No I hope he wins the title. It will show the incompetence of our administration. Cal was not handled well. Had he not been given that horrible contract he would have stayed sharp sans a year here and there. Now he’s out to prove he’s legit and UK the problem. It’s a bad look for us. He needed to go based on merit but that was based on Barney’s piss poor management style
Does it infuriate anyone else that Calipari
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Are you retarded? Butler led SDSU to a F4 before playing for Pope. How exactly did he improve under Pope?
Amari wasn't even that good. He actually regressed in almost every statistical category.
Chandler is doing exactly what most freshman to sophomores do. Particularly highly rated one. What has Pope done for him specifically to improve him?
We aren't UK fans because we don't make up/perpetuate bs narratives to defend him? "If you don't lie to yourself, you aren't a real UK fan!"
Are you retarded yourself, poser . that's why you stick with anon name I figure you and every anon are the same person. Offensively butler was better last year than he ever was and amari was better than most our center options this year. Amari was better for us because he played for a small team who didn't play sec completion simpleton.Are you retarded? Butler led SDSU to a F4 before playing for Pope. How exactly did he improve under Pope?
Amari wasn't even that good. He actually regressed in almost every statistical category.
Chandler is doing exactly what most freshman to sophomores do. Particularly highly rated one. What has Pope done for him specifically to improve him?
We aren't UK fans because we don't make up/perpetuate bs narratives to defend him? "If you don't lie to yourself, you aren't a real UK fan!"
I figure people like you were born in 2000s. Hell berea at end of the year got defensively better. You don't watch the games and it's obvious. Also otega last year was better. How can cal make players better when they were good in he and didn't stick around for year two, majority of them. I was being facetious over him never improving people but the load of talent he had wouldn't take much. You can swallow a bunch of Richards and go root for calipari.
Dog, when the only thing you can resort to is attacking my username, that tells me you have no rerort to the actual argument and have to use fallacies.
No. Thankfully unless his name comes up here, I no longer think about that guy. He is fueled by spite though, so if he decides to coach it will be games that would annoy Kentucky fans. Pay attention when he ***** the bed to some team you've never heard of. That's the Calipari way.
Is that any different than what he has done for the last 15 years? He has owned that community college down the road.
No. He’ll choke with his loaded roster in March. He’ll let some less talented team coax him into a rock fight, and lose.
A friendly bet of your favorite six pack beverage. I'll take the cats.
I was about as big of a supporter of Cal as you ever imagine. You cannot lose to Oakland and St. Peters in a span of 3 years and stay as coach of UK. People melting down about Pope losing 3 games against ranked teams in November want him gone....lol.
You would have to have been just admitted to the mental ward to say that. Cal was a POS that didn’t give two shucks about UK. He wasn’t trying at all in the last few years and should have been fired around 2018. So glad he is gone. Would rather have Satan coaching than that fraud Cal.
A friendly bet of your favorite six pack beverage. I'll take the cats.
You know, I should do that. I always lose so that would insure a Cats win.
OK, he can’t stay. Congratulations on being controlled by your emotions and not being able to think logically. Having to hire a coach when we don’t have a sure fire guy ready should work out great.
Yeah, all that fake Mark Pope love is gone, it was really hatred for a man stoked by a radio host to the point he had to go. There were no other options.
The Cal at the end of his tenure here had become fat, comfortable, and had lost his edge. The change of scenery has done him some good. He's in better shape now and has put together another good team.
He wasn't our 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice, but it is pretty obvious he was Barnhart's 2nd choice - which is another reason Barnhart needs to be shown the door
We don't really know that either. Maybe Mitch was interested in others and those didn't show any interest in return. Who knows. There was other names floating around.
The crap that happened with the BCG hire happened with Pope’s. Let’s stop beating around the bush.
The fact we even had BCG as a head coach tells me that maybe UK isn't the destination that some make it out to be as far as coaching goes.
Yep, this is the type ive been referencing lol. Fired in 2018? Good lord.
Posters like this, Cawood, KyfaninNC, Morg and others are the lunatics that give Kentucky fans a bad name and they are part of the reason the divorce with Cal was so messy.
I wouldn't blame any coach for starting to hate fanbase, when he just got off of a four final4 run with a title. Has a down year and fans like this immediately turn on him.
It tells me that maybe Mitch Barnhart isn't the AD that he's made out to be.
That may be true. But we wont know until hes gone. And also, let's not pretend that we dont have UK fans that very much align with Mitch's thinking: they want Kentucky bred players and coaches, they value the church-going guy, we do things on the up and up, etc.
Pope made it further than Cal did since 2019 last year. Brain fried?
The program slipped majorly. If Pope doesn't work (I think he will), we will go get someone that will.
Definitely a pressure cooker. That was the worst hire at UK in the past 100 years, any sport. That was a Mitch trying to make his mark hire.
The job is unbelievable, but it requires a very unique skill set....including thick *** skin when it isn't going good.
Yep. Plus dealing with this crazy fanbase we are isn't the easiest thing nor something everything is built for lol.
I have no idea how you rate ADs. Most people are obviously going to look at this from a basketball perspective and maybe football here.
The guy hired BCG. That was a clear miss.
But he hired Cal. And despite how that ended, Cal took us to four final fours and won a title. I don't know how anyone could argue that at that time it was a HR hire.
He hired Stoops. Which granted he also wore out his welcome here, had some pretty good seasons for a UK football team playing in the toughest football conference in America.
With the women he hired Brooks. That is turning out to be a good hire.
He's responsible for other sports as well. I'm not going to pretend I know how that is going (I know we kinda rule in volleyball and I think soccer).
I dunno lol. I think when things go south people tend to blame the coach or the manager or the GM or the AD in this case. Easier to go after those guys than a set of kids that might just not be performing to the standards they should be.
The guy hired BCG. That was a clear miss.
But he hired Cal. And despite how that ended, Cal took us to four final fours and won a title. I don't know how anyone could argue that at that time it was a HR hire.
He hired Stoops. Which granted he also wore out his welcome here, had some pretty good seasons for a UK football team playing in the toughest football conference in America.
With the women he hired Brooks. That is turning out to be a good hire.
He's responsible for other sports as well. I'm not going to pretend I know how that is going (I know we kinda rule in volleyball and I think soccer).
I dunno lol. I think when things go south people tend to blame the coach or the manager or the GM or the AD in this case. Easier to go after those guys than a set of kids that might just not be performing to the standards they should be.
Yea total mole that one. Noticed it too. People laugh at this but these entities absolutely post on boards and social media. I’ve said it before, I know someone that had a buddy grad assistant and always said Calipari had him scour the message board and social media to get the pulse of the fanbase. He’d report back what was being said and did some posting. UK athletic department no doubt has been doing this also. Some don’t believe it because they absolutely have no idea what they’re talking about but social media and personal microphones on every desk have convinced everyone they’re an expert and their opinion is correct.