WILL STEIN COOKING
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Yesh, Stein has already landed some incredible studs in short order. Impressive.
I would take just one or 2 stud guys for the baskettball team, I just don't see it happening this year.
I would take just one or 2 stud guys for the baskettball team, I just don't see it happening this year.
It’s almost like coaches can come in immediately and make big impacts in the transfer portal. Will Stein wasn’t even the head coach at Oregon, we tried to excuse Mark Pope’s lack of ability to convince the best recruits to come here due to coaching at BYU, but when he had difficulty recruiting some of his own players, we should’ve been concerned .
Could we be in the national championship game in 2 years? If Indiana can do it, anyone can.
Stein needs to teach Pope how to recruit.
Slow down champ. Love the optimism, but this is his first year coaching, and we have a killer schedule. If we have a winning record next year, it would be significant (not saying that should be the standard). Seems like Stein and his staff have some recruiting chops though.
Meanwhile in the men's basketball office....
It's nice that Stein comes from a football powerhouse. Kids take notice of that. Combine that with UK seemingly taking football more seriously with our recent pickups and we could be competing for a spot in the CFP (sooner rather than later).
Needs to recruit two way players that play basketball also.
JMI must have better contracts for the football players. Wonder why the hamstring Pope and green light Stein.
(Someone was gonna say it)
(Someone was gonna say it)
would be nice, but don't think so
IU has Mark Cuban as a donor as well as the one that donated to have their name on the basketball court.
UK has no one like that
Chill out everyone, we all know from Stoops that it takes at least 10 years to build a program the right way. This is clearly some sort of early fool’s gold, lol! I mean, IU may well win a natty after just 2 years, but obviously they are a house of cards at this point (eyes rolling).
Number four transfer class and feels like he’s nowhere near done yet. Getting it done.
You know the offense will look good but what about the defense? Those are the only problems with offensive minded coaches to me ..
Here we go again. Take shots at a coach that gave over 10 years of his life to the program and provided some of the greatest years of the program for a coach that has never won a college football game as a head Coach. I am excited for Stein, but respect what Stoops did too.
You can’t teach it. Called respect and connections.
Mark Stoops left on top imo. He could have made the buyout dirty. He’s gone we can move on from it. Stoops is good in my book.
But, you know, IU football did not do this by buying up high rated talent. And they reportedly don’t have that high of a football NIL budget.
Instead, nearly all their best players were really low rated prospects coming out of high school (many of whom started out at little mid majors because no big conference schools wanted them). In fact, if you go just by recruit rankings, UK should have far better football talent than IU.
I’m not sure what secret code Cignetti cracked, but it’s fascinating because it seems to prove that ANYBODY …even UK … can do the same thing with the right coach and level of commitment.
Indiana's team this year is about as old as some NFL teams. So that's one strategy Cignetti has incorporated.
Curt Cignetti. That’s why. Best coach in college football and it ain’t close.
Apparently IU had a $13 million NIL budget this year. That’s around $9 million less than what we’re spending on our NIT-bound basketball team.
Also, coincidentally, the same number of times you’ve posted about our NIL budget. But don’t let anybody tell you you’re redundant af. Keep beating that dead horse every chance you get.
Stein is bringing in some high level talent on both sides of the ball and he's not done yet. He wants to win now, but it will still be a tough season next year, but I like our chances at some upsets better now than in years past. I also don't see us with as many clunker games against teams we should beat. The best thing seems to be that he's bringing in a lot of guys with multiple years left. and our 2027 schedule lightens up quite a bit. That's really the year we should be looking towards making some noise, and if we can have some retention, that will be a big help to that. Why is this posted on the Basketball board.
Bro everybody knows we overpaid and under performed. Posting it every opportunity makes you sound like a broken record and one trick pony. Add something else to the conversation ffs.
If Coach would have played him they would have won state.
According CBS, these teams are currently spending over $10 million on their basketball team: Arkansas, BYU, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, North Carolina, St. John's, Texas Tech. How many of these programs are at risk having a losing season?
Pope’s entire career at Kentucky rides or dies on the performance of the team based on how much they spent. There’s very little else to discuss, nor will I and everyone else annoyed by this team never not bring this up.
Not arguing any of it. Just stating the fact that you are being redundant af. If this entire site is just going to revolve around you bringing up how much we did or didn’t spend there’s not much point coming here.
Again, LMAO at ANYONE that truly believes that we spent 22 million on this roster. I’ve never bought that story and never will. Absolute BS!
Actually not a shot at Stoops at all, but more at all the "old school" guys that constantly commented about the only way to building a lasting, solid program was over a long period of time. We live in a different era, it shouldn't take 5-10 years with right coach and support.
Just making the playoffs would work for me. I'm not greedy.
They hamstring Pope because… umm, they hate basketball and stuff. Yeah, hamstring , flexibility, and language in the contract. That’s it.
TSHABOLA
JMI took away access from Matt Jones and sent him a cease and desist order, they must pay! Keep the lie alive.
It's probably not going to happen for a while as long as we have Mark Pope as that coach. People don't want to play for that dork.
Yes we could use some of his secret sauce on the hoops side. At least to me it seems Stein has some swag in his demeanor plus Oregon has been on a good run over the years.