Lundardi update this morning has us as a 2 seed
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I'm just preparing to watch Kentucky rip our hearts out In some ridiculous way Saturday.
We've found a good coach. Let's take care of him so he's not interested in leaving.
Last years game had one of the wildest last minute I've experienced. Heartbreaking in that Hub deserved to win that game. We owe them one for that.
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I wouldn't get your hopes up. He has literally interviewed for other jobs every offseason he's been here.
I don't believe we will lose him because of his salary. If he leaves, he will go somewhere he believes he can win more.
One card we can play that we've never had: rev share
I don't know if we would ever do this, but if we really wanted to keep him, what if we said men's basketball would get 20-25% of our player salary pool?
Surprisingly, I think most schools are going to go with about 75% football, 15% basketball, and 10% everything else. Which will actually be more money per player for basketball than for football.
I'm assuming the '88' in 'civildawg88' means you were born in 1988 and not graduated in 1988. Because if you had graduated in 1988, you would know to prepare for the refs to rip our hearts out in some ridiculous way Saturday after an otherwise close game.**
Need to defend the home court and try to pick up a second road win in Columbia. Tennessee and Auburn are going to be tough ones.
The team that goes 5-4 or better on the road in the SEC will have a chance to be a No. 1 seed.
Yup. We could have no bad games and finish 2-4. We could have 4 pretty good games and two bad games at the wrong time and go 0-6 in that stretch.
The SEC is a far cry from Kentucky and the 11 dwarves these days.
Same brother. I also have to mentally to prepare for my wife to talk trash for the rest of the weekend when State inevitably shatters my hopes and dreams again.
That's not surprising to me. From what I can tell, basketball players were getting much more per player than football players before everything blew up. Not that the top players in basketball were getting that much more money than the top ones in football, but even non-bluebloods that cared about basketball (say, MSU) might have been paying its' top 5 basketball players (which is over 40% of the roster) as much or more than the top 5 players in football (which was like 6% of the roster at the time).
Tough break for all those teams to have to play our team.
It really is inevitable because that's just what Kentucky basketball does to us year after year, but I'll say this. Top to bottom, I'm getting pretty close to being convinced that there aren't more than 2-3 SEC teams that are more talented, and more talent doesn't always win games. I'm really impressed with this team and the way that Jans has them playing. It's not easy to get kids this age to play the way you want, and I'd point to virtually any of Calipari's teams over the years as examples of that
As ridiculous as this may sound today, I think there's a chance that the Hogs look back years from now and find out that they should've thrown the bag at Jans rather than Cal
Kentucky has only played 2 road games this year and lost them both. We need to do our part and pack the Hump and make it loud.
Why don’t you just kick us all in the nuts too while you’re at it?
This team makes me see these as opportunities, rather than with great trepidation, as usual.
Been saying the same thing. It's a very tough opening month, and going 4-4 after the first 8 would be a success. 5 wins or more would just be incredible. The back end of the schedule is more manageable and gives us an opportunity to accumulate some wins.
I thought it was already announced as a sell out. Those Cards are already Played.
We had a terrible shooting night against Butler or we are #1 right now. Sorry but we just are....
We should never lose a basketball coach to another school that’s not a “blue blood” program.
That’s my dumb take maybe but we have the money to pay the salaries, we hopefully have enough NIL to attract some good players.
We have some history and we’re in the SEC.
All that being said, Jans may be gone to Miami come end of March ??
No worries. It’s most certainly already dead, so we have absolutely nothing to lose.
The only goal of the football program should be to continue to field a team of warm bodies, so the TV checks keep coming.
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