WILL STEIN COOKING

Bereacat

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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
I don’t think there is a chance it will happen, but it is way more than just money. I’m not saying those guys haven’t donated but IU didn’t do like a few others and just go out and buy 4 and 5 studs to fill a roster. They have zero 5 stars guys and only a handful of 4 star guys. If you look at their roster and recruiting classes you wouldn’t think there is any way they would be that good. There leader in sacks is a true sophomore that didn’t have a ranking when he committed 2 years ago. They had to pay to keep the guys they have but this narrative that it is all money is crazy
 

UKFootball78

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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.
Stop posting about your **** company Mr president. How about you prove we are wrong and put one of the contracts you tried to make the recruits sign....you know...the ones they refused to sign even though they really wanted to come to UK. Post one of those showing we are wrong about what agents and recruits reported. Just one....or STFU
 

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Stop posting about your **** company Mr president. How about you prove we are wrong and put one of the contracts you tried to make the recruits sign....you know...the ones they refused to sign even though they really wanted to come to UK. Post one of those showing we are wrong about what agents and recruits reported. Just one....or STFU
Prove a negative? There’s always a logical fallacy with uneducated lying trash like you. You push a lie that you can’t even begin to back up and it’s my job to disprove your lie. It’s sad how stupid you are. I’ll just keep laughing at the fact that Will Stein keeps exposing how trash you lowlife liars are.

Everyone with common sense sees how big of a fraud you liars are. Have the day you deserve lying piece of trash.
 

UKFootball78

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Prove a negative? There’s always a logical fallacy with uneducated lying trash like you. You push a lie that you can’t even begin to back up and it’s my job to disprove your lie. It’s sad how stupid you are. I’ll just keep laughing at the fact that Will Stein keeps exposing how trash you lowlife liars are.

Everyone with common sense sees how big of a fraud you liars are. Have the day you deserve lying piece of trash.
Let's see....you can't provide the information to prove you are right and I'm wrong.then on top of already calling me stupid multiple times in another post, you call me trash,low life lying trash. This is pure gold man keep it coming. I can't prove you're wrong so Ill just call you names.... hilarious 😂 😂 😂. You're a joke... Also,it's you're job to prove me wrong? No wonder JMI is such a failure with you running things....you can't even prove a stupid low life simpleton like myself wrong. Or was I trash....I don't remember, you called me so many names. Trust me , you are the only looking bad in this exchange. How dumb is Mitch to have believed your BS? Or was it all just about all the money you paid him to screw UK? Still waiting on that proof BTW.
 

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I don’t think there is a chance it will happen, but it is way more than just money. I’m not saying those guys haven’t donated but IU didn’t do like a few others and just go out and buy 4 and 5 studs to fill a roster. They have zero 5 stars guys and only a handful of 4 star guys. If you look at their roster and recruiting classes you wouldn’t think there is any way they would be that good. There leader in sacks is a true sophomore that didn’t have a ranking when he committed 2 years ago. They had to pay to keep the guys they have but this narrative that it is all money is crazy
This. Some folks here wanna try to explain this IU thing away but just saying “Mark Cuban”, but the facts don’t back that explanation up.

IU reportedly actually has a fairly low football NIL budget compared to other schools, and their best players were nearly all ranked fairly shockingly low as prospects when they came out of high school (UK’s roster was ranked significantly higher than theirs in the recruiting rankings).

So the evidence indicates that money does NOT explain it. So what does?
 

Tim0808

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Gave? We paid that dude much more money than he was worth. He didn’t give us anything. Geez dude get with it.
Yes, gave. Money is not eveything. I agree he was paid well (market value), but he also took this program to heights never seen before. Just because you are getting paid does mean you put everything into. He put his heart and soul into Kentucky Football. Just look at the facilities now and what we had before him. Some people can never be pleased or appreciative of anything anyone does. Geez stop being so miserable with your life.
 

bnewt

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Stop posting about your **** company Mr president. How about you prove we are wrong and put one of the contracts you tried to make the recruits sign....you know...the ones they refused to sign even though they really wanted to come to UK. Post one of those showing we are wrong about what agents and recruits reported. Just one....or STFU
I have no idea why Pope has not signed any high school recruit or if NIL is the issue, but it seems pretty strange that the football is doing a pretty good job of gathering good recruits from the portal. Could it be that football has a general manager handling this or is football and basketball NIL dealings different?
 

bnewt

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Let's see....you can't provide the information to prove you are right and I'm wrong.then on top of already calling me stupid multiple times in another post, you call me trash,low life lying trash. This is pure gold man keep it coming. I can't prove you're wrong so Ill just call you names.... hilarious 😂 😂 😂. You're a joke... Also,it's you're job to prove me wrong? No wonder JMI is such a failure with you running things....you can't even prove a stupid low life simpleton like myself wrong. Or was I trash....I don't remember, you called me so many names. Trust me , you are the only looking bad in this exchange. How dumb is Mitch to have believed your BS? Or was it all just about all the money you paid him to screw UK? Still waiting on that proof BTW.
WOW, what have I missed between you 2 guys?
Who is Anon477434? Is he affiliated with JMI or something?
 
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UKFootball78

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WOW, what have I missed between you 2 guys?
Who is Anon477434? Is he affiliated with JMI or something?
Yesterday before wildcat lair shut down his last reply to me was him saying he was president of JMI and saying I and others here are stupid among other things. Guess he thought no one would see it before lair and it's threads went away. Also did you notice what he said his job was on his message?
 

CatPatrick13

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WOW, what have I missed between you 2 guys?
Who is Anon477434? Is he affiliated with JMI or something?
It’s not just those 2. Anon dude has been outed multiple times. Going by memory but I believe he and his sig other both work at JMI. His old name was Magilla Gorilla and I can’t remember his other one. Both creative !
 

CatPatrick13

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Yes, gave. Money is not eveything. I agree he was paid well (market value), but he also took this program to heights never seen before. Just because you are getting paid does mean you put everything into. He put his heart and soul into Kentucky Football. Just look at the facilities now and what we had before him. Some people can never be pleased or appreciative of anything anyone does. Geez stop being so miserable with your life.
Check the math when you can get it together. He was far away from market value. His desire to coach at UK must have faded because of his flirtation with Texas AM. Right Sally?
 

CutNets

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Anyone know which site is the more revered in terms of 247 vs On3 for accurate transfer portal class rankings? I have a UL-fan friend that is insistent on using On3 because of UL's high ranking, but it simply doesn't make sense to me. I of course always counter with 247, but for the life of me can't understand the system that is On3. Just from the eye-test and simple math, it would appear that our incoming portal class is better than UL's.
 

bnewt

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It’s not just those 2. Anon dude has been outed multiple times. Going by memory but I believe he and his sig other both work at JMI. His old name was Magilla Gorilla and I can’t remember his other one. Both creative !
I do remember Magilla Gorilla from past time
 
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I do remember Magilla Gorilla from past time
Prove a negative? There’s always a logical fallacy with uneducated lying trash like you. You push a lie that you can’t even begin to back up and it’s my job to disprove your lie. It’s sad how stupid you are. I’ll just keep laughing at the fact that Will Stein keeps exposing how trash you lowlife liars are.

Everyone with common sense sees how big of a fraud you liars are. Have the day you deserve lying piece of trash.
This Anon poster right here ^ apparently told people in the Lair last night that he is a President at JMI. No clue if true, but that’s what is being said.

Strangely, the guy almost exclusively posts these topics:

- Matt Jones and KSR are awful scum
- Mitch Barnhart is over-hated
- Kentucky fanbase is extremely toxic and idiotic
- JMI deal is entirely misunderstood — it’s a good thing and anything saying otherwise is false propaganda.

^ If you can find a post of his that doesn’t span one of these topics, let me know. Entirely agenda-driven poster. Worse yet, simply engages in ad homs if you don’t agree.
 

MegaBlue05

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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.

This dude also expects Pope to resign and leave millions on the table and advocates for public harassment of Pope in his private life. This guy bases his self worth on the W-L record of the basketball team to the point he’s now spouting his redundancies in a football thread.

Back in the day, someone who banged the same tired drum in any thread about any topic was called an “agenda poster.”
 
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This dude also expects Pope to resign and leave millions on the table and advocates for public harassment of Pope in his private life. This guy bases his self worth on the W-L record of the basketball team to the point he’s now spouting his redundancies in a football thread.

Back in the day, someone who banged the same tired drum in any thread about any topic was called an “agenda poster.”
He also said that if Kentucky didn’t win, that he wouldn’t watch, wouldn’t support in any way, wouldn’t engage. How is that not the very definition of a bandwagon fan? I don’t hate the guy, but his hatred of Mitch and Pope crosses into extreme levels
 

MegaBlue05

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This Anon poster right here ^ apparently told people in the Lair last night that he is a President at JMI. No clue if true, but that’s what is being said.

Strangely, the guy almost exclusively posts these topics:

- Matt Jones and KSR are awful scum
- Mitch Barnhart is over-hated
- Kentucky fanbase is extremely toxic and idiotic
- JMI deal is entirely misunderstood — it’s a good thing and anything saying otherwise is false propaganda.

^ If you can find a post of his that doesn’t span one of these topics, let me know. Entirely agenda-driven poster. Worse yet, simply engages in ad homs if you don’t agree.
I have drawn the same conclusions. Has a personal axe to grind with KSR and Stans hard for JMI. Seems to hate UK fans.

My guess is either Marc Maggard’s ignorant *** or an actual JMI employee who fights his company’s battles online outside of work hours.
 

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Check the math when you can get it together. He was far away from market value. His desire to coach at UK must have faded because of his flirtation with Texas AM. Right Sally?
I did the Math. Obviously, your understanding of economics is limited. In America you get paid based on what someone is willing to pay you. That sets the Market Value. Ask, LSU what the market value is for Sam Leavitt. One week, it was a couple million, then the next week, it was 4 to 5 million. Football is a business and if someone wants to talk to Stoops about a job, he should listen. That is called common sense. Something obviously you struggle with.
 

MegaBlue05

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He also said that if Kentucky didn’t win, that he wouldn’t watch, wouldn’t support in any way, wouldn’t engage. How is that not the very definition of a bandwagon fan? I don’t hate the guy, but his hatred of Mitch and Pope crosses into extreme levels
I don’t get it either village. I am not happy with the season so far, but I will still support my team in good and bad times. It’s easy to be a fan in good times. Not so easy in tough times.

Some people are bandwagon front runners and not diehard fans. I hate losing as much as the next guy, but will still be watching all the games and won’t “check out” if we’re not winning enough. (That’s not to say I haven’t turned off any games this year. I didn’t see halftime of the Gonzaga game, but I would’ve felt like a masochist if I did. Lol)
 
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I don’t get it either village. I am not happy with the season so far, but I will still support my team in good and bad times. It’s easy to be a fan in good times. Not so easy in tough times.

Some people are bandwagon front runners and not diehard fans. I hate losing as much as the next guy, but will still be watching all the games and won’t “check out” if we’re not winning enough. (That’s not to say I haven’t turned off any games this year. I didn’t see halftime of the Gonzaga game, but I would’ve felt like a masochist if I did. Lol)
Things have gotten so bad here —- that not being a bandwagon fan is the minority opinion. Been called “the problem with Kentucky basketball” more times than I can count just for saying I still care lol. Times are hard for the faithful.
 
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chroix

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Things have gotten so bad here —- that not being a bandwagon fan is the minority opinion. Been called “the problem with Kentucky basketball” more times than I can count just for saying I still care lol. Times are hard for the faithful.
It’s a sad day when people can convince themselves that shitting on fellow fans is somehow productive. We’re all frustrated. But how you handle life’s frustrations is the measure of a man.
 

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Things have gotten so bad here —- that not being a bandwagon fan is the minority opinion. Been called “the problem with Kentucky basketball” more times than I can count just for saying I still care lol. Times are hard for the faithful.
it ain't just here. look at KSR's board, youtube comments, the subreddit, fans at Rupp, talk to your coworkers, family, friends.

i'd say it's gotta be like 70/30 with the 70 leaning "Pope can't be back next year"
 

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This Anon poster right here ^ apparently told people in the Lair last night that he is a President at JMI. No clue if true, but that’s what is being said.

Strangely, the guy almost exclusively posts these topics:

- Matt Jones and KSR are awful scum
- Mitch Barnhart is over-hated
- Kentucky fanbase is extremely toxic and idiotic
- JMI deal is entirely misunderstood — it’s a good thing and anything saying otherwise is false propaganda.

^ If you can find a post of his that doesn’t span one of these topics, let me know. Entirely agenda-driven poster. Worse yet, simply engages in ad homs if you don’t agree.
No clue if true, of course you don’t get sarcasm and think I might be the president of JMI because you’re a simpleton. Just like you can’t back up your lies so you go full message board clown. You will never speak the facts of the case that you lie about because you’re a lowlife fraud. Despite your pathetic lies, athletes at UK don’t have to sign their NIL rights away, despite your pathetic lies athletes at UK can do 3rd party deals. You give nothing to the program, you’re just toxic trash who tries to tear down those who have. You will always be a joke KSR cult clown.

Will Steins recruiting class says high. It asked me to tell you not to be mad at it because it exposes your lies about not being able to recruit at UK. Keep pushing your lies and I will keep calling you out fake *** fan.
 

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No clue if true, of course you don’t get sarcasm and think I might be the president of JMI because you’re a simpleton. Just like you can’t back up your lies so you go full message board clown. You will never speak the facts of the case that you lie about because you’re a lowlife fraud. Despite your pathetic lies, athletes at UK don’t have to sign their NIL rights away, despite your pathetic lies athletes at UK can do 3rd party deals. You give nothing to the program, you’re just toxic trash who tries to tear down those who have. You will always be a joke KSR cult clown.

Will Steins recruiting class says high. It asked me to tell you not to be mad at it because it exposes your lies about not being able to recruit at UK. Keep pushing your lies and I will keep calling you out fake *** fan.
i find you odd
 
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No clue if true, of course you don’t get sarcasm and think I might be the president of JMI because you’re a simpleton. Just like you can’t back up your lies so you go full message board clown. You will never speak the facts of the case that you lie about because you’re a lowlife fraud. Despite your pathetic lies, athletes at UK don’t have to sign their NIL rights away, despite your pathetic lies athletes at UK can do 3rd party deals. You give nothing to the program, you’re just toxic trash who tries to tear down those who have. You will always be a joke KSR cult clown.

Will Steins recruiting class says high. It asked me to tell you not to be mad at it because it exposes your lies about not being able to recruit at UK. Keep pushing your lies and I will keep calling you out fake *** fan.
Always ad homs. I don’t read when you attack character over basketball discussions.
 
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Anon477434

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Always ad homs. I don’t read when you attack character over basketball discussions.
Always lies. No one respects a pathetic liar.

BTW, despite the lies trash like you pushed for months, athletes at UK don’t have to sign their NIL rights away, athletes can absolutely sign 3rd party deals, and they don’t need JMI approval. You lied about that and Inwont sugarcoat it to make a liar feel better about himself.
 
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it ain't just here. look at KSR's board, youtube comments, the subreddit, fans at Rupp, talk to your coworkers, family, friends.

i'd say it's gotta be like 70/30 with the 70 leaning "Pope can't be back next year"
There’s a difference between the discussion about whether he SHOULD get a 3rd year and whether or not you entirely stop being involved at all if we lose. I’m not the judge of other fans — but to me that’s the very definition of being a bandwagon fan. By the way, I go back and forth all the time about Pope and a third year … do you know why? I’m actually trying to be honest about it. Most people have their set view and don’t let facts get in the way. You’re one of the ones I would say is very set in the pessimistic view and that’s not wrong. Others like UKCowboys are set in the optimistic view. There’s a huge pool of people somewhere in the middle where people are thinking this out everyday.

And by the way, Pope will almost certainly get a third year no matter what any posters want. Don’t believe me? Listen to Matt Jones everyday on the radio… he’s telling people this himself and he’s very, very close to the top boosters of the program. You’re setting yourself up for failure on this hellbent plot to remove Pope —- it’s not happening man. Why not try to enjoy what you can of the next 14 months?
 
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Always lies. No one respects a pathetic liar.

BTW, despite the lies trash like you pushed for months, athletes at UK don’t have to sign their NIL rights away, athletes can absolutely sign 3rd party deals, and they don’t need JMI approval. You lied about that and Inwont sugarcoat it to make a liar feel better about himself.
I used actual sources and can post again. You have nothing but ad homs and never facts.