Fire Pope (Part 39 I think)
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Not a "Pope hater." (that's a juvenile take). My comments still stand. We were fortunate to have JQ AND Lowe come back out and have a great game. Good win for us, but the fact that we have fans coming on here and talking **** to other fans because we beat Saint John's, shows where we are as a program right now. Beating st John's (pitino coaching or not) should be EXPECTED. We looked like the Washington Generals the first half. The fundamentals of this team are still very bad. Hopefully we can continue to improve, but Pope which I like has done a very questionable job to this point in the season.
One troll in the books...next?
OK, can we re-hire him now?
Anon17 u are a duke fan or cal lover get out of here. Get out of here! it's beyond stupid they let trolls stay on here. Go drool over freshmen on a different team, when they haven't won a championship since ad.
FARRRRRRRRRRRR MARK POPE!
FAAAAAARRRR RICK PITINO! Former coach losing to current coach on hot seat doesn’t meet our standards!
FAAAAAARRRR RICK PITINO! Former coach losing to current coach on hot seat doesn’t meet our standards!
Umm, your 180 logic is confusing. Didn't pope recruit the guys that led us to the win? Partly. Then you take another dig suggesting he won't recruit enough big time talent.
So, you have nothing to offer but sophmoric quips. Long time poster here under the moniker Blue Bigfoot. Wouldn't allow me to keep my old screen name. Oh well. Hardly a troll.
Except Pope has been whiffing on a number of players that could be JQ level, players that would make his teams elite.
He has to change how he approaches recruiting, either it’s the JMI stuff, which he’ll need to demand change or he’s refusing to get into bidding wars despite having a lot of money to work with, which he needs to stop.
Pope is a very smart dude, hopefully he’s capable of self-reflection to make changes if he can coach himself out of this quandary we’re in.
I’m so happy we again turned it around and played a great second half but why can’t a Pope coached team play two halves of good basketball ever? Why do we always start out with a terrible first half in a hole?
Long time Troll. Dude go back and look at your posts at the start of this thread.
You guys didnt know there were 2 halves of basketball? Ha who am I kidding most didn't know there was a full season
Im sure OP will get crap (and he may be a troll) but lets not pretend alot of us weren't thinking this during the 1st half lol
I think our recruiting has been hurt by the JMI contract and he’s never had a full team on deck with stars. Who knows what he could do with say the 2012 team, they might beat teams worse than Calipari did. I don’t know. I do know we’re not where we need to be and hopefully we can hold serve to the final four this year and win the SEC. I don’t personally think we can, but I’m not a fortune teller either. JQ is definitely making the team ooze confidence. So how good can they be? I don’t know.
But it sucks when you realize regardless this JMI contract isn’t going anywhere and Barnhart will extend Mark for just making the tournament. Our standards have been lowered. It’s concerning.
OP has been trolling this board since the beginning of the season. And if not a troll, has zero basketball IQ.
Congratulations on your national championship. Indiana hangs banners for a game like this too.
Will? He already is and should. I was irritated in the first half but put those complaints in the game thread where they belong.
You are every bit as bad of a troll as the OP.
Congratulations on your national championship. Very happy you got the job done that you feel is sufficient. We finished the job.
Seriously congratulations.
Yea, some folks want the Cats to lose so they can bang the “fire Pope” drum louder. No one is saying the Cats should treat this like they won a trophy, but after the way the season started everyone should be happy that 1) we beat IU and St John’s and 2) JQ and Lowe both played. The second half showed what this team can be when healthy. Yes, Pope should have a second PG and that’s on him, but if we can stay healthy this is a MUCH diff team than the one that got blown out by Gonzaga.
If you’re annoyed that people are happy about this game, then you may be the “bad fan”, not the ones cheering.
If you’re annoyed that people are happy about this game, then you may be the “bad fan”, not the ones cheering.
Seriously, go have another shot. I know its a hard day for you when UK wins and you cant whine and ***** about Pope and the players
Yeah man, its so hypocritical and indicative of how thin skinned they are. They can be absolutely brutal to Pope, the team, oh, and "Pope ball washers" who don't want to fire him, but use their own comments against them when we win and its tears and cries for mods. Priceless comedy
Uhm, go back read it to me and explain what I'm wrong about. I think you have me confused with the OP. It's not that hard to copy and paste. The ONLY one acting like a troll here is you.
This is why I loath coming over to rafters anymore. It's like walking into a scene from idiocracy. Just juvenile obnoxiousness.
Man you get in a bad mood when the Cats win. Have another round on me and cry away your tears
Exactly my issue. We are going to have to evaluate and crush the portal every year somehow with this JMI nonsense.
Unbelievable that we have guys celebrating like we won a title after being down yet again at half. Sorry people were upset yet again with a 25 point half and another game being down.
Here’s the real deal. We have all been concerned with this team early this year. And games like MSU and especially Gonzaga the toughness and will to win I saw were disturbing. But Pope and the team went to work, committed to defense and the past 2 games have been very encouraging. This team I think is different personnel wise than any Pope has ever had. But I’m gonna give him huge credit so far for realizing that and playing to these guys strengths. Pope can coach. God willing if we can stay healthy, this team is gonna be special defensively.