Rob Dauster crying too…country is getting nervous
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More likely he starts beside Lowe and OO.
Ha there does seem to be a lot of worried sports reporters. Maybe Duke should bump their NIL up to $40mil instead of $30mil lol.
Cry harder lol. Everything will be negative towards us now since we're loaded.
It’s like some posters on this board: 2 weeks ago we won’t field a team now we have too many good players 😂
Don't think so. I believe Williams starts with Lowe and Oweh. JMO.
What a stupid take - more like playing alongside oweh and lowe.
Dauster loves us more than any of those other Fo68 guys and they generally all like us. I think he's most likely just fishing for clicks in a pretty slow news cycle.
The media is finally realizing that Kentucky is absolutely loaded with nil money. Goodman said that Kentucky might be ahead of BYU now for the top spot.
If the state of Oklahoma can afford a pro basketball team, then Kentucky can certainly afford a payroll 15 to 20 million for a college basketball program that the entire state adores.
Dauster is the one with the hard to understand soft spot for Louisville. I didn't hear it, but today he supposedly said he likes Louisville's roster more than Kentucky's......
IF BYU was so loaded with NIL $$$, then why didn't they help out Pope when he was there?
They walk on water with the pundits. Would be unbearable if Flagg came back. 99.9% he won't but it would be horrible.
Notice how all the media has been real nice and real supportive the last year ish? Now look how the tables turn ... people starting to get nervous.
Trilly got flak from UK fans because he apparently said something about BYU folks wanting Pope out. No idea what that's about, though.
It's Ryan Smith, Billionaire. People claim it's not him, including himself. But I suspect that's more about him not wanting to have too much attention on how much he is shelling out personally, when technically it's probably coming out of businesses he owns and tied to advertising spot duties anyway. People can tell me what they want: I won't believe the Mormons went from Richie Saunders and Jaxson Robinson money to $5 mil Dybysanta money overnight just because.
A lot of that is projection from Dauster. Dan Hurley has basically said the same thing and Dauster is a massive Connecticut homer.
Fans of schools like UConn are having to adjust their thinking as they're now realizing that they cannot keep up consistently with programs like Kentucky in the NIL era.
It's going to be a competitive war of attrition, and one that schools like Kentucky are going to win.
I actually don't think that it's out of the realm of possibility that the Mormon church is supplying Mark Pope with some NIL funds.
Their Church desires seeing their people excel out in the regular world. They will do anything within their moral structure to support that.
I could see Pope obtaining some funds from them, selling donors on the idea that he is advancing their ideology on the most powerful college basketball stage in the world.
Ryan Smith claims it's not him because as an NBA owner it's against league rules.
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With the rotation we have now we should be able to keep guys fresh. Hence have the other teams tongue dragging halfway through the second half. Plenty of moving parts and lots of different lineups to throw around. I’m loving it.
Do we have any ideas where this money is coming from? Is it the Craft family? Some other millionaires? Maybe the university is figuring out ways to fund the basketball team through back channels?
As for Pope at BYU, there does seem to be a stark difference between what they were doing before and after Pope. But that could also sort of be coincidental as that was right around when NIL became a thing. Technically Pope finished creating his final BYU roster in the spring of 2023, so two years ago. I don't believe teams were really paying players yet.. or at least, certainly not like they are now.
No shot. Aberdeen is coming to Kentucky after winning the Championship and SEC title with Florida. Check his numbers when he started for 5 games while one of the other guards was injured. Dudes a winner and a legit defensive player. Kam has lots of potential but he isn’t there yet. Kentucky needs the psychological edge off the start and Aberdeen provides that through experience
I am more excited about having athletic guys who play above the rim and are willing to fight as opposed to last season. At times last season, we looked like a small kid getting bullied on the playground.
Aberdeen only started 4 games, so that is a small sample size. He will be a SR and is what he is at this point. Williams was ONLY a freshman, and only will get better. Wonder why Florida didn't want him back seeing how he is SO good ?
Other than the 4 games he started, here are a LOT of games he played over 20 minutes : (significant playing time)
25 min. Wake Forest - 5 points
22 min. Grambling - 8 points
21 min. Jacksonville - 5 points
20 min. Wichita St - 9 points
19 min Arizona St - 2 points (only 19 min, but ASU was terrible)
21 min. N. Florida - 2 points
24 min Arkansas - 5 points
20 min. Texas - 5 points
22 min. Georgia - 7 points
24 min. Oklahoma - 7 points
20 min. Tennessee - 8 points
21 min. Texas A&M - 6 points
23 min. Norfolk State - 8 points
20 min. Texas Tech - 3 points.
If you take the good (games started), you have to take the bad (games he played significant minutes). Also, several of the teams was horrible. I like the kids heart and hustle, but to me, he is NOT starter quality. He has been in college long enough, it should have clicked by now. Role player off the bench his whole career, what has he done to change that ? 4 games doesn't convince me he should start, the half of a season of games he played significant minutes and didn't produce convinces me he is a bench player. My opinion, not stating as fact.
Yeah stats are great but don't tell the whole picture. It's like a career 270 hitter in baseball but he's always clutch in the big game. UF made a great comeback and Aberdeen was the one who got the rally started. Having a ring in group will help when you get deep in the season.
yeah it kind of does. he played on the best team in college basketball and had players around him, never faced double teams, and is going into his SR year. He has been a role player his whole career, what exactly will he do here he didn't at Florida ? Don't say more clock, I have showed you too many games he played significant time and even against bottom of the rankings teams and didn't flash. People pointing to FOUR games he played well and ignoring MANY more he underwhelmed or was average justifying him starting is crazy to me.
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May not start. He will have to earn it. I'm putting my trust in our coach who was actually a captain on a national championship team and played in the NBA. Pretty sure they ran film and analytics on him and all the guys. I will trust his spreadsheet.
How many players in D1 actually get double-teamed in a given year? I have to imagine it's only a handful of guys like Cooper Flagg who are consistently drawing double teams or getting special game prep.
As for the 4 games he played, I think what it shows is potential TO BE that type of player. It's not something I'd say I expect from him next year, but if given the minutes it certainly seems possible. But then again, he's likely not getting 25-30 minutes a game anyways, so not sure why this debate matters.
Dauster has always been pro Mark Pope and had him on his show a lot dating back to when Pope was at BYU. He's been supportive of him at Kentucky too, so think this is the wrong guy to attack.
It's okay for people to talk basketball and I don't think he/Goodman are insane for making this a talking point. This Era of CBB business--with a roster this loaded--someone is going to be upset about their role/lack of minutes. Did the same last year with Duke's roster even into the early part of the season. They didn't say Kentucky will not win because of it...just trying to figure out who will/won't play is worthy of discussing when you have a Daily Show dedicated to CBB.
I mean Goodman's in a disagreement with BTN/ex Purdue player Raphael Davis because Goodman thinks it's insane of PJ Haggerty to have the demands he does--and Davis is celebrating it and thinking it's great for the player. I agree with Goodman on this one-I'm not paying $4M to PJ Haggerty to take up that much of my $.
It's okay for people to talk basketball and I don't think he/Goodman are insane for making this a talking point. This Era of CBB business--with a roster this loaded--someone is going to be upset about their role/lack of minutes. Did the same last year with Duke's roster even into the early part of the season. They didn't say Kentucky will not win because of it...just trying to figure out who will/won't play is worthy of discussing when you have a Daily Show dedicated to CBB.
I mean Goodman's in a disagreement with BTN/ex Purdue player Raphael Davis because Goodman thinks it's insane of PJ Haggerty to have the demands he does--and Davis is celebrating it and thinking it's great for the player. I agree with Goodman on this one-I'm not paying $4M to PJ Haggerty to take up that much of my $.
