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Kentucky basketball's Mark Pope embraces transfer portal in move away from John Calipari era

Blake Toppmeyer

  • The age of the diaper dandy is finished. The time of the transfer has come, and Mark Pope is willing to play the game John Calipari wasn't: Transfer roulette.
  • Kentucky is in the process of assembling one of the nation's best transfer classes ahead of Mark Pope's second season.
  • Need proof for how the transfer model works? See Florida and its star Walter Clayton Jr.

The age of the diaper dandy is finished. The time of the zero-star recruit has come.

Duke and North Carolina can have the blue-chippers, because Florida had Walter Clayton Jr.