College Bball Thread

[ebridges24]

Billy Donovan is free, time to start the sitings posts

[Stuhoo]

[jermhoosierfan]

14 hours ago, ebridges24 said:

Billy Donovan is free, time to start the sitings posts

Nah, I can see UK telling Pope to take a hike and bring in Donovan if he doesn't get gobbled up for another NBA job in the next 2 months.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

So apparently UCLA tampered with Tounde Yessefou and not Kentucky?  Or UCLA tampered better?  What’s going on here. 

[jermhoosierfan]

6 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

So apparently UCLA tampered with Tounde Yessefou and not Kentucky?  Or UCLA tampered better?  What’s going on here. 

The kid is from Santa Maria, CA so I don't blame him for going to UCLA.  Lexington or back home to LA?  That wouldn't be a hard decision for me.  

[BtownStrength]

I thought Yessoufou would for sure enter the draft. I guess he still might but that would be a big W for UCLA. 

[Hardwood83]

27 minutes ago, jermhoosierfan said:

The kid is from Santa Maria, CA so I don't blame him for going to UCLA.  Lexington or back home to LA?  That wouldn't be a hard decision for me.  

Besides geopgraphy he had the choice to play for an incompetent clown in Pope or an angry, little caustic troll in Cronin. Tough call. 

[Pagoda]

43 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

So apparently UCLA tampered with Tounde Yessefou and not Kentucky?  Or UCLA tampered better?  What’s going on here. 

Is there any difference between tampering and recruiting anymore?  I think it's the same at this point.

You've got to start tampering with your targets early, they love all that tampering attention.  That's the key to getting players.  :-)

[jermhoosierfan]

22 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Is there any difference between tampering and recruiting anymore?  I think it's the same at this point.

You've got to start tampering with your targets early, they love all that tampering attention.  That's the key to getting players.  :-)

A couple of stories that I read, he has a Do Not Contact and got it in a little before the portal was closed while still in the draft.  Sounds like he knows where he wants to go if his draft stock isn't high enough, and I don't think Pope has shown much to help him get to the league.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

47 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Is there any difference between tampering and recruiting anymore?  I think it's the same at this point.

You've got to start tampering with your targets early, they love all that tampering attention.  That's the key to getting players.  :-)

Yeah, I agree with that. But it’s fun to blame some of them.  Dusty was getting a lot of heat all season for it from rival non Indiana fanbases.  It seems to me they are just good at recruiting these day?  Those who tamper best through 3rd parties?

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, Hardwood83 said:

Besides geopgraphy he had the choice to play for an incompetent clown in Pope or an angry, little caustic troll in Cronin. Tough call. 

C. None of the above.

[Demo]

Come on, Scott/DDV/Ryan, y’all need to take advantage of this. Montreal, Toronto, hell, go back to San Juan. I have no summer vacation plans this year. 

[jermhoosierfan]

On 4/21/2026 at 3:40 PM, jermhoosierfan said:

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/48553192/kentucky-governor-blasts-uk-athletics-decision-making

Let's pile onto UK a little more.  Looks like their retiring AD is getting a cushy 7 figure job from the university with no actual job description.  How can I land that gig?

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/48572037/kentucky-ad-barnhart-forego-1m-retirement-gig-amid-criticism

Looks like the UK AD will not take that job after all the attention that it got.  7 figures with no job duties listed would be hard to give up.