john calipari to arkansas + mark pope to kentucky

I’m sure the NIL coffers will be overflowing. The fanbase seems v motivated

 

I read this like 20 times convinced this was a parody account. Amazing.

 

The negativity is probably already insurmountable. Bag secured tho.

 

lol why

 

Dusty May had three schools after him and got $3.75M. Mark Pope would have walked to UK and got $5.5M.

What a weird business.

 

NIL really stresses the importance of a strong hire now because unmotivated fans will just close their wallets and your hole is now deeper by default and that much harder to dig out of your first years.

 

I hope Pope sucks at recruiting. Now that we're officially moving forward with Nike, it would be the tits if we could sign Dybansta in 2025

 

While I actually have mixed feelings about the Cal hire, the combo of:

-Making a splash hire
-Reinvigorating rich boosters and ramping up NIL
-Destroying the Kentucky men’s basketball program

is simply too good to be true.

 

at least here we aren’t both

 

This guy does not have the juice

 

When you have the chance to get the guy that couldn’t beat Duquesne you have to take it

 

It seems to me that Kentucky should have just shut their program down. They had a good run.

 

So who are the top SEC basketball programs at this moment?

1. Alabama
2. Tennessee
3. Arkansas
4. Auburn
5. Texas
6. Texas A&M
7. Ole Miss
8. Kentucky
9. Oklahoma

 

What does one have to do with the other?

 

Can tell how new money basketball you are if you think shoe deals aren’t relevant to recruiting

 

I'm aware, I just don't think Nike is going to push a kid to Auburn.

 

No one wants to wear Adidas or UA basketball shoes. All the top programs except Kansas are Nike schools. Our contract with Nike was up a couple years ago and Huggins was adamant we don't switch because the kids only wanted Nike. He allegedly said he would quit if we did

 

this makes him top 5 paid from what I could find online. This article is old, but Hurley is going to get paid and I'm sure Drew will make more but still, top 10 for....Mark Pope? You could have gotten him for $3mil

https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/ncaab/top-college-basketball-head-coach-salaries-bm10/

 

Adidas basketball is getting cool real quick bc of Anthony Edwards' shoe.

I agree with all you said and I still feel Auburn moving to Nike doesn't move the needle with the top player in the country.

 

Good morning, any Kentucky fan who laughed at the calipari dog stroller video

 

The Pope hire is getting clowned enough that it's probably going to end up working out for UK, which will be disappointing.

 

getting the band back together!

 

It's always a good sign when a coach brings on his son

 

He'll be coach in waiting. Just like Auburn

 

It had been two days and we don’t have a 5 star committed my patience is starting to wane

 

I predict Slaw’s NCAAT success declines and UK’s remains static. #docit

 

Is this his older or younger son? Older son seems like a good guy, younger one looks like a prick

 

It gets us in the door with kids we had no shot with because of Under Armour. Bruce has recruited fine with that limitation.

 

Yale wears Under Armour.

 

Earned Not Given

 

the hell is wrong with this?

sorry some of us aren’t ArkanSoft like you boys

 

Did not realize muss was blind dog ’s dad. The season ticket location makes sense now