Stein vs Pope

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with much more time to recruit Pope currently has the 90th ranked recruiting class with Kentucky BASKETBALL.
with much less time Stein currently has the 7th ranked recruiting class with Kentucky FOOTBALL.

Putting the Pope pumpers aside who hate on anybody who points out the issues, I hope to those remaining rational people, you can clearly see there is a major issue here with Pope and I'm not sure it can be fixed.
 

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with much more time to recruit Pope currently has the 90th ranked recruiting class with Kentucky BASKETBALL.
with much less time Stein currently has the 7th ranked recruiting class with Kentucky FOOTBALL.

Putting the Pope pumpers aside who hate on anybody who points out the issues, I hope to those remaining rational people, you can clearly see there is a major issue here with Pope and I'm not sure it can be fixed.
same points over and over again, do you think saying it over and over again, is helping kentucky basketball? Stein is doing good. He is a young up and comer I'm not saying Mitch should have looked for younger up and comer options on the basketball end but, no sense in beating a dead horse. We probably won't end up at 90. More people to enter portal and basketball players less of and more money to shop around sadly. It really matters about your end product.

Lots of people when it comes to recruiting are not patient. Some teams had to make a late push last year and did well. If you don't get your first options you have to make sure you are getting good 2nd options and don't settle just because.
 

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with much more time to recruit Pope currently has the 90th ranked recruiting class with Kentucky BASKETBALL.
with much less time Stein currently has the 7th ranked recruiting class with Kentucky FOOTBALL.

Putting the Pope pumpers aside who hate on anybody who points out the issues, I hope to those remaining rational people, you can clearly see there is a major issue here with Pope and I'm not sure it can be fixed.
Lets see how many games Stein wins before we nominate him for the HOF. I like what he is doing to, but come on
 

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same points over and over again, do you think saying it over and over again, is helping kentucky basketball? Stein is doing good. He is a young up and comer I'm not saying Mitch should have looked for younger up and comer options on the basketball end but, no sense in beating a dead horse. We probably won't end up at 90. More people to enter portal and basketball players less of and more money to shop around sadly. It really matters about your end product.

Lots of people when it comes to recruiting are not patient. Some teams had to make a late push last year and did well. If you don't get your first options you have to make sure you are getting good 2nd options and don't settle just because.
I'm talking about high school recruiting, not the portal. Currently, despite Pope offering and getting a visit from almost every top 20 player they are ranked 90th in high school recruiting, and Stein who had far less time is already 7th.
 
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I'm talking about high school recruiting, not the portal. Currently, despite Pope offering and getting a visit from almost every top 20 player they are ranked 90th in high school recruiting, and Stein who had far less time is already 7th.
We sit n see where they finish lol we have 10 3 stars and an over rated 4 star QB in one recruiting service who was being recruited by iowa . Not exactly a grand slam


I guess any 4 star QB is better than nothing though. The kid from Cincinnati is a better prospect
 

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Thanks for starting another thread about Pope and his poor recruiting efforts. I'm sure the other 47 threads weren't enough
 

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I'm talking about high school recruiting, not the portal. Currently, despite Pope offering and getting a visit from almost every top 20 player they are ranked 90th in high school recruiting, and Stein who had far less time is already 7th.
First team he had to recruit transfers. Second team we had to wait on people coming back. I think it has hurt with recruiting freshmen. Most teams been winning from getting things out of portal
 

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Ky Is known for great BB, so you would think Ky BB players would be easier to recruit top players than FB.
 

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Thanks for starting another thread about Pope and his poor recruiting efforts. I'm sure the other 47 threads weren't enough
Thanks for adding to it.
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same points over and over again, do you think saying it over and over again, is helping kentucky basketball? Stein is doing good. He is a young up and comer I'm not saying Mitch should have looked for younger up and comer options on the basketball end but, no sense in beating a dead horse. We probably won't end up at 90. More people to enter portal and basketball players less of and more money to shop around sadly. It really matters about your end product.

Lots of people when it comes to recruiting are not patient. Some teams had to make a late push last year and did well. If you don't get your first options you have to make sure you are getting good 2nd options and don't settle just because.
We won’t end at 90 but it’s more likely because of quantity of players and not quality.
 
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We sit n see where they finish lol we have 10 3 stars and an over rated 4 star QB in one recruiting service who was being recruited by iowa . Not exactly a grand slam


I guess any 4 star QB is better than nothing though. The kid from Cincinnati is a better prospect
I’ll bet you anything it’s not 90 or worse. And you are bashing our recruits but I get attacked because I asked which team Mason Williams was on last night at the Jordan Classic.
 

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The Pope defenders on here are hilarious and delusional.

Will Stein, 7th ranked recruiting class: “We got to wait and see before we make any assumptions.”

Mark Pope, 90th ranked recruiting class, constantly missing on top targets 3 years in a row: “OMG how dare you talk bad he’s only had 3 full years, he needs more chances.”