Mitchell Not Coming to UK

TheResistance

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Thinking What GIF
 

wildcatsincebirth

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Man it’s really amazing how no matter what he tries to do, mark pope fails

I mean this one isn’t exactly his fault but it’s just another time he got the fanbase’s hopes up for no reason. The guy cannot catch a break and he straight up doesn’t have enough talent to keep his job at UK after this year
 

wildcatsincebirth

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Hold up. So Mitchell was cleared to play and then all of a sudden went back to Missouri? Or did SEC eff UK again?

If so.. did Pope get PLAYED again? Wtf is going on?
What’s going on is intraconfernce transfers outside of the portal window were never allowed and pope took a gamble hoping the SEC would back down and they did not

It’s the same issue it’s been for weeks, a lot of yall got lied to with clickbait headlines on twitter. Once the SEC said they weren’t allowing those transfers no matter what, it was over.
 

wildcatsincebirth

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Yeah, don't really blame Mitchell for not wanting to go through with this whole song and dance.

Also, blaming this on Pope is just stupid.
I don’t blame pope for this but this is like the 15th time he’s gotten everyone’s hopes up and failed to deliver so it’s kind of a pattern lol

and I do blame him for this roster being barely top 25 without Mitchell. So yeah im blaming pope and more so blaming Mitch for hiring him in the first place
 

CC_332

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I don’t blame pope for this but this is like the 15th time he’s gotten everyone’s hopes up and failed to deliver so it’s kind of a pattern lol

and I do blame him for this roster being barely top 25 without Mitchell. So yeah im blaming pope and more so blaming Mitch for hiring him in the first place
Do I blame Pope for the quality of this roster (or lack thereof)? Yes. Do I blame him for Mitchell leaving to go back to Missouri because of the SEC BS? No.
 

BookofMormon

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You're talking about a different issue. Blaming Pope for Mitchell decommitting and going back to Missouri because Sankey won't let him transfer? Stupid. This isn't on Pope.
Not even slightly. I'm curious to how Mizzou is going to play Tiller and Mitchell together as they're both clearly 4's.

Out will come the children of BBN now whining about Pope because they got what they thought was the taste of a F4 roster, and now it's his fault that the roster is not.
 

Farsight Clone

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What’s going on is intraconfernce transfers outside of the portal window were never allowed and pope took a gamble hoping the SEC would back down and they did not

It’s the same issue it’s been for weeks, a lot of yall got lied to with clickbait headlines on twitter. Once the SEC said they weren’t allowing those transfers no matter what, it was over.
Gotcha, was just looking for clarification is all.
 
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70% everyone else’s fault
30% popes fault

Say whatever you want but pope has had by far the most unlucky head coaching career so far.

players get crazy injuries, HS commits uncommitting stupidly, SEC and NCAA rules messing with him.

I hope pope is absolutely pissed, I hope he’s yelling right now, we still have the opportunity to get a good 15th player but at the same time I’m sure pope is and was confident of the guys he already had, even more now
 

CW

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Maybe people will stop the whole cheering on the SEC in non UK games BS. I’ve never understood it and certainly can’t fathom it now.

The conference will always actively screw Kentucky basketball and has for years. Kentucky was the sole reason the SEC was not considered the laughingstock of power conferences in the sport for decades. We were the only respectable name and power program.

You know what’s more lucrative for the conference from a money perspective? Having 4-5 powerful basketball programs instead of 1. And they will gladly cut Kentucky down to prop up the others because we are established and never going away.
 
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