I do think Magoon Gwath was a backup option for UK if they didn’t get Freeman. But because the staff is so locked down and won’t talk to any media local or national, no one knows. When I talk about managing PR, if media people could say with confidence “this was a backup option”, people wouldn’t freak out when that kid commits elsewhere
But because they don’t, every kid that picks another school looks like a whiff, whether it is or isn’t. That is a PR problem and as one national media member said to me today “is a complete self-inflicted error by Pope.”
As I said earlier, I think the only definite first option kid Kentucky has lost is the Va Tech kid. But I acknowledge that’s me trying to see Pope’s plan in the best light, even though we don’t actually know what the plan is.
