I hope he has some things up his sleeve because recruits are dropping like flies. 

2 hours ago, futurecoach said:

Remember his camp also kept telling Cal that he was not going to the NBA and only enrolled early in January so he could get use to college, and would be getting ready for the next season to help the Cats. I guarantee you that Cal wouldn’t have ever brought him in, if he knew Sharpe and his camp was basically going to use him and UK like that. 

All the press at that time quoted Cal as saying he promised his father he would not play Sharpe until he thought he was ready to successfully play at the SEC level.  Toward tournament time when the Cats were injury heavy, Cal never said he wasn’t ready, he just repeated his promise to his father.  Message received by BBN was NBA readiness took priority over team.

Didn’t hear Pope say NBA one single time yesterday, very refreshing to not hear that, let’s play for Ky basketball for a change, he did say the jersey was a proud thing to wear, haven’t heard that statement in a long time also.

1 hour ago, All State Baseball said:

I hope he has some things up his sleeve because recruits are dropping like flies. 

As expected no matter who Mitch hired.  One and dones are gone and Cal’s recruits will mostly follow.  The vacuum for first year was always going to be there.

5 hours ago, okie1 said:

Cal allowed him to stay on the bench and use up NIL money and UK resources.

I'm not sure he got NIL at all, he came late and left early the first year of NIL. UK was notoriously behind on rolling out basketball NIL.

The resources that he used didn't take away from anyone else, so it didn't really matter that he was there or wasn't there.

Sharpe's "handlers" are the ones to blame for the entire situation. 

1 hour ago, Jumper_Dad said:

I'm not sure he got NIL at all, he came late and left early the first year of NIL. UK was notoriously behind on rolling out basketball NIL.

The resources that he used didn't take away from anyone else, so it didn't really matter that he was there or wasn't there.

Sharpe's "handlers" are the ones to blame for the entire situation. 

Who were these so called “handlers “?

1 hour ago, Oldercoach said:

All the press at that time quoted Cal as saying he promised his father he would not play Sharpe until he thought he was ready to successfully play at the SEC level.  Toward tournament time when the Cats were injury heavy, Cal never said he wasn’t ready, he just repeated his promise to his father.  Message received by BBN was NBA readiness took priority over team.

Once again even during all that time Sharpe was promising to still be back for the next season. The whole reason why he enrolled in January was suppose to be only to get ready for the next college season, not to play that season. That is the whole reason why he was even allowed to enroll early and join the team. Sharpe and his people were promising he would be around for the next year. If Cal knew he wouldn’t stay, I guarantee he would have never been allowed to join the team. Cal is not going to come out in the public and put down the player  and his people for lying to him. However, zero chance Cal allows him to join the team if he thought Sharpe wouldn’t be around the next year. 

1 hour ago, Jumper_Dad said:

I'm not sure he got NIL at all, he came late and left early the first year of NIL. UK was notoriously behind on rolling out basketball NIL.

The resources that he used didn't take away from anyone else, so it didn't really matter that he was there or wasn't there.

Sharpe's "handlers" are the ones to blame for the entire situation. 

Exactly! I guarantee Cal was just upset and probably even more than us fans about the whole situation and how he basically got lied to and played by Sharpe’s handlers. 

1 hour ago, nikeman49 said:

Didn’t hear Pope say NBA one single time yesterday, very refreshing to not hear that, let’s play for Ky basketball for a change, he did say the jersey was a proud thing to wear, haven’t heard that statement in a long time also.

I guess we didn’t listen to the same press conference if you didn’t hear him talk about the NBA. He even had a whole section of him talking about NBA players and what they talked about. Then even mentioned how we will will get a mix of some burger boys who are one and done, to go along with players who will be here and stay and develop. 
 

Completely agree on the jersey thing though. 

3 hours ago, All State Baseball said:

I hope he has some things up his sleeve because recruits are dropping like flies. 

I mean that was expected in regards to many of the current players and recruits Cal had coming in. Like it or not, unless it is a kid that grows up in Ky. Most players are committing to the coach not the program for basically all schools. The name Kentucky gets people to answer their phones and open their doors. It is the coach in most cases though that players are committing to and going to that school for. When that coach leaves, most players will follow. Especially in todays world where there is no year of having to sit out when you transfer. 

3 minutes ago, futurecoach said:

Once again even during all that time Sharpe was promising to still be back for the next season. The whole reason why he enrolled in January was suppose to be only to get ready for the next college season, not to play that season. That is the whole reason why he was even allowed to enroll early and join the team. Sharpe and his people were promising he would be around for the next year. If Cal knew he wouldn’t stay, I guarantee he would have never been allowed to join the team. Cal is not going to come out in the public and put down the player  and his people for lying to him. However, zero chance Cal allows him to join the team if he thought Sharpe wouldn’t be around the next year. 

So if you are the head coach at Ky why wouldn’t you demand to know more about the situation before letting a guy join the team with a bunch of unanswered questions and just having the fan base on edge about why he wasn’t playing? Another one of Cal’s many screw ups while at Ky.

Just now, nikeman49 said:

So if you are the head coach at Ky why wouldn’t you demand to know more about the situation before letting a guy join the team with a bunch of unanswered questions and just having the fan base on edge about why he wasn’t playing? Another one of Cal’s many screw ups while at Ky.

When he first enrolled at UK he was not even suppose to be eligible for the NBA draft that year. So there wasn’t nothing to find out. Then his handlers were able to find a loop hole in regards to the draft as long as his graduation date was changed to a certain date. Which remember it was contested about if he really graduated when he did. So UK and just every school going for him, no one thought he was eligible for that years draft. So it’s not like other schools opted out, other schools went for him as well. Him and his handlers found a loop hole, and then continued to lie saying it didn’t matter, he was going to be at UK still that next year. 
 

At the end of the day it didn’t take someone’s spot, didn’t use some other players resources. It was a player and his handlers just completely going against what they had told everyone. 

2 hours ago, nikeman49 said:

Didn’t hear Pope say NBA one single time yesterday, very refreshing to not hear that, let’s play for Ky basketball for a change, he did say the jersey was a proud thing to wear, haven’t heard that statement in a long time also.

 

20 minutes ago, futurecoach said:

I guess we didn’t listen to the same press conference if you didn’t hear him talk about the NBA. He even had a whole section of him talking about NBA players and what they talked about. Then even mentioned how we will will get a mix of some burger boys who are one and done, to go along with players who will be here and stay and develop. 
 

Completely agree on the jersey thing though. 

Not to mention that Mitch played up Pope's NBA career and connections when he introduced him.

And let's be real, every college player dreams of playing in the NBA.

17 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

 

Not to mention that Mitch played up Pope's NBA career and connections when he introduced him.

And let's be real, every college player dreams of playing in the NBA.

That’s Mitch speaking about Pope, didn’t say anything about players not wanting to play at the next level, sure they do.

1 hour ago, nikeman49 said:

That’s Mitch speaking about Pope, didn’t say anything about players not wanting to play at the next level, sure they do.

I listened to the whole thing last night. Pope spent a 3-5 minute segment talking about the NBA and played up his NBA history, how NBA guys talk in the locker room about their college years, etc.