Kentucky basketball spent a reported $20 to $25 million this offseason on its 2025 roster -- believed to be among the most expensive, if not the most expensive, in college basketball history -- and 10 games into the season it feels as if the sky is falling in Lexington. So I come bearing news:

It probably is.

The 6-4 record -- with losses to rival Louisville by eight points and to Gonzaga last week by 35 (!!) points -- is about as rough a start as possible given preseason expectations and the lofty price tag. But it's not just an over-extrapolation of a 10-game sample in a 31-game regular season.

Kentucky has problems it can't fix with its in-house personnel. That's bad enough on its own (More on that in a bit). But worse yet: Even the correctable issues like effort, focus

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