He’s Not Made For This Stage
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Yeah damn us and the Bama football fans for wanting to continue being good at our respective sports. Us spoiled rotten children are the problem.
If we would just not care, then it wouldn't matter!
And people wonder why the divorce rates are high these days.
Alabama went to the CFP this year. Kentucky’ll be lucky if we make the NIT. Apparently wanting to be above mediocre is too much for some of these fans.
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Some of you don’t “UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT.”
The assignment Mitch Barnhart gave Mark Pope was to act as Emotional Therapist to help guide young men who were shut off from their feelings to a happy place where they were more open to expressing love and nurturing others.
He’s only failing if you understood the assignment to be winning basketball games.
The assignment Mitch Barnhart gave Mark Pope was to act as Emotional Therapist to help guide young men who were shut off from their feelings to a happy place where they were more open to expressing love and nurturing others.
He’s only failing if you understood the assignment to be winning basketball games.
Assuming they, like me, think he should’ve stayed in med school.
I liked it better when our drunk coaches were actual real drunks. At least their teams played hard.
Twitter said it perfectly . We need a coach, not a therapist.
The peak divorce rates in the US were between 1960-1980 and have been declining since
I increasingly miss the hardass old school coaches that would never ever spew this sort of psychobabble jibberish.
“Screw your feelings. You can do what I say and play better or you can sit on the bench.”
I am curious what the marriage rates are.
As fans we love and appreciate his burning desire to succeed and be at UK. As fans we also realize he needs to graciously resign if he loves and wants UK basketball to succeed.
I believe he made it clear he wasn't interested in coaching college anytime soon.
I think Pope may just be too nice of a guy for the job.
When you read books about the great coaches of the past …in both basketball and football …there’s a common trait that stands out: there were times when they pushed the players so hard that they almost begin to hate him. Because those coaches understood that their job was not to be the players’ buddy/pal, but instead to get the best out of them.
But Pope so wants to be perceived as the nice guy liked by everyone that I don’t think he has it in him to do that.
When you read books about the great coaches of the past …in both basketball and football …there’s a common trait that stands out: there were times when they pushed the players so hard that they almost begin to hate him. Because those coaches understood that their job was not to be the players’ buddy/pal, but instead to get the best out of them.
But Pope so wants to be perceived as the nice guy liked by everyone that I don’t think he has it in him to do that.
Yea and to the people who say you can’t do that now days is false. Lot of kids love a hard nose coach. Lot of them prefer it actually.
Who is coaching this team, the Dalai Lama?
Popes biggest problem right now is he can’t just say what he knows. If he does, he’s gotta tell us that these guys suck and he did a terrible job. He doesn’t want to to do that, so he says lot of ******** that means nothing. Just be a man and say it.
He also knows he isn’t getting any top recruits in to help next season. Guy knows he’s completely screwed and basically signing his term papers for after next season. He’s a mess. I kind of feel for him, but it’s his own fault. And he’s a millionaire. And on top of it all, he really jumped the gun with his preseason hype of this team being 96 level, and all of that 9 talk. Guess he didn’t see it, but he knows he should have.
Also, he’s just soft. Can’t fix that, it’s DNA.
He also knows he isn’t getting any top recruits in to help next season. Guy knows he’s completely screwed and basically signing his term papers for after next season. He’s a mess. I kind of feel for him, but it’s his own fault. And he’s a millionaire. And on top of it all, he really jumped the gun with his preseason hype of this team being 96 level, and all of that 9 talk. Guess he didn’t see it, but he knows he should have.
Also, he’s just soft. Can’t fix that, it’s DNA.
The current marriage rate is the lowest it’s ever been, it’s peak was 1920 which was triple what today’s is
And yes, I’m looking up marriage statistics instead of talking basketball, that’s how bad it is. I’m in basketball hell
Note for future hiring committee: don’t hire a coach that has never even made a conference tournament final to try to coach at the biggest pressure cooker in all of basketball.
Maybe take a look at their personality first and foremost. If they can’t handle the pressure it doesn’t matter how good their record is. Kentucky has to have someone who can take the fanbase and boosters on. Not someone who whimpers at the slightest bit of criticism.
You can tell they left Mitch alone to make this hire. Mitch is a beta male operating in an alpha league...
Mitch's current list, probably:
1. Scott Drew
2. Travis Ford
3. John Pelphrey
4. Brad White
5. Shaka Smart
I wonder if this factors into the divorce rates being lower than they were in previous decades then. Once of those, cant have that many divorces if there are no marriages type thing. Interesting though!
It is a direct reflection of MB and his own personal views. UK needs an alpha bulldog. That's not what we have or will get as long as MB has his hands in it.
Honestly, I thought he was a bit soft back in 96 when he played. He never rubbed me as a guy that had an ounce of toughness in him.
You forgot Tony Bennett
He was the team captain lol. How awful of Mitch - he’s making lots of our fans turn on our own because he’s such an awful AD
He is/was an intelligent guy, so maybe that's why he was the captain.
I kean, I don't personally know him, but there has never been a point in time where I ever looked at Mark Pope and thought anything other than "soft". He just looks and acts soft to me.
Also, I'm a Pope fan, I can guarantee there is nobody outside of his camp, that wants Pope to he great, than me. I want him to kill it, but when it comes to stuff like this, I would call my own mom out if she was failing the way MP is.
I absolutely hate the fact that we're going to have to eat one of our own at some point. Mitch did this.
Honestly, I can't argue with your sentiment. I just cannot see this kind of communication resonating with players. How could it ??
Does he go out of his way to come up with this stuff ... or is this just naturally him ?? It certainly is not mainstream coaching, to say the least.
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As a former player he obviously understands the environment here but I think he didn't understand the difference in being a player versus the coach.
As a player he just had to worry about his business and keeping up with his teammates as a captain. Pitino had to deal with the media and the fanbase regarding our performance/recruiting. In addition it was easier back then since social media didn't exist.
Last year he got a pass due to the circumstances of when he was hired plus he had some good wins especially beating Duke. This year is 100% on him and that cheerful guy from last year is gone . No doubt he is really feeling the pressure and he is not handling it well currently (my opinion).
I hate to see one of our own getting embarrassed like this. No more former players should be the rule when we are looking for a coach. Having to fire/ force resignation from a former player s*cks all the way around.
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