
Disagree with his take on NIL era recruiting? I agree with you but really don't think he's got any personal thing with the program.
Florida shot 35 FT’s to our 24 while trailing most of the game on our home court. If you think we got a great whistle that game I’d hate to see one where you thought we got screwed.
I'll buy that. Wright and Dybant$a still say smoking gun and cooked books to me after the pocketbook they gave Pope despite his wins over schools like KU and Baylor.
We can analyze his motives 16 ways to Sunday. Isn’t really that deep to me. This tweet was negative toward Kentucky. Didn’t really spend much time thinking about how much he does or doesn’t like Pope. I was responding to what he just said.
Whether he is specifically nervous I don’t know and don’t really care. It was a message board post about a national writer taking a shot at Kentucky. It was mostly a joking post about the country being nervous that we will be so good. A celebration. Definitely wasn’t expecting people to take it so seriously.
And he did take a shot at Kentucky. Somehow staying at Florida was pure and holy, but going to Kentucky was chasing a bag.
But again, not that deep to me. I’m sure I’ll still watch his podcast. Will probably discuss his good and bad takes again at some point.
Finally listened to the Dauster/Goodman discussion on the podcast. Even worse than the tweet, honestly.
Droned on about what a legacy he could have had as a Florida great. As someone who lives around and works with lots of Florida alums I’m telling you, most of them don’t even know Denzel Aberdeen’s name.
Dauster repeated the Wilkerson line about being just another guy at Kentucky. That is someone with a fundamental misunderstanding of what this program is all about, and what it truly means to play at a championship level here. Hope Aberdeen is playing to win.
Droned on about what a legacy he could have had as a Florida great. As someone who lives around and works with lots of Florida alums I’m telling you, most of them don’t even know Denzel Aberdeen’s name.
Dauster repeated the Wilkerson line about being just another guy at Kentucky. That is someone with a fundamental misunderstanding of what this program is all about, and what it truly means to play at a championship level here. Hope Aberdeen is playing to win.
