Mark Pope says UK is working on another exciting exhibition opponent
Pope likes these opportunities, as they bring energy early in the season.
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Wonder who mark has in mind
Uk planning another exciting exhibition opponent
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Wonder who mark has in mind
Can't they technically play against a pro team in an exhibition?
I think it would be fun to play the Thunder and let SGA use his connections to ensure an exhibition came against them.
I think it would be fun to play the Thunder and let SGA use his connections to ensure an exhibition came against them.
Speaking of SGA did you expect him to be basically the mvp of the league when he was at Kentucky? Crazy work from him
I never saw it coming. I thought he might be a 10 to 12 point/game scorer in the NBA and a nice rotation guard, but nothing close to this.
Same for Booker, Maxey, Bam, and Herro. All of them exceeded expectations.
It’s not against the rules but I don’t know of an NBA team owner in their right mind that would sign off on it.
I shudder to think about the game threads for EXHIBITION games against good competition. “Gonna be a long season guys” after finding ourselves down by 2 at the half against Purdue. 🙄
I shudder to think about the game threads for EXHIBITION games against good competition. “Gonna be a long season guys” after finding ourselves down by 2 at the half against Purdue. 🙄
It was all that good Cal coaching
Agreed on all but Maxey. Always thought kid would be a star.
To be fair, Cal’s system was built around preparing kids for the NBA. So at least some of the credit should go to Cal’s coaching. Just unfortunate that he de-prioritized winning games at UK.
I still think it will be Valpo, that's been the scuttlebutt. We get 2 exhibition games right ?
I like how the potential schedule is shaping up. Front loaded with Louisville and Michigan State is a good way to start the season next year, I think. Once we get the two exhibition games under our belts, we will know a lot more about where we will stand, for sure.
We will have St. John's and Pitino too, and the brutal SEC slate, it is shaping up to be the kind of challenging, competitive schedule that should help us come March!
I generally agree. I did think Bam was turn into a pretty good pro, but they've all kinda exceeded my expectations as well.
They should put together an alumini game. Alums vs new team.
I have to disagree with your statement that Cal wanted to de-prioritized winning at UK. Why would you say that??
So how is this gonna work playing higher level teams as far as home games go? Do we play at Purdue next season?
Just wonder about losing a home game, albeit an exhibition one, every other season from a revenue standpoint.
Just wonder about losing a home game, albeit an exhibition one, every other season from a revenue standpoint.
It's time for a throwback to Athletes in Action!
Because he put players first before winning games. He was all about putting players into the League.
Cal definitely prioritized putting players into the league ahead of winning at UK, once he got his Title. This was one of the reasons he tried to convince BBN that draft day would become the most important day of each year for UK fans. Winning for the sake of winning wasn't important for him once he finally won the Title and secured validation as a coach. The Program and BBN are bigger than Cal's grand ideas and this ultimately exposed his flawed delusions and was his undoing at UK. At Arkansas, he will have to focus on the winning over his wholesale OAD BS because he's been exposed and pressure exerted on him at UK certainly brought unwanted national attention to his failings and delusions of "ending generational poverty" single-handedly. At Arky he will have to actually do his job and coach, if that's still possible.
Didn't they technically do that last summer? I thought thry played UK's TBT team (Harrison twins, WCS etc…)?
So many reasons. He used UK to prepare players, on an individual basis, for the NBA, because that's where they were supposed to go and he relied on recruiting rankings to do it. He turned UK into individual-goals-and- accomplishments-U
The Dragon, BJB, Askew, Edwards, Wagner… they all played big minutes and lost games, while better players sat.
In 23/24, he had the best lineup in basketball, by a mile. He played it one time out of necessity (Alabama), never saw it again, because for him to play it, his promises would have been broken and those individuals wouldn't be able to improve their stock at the cost of winning.
It worked when he was getting the high end recruits he wanted, but once duke started taking his lunch, he stuck with his NBA first crap, but he had to do it with kids that didn't have the game, they were just athletes that might be good 5 years down the road. Again, he relied on recruiting rankings. How he thought the Dragon, Askew and BJB were any good, is beside me. He is supposed to be an ace evaluator.
He literally said it right after the 2012 title game "I says to Ellen, now that we got that done and out of the way, we need to make it about these kids…. ". You remember that?
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