it might not have been on this board, but I definitely heard such from UK friends in the state, and even some of the trolls that like to pop up on our home board.
Of course no one will admit it now, but it was definitely the off-season rhetoric. Granted the media had UK top 10 preseason so it’s easy to see why UK fans were very excited.......until the second game of the season.
I do remember Jimbo saying that they were loaded and that he expected at least elite 8.