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Posted by Bigcatdaddy (Member # 21) on 02-24-2026, 12:54 PM:

I don’t feel he got his moneys worth.
Fine me that much and I’d go scorched earth on those emmers effers. lol

My $.02 falls way short of $25K

Posted by ukman (Member # 3032) on 02-24-2026, 01:04 PM:

Maybe he can ask JQ to pay it for him. At least then he'd be contributing something to the program instead of just taking from it.

Posted by Bigcatdaddy (Member # 21) on 02-24-2026, 02:51 PM:

lol. Banner idea!

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 02-25-2026, 09:28 AM:

I don't think JQ ever plans to play for UK again. He's saving everything for the draft. What a big waste of money. It will take a few times before the leaders catch on to this little plan. Our biggest problem this year is Pope didn't get the top players he wanted like previous coaches of this team. We are just not the elite team like we were under Pitino.

Posted by rlt4uk (Member # 3194) on 02-26-2026, 01:34 PM:

It's about time he stood up for his team. I was at the Auburn game and with how much Kentucky was getting hosed on the foul calls he just stood there. Another thing that was crazy, during a timeout he and the other coaches would huddled away from the team going over something on a laptop, analytics I suppose. With about 20 seconds left in the timeout he'd sit in front of his players and say something really fast and the players would come back onto the court. And once and only once did they run a specific play.

While I'm ranting. I wish our bigs would quit dribbling the ball two feet from the basket. Almost always leads to a turnover.

Another thing is my brother and I got to our seats 1 1/2 hours before the game the players were already warming up and this lasted for an hour, I'm not taking just working on their shots but hard practice. It has to be one reason they were fatigued at the end of the game.

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 02-28-2026, 11:34 AM:

Not in shape????