Braylon Mullins news
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Why do you think UK won't have the necessary NIL? We were willing to pay Hurley $7 million more than Pope to coach here. Surely that extra money is somewhere UK-related, right?
You're a great guy, but you rarely have us in the lead for anyone.
Is there a world where first year Pope beats:
Calipari, Oats, and UNC for Jasper Johnson
Indiana, UNC, and Calipari for Moreno
Indiana, Hurley, and Duke for Mullins
Calipari, homestate G-Tech, Oats, Scheyer, and Pearl for Wilson
Scheyer, Hurley, and UNC for Lewis?
Yes. Yes there is. That world exists.
I’ve been wrong like 5 times, every other time it’s turns out I am correct. UConn is widely being reported the leaded with IU right there and Kentucky maybe third. The min UK got jasper here I think it made things a big uneasy for Mullins coming here.
Hurley is at the point now where if he wants somebody seriously, you have to think UConn is getting them
They've offered Acuff, Thomas, Dybantsa, Yessoufou, Cenac, Reibe, Ament, Lewis, and Mullins. There's a good chance they miss out on all of them.
Bad wording on my part, guys Hurley keys in on and sends the full court press for, you have to think UConn gets now. Now of course when I’m overly negative Kentucky gets somebody to commit to us, and when I’m overly confident Kentucky is getting somebody they don’t end up here. So I need to find a middle ground.
I think you may be defending a position because you took a position of saying UConn is the favorite.
Hurley is a confident guy and has done a great coaching job. However, he is not yet at the pinnacle of recruiting and UConn the location is not for everyone. He may ultimately get Mullins, but he is not the recruiting juggernaut Calipari or Coach K (at the end when he got a head start on NIL) were. You may be giving him more credit than he deserves from a recruiting perspective. So far, he has not made a splash in this talent rich class.
Even though I hope he comes to Ky, I think it is going to be difficult for him to say no to Indiana. Ky is closer geographically and culturally to him than UConn. By all accounts, his family loves Pope. He would be a perfect fit in Pope’s offense and would benefit from having other great players around him to keep defenses from playing him tight at the three point line. He just needs Pope to give him and his family confidence that there are ample opportunities for him to succeed and excel with players like Johnson and Lewis on the floor with him. If we can get him on campus(big if), I like Pope’s chances.
Your info is always solid. Keep posting.
Hopefully, it’s still a long way away, I’m hoping he comes earlier because it’s a long time between IU and UK visits. Don’t want him swayed by the IU visit and commit before he makes it.
Five-star guard Braylon Mullins of Greenfield-Central (IN) and the Indiana Basketball Club is poised to cut his Top 10 to a Top 5 next week, his high school coach told ZAGSBLOG.
“He’s going to release his top 5 and announcement date early next week after his IU visit this weekend,” coach Luke Meredith said.
“He’s going to release his top 5 and announcement date early next week after his IU visit this weekend,” coach Luke Meredith said.
That sounds to me like an Indiana lean for sure. “Kentucky’s visit may be taken out or moved”. We will see. Pope is supposed to visit this week. Not sure if that has happened.
I will readily admit that I do not understand NIL.
I am simply looking at any type of major company that is headquartered in Lexington that could be a driving force in NIL backing.
Arkansas has Wal*Mart, Tyson Foods, Memphis has Federal Express, BYU has the church. UK simply does not have anything of this nature, and relies mainly on the generosity of the Craft family, and some of the local car dealerships. I see that now UT is charging a 10% "fee" on season tickets to help fund their NIL. Does UK do anything like this? Are there other sources of NIL funding that I have not read about?
Vince Taylor is another Lexington native who went to Duke, I think Kentucky recruited him, but he was set on going to Duke. Mullins was heavily recruited to Kentucky, despite being Kentucky's Mr. basketball, he went to Duke too.
Yeah he's going to Indiana but we have Johnson and from what Travis Graf said last night Lewis is our to lose so I'm fine with it.
The thing is, I think if Pope could get him on campus, we might have a shot. If not, I personally believe it is Indiana.
Lewis might also get us to land Caleb Wilson.
Mullins wasn’t a Lex native. Grew up in NY. Dad was transferred for work and Mullins was in HS. Might have been IBM. They didn’t grow up as UK fans. More East coast guys from the get go. Mullins was offered by UK but was an east coast guy all along.
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He had been in Lexington since he was 15 years old and graduated from Lafayette High school, I guess he was one of those not swayed by the big blue.
I'm not positive, but I believe Taylor's Father was a professor at UK, too ... oddly enough.
Taylor had a nice career at Duke. He was good.
Nah, you clearly said you had intel and spoke with certainty that it was UCONN and IU and when I called out your bs then you ran to him to say your legit. The thread is still up if you need to review. Own it or don’t, up to you but you sold it as you have intel and legit and maybe most time you do but your clearly trying hide behind his validation of you.
I did…and the same info got to your insiders. I thought we hashed that out already…and I was kidding with you bs or not. Im sorry if my info wasn’t liked by a few. So I’ll refrain next time.
I believe Kentucky will need to add a fee like that to continue paying players and get sponsors like Toyota, Ford, and other large businesses in the state for massive sponsorships deals to help offset rosters costs going forward. We make plenty off Football but that won’t be enough to offset the other schools in conference alone.
We really need Toyota to step up but I'd be willing to bet they don't care anything about sports.
Or find some of those rich horse farms in Versailles and Georgetown and get them on board
We need more than that, we need a great relationship with UPS and business like that. They don’t care about 50M sponsorship deals because they spend that on ads.
Question for you Vic . Why isn’t Purdue being considered by him ? Do you know?
Back in the day it was thought that Taylor was not fond of Dwight Anderson and back in those days they were both seen as 2 guards. (No pun intended).
From what I understand the visit had been canceled but CMP spoke with Mullins father and ironed some things out. So Vic may have been correct “at the time “ .
Recruiting is fluid and I will say his Fathers comments didn’t sound promising a few days ago. That’s what coaches do though, recruit him back.
There was a time when the tobacco and Coal industries would have been massive in the nil game . But they are skeletons of what they once were . The Crafts are big time but back in the day coal and tobacco companies would have been lining up to contribute.