Hypothetically, we could get Oweh and Garrison back. We are going to do what we did all over this year with a better freshman class that'll take a few years to grow and compete in this league. I hope we get lucky in the transfer portal because next year's roster could be a step back with the lack of experience, youth, and ability to compete against size and experience. I think next year has the potential to be worse than this year
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The second half of our SEC schedule is easier.
This team has 22 wins by the conference tournament.
This team has 22 wins by the conference tournament.
Not "could be" - it will be a step back.
Oweh - starter
Garrison - bench, low IQ
Chandler - bench, not SEC caliber
Perry - bench, may improve, but will always be defensive liability
Noah - bench, disappears
Johnson - starter, likely less productive than Jaxon
Lewis - bench, listed at 6'2", probably 6'1"
Moreno - bench, far from ready
Add 3-4 guys in the portal. If they're not top 50 guys, it looks bleak.
Pull up the rosters of the 16 SEC teams and see how many returning starters are coming back in '26.
The SEC will look entirely different next season.
UK has just as good a shot as anyone else. They could also be middle of the pack.
There's not one returning SEC roster that you would put above a " wait and see"
I don’t need to see anybody else’s roster to know that our potential roster is weak as hell.
If Butler and Kriisa are out , I agree that our chances for a run in March and April are minimum.
If just Butler is back and is fully healthy, we could make the tournament but and maybe win a game or two in post season until you get another team like Bama , Auburn, Duke, Houston, Iowa, TN, Ole miss , or Florida.
So getting healthy and staying healthy and having spirits high until is very important. As fan base we should help the team and not attack the players and coaching staff.
If just Butler is back and is fully healthy, we could make the tournament but and maybe win a game or two in post season until you get another team like Bama , Auburn, Duke, Houston, Iowa, TN, Ole miss , or Florida.
So getting healthy and staying healthy and having spirits high until is very important. As fan base we should help the team and not attack the players and coaching staff.
I appreciate your optimism, but I’m pretty sure these players’ spirits are already down. I think they’ve hung it up already.
Nobody pushed Cal out the door. It was time for him to go and he did…on his own.
Even as a uf fan, I don't necessary take any joy in UK not being in the tourney,.
........but I'm confused as to why 4 wins seems impossible. If you win 19 then you're not on the bubble, especially since there have been 18 win teams with a lesser schedule and made it into the tourney.
In your remaining games you have the two worst teams in the SEC, USC and LSU, and at home. Then you have two meh teams of Texas and OU......and Vandy at home.
4 wins should absolutely be achievable. Also, injuries or not, UK is still a dangerous team capable of pulling an upset for the other games.
........but I'm confused as to why 4 wins seems impossible. If you win 19 then you're not on the bubble, especially since there have been 18 win teams with a lesser schedule and made it into the tourney.
In your remaining games you have the two worst teams in the SEC, USC and LSU, and at home. Then you have two meh teams of Texas and OU......and Vandy at home.
4 wins should absolutely be achievable. Also, injuries or not, UK is still a dangerous team capable of pulling an upset for the other games.
Will Barnhart give him the resources he needs or block NIL like he did Calipari? This is his baby so you would think he would give Pope everything he needs to be successful.
I just read that Hubert Davis is hiring a GM, maybe that’s what Pope needs too. UK isn’t mentioned with only a few recruits in the top 50 of the 2026 class and that is worrisome.
Imay just be captain obvious here, but there's still 9 more games on the schedule. plus the SEC tournament. Um. We're #14, right? we can lose more and maybe NOT make the ncaat, but seriously. Only 2 other teams have more quad 1 wins than we do.
So maybe th3e season is over for you.
It sounds like it NEEDS to be for you.
When the going gets tough .... the tough get going.
I know about that a little bit. I beat and continue my fight against lifelong cancerous tissue residing inside my brain which makes life very difficult. Having broken my back from a fall in 08' and spending the next 7 years in a wheelchair didnt make anything easier. I was addicted to opioids and fought alcohol and drug abuse since I was a young man. I weighed 335 lbs when I was in the wheelchair.
But you know what ?
Ive been sober and drug and alcohol and smoke free for 23 years now. I lost 168 lbs, have kept it off. I got on my feet again I WALK NOW. Sure it took ten YEARS since 2015 to do that much. At least I started nearly 30 years when I survived the hypophysectomy and they got (most) of the brain cancer killing me inside.
So I take all this with a grain of salt - and perspective.
Ive seen tough times for the program and university, all of us in BBN that have been here long enough know what adversity is.
It's how you face it that is the challenge.
And it's NEVER too late. Until the light dies.
So freaking FIGHT and rage and with all your might do not give in to negative emotion and feelings. Be positive and optimistic even in the face of ridiculously slim odds.
And it isn't as dire and grave as some are acting here.
I have a simple faith in my higher power. Jesus loves me, my guardian angels have made other people that dont even know me look at me and see them where I stand. I can testify.
I share this with you to tell you not to give in to that kind of desperation and despair.
when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Either the young men and Coach and team as a whole learns it and takes it to heart, or they will not finish this season off as well as they otherwise might have.
I thought I was wildly and more than bordering ridiculously ( i mean HH level optimism 40-0 .. well.. not THAT optimistic, but - well, you know... LOL) optimistic at thinking we would lose 8 games, get a 3 seed in the preseason and be just fine. Well, the injuries retally have hurt this team and we couldn't have afforded that this year, but we have. So we fight onward.
This can still be a successful season.
We can win tournament games , we will make the NCAAT and that is better than what we would have had with Cal here. I was willing to give this ENTIRE season a mulligan season. I havent had to. Instead, I have been very impressed with Pope and what he has done in the face of such adversity. We have won big games even injured. It has been a fascinating and exciting season for me, I am renewed with optimism for the future and know Pope is THE MAN that will get us there.
Are there issues and problems? yes!
would Cal have been forthcoming like Pope about it and shoulder responsibly his own role ? HELL NO. He NEVER DID.
so regardless of what you personally feel or think the direction of the program is at, I really am trying to say here that we've seen tough times. NO we are not anywhere remotely near or close to entering Indiana suckage territory. Thats BS talk for BS thinking.
Sometimes its darkest just before the dawn. Maybe its a long night even. Maybe a long month. YEAR. YEARS.
we are nowhere near that kind of territory.
focus on the NOW, overcome and adapt. This team - if we can get healthy - can (it has already proven) it can beat anyone. We beat ESPN'S defacto holy team , dUKe. That's good enough for me. If this team can beat that team, then they can beat anyone this year.
So put down the whiskey bottles, crack pipes, meth pipes, smoking hallucinogenic shrooms or high grade cannabis.
Get a grip and buckle up. Rip your panties (which are now for some of you) apparently in a nice big wad up your behind, rip those off and put some PANTS on. Get a belt. Sinch it up tight.
Hold your head high and get angry. get mad, double down and be even more faithful and adamant that your faith is stronger than your weak ass fears.
I did.
I'm a survivor.
WE are survivors, BBN. And we are still ...
Kentucky
who else would you rather be or cheer for? if not Kentucky, then why stay here ? why bicker endlessly about it and panic into jumping ship when it isn't as dire or as bad as it has been at other times here?
NOW is the time to kick your faith into high gear and purpose.
THAT is when you overcome yourself to become great.
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end runt's rant # OMG 3,701 or whatever. LOL !
peace and harmony, BBN.
Keep the faith
Go Big Blue
So maybe th3e season is over for you.
It sounds like it NEEDS to be for you.
When the going gets tough .... the tough get going.
I know about that a little bit. I beat and continue my fight against lifelong cancerous tissue residing inside my brain which makes life very difficult. Having broken my back from a fall in 08' and spending the next 7 years in a wheelchair didnt make anything easier. I was addicted to opioids and fought alcohol and drug abuse since I was a young man. I weighed 335 lbs when I was in the wheelchair.
But you know what ?
Ive been sober and drug and alcohol and smoke free for 23 years now. I lost 168 lbs, have kept it off. I got on my feet again I WALK NOW. Sure it took ten YEARS since 2015 to do that much. At least I started nearly 30 years when I survived the hypophysectomy and they got (most) of the brain cancer killing me inside.
So I take all this with a grain of salt - and perspective.
Ive seen tough times for the program and university, all of us in BBN that have been here long enough know what adversity is.
It's how you face it that is the challenge.
And it's NEVER too late. Until the light dies.
So freaking FIGHT and rage and with all your might do not give in to negative emotion and feelings. Be positive and optimistic even in the face of ridiculously slim odds.
And it isn't as dire and grave as some are acting here.
I have a simple faith in my higher power. Jesus loves me, my guardian angels have made other people that dont even know me look at me and see them where I stand. I can testify.
I share this with you to tell you not to give in to that kind of desperation and despair.
when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Either the young men and Coach and team as a whole learns it and takes it to heart, or they will not finish this season off as well as they otherwise might have.
I thought I was wildly and more than bordering ridiculously ( i mean HH level optimism 40-0 .. well.. not THAT optimistic, but - well, you know... LOL) optimistic at thinking we would lose 8 games, get a 3 seed in the preseason and be just fine. Well, the injuries retally have hurt this team and we couldn't have afforded that this year, but we have. So we fight onward.
This can still be a successful season.
We can win tournament games , we will make the NCAAT and that is better than what we would have had with Cal here. I was willing to give this ENTIRE season a mulligan season. I havent had to. Instead, I have been very impressed with Pope and what he has done in the face of such adversity. We have won big games even injured. It has been a fascinating and exciting season for me, I am renewed with optimism for the future and know Pope is THE MAN that will get us there.
Are there issues and problems? yes!
would Cal have been forthcoming like Pope about it and shoulder responsibly his own role ? HELL NO. He NEVER DID.
so regardless of what you personally feel or think the direction of the program is at, I really am trying to say here that we've seen tough times. NO we are not anywhere remotely near or close to entering Indiana suckage territory. Thats BS talk for BS thinking.
Sometimes its darkest just before the dawn. Maybe its a long night even. Maybe a long month. YEAR. YEARS.
we are nowhere near that kind of territory.
focus on the NOW, overcome and adapt. This team - if we can get healthy - can (it has already proven) it can beat anyone. We beat ESPN'S defacto holy team , dUKe. That's good enough for me. If this team can beat that team, then they can beat anyone this year.
So put down the whiskey bottles, crack pipes, meth pipes, smoking hallucinogenic shrooms or high grade cannabis.
Get a grip and buckle up. Rip your panties (which are now for some of you) apparently in a nice big wad up your behind, rip those off and put some PANTS on. Get a belt. Sinch it up tight.
Hold your head high and get angry. get mad, double down and be even more faithful and adamant that your faith is stronger than your weak ass fears.
I did.
I'm a survivor.
WE are survivors, BBN. And we are still ...
Kentucky
who else would you rather be or cheer for? if not Kentucky, then why stay here ? why bicker endlessly about it and panic into jumping ship when it isn't as dire or as bad as it has been at other times here?
NOW is the time to kick your faith into high gear and purpose.
THAT is when you overcome yourself to become great.
-------
end runt's rant # OMG 3,701 or whatever. LOL !
peace and harmony, BBN.
Keep the faith
Go Big Blue
Last night it was pretty late before I gave up. I am not the giving up type. Some of you would make dandy French soldiers.
Unfortunately some players should transfer and give Pope more space to operate. Unpopular opinion, but I don’t think Perry will ever be what we all wanted which was Sheppard 2.0. Miles away from that.
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