Might as well fire him this year. We won’t lose any recruits. 
Does Pope deserve another year?
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If stoops wanted out then he would have never won those games against UF and Auburn.
I personally think missing the tournament should be an automatic firing here unless you had just won the title like Cal in 2013. Sadly I think we could probably lose out and Barney still wouldn’t fire him this year. Mitch is a gutless coward. Even if he did fire him he would just make another horrible hire. If you believe Jones, Mitch was done to Pope and Shaka Smart.
There’s absolutely not a worse AD in the country.
I'll wait till season is over then decide. We had several teams that looked like this early under Cal that made pretty good runs late. Ominously ( to me at least) this team plays like many of Cals late teams.
That wasn’t me.
He didn’t exceed any expectations in my book. Merely met them. In today’s era, that was nothing special. But it wasn’t to be sneezed at either. Long way of saying he simply did his job and didn’t earn equity.
He's never actually proven himself as championship pedigree as a coach and recruiting is taking BTA.
Yes, last season had good wins but the only consistent thing is embarrassing double digit losses.
If u can't buy a team with 22 mil, then another yr won't change anything. Recruiting is the life blood of the program and nobody wants to play for Magnus Carlsen.
After pope, it was either Shaka Smart or Chris Jans. Those were Mitch’s choices. The man is a dimwit and he’s let us all down
He will 100% be here next year, regardless of who the AD is
Another year just for the fanbase, boosters, Pope and his family to be utterly miserable.
According to some of you, Pope must insane if he’s refusing to consider his sanity in all this. Sometimes the money ain’t worth it. This is one of those occasions.
I promised myself I would stay off the basketball forums yesterday, because I knew it would be ridiculous, and boy,,, I see today it definitely did not disappoint
Yeah, you still don't throw it out. Pay attention.
It really doesn't matter what some fans want. Short of him going off the rails like Billy G, he will be the coach next year. Pope is not going to just quit.
I said some fans, not all. More fans will give the third year than not.
This is the nuance. He doesn't deserve it, but he'll get it. They can't afford to fire him while also paying Mitch's previous stupid buy out.
Its still early so let's hope he turns it around this season, but the issues really aren't fixable enough to overcome our overall deficiency.
The only reason he might not get another year is I really think Mitch is out. The way the Stein hire went down made that obvious. So it likely isn't up to Mitch. Also if Mitch is out of his role, the buyout reduces imo.
Lets see how this season ends but as it is today he doesn't deserve another year.
Let it stain Cals legacy or whatever, but it’s not comparable to other yrs. Look at it this way…if Pope goes 6-12 in the SEC (real possibility). It will be as bad as Eddies last yr (we all know what was going on there), Ricks first (death penalty yr) and Cal/Covid. And Pope will have done it in his second yr with a super expensive roster and zero of those other situations. The level people are willing to be apologetic to this soft a$$ loser is just baffling to me.
Ignore all facts and blow out losses and just blame the fans like the “coach pope fan club” wants.
This tells everything. Absolutely pathetic. Billy G was ran out of town after year 2. When he has the same record at UK through 50 games as Pope does. This team might not win a game on the road
If he comes back people should not go to a single game. He can’t recruit. He can’t coach. His teams consistently look flat and unprepared
All the fans fault for not being happy. Please, tell us all how we need to be excited with our 22 million dollar team no matter what.
Give it time folks! It’s time to be disgusted with the effort, the dribbling the ball to death, the selfish play, the lack of caring about each other. It’s the coaches job to fix it. There is time to fix all those problems, let’s see if He is tough enough to make those hard decisions. I think He is. I may be wrong. I was wrong one time, but it’s been a while!
I’m not telling you to be anything, but I am saying some of these comments are sad and disgusting.
It’s just part of it. Not saying it’s right, but fans are going to be pissed. I’d say Coach Pope is mad as well.
Na, being upset I get … personal attacks over a game played by kids to young men is ridiculous
The guy is on a mission to drive fellow fans away from Pope. It's toxic AF.
Pope should resign at the end of the season. Pull a Calipari. This isn't going to work. Next year will have Trent Noah playing heavy minutes. With a portal team. Total bust of a hire. UK needs a real coach.
What the hell? This guy just said my thoughts verbatim. Even the Calipari started this in 2019 point. Exactly right.
Speaking of toxicity, are you familiar with toxic positivity? Some of you along with Pope are pushing the toxic positivity really, really hard right now.
Unicorn farts as I call it.
Look I’m all for the power of positivity. Because if you don’t have it you’ll give up on things before you even try.
But when it isn’t working, it isn’t working. And continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results is a definition of insanity.