@WildcatsTongue This one is like the other misses, looks worse than it is because of it being high profile and Pope flying to see him. Other teams are missing on guys as well, but it doesn't get the same attention.
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We would have had to MAJORLY overpay to get this guy as a backup.
I'm fine with this "whiff" (if you want to call it that)
Jonathan Givony@DraftExpress
NEWS: Maccabi Tel Aviv's Márcio Santos has committed to LSU, Arturs Kalnitis and @FFGBasketball tell DraftExpress. The 6'9, 23-year-old Brazilian big averaged 6.9 points in 14 minutes in the Euroleague, shooting 40% from 3. Big addition for Will Wade and the Tigers.
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@KyleTuckerCBB Looks bad more than anything, still need a backup center, but he wasn't going to make or break the season. LSU obviously needed him more. Other teams miss on recruits all the time, it's just that Pope's seem so public.
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The big man Mark Pope flew to Israel to recruit has committed to Will Wade and LSU.
Jonathan Givony@DraftExpress
NEWS: Maccabi Tel Aviv's Márcio Santos has committed to LSU, Arturs Kalnitis and @FFGBasketball tell DraftExpress. The 6'9, 23-year-old Brazilian big averaged 6.9 points in 14 minutes in the Euroleague, shooting 40% from 3. Big addition for Will Wade and the Tigers.
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@APKOrange67 @NewbergReport Except Viele came in for the 2025 season, they sucked in 2024 without him, and he split duties in '25 with Boone. Viele might not be the solution, but the problem was here before he showed up.
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@NewbergReport Hes responsible for the whole lineup being awful at taking advantage of prime opportunities.
Since he came in after the 2023 season the rangers 5.2 RPG has sunk to below 4 runs per game.
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I don't understand at all how Viele would be to blame for how bad Seager is going right now. Enlighten me.
Alan Killebrew@APKOrange67
If Corey doesn't get something here....Viele is so done right????
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@BRamseyKSR As a Kentucky maybe now living in DFW and thus a Texas Rangers fan, take care of my boy Nathaniel Lowe. He will always be a legend in my book after the world series parade.
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Nathaniel Lowe is a professional hitter.
He hammered that one!
Cincinnati Reds@Reds
What a swing, @nathaniel_lowe
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@TaninSmithKK The problem is people are comparing the roster to the high profile misses and not really looking at the guys we actually now have. Nice work here.
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We’ve been caught up in the players we’ve missed on, but what about taking a minute to actually evaluate our roster?
I think we have a better roster than last season. I’ll explain why:
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@Aaron_Torres Rumor is there is a stretch-five prospect we've never heard of from Lichtenstein who is going to ask Pope if he has room for one more and Pope will answer back with a boom. The whole thing has been coordinated. Pope playing the long game. Then you will make a video on the fit.
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Mark Pope has many faults, which get discussed on this app plenty - but one of his biggest ones is listening too much to outside noise.
Pat Kelsey. Rick Barnes. Even the guys doing WELL in the portal haven't done off-season availability.
There's zero reason he should say anything, until the roster is complete
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Poor Mark Pope.
He got bullied into *saying something* during a frustrating off-season - even though, virtually no coach in America speaks this time of year until the roster is complete.
Well he did it anyway, and the responses below are... not good 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Mark Pope@CoachMarkPope
BBN I want to talk! Drop your questions in the comments, and I’ll spend the next couple of days answering them 👇
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@Monty4033 Maybe some super secret prospect from Lichtenstein we don't know about who asks Pope if he has room for one more, and Pope answers with a boom! And then everyone proceeds to criticize the guy we've never heard of after watching grainy YouTube clips.
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I don’t see anyway for Pope to win doing this, feels like there has to be a motive.
Kyle Tucker@KyleTuckerCBB
@humblemunkey On Pope doing this Twitter mailbag? It looks like he’s hiding from real-time questioning, wants to appear to be talking to his fans but gets to handpick what he answers and carefully reply, and it opened the door to be publicly mocked. Just a 10 out of 10 would not recommend.
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@CoachMarkPope What lessons did you learn from last seasons offensive struggles, besides not having your point guard get hurt, and how will teams going forward hopefully not have the same issues.
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@Aaron_Torres I love Mark Pope, I hope he proves the doubters wrong, but he really needs to hire a PR specialist. Then a GM.
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@RobGrandRegent I really hope ya'll are good next year. It would suck so much to have talked so much trash and be hyped up so much based on recruiting to then be a disappointment. Believe me, as a Kentucky fan, I've been there, it sucks.
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Kentucky fans will continue to cope and act like we don’t have the number one player in the entire portal 💀
Next season gonna be a movie man I need it asap
On3@On3
NEW: Top 10 College Basketball Transfer Portal Commits🏀 on3.com/transfer-porta…
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@ReturnOfTheCats Stop throwing out facts, it's easier to just "know" things and dismiss what we don't like.
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Shelstad played a freshman Zoom twice and shot 6-19 from the field and scored only 15 total points while playing 38 minutes per game.
Zoom had 18 points on 7-9 shooting in the first game and 13/5/4 in the second game
BigVince daPlug@2Miles4
@ReturnOfTheCats Zoom doesn’t have enough ZOOM to keep up with Shelstad. But go on, tell yourself whatever you need to tell yourself. Lol.
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@KySportsRadio This just seems like such a bad idea. I get that he (or whoever is doing PR) gets to pick the questions he answers, but just going to be an onslaught of negativity being thrown his way. I hope I'm wrong on that.
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Pope asks for fans comments
Mark Pope@CoachMarkPope
BBN I want to talk! Drop your questions in the comments, and I’ll spend the next couple of days answering them 👇
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@Dylan_Ridd22 @SteinsStuds I think they are just slotting Reece into the 13-15 spots which you cant see and going with the idea that whoever we bring into be the backup center will be better than Potter, which probably is the case, though I don't know if Mason and Zyon should both be slotted ahead of him.
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@SteinsStuds This doesn’t have Reece potter on it and there should be 4 spots before potter is added 3 after and Trent Noah is a 3rd string
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This is where we stand as of today, BBN!
With 3 roster spots remaining, who else will Mark Pope bring in? 🏀
(05/05/2026)
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@TerrellTres I loved Mo, and would have gladly taken him back, but I never thought he was the right fit for Pope. Chandler on the other hand, that hurt.
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Hindsight is everything but could you imagine how much better we’d feel about this team if we would have retained a few players from last year’s roster?
Collin Chandler, Mo Dioubate…
Those aren’t CBB “stars” but after the recruiting misses they sure would’ve helped.
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@BleedBNetwork I don't care about "innovative," I just want to win. At basketball. Be better. If two AD's is what it will take, then fine. But I have a feeling that's not the problem. Maybe the problem has been solved and we just don't know it yet.
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Fans: Kentucky needs to be more innovative!
Kentucky: I know, we could have two Athletic Directors
Fans: uhhh, ummm, what?
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@RangerApologist And listened to all the Rangers fans complain about bringing Heim back and how he needs to be DFA's. Just because Jansen hasn't worked out (so far) doesn't mean letting Heim go was the wrong move.
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@jaycob1992 @JByGodRod @JonHale_HL Having as assistant or two overseeing the smaller sports, and reporting to one of the other two makes sense. Do think it has the chance of allowing each to really specialize on what they are doing, as long as they are good at it.
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@thereal_adam @JByGodRod @JonHale_HL That’s what I am thinking. Football AD focused on mostly football, having experience with Baseball, and Softball, with Soccer. Basketball AD focus on basketball, with experience of Women basketball, Volleyball, Track and other.
Unless an Assistant does the smaller ones.
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NEW: Two months into the search for Mitch Barnhart's replacement, it is becoming more apparent that UK is not looking for just one person to fill the role.
Why the school may actually make two hires to lead the athletic department moving forward. kentucky.com/sports/college…
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@FBGreatMoments I'm in my 40's and grew up in the Dallas area, so Daryl Johnston is the easy answer. The last one I can actually remember who was good is Mike Alstott, though I'm sure there are more recent ones I just don't remember or know about.
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@jaycob1992 @JByGodRod @JonHale_HL I guess. Might work. Either will make things more efficient and allow the AD to be laser focused or just overly complicate things with everyone pointing the fingers to someone else trying to dodge accountability.
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