Going to root for him the rest of the season. If he feels led to transfer after that, I'm not going to worry too much about it. I think Pope has already shown his ability to get guys from the portal. However, there's no sense getting worked up about it right now.
Brandon Garrison will transfer?
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Moreno is the softest player in the top 30 rankings by a lot, the SEC is going to eff him up if he doesnt toughen up big time
Based on what we know, who is Garrison going to play second fiddle to? You have insight on who's going to come in and replace Williams? Moreno isn't playing in front of Garrison.
He is not heavy does not mean he is soft.....
He is actually 230 pounds, Garrison is 240, not much difference
Just wait mid year transfers are coming you watch and see..... You're correct though this crap is outta control.....
We need a big physical 5 out of the portal that can play in Pope's system.
He’s soft, don’t care how much he weighs. I’ve watched him a ton. He’s soft man. He’ll get eaten alive if he plays a lot next season.
NIL and transfer portal. I got news for people too. OO is gonna want a raise too to stay here. Pony up.
I dont totally disagree with you
But Garrison is soft as well
I do not say Moreno will definitely survive in SEC
But Garrison is not definitely better than him... I just want to compare Garrison with Moreno
Moreno has some ability and talent that Garrison does not have.
Yeah, if that ever comes out of Pope's mouth.....while then losing to Vanderbilt.....
This is by far the worst era to be an athlete in when it comes to reporting .I don’t know if this is true or not but there are always reports on someone with “insider information” .
Now let’s say Garrison struggles in a big game now you’re going to have fans who wonders if he had one foot out of the door which led to him not being focused on the task at hand .
“KENTUCKY BASKETBALL EFFECT” every thing is bigger and magnified here.
Then we are in huge trouble next year cause that dude ain’t too good at all.
Garrison does need to hit the weight room. He has skinny arms but they are long which is good. He is skilled but gets pushed around too much. I hope he stays and puts in work to add some muscle. He could be a beast.
In this age of free agency the only players we can say with certainty will be back are Noah and Perry. Anyone after that is wait and see.
I hate to be this way, but I'm weary of kids dragging us around on if they want to play here.
This may all be conjecture but if it's not, I think we should insist on a decision early in the transfer portal process. We can't be waiting around for Garrison.
He's a good player but it's not like we can't do as well if not better in the portal.
I don’t think the Garrison decision will take that long. He won’t even be of the level to think he can waste everyone’s time with the pre draft process that can hold decisions up unnecessarily.
I wonder if it will get to the point of signing players to multi year contracts, similar to the nba, to keep from this revolving door of players every year
You can already sign them to long term contracts. But you cannot tie it the school.
They are being paid for their personal name, image or likeness.
The schools made that money for years. Now it’s the player’s turn.
If I sign Travis Perry to advertise and give him a two year contract then I have to pay him no matter where he goes to school or even if he drops out.
I doubt he(Moreno) will be ready for the physicality of the SEC in the role of a starter next year. Garrison
isn't a world beater on that front either but he is/will be more physical than a true frosh.
The sweet part of the freider/fischer story: Freider was fired right before the tournament started, and Fischer took the 1 or 2 seed that they'd earned during the season and parlayed it into a national title run. AD was retired Michigan football coaching legend Bo Schembechlar (sp)
All I’ve heard is that UK is prioritizing a big and a pg in the portal. I read it on here and twitter, so take that for what it’s worth.
I’m not privy to the coaching staff’s vision, so I don’t know if the big will be an expected starter or Garrison will start.
It’s hard to believe that Garrison or Kerr wouldn’t start over freshmen unless they were absolute studs. They know Pope’s system, how to run it, and what he expects. The days of just rolling the ball out and playing are over. We’ve already seen with Pope that there’s plenty of PT to go around.
We will prob recruit another portal starting pg and Kerr no way start
As for Acaden and Jasper, they are good enough to get rotation minutes so i think there will be limited room for Kerr
That would kinda suck imo. I like Kerr’s moxy and he seems to really had bought into UK as a whole. I think he can be a key part to a F4 team.
But from his perspective I can understand it. We have a couple highly rated guards coming in and Perry…and Noah…and we are likely to go after a top upperclassman transfer guard to be the starter.
I think Kerr would kill it in RickPs system though in a more finesse conference with less conference strength too to bottom
If Garrison and Kriisa decide to enter the portal and leave, what does that say about building a program here with players wanting to play for the name on the front of the jersey ?? To my view, we need to be realistic, the VAST, VAST MAJORITY of players are concerned about themselves, their minutes, and how much money they can make. It is only the fans who consistently are all about the name on the front of the jersey. This is just the way it is and there's no reason to pretend otherwise.
It is only in rare cases that a program can be built to rely on player and roster continuity, it seems to me. College programs are now a ONE-YEAR proposition and coaches need to decide how to build the best roster each off-season. It seems that simple to me. Pitino's point about de-emphasizing the recruitment of high school talent makes a lot of sense to me ... he's right !!
It is only in rare cases that a program can be built to rely on player and roster continuity, it seems to me. College programs are now a ONE-YEAR proposition and coaches need to decide how to build the best roster each off-season. It seems that simple to me. Pitino's point about de-emphasizing the recruitment of high school talent makes a lot of sense to me ... he's right !!
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100% and the straw man argument of if coaches can” is ignorant. Coaches don’t change schools 4 times in 5 years. They also sign multi year contracts with buyouts where if a school hires them away, they usually have to pay a buyout.
They need to go back to 1 free transfer and a grad transfer. If you want to transfer a second time in undergrad then you sit a year. But still have 5 years to play 4
Or simplify it and say 2 transfers for 5 years. If you use 2 in undergrad then you don’t get a free grad transfer. You can play as a grad student at the same school you used your 2nd transfer to or you can do grad school wherever you want as a non athlete aka a STUDENT
the only kids that value the UK name are home grown kids, and even that isn't as true as it used to be as evidenced by Reed sporting an Arkansas shirt
He really hasn't played against a
guy his size very much at least in HS.
I like the kid, he will good at some point.
However, I am not counting on him to be our man in the middle next year unless he bulks up and really I mean adds muscle.
The idea that BG isn't good enough to start next year smells like the ppl who say Amari sucks every time he has a turnover. BG is very talented and has very high upside. I can easily see him being a very good starting center for us next season.
I don't see freshman Moreno beating him out either. If they don't do something with the transfer rule collage basketball will be joke.
Welcome to college basketball where we start wringing our hands about the transfer portal in mid Feb.
Yup. They are paid employees and they are here for the money. That doesn't mean they don't want to do well and win though. Q
Well, if rumors are true, i think it could go for any player out there in college division level 1 athletics nowadays. No player would be necessarily immune to this kind of talk in February.
That said, I think Garrison's game is not that entirely far off, making some key adjustments, and I've got to think and know that Pope's staff is on it, from him stepping up his game to the next level. I'd like to see him back next year with Oweh, both improved. Oweh could be a first team all American with his motor next year. I love his game. Yes. I'm in for that. I hope they both do come back.
But it is February. Interesting, noted.
That said, I think Garrison's game is not that entirely far off, making some key adjustments, and I've got to think and know that Pope's staff is on it, from him stepping up his game to the next level. I'd like to see him back next year with Oweh, both improved. Oweh could be a first team all American with his motor next year. I love his game. Yes. I'm in for that. I hope they both do come back.
But it is February. Interesting, noted.
From that picture it looks as if the dude gained weight but he sure looks like he has a beer belly; not all muscle
Garrison is also a father. I'm not sure where his child is being raised, but he may want to move closer.
Garrison would be the guy next year why would he transfer? Moreno isn’t going to be ready imo.
I’m thinking the same with Kerr. I doubt Lewis or Jasper beat out a 6th year senior. Hell Kerr was our leading assist guy when he was healthy. Even if they did Haven’t we learned our lesson yet? I don’t want to go into the tournament with freshmen guards only.
I’m thinking the same with Kerr. I doubt Lewis or Jasper beat out a 6th year senior. Hell Kerr was our leading assist guy when he was healthy. Even if they did Haven’t we learned our lesson yet? I don’t want to go into the tournament with freshmen guards only.