Just because people say they want pope gone doesn’t mean they don’t realize he likely gets a third year, nobody argues that. Just wish he didn’t get one
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Good post and agree about the person Pope, I could do away with the sappy/creepy approach and the Taylor swift love fest. That said he seems like a good dude in waaayyy over his head.
It’s really not that serious. Being the head coach here is not as hard as people make it seem. All you have to do is win. You do that in your golden. BCG was a prick but if he took us to a final fours. Nobody would’ve gave a **** about him being a prick. We would’ve loved him. Dan Hurley is just as big of a prick as BCG. If we had Hurley here, we would love him because he would win.
Mark Pope is “seriously woke “ ? First I‘ve heard that. lol
Just like the Bengals will never be good under the Browns. UK athletics will never be healthy until they get away from Mitch B. It all starts at the top!
And this JHR poster is the only person that has ever said it. All kinds of lunacy on this board.
To me if Pope somehow manages to grab a t least 2 big time guys either out of the portal or from the HS ranks and can perform, he will be here past year 3. If not, the end of next year it will be over for him.
I hope the guy can get some high caliber guys and put this all behind us but we will see.
Hmmm. Could there possibly be a difference between:
a.) An aging Hall of Fame level coach with established success at multiple power conference programs being offered a lucrative contract at an SEC school with competitive NIL infrastructure
and
b.) A fledgling coach who was hired by his dream coaching school, who would likely have to rebound at a much smaller school, for much less money, with inferior resources?
If we turn our brains off while discussing these matters, we end up expecting things that aren’t reasonable and become perpetually disappointed. There’s a non-zero chance Pope decides to step away after this season. That’s the only way year three doesn’t happen — I don’t expect that to happen. You shouldn’t expect that to happen either, because it almost certainly won’t.
You don't even know what the word 'woke' means. Stay off Steam game reviews, jeez.
Just like with Knight and Pitino, Hurley would not put up with the **** we've seen from these guys.
There’s always a chance something changes no matter how much you want him here or not. Everyone said Cal wasn’t leaving and he did. They said Stoops was here as well and he’s out. So I wouldn’t be so quick to speak with certainty.
Obviously, I meant to say “and you’re golden”. It blows my mind that people actually try to correct grammar on an open basketball forum. Hope that made you feel better.
I think there’s an excellent chance this team doesn’t make the tournament. There’s not a game left on the schedule I feel confident about except maybe Oklahoma at home. 20-11 heading to Nashville best case.
I just had dinner with one the largest donors to UK basketball. He is livid with Pope. And Barney. He gave $5 mil to UK basketball last year. He says he will not donate another dime while Pope is coach.
Folks wanting a new coach next year are like all the Cal fan boys who slobbered over next yea's recruiting class while the current season was still going on. Then in the summer the new team would be ballyhooed. Then when the season came, things would go badly but there was always next year's class to dream about. Wash, rinse, repeat! That's 2018 until Cal left (The Quickley team the only exception)
yes, but with pope what do you look forward to, and elite class? naw
I think he'll do just enough to get 1 more year, he'll recruit the portal & high school ranks for skilled players that can shoot, they'll suck at defense once again because he can't coach defense, we'll get his year 1 type team all over again.