I don’t think he recruited him with the intention of him sitting out. I don’t think JQ wants to sit out. Just from the initial mention of a acl injury it’s a long road of recovery. Idc what people say about how quick somebody else came back from. JQ is a monster of a human and a acl is serious. I think he wants to suit up and can’t wait to cheer him on when he does.I think you can rest easy. Pope is a program guy like most of these coaches are. I’ve never seen a guy at UK that would dream of recruiting a guy who’d never play. And he’s from the Pitino tree, there’s just little chance of that.
Calipari is really the only coach I can think of that would actually recruit a player with no intention of him ever playing.