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@BigBlue1975 You don’t know his situation. According to everyone, Pope should’ve went after 35 kids. This could be Mizz “all in kid” & threw the bank at him. Plus, he’s average at best & don’t know if he can shoot

What happened to us landing players like this? The most money, and can’t get these types of players. Pope didn’t even look at him.

@ROCKCHALKKU90 @DraftExpress Please take him. I want shooters and players who won’t sit out 15 games b/c their bullshit draft stock might be affected

@DraftExpress Totally cooked if stokes isn’t coming

NEWS: Utah transfer Keanu Dawes has committed to Kansas, Brandon Grier and Rob Murphy of Equity Sports tell DraftExpress. The 6'9 junior averaged 12.5 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 2.2 assists this season, hitting one three per game. He will also test the NBA draft waters.

@FumblinDublin81 @BigOrangeEnergy What a stale and stagnant program. And they have the audacity to try & clown on Pope. No coach gets everyone player they want from the portal. I’m just glad UK got a big physical PG who won’t lose his shoulder from a screen

@WalkupChad @BigOrangeEnergy Forget a title, their bitch asses haven't sniffed a Final Four in 118 years.

Louisville fans 🤝 Tennessee fans 🤝 Arkansas fans Enjoying Mark Pope’s daily whiffs and the downfall of Kentucky basketball

@Burke_Franklin_ He’s gotta check out the strange. You’d be doing the same thing just like Ricky Roe

Donnie Freeman not only still visiting UConn but setting up an Alabama official visit now too? Confidence plummeting for this one sadly. Hope I’m wrong

@matti99661 @BuddyDa85433112 You two are scraps. Listen to yourselves, on here whining b/c UK can’t get anyone they want anymore. Nobody gets everyone they want since NIL. Those 2 haven’t even decided

@BuddyDa85433112 Yup is pathetic not good at all we used to get who ever we wanted now we over pay for scraps

Without freeman and stokes Kentucky has no chance to be a top 20 team next year

@BigBlueBud I’m sure as shit he’s not worrying about so neither should you. Having him would only be a distraction. He’d butt heads w/ Pope all season

Might shed tears if Tyran Stokes starts visiting other Nike schools… 😢

@monerograyfox @bigbluekodakk They need Freeman first

@bigbluekodakk Now we take (some of) the money we saved not bidding high for Rob, call Stokes, and say, good news. We got Zoom instead of Rob so we can pay you X more.

Quick like by Stokes on Zoom’s commitment post brother I am just saying. Let me be delusional

@abigbluecat @bigbluekodakk Y’all are a trip

@bigbluekodakk Now it’s gone? 👀

@HalfKunta @JonRothstein He wanted too much and Pope offered him what he thought his value was coming from playing in Big 12 to SEC. It’s not for everyone

@JonRothstein What a crazy world we live in. Kentucky loses a key piece to BYU and can't take BYU's best piece.

Sources: Rob Wright is returning to BYU next season.

@RememberThtDude @JonRothstein That’s true. It’s hard not to be exciting playing Big 12 teams. I’m pumped

@JonRothstein This BYU team is going to be insanely fun with him back. Kentucky on the other hand…yikessss

@JonRothstein He’s not built for the SEC. Playing Vermont, Albany, Maine, etc.. Those are more of his level. Wish him the best.

@TJWalkerRadio No reason he shouldn’t. I mean Cam’ron Fletcher was just approved for his 7th year of CBB

fwiw I'd love for Freeman to commit, he'd be a nice piece.

UK’s not getting Wright, and they’re not getting Murauskas either. I badly hope I’m wrong, but the rest of the names on this list just aren’t good enough. But... is there anywhere else to turn? If you can't get the top dogs try to go be great at one thing (shooting, defense.. something). That's how I'd pivot.

@TJWalkerRadio $ball time. Shock the world!

@tiddyboyhoe @tyrese1717 You know the person you’re responding to has nothing to do w/ UK basketball. I don’t think he personally missed out on anyone

@tyrese1717 you're coping because you missed out on wright + you're not getting this dude either lmao

Zoom Diallo > Rob Wright

@MarkPopeBurnerX @tyrese1717 “Sources” Either you’re insanely gullible or you just want to believe stuff like this. Some media advice, if the source isn’t named, it’s made up

@tyrese1717 Not getting him either

@DrewByousBBN I agree with you 100% I kinda feel bad for Pope’s family. You can’t avoid the negativity he’s getting if you’re anywhere on the internet. I wonder how ol Mitch is doing in his new role knowing he completely destroyed his legacy as an AD

I can’t hold back anymore on the state of Kentucky Basketball. It’s April 15th, things can change fast, but as I sit here right now, what in the world has happened? Seriously! We opened yesterday with intel, scooped insiders feeling “really good” about the two visitors. Rob Wright, Tyran Stokes. I dont know how you dont interpret anything that’s happened over the last 24 hours other than these kids, families, agents, circles, whatever, dont like Mark Pope. And the more time they spend with him, the more disinterested they are in KENTUCKY! It’s now been a full calander year. The only player he has signed in highschool, portal, anything, is Mason Williams, a 100+ ranked freshman PG, WHOS DAD IS NOW ON STAFF! This is a disaster of what’s going on in the portal. And I dont think I’m being aggressive or dramatic at all by saying that. AFTER COMING OFF THE GREATEST FRESHMAN CLASS WEVE EVER SEEN IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL, AND KENTUCKY HAD NONE OF THEM! HOW DOES KENTUCKY NOT GET LITERALLY ANY OF THEM? Keep in mind, we’ve just got “out bid” or “same offers” TWICE in the last week from BYU for starting level players WHO MARK POPE LITERALLY GOT HIRED FROM. And regardless of how you want to frame it, that’s not good for Kentucky. They dont have the money for priority targets? Screw the “better allocation of funds” mindset. It’s KENTUCKY. Kentucky had the highest payroll in the sport last year. But they dont this year, why? Probably because we just had it last season, AND IT WAS A DISASTER! Kentucky wasted all of that money on bad players and injured players, and then did nothing with the roster, and everyone couldn’t wait to get out of the program, and nobody other than the HC, and the loyalty of the rest of the staff, dont believe in you or the direction of the program to write the same checks that were written a year ago. A massive check on the table for Tyran Stokes, and yet it seems like HE STILL DOESNT WANT TO COME HERE. It’s just hard for me to fathom or accept in two years this is what KENTUCKY BASKETBALL has currently turned into. You’ve likely pissed off Zoom Diallo and now you have to rebuild that relationship because he visited, and then you left him in the dust to go try and get Rob Wright. That failed, and now you have to make up with him. Donnie Freeman, for all we know, will leave campus after his visit and head to UConn and commit there. I mentioned it in a groupchat I’m in, I said there’s a better chance Kentucky goes 0/4 than 4/4. And look how we sit right now as I type this. This isn’t a JMI issue, stop with that. This is an issue of Mark Pope seemingly can’t relate to these kids. There’s some type of disconnect from kids and this staff in recruiting. Again, in over a year he’s signed one new player into the program, and it’s Mason Williams, whose dad joined the staff. This is literally shaping up to be the exact same scenario as last year. Missed on all of your first options. You’re late to all the second options because you haven’t contacted them or they’re already committed elsewhere. Now we have to settle for the third options. Except there’s no Otega Oweh to come save your butt late in the cycle by pulling his name out of the NBA draft. Okay, now I’ll stop ranting. Kentucky HAS GOT TO do whatever they can to make up with Zoom Diallo, get him committed. Do whatever they can to get Donnie Freeman committed. Keep working, pushing, whatever to get Stokes here. Get some other guys to fill the rest of the roster, and then we’ll see what happens on the court this year. But the way this is shaping up right now, at this current moment, has DISASTER written all over it. #BBN #KentuckyBasketball

@PopeNeeds2Go @WildcatUKx Wright is not the PG we need. Let him go to BYU and play in the Big 12. We need a SEC pg. He ain’t it. I promise you

@WildcatUKx What’s the update on wright?

Per Jamie Shaw Colorado PF Sebastian Rancik will be visiting Kentucky today and tomorrow #BBN

@BigBlueDispatch @LockedOnUK Who cares. You’re giving this kid way too much credit. Playing in the Big 12 is slightly different than the SEC. Good for him for getting paid but there are better PGs in the Portal. 1 specifically. BYU will lose in the 1st rd again. There’s no new news on this dude

@LockedOnUK We reported the same findings this morning from a BYU source. Does not look good for #BBN x.com/bigbluedispatc…

Another turn in the Rob Wright saga Travis Branham says that he now believes BYU is now the favorite, and will get Wright back.

@DallasLBrowning @LockedOnUK Spot on. You make too much sense for a majority of the fanbase to understand

@LockedOnUK All the recruitment stuff is just agent spin. Pretty obvious that they use UK to get more money. Our fanbase doesn't help in this regard. Some "insider" who doesn't know anything runs a negative story about us losing ground, the fanbase panics, and the agent smiles to the bank.