I highly doubt UK fans would want Hurley fired, if he was hired in 2018, and we were coming off probation like UCONN was. Also, if he took the job in 2024, with the brand and NIL, an elite 8 in year 2 isn’t a tall order.
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If Pope was showing improvement, players weren’t prone to quitting, his substitution weren’t questionable, going through multiple scoring droughts, not to mention unbelievably frustrating recruiting, fans would be more patient. 2 years of the same crap. If he shows improvement this season, some of us might quiet down.
But the exhibition game shown many of the same mistakes. And recruiting hasn’t really shown any improvement either. So far, it’s just the same crap, unfortunately.
Wait a minute. You mean you have to consider an injury when evaluating a coach? Not what read on here and this forum is loaded with experts
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He wouldn't of been considered for this job back then. If he was he would of been on a short leash for sure and rightfully so. We already had a BG experience so want to avoid that again. Obviously BG also had off the court problems. All things considered the last 2 years haven't been awesome. Above average year 1 and below average last year. Hopefully this year is way better.
Yes he was an All American and their best player. JQ was damaged goods before he even got here. Lowe isn't a All American and a competent coach would have had a backup point guard on his roster.
You've been on RR long enough to know how it goes in here.
Hurley would make it 3 years, but we have too many dudes on this board that would want his head if he went 24-11 with a 2nd round loss. that's exactly what Hurley did two years ago against the 29th ranked SOS, in the NIL era.
Wait, you're saying Dan Hurley wouldn’t have been considered for the UK job in 2024, because of what happened with BCG?
Hurley was considered for the job. Barnhart flew out there and offered him the job, he said no.
Or am I misinterpretIng your post?
You think people would want him fired one year removed from a championship?
Yeah just a little off. Implying Hurley wouldn't of been considered for our job here anytime with his resume prior to coaching UCONN.
Exactly, it's not just the W-L, it's the intangibles. PR sucks, recruiting is a joke, players and their agents view our program as a joke, etc etc.
Im saying the value between Lowe and Toppin is vast. We just needed a competent back up pg last year but Pope decided not to have a backup pg.
He went out in the 2nd round after winning BACK TO BACK national championships. And they lost by 2 to the eventual NCAA champs. Your defense of Pope is starting to border on the side of fanboyism.
Oh I agree and none of us would have believed he would ever even come close to sniffing a FF at that time. His resume prior to UConn is less than impressive for sure.
It’s why you have to give guys a fair chance, you never know who the next Bear Bryant might be.
Yeah, Pope screwed that up badly and even though we all know Lowe wasn’t a FF caliber pg, we were much better with him. He’s a jitterbug, very tough to guard and he proved that during the SJ game.
I hope so buddy. Would be nice to have football and basketball both cooking.
How am I defensing Pope? My comments about Hurley are targeted towards the torch and pitchfork people on here.
As has been said multiple times, if we had Hurley and he went 24-11 and out in the first weekend, this place would go apeshit, just like they are now.
Said a million times, Pope isn’t the guy, but dangit, when we get THE GUY in here, we need to act like adults.
Yeah need a little perspective, there is a difference getting run out in the 2nd round or getting run out after back to back nattys. I would be ok with that as a fan.
Hopefully the next feller will not give us:
Trailing by 10+ points: 17 games
Trailing by 15+ points: 11 games
Trailing by 20+ points: 8 games
That dog still won’t hunt.
You ignore all reality. Just talk about the record. It’s not about the record.
Where were the torch and pitchfork people you reference when Pitino went 36-20 his first two season? Where were they after he went 14-14 year one?
“Trending” wasn’t a thing then. But if it had been everyone knew UK was trending up.
Now even Stevie Wonder can see UK is trending down.
The best advice I can give our next coach, is to never trail, win every game and if you don't, make sure your front yard is made of concrete, drunk people don't usually bring hammer drills and sleeve anchors with FIR SALE signs. (Misspelled on purpose)
It’s understandable for a fan to think if a coach is trailing that much in that many games there must be something seriously flawed with their coaching philosophy.
It’s one thing if it was just a first season issue, but it kept happening. If it keeps happening this season, I don’t think that’s a good coaching trend.
its a good thing exhibition games dont count because duke doesnt look like they are going to lose a game this year. blasting the hell out of tennessee.
its not never trails....its never always trail
its not win every game....its dont lose all the games
pope sets negative records left and right and people think some uk fans are being unreasonable. as if its not far that uk fans want a coach where we dont get down double digits every 3 of 4 games....
2nd TN exhibition, duke's 1st i think. was told here by some that exhibition games dont matter. so even though TN's bigs totally sucked a week ago and totally suck now....it must not be true as they are down 24
If you're waiting for me to disagree with you, you're going to be there a long time.
Me, Cowboy, Idiot, Paul and about 50 other "pumpers", all agree with you.
We also understand Pope's recruiting sucks, his personality is soft, his interviews are bad, he prolly has a small weenie and he never should have been offered the job.
That's the thing, so many of the torch and pitchfork gang, think we're Pope fans, we're not, we're just hoping he surprises all of us and fixes all those issues, we're giving him a fair shot, while trying to remain positive.
One more Michigan State, or Gonzaga debacle and he will have no friends.
You make a lot of personal attacks for someone that whines about being attacked. But that’s ok. Just shows you have nothing.Oh goodie, you're here.
Go ahead and finish, just don't make eye contact.
Nobody would want him fired, if he was coming off 2 national titles, I doubt anyone would go apeshit.
You seriously have a reading comprehension issue, so yeah, you should follow that advice.
I didn’t think I needed to clarify this, I thought everyone understood that in this excersize, he hadn't won any titles yet.
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