Let’s just keep all the fire Popes together BBN!
“OFFICIAL FIRE POPE”
- Thread starter BlueBlood96Cat
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In!Let’s just keep all the fire Popes together BBN!
Signed…
Fire Barnhart’s dumbass too. Hell if we are being honest, Eli Capilouto should be fired as well. He’s big reason Mitch has been allowed to destroy this athletic department.
Fire Barnhart’s dumbass too. Hell if we are being honest, Eli Capilouto should be fired as well. He’s big reason Mitch has been allowed to destroy this athletic department.
Yep, faaaaaaaarrrrr Pope!
Yes start official fire thread for them too and keep them at the top of rafters until it’s a done deal.
Save us, boosters, you’re our only hope…
Signed, fire him and Mitch together please!
Our gut feeling when he was hired is turning out to be true, he wasn’t the right choice. The University of Kentucky deserved someone who had at least won a tournament game. Kudos to him for tapping the nostalgia to rally everyone, but it doesn’t change the fact that it was and still is a bad hire.
Fire Mitch first. He should have been the one that got ran off instead of Cal.
Fire!!!!!! him and BarnFart. Poop Mark and S*** Barnfart
Fire him horrible coach
The on court product is bad, off court has been filled with rumors, and recruiting is nonexistent. How many guys would you honestly want to see back next year? There is currently no hope in this program, UK has to make changes and move on. Mitch won’t be fired, but force him into retirement.
Wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills faster. Barnhart ain't firing him this year.
We are in a really, really bad situation. I think part of the reason we had to hire Pope in the first place is coaches know that UK has unrealistic expectations. Now, add on that we ran a hall of fame coach off. His replacement made it to the sweet sixteen and had the most top 10 wins ever in his first season. He's off to a bad star his second season and we fire him? We are stuck with Pope for at least another season unless he resigns. Another year of this will be hard to take, but the focus needs to be laying the groundwork for the next "homerun" hire. We absolutely must get someone the likes of Hurley, Oats, Pearl to return to greatness.
Moreno and the 2 redshirts can stay. Everyone else needs to GTFO, including the coaches.
Mitch wouldn’t fire Pope after two years but if the boosters aren’t happy they could force his hand. If I were a booster I’d lose my checkbook.
If Mitch was any good at all, he would be having private conversations with Bruce Pearl right now. No more hiring guys that don't have the resume. Pearl has 2 Final 4's and plays a style UK fans would kill for
He’s not coaching right now, so it wouldn't be sketchy to do.
I agree, bring Pearl in for 5-6 years while looking for a young Mark Golden type to replace him. Won’t happen but fun to think about. Mitch is more likely to hire Tony Bennett.
Throwing my hat in the ring here. As much as I hate this, Pope has to go.
My initial reaction to his hiring, was like so many others. I was disappointed.
But then he said all the right things and had a surprising season. I figured we had something, even though there were some red flags.
But this season is going about how I thought things would go when I heard he was hired.
Pope loves UK and he’s doing his best, but he just doesn't have what it takes. You can't just give this job to anybody, you have to be a special coach to hanfle this and I'm not sure Pope will ever be that.
This sucks
My initial reaction to his hiring, was like so many others. I was disappointed.
But then he said all the right things and had a surprising season. I figured we had something, even though there were some red flags.
But this season is going about how I thought things would go when I heard he was hired.
Pope loves UK and he’s doing his best, but he just doesn't have what it takes. You can't just give this job to anybody, you have to be a special coach to hanfle this and I'm not sure Pope will ever be that.
This sucks
Yes, Pope has got to go. It's not just this year, yes, this year has been awful with six terrible losses already and it looks to get much worse but as others have pointed out, there is ZERO recruiting for next year, there will be a mass exodus after this debacle of a season, etc...what the hell kind of team are we going to have next year ? At best, I can't see it being much better than this year at all and at worst, it could be even worse than this year. It's a tunnel of darkness and I (and many others) see no light at the end of the tunnel under Pope. If you hire a Coach like Bruce Pearl, I honest to God believe he would get this **** turned around in one season. Hell, if we brought him in this season, he might be able to turn things around and get us into the NCAA Tournament. He would bring a ton of excitement right from the jump for the team and fans. And even if he couldn't turn this trainwreck of a team around, next year would be looking bright or at least we'd see light at the end of the tunnel. With Pope, there's NONE of that. And yes, Barney needs to be fired too.