College Bball Thread

[LIHoosier]

Winthrop 'called' the hero ball play and Teflon survives

[Uspshoosier]

Washington down 12 to Southern with 3 min to go in the first half 

[Uspshoosier]

7 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

Washington down 12 to Southern with 3 min to go in the first half 

Washington wins in 2OT.   Southern had a 5 pt lead in the first OT with 30 sec to go and then did what low major teams do to not get the upset.   Fouled a 3 pt shooter and missed a FT late.   

[WayneFleekHoosier]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

Washington wins in 2OT.   Southern had a 5 pt lead in the first OT with 30 sec to go and then did what low major teams do to not get the upset.   Fouled a 3 pt shooter and missed a FT late.   

Wow.  Noticed Tucker and their star center didn’t play.  Any notable injuries?

[mamasa]

12 hours ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

Fire Mark Pope!

From Rupp Rafters- poll on confidence in Pope

[Demo]

16 minutes ago, mamasa said:

From Rupp Rafters- poll on confidence in Pope

I keep hearing about their 20mil dollar roster. Does anyone know if that’s actually true? I really struggle to buy that, as in I don’t. I just don’t see how you get there without a Dybantsa or a Dent or some super high end kid like that making 4-5 mil right off the top. Oweh’s a good player but they don’t have anyone like those kinds of kids and I just don’t believe that Pope radically overpaid for a slew of pretty good players. 

[Home Jersey]

9 minutes ago, Demo said:

I keep hearing about their 20mil dollar roster. Does anyone know if that’s actually true? I really struggle to buy that, as in I don’t. I just don’t see how you get there without a Dybantsa or a Dent or some super high end kid like that making 4-5 mil right off the top. Oweh’s a good player but they don’t have anyone like those kinds of kids and I just don’t buy that Pope radically overpaid for a slew of pretty good players. 

No idea if it's accurate and Rupp Rafters is definitely not a reliable source, especially given how emotional it has been in the last 24 hours (lol). They're quick to "correct" posters there who call it a 20M roster and say it's actually $22M... everyone would need to be making between $1-3M. Seems wild. There's also a lot of speculation over there that the players have been fighting/arguing about NIL. They really, really seem to think Oweh is a locker room problem. And that Pope can't get them on the same page because he's "too Mormon" for them ... haha. Looking forward to playing them.

[FortWayneHoosier]

59 minutes ago, mamasa said:

From Rupp Rafters- poll on confidence in Pope

They are scrambling that is for sure. Its gonna interesting come December 13th down there.....

[Pagoda]

50 minutes ago, Demo said:

I keep hearing about their 20mil dollar roster. Does anyone know if that’s actually true? I really struggle to buy that, as in I don’t. I just don’t see how you get there without a Dybantsa or a Dent or some super high end kid like that making 4-5 mil right off the top. Oweh’s a good player but they don’t have anyone like those kinds of kids and I just don’t believe that Pope radically overpaid for a slew of pretty good players. 

I don’t think it passes a sanity check.

Just how I see it is as follows:

Last season reports were they were in the $5M NIL range with us.

Then when the rev share started this season there were rumors UK put $9M of their $21M towards MBB.  The Lexington Herald found out it was actually more like $6M per athletic dept sources.  Makes more sense.

So $6M rev share, that means $16M of NIL to get to $22M.  $16M NIL for bball I just don’t believe.  3x last year’s NIL?   Where did that money come from?  $16M is the sort of NIL number major football programs layer on top of their rev share.  That much for bball seams very unlikely.

My guess: they’re actually $13-15M paid to players for THIS season and the $22M figure probably erroneously includes total contact value over multiple years.

If it is actually $22M that is wild.  Eyeballing their roster I can’t see how they add up to that much. And if it is true, those donors probably aren’t thrilled with the ROI right now.  Though I’m sure they’re not thrilled regardless now that I think about it.

[DChoosier]

FWIW…from the Lexington Herald:

What will the collective earnings be for this Kentucky team? The payroll number for the UK basketball team this season is around $22 million, the Herald-Leader has been told. That was the number as of the finalization of the House settlement,

[Stuhoo]

UK Coach Mark Pope after the game, doing his best "Archie Miller looking at my shoes" impression. Goodman does an excellent job trolling him into depressive sadness, and Pope accepts the role willingly.

Goodman's first 'question' is "Allright Mark. This is probably I think as down as I've seen you. Period." lol

This two minute video is a lot:

 

 

[DChoosier]

12 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

UK Coach Mark Pope after the game, doing his best "Archie Miller looking at my shoes" impression. Goodman does an excellent job trolling him into depressive sadness, and Pope accepts the role willingly.

Goodman's first 'question' is "Allright Mark. This is probably I think as down as I've seen you. Period." lol

This two minute video is a lot:

 

 

Pope is a Mormon.

His wife is a BYU grad.

Her father was a BYU assistant in the 90’s.

Think he misses coaching at BYU yet ??

[Stuhoo]

Goodman's array of concerned reactions during his interview with Pope are priceless:

 

[AKHoosier]

Man imagine if we went to Rupp and beat UK.

We could really break their spirit, and it would be glorious.

[Uspshoosier]

3 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Wow.  Noticed Tucker and their star center didn’t play.  Any notable injuries?

Not really.  They just got outplayed for the entire game.   A lot of hero ball between the guards. Not much offense ran 

[Uspshoosier]

San Diego St lost in 2OT to Troy, Arkansas and Washington both should have lost last night.   No matter the amount of money paid for a roster college basketball still finds  a way for the small schools to compete  and I’m here for it all.     There will always be kids overlooked.  Something special about teams with less talent going into a place a competing their butt off.    Delivering.  Wish it was a little easier in the night so I could of watched some of them live however the next day replay will do 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Eye chart @Uspshoosier's eye doc uses for his annual check-up

[Napleshoosier]

The post game with Pope is one to watch. The dude is about to cry!

[Uspshoosier]

Michigan up 6 at half over Middle Tennessee 

[AZ Hoosier]

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