Cherif to UK

[cornbreadnmilk]

That is what I always try to tell my wife when some kid is throwing a fit in a store and his/her mom is dragging the child kicking and screaming. I make that same case.

Ironic because you ***** and whine as much as anyone on this board. You just direct it at other fans.

 

[Beatle Bum]

Anyone mentioning Shagari as a comparator does not know basketball or understand biomechanics.

 

[ThreeDogNight2]

Sorry. Didn’t see anywhere. I thought that was strange!

Who cares it’s a free sports board. Post however late or early you want don’t apologize

 

[WilmoreCat]

But but but Pope can’t sign top recruits.

Yea,it only took 3 years.(And had to hire a coach in his inner circle).

 

[CatPatrick13]

This kid has a sweet jumper.

 

[TheGyeroMan]

If you add Momcilovic to those six, we are another PF away from a possible preseason #1 ranking

You are so f'n hopeless omg dude...

Just on another level of kool-aid homerdom that no one can top.

Pope likely won't even be coaching here next year. I don't know if you know this, but our team is the definition of mediocre this year.

 

[Runt#1969]

 

[Beatle Bum]

Ironic because you ***** and whine as much as anyone on this board. You just direct it at other fans.

Your mamma got you by the arm right now Cornie?

 

[gbl97]

Honestly, I just want him to BLOCK SHOTS and rebound. When was the last time we had an enforcer in the paint, who could clean up when our defenders get taken off the dribble.

 

[Snarks]

Sad we’re this excited to get a top recruit. Shows how far Pope has let the program fall.

 

[ScWildcat3]

Yea,it only took 3 years.(And had to hire a coach in his inner circle).

Nobody cares how he got here. Only that he did. Getting a more than qualified assistant with huge connections to some of the top players is a bonus as well.

 

[cornbreadnmilk]

Your mamma got you by the arm right now Cornie?

Great way to respond to knowing you are a hypocrite.

 

[WilmoreCat]

Mason Williams
Ryan Hampton
Alex Wilkins
Kam Williams
Brayden Hawthorne
Cherif Millogo

Still lots of HS recruiting and portal work to do, but that's a nice start

Doesn’t Milan have another year ?

 

[Beatle Bum]

Great way to respond to knowing you are a hypocrite.

Ouchies! Ouchies! Ouchies!

 

[BookofMormon]

Sadly it's gotta be this year. The easy part is if we suck or we're great. If we get a 6-seed again and are never really a threat to win in the 2nd weekend of the tournament, I think at the very least you see what other coaches are available and if any of them are on our wish list, you have to let Pope go. Anything less than those results should be immediate firing after the season.

On the the other hand if this team places like the year1 team did, we win a lot of big games, get a high seed and rattle off a Final4, then I think we can write off that 2nd season and we stick with Pope.

It's if we lose 8 or 9 games, win a S16, but look kind of shaky all year.. thats when the question will be tough.

Last scenario, also multiple factors to consider. Buyouts, availability of coaches, having another season of watching some of the younger coaches under consideration. What other programs are potentially in market? Do you want to be out there with Michigan, Tennessee, Kansas?

Personally think Lucas built a jallopy of a roster this year, its nothing but big athletes with little basketball skill. I know there are many here wanting him, I'm not sold and would want to see 3 years of what he can do. Would certainly want to see what Hodgson can do, not sure a year is enough at PC. Luke Murray another one, but would want to see 2-3 years there as well.

Going too early could eliminate some candidates that are ultimately better long term options. If you can get Oats and willing to pay the buyouts, it would be hard not to make that happen.

 

[bleedsblue5]

BOOM! Nice pick up.

 

[UKCowboys]

Doesn’t Milan have another year ?

I figured he would move on but that would be too good to be true. That would be an 8000 pound crow sandwich

 

[kyjeff1]

Why has there been bellyaching? It’s not like it hasn’t been without cause.

You’re a good poster on here, so please don't take anything I say here the wrong way.

To answer your question, I feel like Mark Pope is paying for the debt Cal created his last 4 years.

I don't think Pope's results should result in most of the hateful comments he's been getting. He had a bad year last year and every coach has a bad year. The pieces didn’t fit (his fault), but he still had plenty of highlights.

Too many people focus on year 2 and refuse to talk about year 1. Pope showed what he could do when he had a full roster and heck, he still beat some damn good teams with key players out/hobbled. That was a FF caliber team and it was built out of mid major kids. That's good coaching and roster construction.

As far as this kid he just landed. It’s awesome, Pope finally caught a really big fish outside of Hampton, Milan, Brea, Carr etc… , but it doesn’t make up for all the ones that got away. Maybe this is the start of better recruiting.

 

[UKCowboys]

You are so f'n hopeless omg dude...

Just on another level of kool-aid homerdom that no one can top.

Pope likely won't even be coaching here next year. I don't know if you know this, but our team is the definition of mediocre this year.

And you're a Duke fan

 

[BBallin23]

Gotta keep pope because of this get. He has the potential to be a star.

 

[Catastic5]

Hopefully he can build up the momentum.

 

[bnewt]

This is a monster commit for Coach Pope. This kid will be a superstar.

Let’s hope the injury bug stays away

 

[Catastic5]

He’s literally not a negative person at all. Some of you are so insanely shoved up every coaches *** so far that you see a normal rational thinking objective person and think holy sht, what’s that!

Everyone is excited about football. I’ve been to all the games except one. I was in Norman, I will be at Missouri and home against Florida. I was watching the basketball team last night (although it’s hard to get super into it right now). Pope god an intriguing recruit, it doesn’t change anything. Pope has to win to the standards of Kentucky and the standards HE HIMSELF set or he might not make it there anyway. A lot of us personally view Pope as a dead man walking, that will change the second he does Kentucky things. He has yet, at all, to do Kentucky things.

guys like Chroix are not the problem. The problem is the results and the hire Barnhart brought in. Mark Pope is 100% not qualified to coach at the University of Kentucky. And you won’t debate it, you can’t. So let’s let Mark do something worthy of the Kentucky job and until then lay off good posters like Chroix who are just calling balls and strikes. I don’t see why that’s so difficult.

I’m usually negative. I won’t run away from that label. I thought we didn’t look bad yesterday. And this isn’t a bad pickup, despite thinking a 7’5” with an ACL tear history probably won’t be much help to us in the future. If we look good Friday? Great! But I’m going to wait until the Kansas game for me to make any determination for this team.

But seeing so many empty seats at Rupp made me realize something has to change. Either Pope’s approach to recruiting and coaching or a new direction with a new coach. This year will determine which wins out.

 

[kyjeff1]

Remember, Edey wasn't the monster he became on day one. Big guys like him, Cherif take a bit to become the go to guys they can be.

And that's the problem, everyone wants 5 star high school kids, but 90% of them need development, so it's very likely this kid will be long gone by the time he's able to nake a big splash.
If you can get Cooper Flagg, Julius Randle, Towns, Wall, Fox, AD, yeah, do it, but everyone needs to temper expectations. Just because he's a 5 star, doesn't mean he's at KAT's level.

 

[NoLongerAnon]

Pope is going to be here a long long time and we'll ultimately name streets after him what with the way he's now recruiting and this year's team looks like a lock to make a lot of noise.

 

[bnewt]

Now it’s time to get Benji reclassified
Kamagate??? Asking too much?

Keep them coming

 

[bnewt]

Now it’s time to get Benji reclassified
Kamagate??? Asking too much?

Those 2 additions would be great

 

[chroix]

You’re a good poster on here, so please don't take anything I say here the wrong way.

To answer your question, I feel like Mark Pope is paying for the debt Cal created his last 4 years.

I don't think Pope's results should result in most of the hateful comments he's been getting. He had a bad year last year and every coach has a bad year. The pieces didn’t fit (his fault), but he still had plenty of highlights.

Too many people focus on year 2 and refuse to talk about year 1. Pope showed what he could do when he had a full roster and heck, he still beat some damn good teams with key players out/hobbled. That was a FF caliber team and it was built out of mid major kids. That's good coaching and roster construction.

As far as this kid he just landed. It’s awesome, Pope finally caught a really big fish outside of Hampton, Milan, Brea, Carr etc… , but it doesn’t make up for all the ones that got away. Maybe this is the start of better recruiting.

I hope it is the beginning of him crushing it and landing higher level players. I like the guy. I even like the nerd factor, but if it doesn't work it doesn't work. This is a definite step in the right direction. We're on the same page. I think a ton of the criticism of this season has been a result of being shorthanded at PG biting us in the butt too many times and it feeling a lot like we were going to have to ride out round three. Hopefully not the case.

 

[BookofMormon]

You’re a good poster on here, so please don't take anything I say here the wrong way.

To answer your question, I feel like Mark Pope is paying for the debt Cal created his last 4 years.

I don't think Pope's results should result in most of the hateful comments he's been getting. He had a bad year last year and every coach has a bad year. The pieces didn’t fit (his fault), but he still had plenty of highlights.

Too many people focus on year 2 and refuse to talk about year 1. Pope showed what he could do when he had a full roster and heck, he still beat some damn good teams with key players out/hobbled. That was a FF caliber team and it was built out of mid major kids. That's good coaching and roster construction.

As far as this kid he just landed. It’s awesome, Pope finally caught a really big fish outside of Hampton, Milan, Brea, Carr etc… , but it doesn’t make up for all the ones that got away. Maybe this is the start of better recruiting.

Better recruiting will firm up with winning & seeing players get better under him, first and foremost.

There have been a lot of dings in recruiting that coaches can negatively recruit against. He brought in a 20th ranked 5* and saw him leave after a year and become the worst 5* of his class. Lewis signed then decommitted.

It can all start here - he's got some good kids, really good kids this year. Milan, Alex, Zoom and Malachi are great, great kids. Make them better throughout the year. Get Milan and Malachi to the draft.

This draft is wide open. Caleb Holt has been consistently ranked 2-3 and he ain't very good. Win some games, show you're improving your players, get them to crest in March and go on a little run and perception can shift quick.

Look at Hurley - he lost in the first round to New Mexico State in 2022, some were saying he was on the hot seat. In two years, TWO YEARS, he was called the best coach in the sport. Winning heals all, especially winning in March.

 

[BC_Wader]

This dude is not a prospect. Rather obvious he has high level basketball skills very few possess. This guy is going to be a stud.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

You’re a good poster on here, so please don't take anything I say here the wrong way.

To answer your question, I feel like Mark Pope is paying for the debt Cal created his last 4 years.

I don't think Pope's results should result in most of the hateful comments he's been getting. He had a bad year last year and every coach has a bad year. The pieces didn’t fit (his fault), but he still had plenty of highlights.

Too many people focus on year 2 and refuse to talk about year 1. Pope showed what he could do when he had a full roster and heck, he still beat some damn good teams with key players out/hobbled. That was a FF caliber team and it was built out of mid major kids. That's good coaching and roster construction.

As far as this kid he just landed. It’s awesome, Pope finally caught a really big fish outside of Hampton, Milan, Brea, Carr etc… , but it doesn’t make up for all the ones that got away. Maybe this is the start of better recruiting.

Year one the team quit several times. And was 10-8 in the SEC. Year one was no better than year 2 as a whole. He just lucked into a few wins. That team didn't play defense or rebound. And it's not Cal's fault.

This is all completely on Pope. This is a nice pick up. But we really haven't had a player problem under Pope. we have had a coaching problem. And an effort problem which is inexcusable. There will inevitably be effort problems this season and conditioning issues. Those are a Mark pope coaching staple.

 

[SenseMaker_Cats]

Year one the team quit several times. And was 10-8 in the SEC. Year one was no better than year 2 as a whole. He just lucked into a few wins. That team didn't play defense or rebound. And it's not Cal's fault.

This is all completely on Pope. This is a nice pick up. But we really haven't had a player problem under Pope. we have had a coaching problem. And an effort problem which is inexcusable. There will inevitably be effort problems this season and conditioning issues. Those are a Mark pope coaching staple.

You’re so incredibly stupid.

 

[Bill_the_cat]

This is a much better video than the first one. He looks more agile. Still going to be concerned with his conditioning

 

[UKCowboys]

You’re so incredibly stupid.

Amen

 

[Buckwheat Otay Is Dead]

U cant teach height.

Awesome pickup! If pope can get a couple more players like this, that gives him an ace at season end no matter how march goes. Mesh some veterans with talented freshmen and thats a recipe for success.

Remember, UK returns every player except Big Frank I think

 

[Catastic5]

Year one the team quit several times. And was 10-8 in the SEC. Year one was no better than year 2 as a whole. He just lucked into a few wins. That team didn't play defense or rebound. And it's not Cal's fault.

This is all completely on Pope. This is a nice pick up. But we really haven't had a player problem under Pope. we have had a coaching problem. And an effort problem which is inexcusable. There will inevitably be effort problems this season and conditioning issues. Those are a Mark pope coaching staple.

If the team starts quitting games this year, there isn’t much for Pope to do to convince me he’s the right guy. It’s such a major problem in Pope’s ability as a coach that I’d consider it a fatal flaw. It cannot happen this year. But we’ll see how he performs against better competition.

 

[ScWildcat3]

If the team starts quitting games this year, there isn’t much for Pope to do to convince me he’s the right guy. It’s such a major problem in Pope’s ability as a coach that I’d consider it a fatal flaw. It cannot happen this year. But we’ll see how he performs against better competition.

Haha some of you guys are insufferable. Please show me where year 1 team quit? Dudes were out there playing with 1 arm and bad backs all year. Even Robinson tried to play through a bad wrist.

 

[Catastic5]

Haha some of you guys are insufferable. Please show me where year 1 team quit? Dudes were out there playing with 1 arm and bad backs all year. Even Robinson tried to play through a bad wrist.

Are you serious? The Ohio State game? Alabama in the SEC tournament? Don’t get me started about the Sweet 16 game against Tennessee. And don’t use the injury excuse against Tennessee when we had multiple injuries in both wins against them, including on their own court.

 

[Beatle Bum]

Are you serious? The Ohio State game? Alabama in the SEC tournament? Don’t get me started about the Sweet 16 game against Tennessee. And don’t use the injury excuse against Tennessee when we had multiple injuries in both wins against them, including on their own court.

Oh, losses equate to team quits. LOL

 

[ScWildcat3]

Oh, losses equate to team quits. LOL

Yea apparently that’s the only way pope has lost is because his team quit. I’ll admit last year we had some moments they seemed to quit. That first team absolutely fought all year.