Pound for pound, Pope is worse than Billy G

Billy G won SEC COY, Pope couldn’t hold Billy Gs jock.

At least Clyde was hammered all the time.

Billy G is a hell of a coach. He just has too many demons.

Gillespie would blow this team out by 30. Bleachers would be empty at halftime.

Never saw a Billy G team get outworked. ! Not the most talented teams but they always played as tough and as hard as they possibly could.

Snarks said:

Billy G won SEC COY, Pope couldn’t hold Billy Gs jock.

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Pope is the only UK coach to not win SEC COY.

PooPooPeePeePoo said:

Billy G is a hell of a coach. He just has too many demons.

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Yea. This. It wasn't X's and O's why CBG wasn't successful here. He took on the pressure of a program he wasn't ready for. He learned the hard way that this job isn't a job on the court alone or in a player's home.

Now now everyone I've caught hell for two-years for this exact same opinion. It was true then and true now. Billy G with 22 million would assemble a better team

If bcg had this team, we be cooking. Pope is not a coach.

Catastic5 said:

Worse recruiter, worse x and o’s coach. Worse substitution patterns and his incapacity to get players ready for games. The man is legitimately the worst coach we’ve had in the last 90 years.

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Yup

At least Billy G was a human being and had real life human emotions and struggles.

Pope is in a cult and an awkward piece of ****. He’s a loser. He might be a great dad/husband but he’s an evil piece of ****. Loves uk so much, he makes them a laughing stock.

As I said in another thread I think it's time for Pope to do as his coach taught him.

If I was him I would play defense like my college coach trained me in..

Full court trapping press

You got a deep team and can't really play defense so if it was me I would make them play full court pressure.

I believe that might be the only way that you can wake up the defense in this team is by forcing them to full court pressure.

The theory is they're going to score on your half court defense anyway so why not play the full court pressure game and if they score off of that well fine they were going to score anyway
... But you can also manufacture some steals manufacture some energy manufacture pressure by picking up and putting full court trap in.

You don't really have anything to lose and you have 14 damn players.


Its time. Start playing real Kentucky basketball defense. Make them fear the press.

Young folk don't really remember because we've had three or four coaches that were pussies and didn't use it but..... REAL KENTUCKY Basketball is full court trapping defense and it always will be.