Gameday thread

Drogon

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We knew we wouldn't get JQ til January anyway.


No excuse to be this bad even without them.

That's fine. It doesn't change the fact that those 2 guys aren't healthy and the team changes fairly dramatically with them both healthy and playing.
 

CrossPlainsCat

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Well, one thing is for sure. If Pope is ever fired there are plenty of fine coaching candidates on this board. I'm not one of them but I know there are lots here that could do a better job. LOL
 
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Monday Nitro

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I wasn't a fan of the merger when they moved the message board. You're argument is weak. Try again.

You actually sound like you have no clue what this message board has been about. Just seemingly spewing snark because you can't make a case for the on-the-court product.
Again, you haven't posted a thing this year other than "Pope sucks". Your posting history doesn't lie but you apparently do.
 

Noledynasty2490

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That's fine. It doesn't change the fact that those 2 guys aren't healthy and the team changes fairly dramatically with them both healthy and playing.

He played against UL and I didnt see much of a dramatic change. Dude is a sive on defense.
 

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One2Three

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I wish I had the ability to shut it off and just not watch games the rest of the season, but that's not possible.
It's been hard to be a UK fan for quite a long time now and I really thought this was going to be a great year.
Damn.
I will. I won’t keep accepting this crap Mitch keeps feeding us. It the boosters didn’t hire Calipari, Barnhart’s tenure as the AD of Kentucky basketball would’ve turned us into Indiana.

I won’t accept this anymore.
 

Seth_C

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I think I was in the minority that was disappointed when Oweh came back. Gives us nothing
I was fine with him coming back to be option 2 or 3 on the team, but we paid him to be the star and he was never deserving of that and is proving himself incapable or not interested in the role.
 
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bbnkat02

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Guess its time to say I had a bad dream about us two nights ago. All I remember is watching a broadcast and Pope was standing with his hand clasped above his head, we were losing, and all the announcer kept saying was "Wow. What the hell is happening to Kentucky Basketball"

Yeah. And nearly all of my bad dreams have a semblance of reality.

I'm officially worried about the future of this program if something doesn't turn around very quickly.
 

Cats3x

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Sure, we're missing our starting PG and 5. But the backup PG and our 5s have been OK.

We're getting nothing in big games at the 2 and 3.
 

LineSkiCat14

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You cannot spend 20M on a roster and look like this. You just can't. Someone screwed the pooch majorly.

Because it seems we had to overpay for subpar players when we got turned down.

People keep saying he reached out but anyone who knows the sanctimonious of a jackass that is Mitch Barnhart would know he’d never even so make as contact someone like Nate Oats.

His hiring process was “Is he a good, Christian man?” And hired the second guy he contracted when the first “Good Christian man’s” family turned him down.

If theres any bit of truth to this, we are cooked up til hes gone. Imagine 2025 and were trying to do things like were still in the 50s. I swear sometimes I think Kentucky basketball im general just trys to take the most difficult path if it means we get to say we did it "the Kentucky way". This program needs to wake up or there wont be much to root for in a few years.
 

One2Three

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If pope cant get it done in this recruiting cycle he needs to be canned
Don’t worry, Mitch Barnhart will keep Pope too long and we’ll end up losing a good coach to another school who would’ve come here had we started a new coaching search earlier.
 
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