In the portal. He can shoot.
Dontaie Allen
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If we go there again it will be a long season.
I don't see this as a one year rebuild. I think we will be doing good to make the NCAA Tournament next season. But we won't have a mass exodus after next season, and the year after that we'll be a little better, and then a little better again the third year. We're building a team now, not just renting some players for a few months.
Any Allenites still around? Dying religion they were.
Nah man this isn’t 2008. When you hire a coach you may not expect to win it all right away but 3 year rebuilds aren’t acceptable, especially at UK.
Exactly.We keep hearing about all the millions in NIL.
He hit 40% on threes at WKU. Keep in mind that this offense needs shooters, and ideally he would be 1/13 of the scholarships. We'll see what we end up with.
Not saying I want to go down that road, but how sweet would it be to see Allen light JVC's *** up next year?
With all the NIL we have one of the guys we didn't offer the job to (pearl, beard, Lloyd, etc) would all have final four contenders within 3 years. That needs to be the expectation for Pope as well.
One guy Cal was kinda right about lol
People already making excuses if next season is bad are interesting.
No you do, there are 300+ players in the portal right now and an open roster at the university of Kentucky with 5 million and counting in NIL to spend. If Cal can get a competitive roster put together at Arkansas we should be able to here.
I saw a guy today say no big deal if we lose at home to pitino and st John's this coming season (if that matchup happens). I was like wtf.
Sorry, but no.
He STRUGGLED at WESTERN. Now granted, WKU is getting back to it's roots in being a basketball school but it still plays in a mid conference. So, no, unless we ABSOLUTELY need a body
He STRUGGLED at WESTERN. Now granted, WKU is getting back to it's roots in being a basketball school but it still plays in a mid conference. So, no, unless we ABSOLUTELY need a body
It will suck. But we can't just go nuclear either. Can't run off a coach we JUST hired. That is the road to being Indiana
We don't have to play that game was more my point. We already have a tough ooc schedule.
If you are in the SEC and make the NCAA, you're competitive. Texas A&M was pretty competitive last year.
He’s been pretty consistent at WKU averaging about 8-9 points in 20 minutes and hovering around 40% from 3 both years. You could squint and see a role player in a system that actually works to get looks for shooters, but he’s nothing special by the time you factor in his defensive limitations. Unless he’s cool with a role where he plays extremely limited minutes, I’d like to think we could do better.
Exactly what I have in mind for him. Not sure if there is interest, but I'm not going to be all "chicken little" if we were to bring him back.
Probably shouldn’t play that game in year 1. This will be a building year.
I'm an antiAllenanite but if we have a spot and he wants to finish here as a role player I'm okay with it.
It was the constant cries to start him all the time that made me tired and cranky.
It was the constant cries to start him all the time that made me tired and cranky.
We aren’t just an SEC team, we are the SEC on the basketball side. Making the tournament isn’t the goal here and it isn’t for Pope either.
