Five-star Jordan Smith Jr. updates recruitment and discusses timeline for a decision
Jordan Smith Jr. breaks down his finalists — Arkansas, Duke, Indiana, Syracuse, Georgetown, and UK — along with a timeline for his decision.
5-star Jordan Smith Jr. talks UK, updates recruitment
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Seems like it will either be dUKe or the Hawgs. Would love to have him, but with Pope whiffing and the JMI deal, I am not confident
Love to get him but my hope meter for nabbing any high level HS player right now is about at a 1 on a scale of 0-100. Thank you Mitch Barnhart. You really have set the main programs up for failure until 2040! Any winning is in spite of him 100%.
Offer him $4 million and let him have Oweh's salary slot.
Yup, we need to figure out a way to pay the studs differently, maybe offer them the guaranteed rev share money. Give the backups the JMI deals that require the issues but overpay. That or set up a donor fund that pays them outside of it all. Screw Mitch.
Watched this kid in a game his team was playing on ESPN the other day. He's one that clearly stands out as a guy who will be a difference maker for whatever college team he plays for next year. He's a guy that you write the check for and forget about being above getting into bidding wars. You have to do what is necessary to get players like this on your team, and then build around them with complimentary players.
Definitely supposedly a Duke lean but I’ve been hearing some positive things from our side over the past week. I’d love to see the staff sway him to UK over puke. We could use a Boom and some encouraging recruiting news. Once the first one falls they seem to domino.
There has to be a way around that contract bro. Theres ways around just about everything in the world. Theres always a way. You know how things are. If we don’t win 9 this year and by some miricle we got rid of Mitch and Pope and got Pearl. He could hire a GM. Good lawyers and hell. Blackmail em. Idk how. But there’s always a way to do stuff like that.
But we won’t get him. We should’ve came outta this class with Rippey Crowe. Maximo and Stokes.
I think the NIL deal with JMI has killed us in recruiting and Pope not being able to close the deal on these recruits has killed us. I hope this can be corrected because it sucks!
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Sadly, I wish it was the Pope closing deal — that’s an easy fix. Just put another coach in the closing role.
Unfortunately, we are having issues in the JMI negotiations, which occurs after. Won’t be an easy fix, gonna take time.
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