Will we have 13 or 15 scholly's to play with next season?
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We ARE NOT GETTING 15, 14, or probably even 13 guys who are significantly better than "walk-on's".
Today's 18-22 yr olds want immediate gratification (= playing time).
Also NIL is a factor, we are not going to generate enough NIL for our 11th-15th guys to get enough to compete with them being in the top 8 guys somewhere else. So, the only way you go much past 10 is for you to have a few "home-grown" (aka in-state) players who are hoping that in 2 or 3 years they are earning PT and more NIL.
Today's 18-22 yr olds want immediate gratification (= playing time).
Also NIL is a factor, we are not going to generate enough NIL for our 11th-15th guys to get enough to compete with them being in the top 8 guys somewhere else. So, the only way you go much past 10 is for you to have a few "home-grown" (aka in-state) players who are hoping that in 2 or 3 years they are earning PT and more NIL.
Each team now has 15 scholarships to give.
How many are used will be up to Pope.
How many are used will be up to Pope.
If they aren't going to be used for high level talent (which would almost be impossible) I wouldn't mind a mix of big projects and giving scholarships to our walk ons.
We have twelve guys right now who are all significant contributors when healthy. We have fifteen berths and at least five hundred thousand dollars over our budget this year due to a court storming. If we don’t wind up spending that extra $$ on Nate Ament why wouldn’t we offer two beefy seniors a chance to come in?
Shore us up against injuries. Take some pressure off our highly talented freshmen as they learn college game in general in addition to just our system, at least the first half of next season. And let our main guys play at a higher pace when they’re in.
I find it hard to believe there isn’t a good long list of kids at mid majors who have the size, strength, skills, and basketball IQ to do that and would be drooling to try it based on what we showed them this year plus the prospect of $250,000 each in their pockets.
Shore us up against injuries. Take some pressure off our highly talented freshmen as they learn college game in general in addition to just our system, at least the first half of next season. And let our main guys play at a higher pace when they’re in.
I find it hard to believe there isn’t a good long list of kids at mid majors who have the size, strength, skills, and basketball IQ to do that and would be drooling to try it based on what we showed them this year plus the prospect of $250,000 each in their pockets.
But we could get 12 since we had that this year before injuries. Yes, I think Perry is significantly better than 99%+ of walkons.
I just noticed that you said in-state recruits would be the key to having more than 10 quality players on scholly and I agree. Perry and Noah could make big bucks as juniors and seniors. "Mountain Mamba" is gold! It's GOLD, I tell ya!
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You say this without knowing. We have no idea how roster situations will work with 15, because we haven’t seen it before.
You said we had a deficit of 500 grand due to a court storming. When did this happen? Unless you are a confused Vandy fan, WE don't have a deficit
Good players will pretty much demand playing time or they will be gone next year. I would be looking at like 10 players at the most then maybe a legacy walk-on or two that has ties to the school. EDIT Nothing can match the joy of putting them in at the end of a game and they score a bucket or 2. It's great for the player and the fans!
It's just so much different now with pay to play/NIL/ Profit Sharing{coming next year} whatever you wish to call it.
It's just so much different now with pay to play/NIL/ Profit Sharing{coming next year} whatever you wish to call it.
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KENTUCKY doesn’t storm the court in basketball. Other teams do when they beat us. (Now we do storm the field in football)
My best and first memory of BBN.
Either 90 or 91 SECT in Memphis KY beat us and when we were leaving BBN was grouped up standing in unison like stalking us out.
That showed the pride yall have.
With NIL the scholarship number is irrelevant ...you can just pay walkons mega $$$.
He said 500K “over the budget” meaning we have a 500K surplus. He stated it a little funny, but what it means is we have 500K than previously allotted
Ima bout to dress up in the opponents merch and go storm their court to earn UK 500K
Ima bout to dress up in the opponents merch and go storm their court to earn UK 500K
I could see Pope having 13 scholarship guys next season. No one really knows how much NIL we have, so the assumption that we can't afford some bargain guys in the 11-13 roster range is pure assumption.
UK just needs to be smarter in regards to how they allocate resources. UK was willing to pay Pope $6 million less than they offered Hurley. Where's the extra money, and how can that money be reallocated into NIL? If boosters are giving money directly to the athletic department, simply have them reshuffle those funds and give them to NIL instead (since the school can't directly pay players).
