Cats record next season

What do you expect the Cats to finish next year.

  • 0-10 wins (don't think Pope can coach or evaluate talent at all, just hate life)

    Votes: 2 1.5%
  • 10-15 wins (also don't think Pope can coach or evaluate talent, but any idiot could get UK 10 wins)

    Votes: 13 9.7%
  • 15-20 wins (just patiently waiting for the next coach, when's football season start)

    Votes: 48 35.8%
  • 20-25 wins (10-loss-Tubby and now 20-win-Pope, skeptical but willing to give him 1 more year)

    Votes: 40 29.9%
  • 25-30 wins (optimistic, but realistic, so many key injuries would have derailed any coach)

    Votes: 23 17.2%
  • 30-40 wins (Pope all the way, hey leave some of the Blue kool-aid for me)

    Votes: 8 6.0%

  • Total voters
    134

BlueSince92

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You don’t know that. It all depends on what coach would replace him, and if giving him this year results in a new AD with a goood connection with a slam dunk hire then it will be well worth it. It seems to me with this statement that you think our best chance of hiring a great coach would be with Barnhart making the hire before he leaves?
??? You could be perfectly right that an extra year is warranted for those reasons and that still doesn’t remotely tie the value of an extra year to a 20-25 win outcome specifically. Which was clearly the assertion OP made and was all I was responding to. Try to start paying attention.
 

Johnnie Africa

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Feb 27, 2003
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??? You could be perfectly right that an extra year is warranted for those reasons and that still doesn’t remotely tie the value of an extra year to a 20-25 win outcome specifically. Which was clearly the assertion OP made and was all I was responding to. Try to start paying attention.


When you said if we win 20-25 games next year than keeping Pope an extra year was not worth it, I was simply saying that it might be worth it in the sense that we would be better off because Barnhart would not be the AD and we could potentially have more time to evaluate and attract a great coach next year as opposed to within the next two weeks. In that sense, keeping Pope would be worth it as it set us up better for the future. Surely you can understand where I was coming from with that statement. Not sure the reason for the childish comment about paying attention at the end just thought we were having a pleasant talk on a Tuesday morning.
 
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When you said if we win 20-25 games next year than keeping Pope an extra year was not worth it, I was simply saying that it might be worth it in the sense that we would be better off because Barnhart would not be the AD and we could potentially have more time to evaluate and attract a great coach next year as opposed to within the next two weeks. In that sense, keeping Pope would be worth it as it set us up better for the future. Surely you can understand where I was coming from with that statement. Not sure the reason for the childish comment about paying attention at the end just thought we were having a pleasant talk on a Tuesday morning.
Get your act together, bud. Message board posting is serious business.
 
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BlueSince92

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Jul 2, 2025
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When you said if we win 20-25 games next year than keeping Pope an extra year was not worth it, I was simply saying that it might be worth it in the sense that we would be better off because Barnhart would not be the AD and we could potentially have more time to evaluate and attract a great coach next year as opposed to within the next two weeks. In that sense, keeping Pope would be worth it as it set us up better for the future. Surely you can understand where I was coming from with that statement. Not sure the reason for the childish comment about paying attention at the end just thought we were having a pleasant talk on a Tuesday morning.
Lol narcissist. Pleasant talks on a Tuesday morning don’t start with you jumping on a true statement with “you don’t know that.” I made a simple and true statement and would have been fine with anybody actually just wanting to bounce around some other insights on it.
 

Bichoto

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Mar 26, 2026
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I put 10-15 wins, but wouldn’t be shocked if it’s 15-20. But he doesn’t have Oweh to bail him out this upcoming season. I think without Oweh, we probably only win 15-20 this past season
 

Johnnie Africa

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Feb 27, 2003
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Lol narcissist. Pleasant talks on a Tuesday morning don’t start with you jumping on a true statement with “you don’t know that.” I made a simple and true statement and would have been fine with anybody actually just wanting to bounce around some other insights on it.

sounds good, thanks!
 

JonathanW2

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Aug 6, 2025
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I put 10-15 wins, but wouldn’t be shocked if it’s 15-20. But he doesn’t have Oweh to bail him out this upcoming season. I think without Oweh, we probably only win 15-20 this past season
Probably right that without Oweh we win 15-20 this past season. But if you are saying without Oweh, wouldn't it be as reasonable if not more reasonable to say "no Oweh, but have Lowe and Williams all season and JQ last half of season" (or even just those first 2)?
Or you could say without Oweh and Aberdeen we might not have won 10 games this year.
 

CUJO_1970

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Jul 3, 2025
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It's too early to tell - but thus far nothing at all has happened to indicate things are going to get better next season. Certainly not Mark Popes history as a head coach.

So based on what we know today, we are absolutely looking at another 12-14 loss season. Something even bigger than landing Stokes will need to happen in order to change that.

Now let me say this clearly: if Pope loses out on Stokes it is an ominous sign. It's NOW or it's never for Pope.
 

Bichoto

Sophomore
Mar 26, 2026
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Probably right that without Oweh we win 15-20 this past season. But if you are saying without Oweh, wouldn't it be as reasonable if not more reasonable to say "no Oweh, but have Lowe and Williams all season and JQ last half of season" (or even just those first 2)?
Or you could say without Oweh and Aberdeen we might not have won 10 games this year.
I have no idea what you even mean but none the less, it will be double digit losses abs by that I don’t mean 10.
 

JakeKx

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Oct 5, 2023
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Delaying the inevitable. Another sweet 16 at best and 20. That’s the ceiling. We don’t even have enough players to field a team at this point
 

KyKevin

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I would say, I'll be a Kentucky fan no matter what. And all you negative whiny f.ucks, can all go cry together, like a bunch of real fkn losers.

Wah Wah fkn Waaaah some more, sorry bastards.