Just FYI. Thought you all would be interested.
KenPom Just Dropped
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It’s a basketball board and I didn’t see a thread. Surprisingly Auburn is ahead of Bama. Thought you all would want to know. If not, no worries.
Fair enough, a lot of fans of other fanbases on here just come to stir **** up. To answer the original question Kentucky is lower than I think they should be. Kentucky be around around 22-30. Arkansas around 15-25, and Auburn shouldn’t be ahead of bama
Translation ; I thought you all would want to see that the hogs are ahead of you in a pre season clown poll. Wooo pig.
#42??!! That's hilarious. It's going to be awesome way outperforming national expectations this year vs what we had been doing for many years now.
You will be outcoached any time there is a beating heart on the other sideline
It's THE basketball board
You know the fanboys thought the fortunes would be reversed and things what it would look like when Pope entered the gym.
As he was walking out smiling and grits his teeth…
“WTF, man did I **** the bed at Kentucky. What the F am I doing here?”
“WTF, man did I **** the bed at Kentucky. What the F am I doing here?”
KenPom doesn't mean much until it has sufficient data to stabilize.
I can't even stand the way he walks anymore. Looks like he's wearing clogs on a muddy slope.
I'm soooooooo glad the head pig has left the building.
To the extent any statistical analysis went into this, I’m sure having a number of guys from middling to bad teams last year factored into it. Drexel, OSU, OU, wake and WVU didn’t exactly light the world on fire and we’re depending on transfers from those schools to carry the load.
It's meaningless until there are games played, I would say at least 5 per team. So, any modeling right now, has way too many assumptions to be valid.
This is coming from a Statistician who has developed a model.
This is coming from a Statistician who has developed a model.
All the critics really seem to think well be a middle of the pack team next year. I know its Popes first year and he had to do a full rebuild so I wont hold it against him.
I do hope were a top 25 team though
I do hope were a top 25 team though
It has 9 SEC schools ranked above us. Our SEC record will determine our national ranking. First year coach with total rebuild has a ton to do with our ranking. I do think we will outperform our ranking. 10 teams will not make tourney from SEC so we will have to out perform Kenpom's bullshvt.
Just looked. He has us losing 4 of the last 5 games and 4 in a row starting with the Jan 7th game. Total record is projected at 18-13 (8-10).
Yep. If the poll was reversed he wouldn’t have taken a brake from cleaning out pig pens. UK is a 1 point favorite over Ark as of today.
Do these people STILL not understand John Calipari the coach?? The Arkansas roster isn't stellar (even if they were not all suffering from mystery Cal injuries), but John Calipari would have struggled to bring home the bronze with the 92 Dream Team.
Nah. If someone wants to believe we could lose 4/5 to start SEC play... ok, that's whatever. But this team is not finishing the season like that. And I don't even have to look at the schedule. I expect us to be a real problem by the end of conf play.
I just hope our delusional fans do not turn on Coach Pope. I hope they understand he can't be expected to turn this program around year one with a total rebuild through the portal
You must be one of the three clapping in that video.
Barring a disaster (KP in Louisville), he should get 3 years to build a contender.
I'd like to see him get 4 or 5. I'm sure fans won't be THAT forgiving. But I think there's a real chance he gets some guys to stay for the full 4 years, especially the way he's gone out and targeted KY kids.
I actually think this year is going to go better than we initially thought. I think a sweet 16 is very realistic. And I think if he can do that early, he buys a lot of grace going forward. His teams should only get better.
Don't try to reason on this board. It's not wanted.
But, yeah, I agree.
I can see a scenario this team is a few games over .500 and middle of the pack in conference. I also see a scenario it wins 25 games and is top 3 in conference. My gut tells me it's a roughly 10 loss team, somewhere around 4-6 in conference and a 5/6 seed in the tourney.
Dude shuffles like an old man. They'll be wheeling him out like Christopher Pike or Strom Thurmond in a couple of years.
20-11 (10-8) is likely and not horrible under the circumstances.
If you are an Arkansas fan which I assume you are. Be ready to get disappointed when tournament time comes around in March.
If we have to be in the 40s.. whatever I guess. BUT the real head scratcher is BYU being 20 spots higher.. with a ton of roster turnover and a BRAND new college coach. He has never been a head coach in college and I believe his highest position was assistant. Then he spent the last 7 or 8 years in the NBA. This guy is very unproven at this level. And it seem BYU took a big swing on him.
So how come we're not giving Pope, who was already a HC, the benefit of the doubt, now that he's at a real program with resources ... but we will for a guy who has very little actual coaching experience, first time running the show, in a conference that's going to be just as difficult as the SEC. With Pope it's "well let's wait and see" but with Kevin Young I guess he's just going to have them rolling day1?
Make it make sense.
So how come we're not giving Pope, who was already a HC, the benefit of the doubt, now that he's at a real program with resources ... but we will for a guy who has very little actual coaching experience, first time running the show, in a conference that's going to be just as difficult as the SEC. With Pope it's "well let's wait and see" but with Kevin Young I guess he's just going to have them rolling day1?
Make it make sense.
Agreed. It's a lot of new guys meshed together. It's also a lot of guys that were just okay players on just okay teams. But there is a lot of experience. Gates had success his first year at Mizzou doing basically the same thing, but he had Kobe Brown. Ditto for Otzelberger with Iowa State his first year there, granted they were 7-11 in conference. The BigXII was the best conference in the nation that year too. Those are the two best comps I can come up with off the top of my head.
He’s the king of preseason rankings. It’s the tournament that gives that fat hog problems.
Trying to predict entirely unknown commodities is a fool's errand. No one knows what this is going to look like and any accurate predictions will have been based on luck.