Automatic ignore for you troll. Pope has done an amazing job so far in the portal and if you cant acknowledge that you admit your agenda.
Wilkerson to Indiana
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Very disappointing to hear this. I thought he was the final piece. We’ll adjust and move on … GO CATS !!!
Some other thoughts:
1. UK reportedly spent nearly 10mil already.. so IU likely could stomach a bigger pay day. Without knowing their roster for 2026, I cant imagine it's anywhere near as talented as ours is, and is therefore much cheaper. Kind of makes sense how this happened.
2. We need to keep a running and updated list of insiders who don't know shit, and post that list as a disclaimer every off season, so when someone claims to have a lock, we can say "well you've been wrong a dozen times last year.."
1. UK reportedly spent nearly 10mil already.. so IU likely could stomach a bigger pay day. Without knowing their roster for 2026, I cant imagine it's anywhere near as talented as ours is, and is therefore much cheaper. Kind of makes sense how this happened.
2. We need to keep a running and updated list of insiders who don't know shit, and post that list as a disclaimer every off season, so when someone claims to have a lock, we can say "well you've been wrong a dozen times last year.."
THIS. That idiot backed Cal and his staff and would attack everyone who dared talked shit about Cal right up until the day he left. Now he acts like that never happened. He’s no FOS. Plus he gets butthurt on Twitter if you expose who he is.
MeManBoy = Marc Maggard.
Who is that idiot who said probably like 20 times on here that he knew for a fact MeManBoy had a good source on this? Probably should delete their account at this point.
Pope should know that basketball players are not interested in horses.
There’s a lot more to look at at Keenland than horses.
Huh? One person said we will find a similar player. That is the only morsel you have here.
Does Wilkerson not understand, that once IU has their final roster complete, he’s just going to be another player there?
Lol, of course he does, it was about $$$ and nothing else! I sure would hate it for IU if this guy ends up shrinking down to the massive upgrade in competition next season 🤣
Lol, of course he does, it was about $$$ and nothing else! I sure would hate it for IU if this guy ends up shrinking down to the massive upgrade in competition next season 🤣
Gratitude is a wonderful thing, but so is money. Echoes of Lanier.
Kentucky simply won't overspend on anyone.
Kentucky simply won't overspend on anyone.
Obviously Coach DeVries will have to prove himself and I honestly can’t answer your question because IU made 3 bad coaching hires in a row and I have no idea how this one is going to turn out.
That said, DeVries doesn’t seem like a weirdo, which Clappy most certainly was. He seems to have an engaging personality while Archie was wooden and boring. DeVries is young and hungry while Woody was nearly 70 and could barely walk, so I’m encouraged.
Yep and that will eventually bite us in the a$$ it kind of did this year when we met Lanier in the sweet 16 and they moved onto the Elite 8.
I’m always going to trust pope, he’s shown us his ability to pick out a good roster, but I guess my point is do we truly even have the NIL here? I know no more about the average joe of this school’s $ figure and i’d consider myself a die hard fan, just seems to me like the common theme for the “superstars” in the portal will be “ours” and then flip last minute because the money elsewhere was better which worries me for the future, will we ever get the big fish? Or does pope’s method of obtaining players in silence (like todd golden at UF) work out?
Why? it has been widely reported that Kentucky has one of the top 10 NIL programs of basketball programs that helped to sign our last 4 recruits plus keep players who could have entered the portal plus sign some highly ranked high school players. They all had options and could have left. I am not the biggest Barnhardt fan by any means but lets deal with facts. Facts are we are not a program that will overpay for 1 single player. I love that. I think an exception should be made for a player of the caliber of Davis, Flagg etc. but I love the new approach of a complete team approach.
That is an opinion and not based on facts. Houston didnt have studs in the transfer portal or high school and neither did Florida. They were good players who played team ball and a system. I would argue Kentucky could have been Elite Eight material without all the injuries and that was only having weeks to for Pope to pick from leftovers last year. You have to admit last year with the conditions Pope inherited was a huge success.
Whoever posted about him not looking happy in those pics yesterday and got trashed for it… I thought the same thing as soon as I seen the horse pics. He was not comfortable. Pay these players man damn
Idk why everyone is that upset. I'm kindnof fine with the roster as is.
Guards - Lowe, Johnson, Oweh, Perry, Chandler
Forwards - Kam, Dioubate, BG, JQ, Andria
And that's forgetting some guys.
I think we could use another PG and Center.. but those would both probably need to be backup or reserve roles. We just can't expect to have pure talent across all 15 roster spots.
Wilkerson explains … fwiw
'Hoosier basketball will be back': Why Lamar Wilkerson picked Indiana basketball over Kentucky
Indiana basketball gets what it hopes is a big infusion of offense with incoming wing Lamar Wilkerson. Here's what he has to say.
www.indystar.com
Yeah our shooting takes a bit of a hit. BUT oweh was 35%, lowe is much better than his stats last year.. you still have BG and Chandler who can make up. Also still have SG Jasper Johnson.
Look, another PG who can get his shot would be great, and maybe a true center.. but Wilkerson was a SG and we sort of have that locked up. I argued this point early today that he was sort of a redundant piece.
Wilkerson explains … fwiw
'Hoosier basketball will be back': Why Lamar Wilkerson picked Indiana basketball over Kentucky
Indiana basketball gets what it hopes is a big infusion of offense with incoming wing Lamar Wilkerson. Here's what he has to say.www.indystar.com
Yikes. So he basically wants the ball. At all times.
Not sure what we should have/could have done here. Indiana paid a premium and they had touches to go around.
Yeah I'm new here and was hoping there was a age limit in order to post . Everyone is a little dumber now after being exposed to that comment.
What is kind of hard to figure is not wanting to play for a top 5 team and opting to be part of a rebuild. Of course he can be the man and make more money there and shoot the ball all he wants which means self gratification over team goals and winning championships.
