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true-blue1 said:
On paper one would think 3-1 but with this team it's hard to predict. Pope needs to start, J Lowe, Oweh, JQ, Williams and Mo but with that said nobody understands his rotations.
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If I thought Pope would stop running a Jr Pro team and play the best players, I believe we could go 4-0. Too bad he has to give minutes to those who don’t deserve them🤷‍♂️
 
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We'll likely win both games this week, getting everyone's hopes back up, only to have then dashed next week when we could lose to both LSU and UT. I say we lose at least one of those. Then we can win 2 more before likely losing to Vandy and Ark.
 
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The_Answer1313_rivals

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I’m The Village Idiot said:
Yeah I don’t think the team is that cheeks. I’m pretty down atm but I’m not that down to think we’re going 0-4.

Likely W vs MIZZ
Likely W vs MSST
Toss-Up @ LSU
L @ TENN

I’d expect 2-2 or 3-1 even with our issues
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Yep this is reasonable. We are going to be nice size favorites in those home games.

We are better than LSU......with them being home tho it levels it up a bit and will be the swing game here.

@ UT will obviously be tough.
 
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We are playing nothing but high major teams the rest of the way. Need I remind you, we have two wins against teams in that category all year. And those teams aren’t very good.

I don’t expect Kentucky to have a winning record in any four game stretch we have left.
 
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The_Answer1313_rivals

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I know people tend to just overexaggerate over wins and losses that just happened.
The bottom line is this team has had seven signficaint games this season. According to KP ranks we've lost to

5, 12,13,14 and 29

We've beaten

25 and 28.

Based on what we are overall 24th in Kenpom. We are a fringe 25-30 type team right now.

It's disappointing considering coming into the year we thought we were wayyyy better than this. But having that said, this team isn't terrible either. If you can't handle Missouri and Miss St at home, something is wrong. UT is 16th and one the road. It's a game that would be great to have but we definitely are going in as the underdog. LSU is a true coin flip given they are home.

The truth of the matter is road games in the SEC won't be easy but we should be able to defend our home as well. And it probably leads to an about 500 record in the SEC and maybe a 5-7 seed in the tournament.
 
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The_Answer1313_rivals

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The beginning of this schedule contains a very favorable home schedule and a tough road

The first 10 SEC games

Home games vs MIssouri, Miss St, Texas, Miss and OU..........these are games u kinda wish were road games considering UK would still be favored in them and they would count more for the resume.

Then you got away games like Alabama, UT, LSU, Vandy and Arkansas............games where if they were home you'd think ok maybe have a decent shot at pulling a couple of them off......but with them being on the road..........not very likely with the exception of MAYBE LSU.

All this spells to me is prob 5-5. Or somewhere around there.

To me it would have benefited UK if these home/roads were flipped. Tho then again with this team maybe have some sure fire home wins wouldn't be so bad lol.
 
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If Pope has a 4 game losing streak at any point during league play (and other scenarios if he doesn’t), UK can forget about making the NCAAT, and all of you, “Pope needs/ gets a 3rd season no matter what”, are going to be in for a rude awakening, because Mitch won’t be making that decision.

The $$$ donors will revolt, and you can kiss any and all NIL deals a fond farewell!

That lone point, is why Calipari went fishing in Arkansas waters right before he left.
 
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Well I seem to be the only person on this planet that thinks a losing record and no NCAA tournament gets him fired.
Highly doubtful, but I don't think there is zero chance.
 
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We will go 2-2. We have beat a couple decent teams. IF we lost the next 4 we would be 0-5 in the SEC likely players are quitting and shutting it down by then putting us in jeopardy of a losing season.

Pope is on a very hot seat right now. I’ve heard the “they won’t do it this year” so many times to see people proven wrong more times than not. If we miss the tourney it’s gonna be 50/50 on whether he’s back or not. I promise. The money that has to be put up to field a competitive team won’t be there next year and there is zero in the till. The redshirt guys and the team will all enter the portal.

I think popes knows bcg is the butt of jokes and I don’t think mark wants to be remembered like that. At times he seems like a guy who’s already mailed it in. We have gone 11 years since a ff. 14 since a title. UK fans are sick of not being a factor and this era isn’t one that abides by the 3 year rule. The 3 year rule was established when coaches needed to rebuild programs. If by year two you blow big money on a losing roster that is a hot asss seat. I’m sorry spin it all you want. We have learned the hard way “it’s not about the money”. (A big segment of bbn never got over the cal “it’s all$$$$”) the reality….It’s about relationships. It’s about being able to sell and close deals. It’s about being coherent and have a clear vision for individual players. It’s about projecting toughness to young men who need a strong male role model. Not this feelings crap. Feelings don’t win games. They don make baskets they don’t defend. All feelings do are confuse. You mark need to tell them how they feel. Like I’ve said this is the stuff that goes on in women’s programs and that’s not a joke. 85% of bbn thought pope was a bad hire. 85% today think he cannot coach nor do the other things the uk coach should be able to do. If we apply some common sense here. How is it what does mark going for him? And if he did he knows the risk would be to be the butt of jokes for the rest of time. UNCheat fans still aren’t over Matt Daugherty and with pope if he does this again he will undoubtedly be fired and the jokes, the critique will be brutal and humiliating. This could get far worse than cal if pope over stays which he currently is doing.

UK fans know from watching a Daugherty or heck Hubert davis. It’s like “dont fire davis” UK is better off with that guy coaching UnCheat than a will wade. Cbb is wishing bg “uk don’t fire pope. Please!” And to think we could have a nate oats. Oh how the mighty have fallen since the 89 rebuild. We had no doubt then we would be back. There was always hope. Since the advent of barnhole there has been zero certainty except about 5 years there. And the clowns say “nate oats won’t leave for bama”. These are the same it’s all about $$$$ when it comes to draft or Barney. But our all time bb program it does not apply”. That’s hogwash! You make oats one of the top 3 highest paid coaches or the highest. That’s what you do at UK. That’s the leadership that has brought 8 titles with 5 different coaches. And think about it. Barney has presided over 4 for a quarter century and 1 title.
 
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Gotta hold serve at home throughout the SEC schedule. We do that, and win a couple of SECT games, we get at least an 8 or 9 seed in the dance.
 
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jedwar said:
I'm hammering Pope as hard as anyone but I'd be shocked if we went 0-4. Missouri and Miss State should be wins. Should be. @LSU will not be easy and a loss at Tennessee. So I will say 2-2. Wouldn't suprise me to lose one at home and at UT.
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Probably 2-2.

Win the two at home.

60-40 we lose @LSU.

90-10 lose @Tennessee.

Pretty sad to be thinking this way in January.
 
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The_Answer1313_rivals said:
Yeah tho to be fair the SEC during Pope's time has been a different beast than it was with Billy G lol
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BCG’s best win his last season was against #24 Tennessee. His first year he did beat #13 Vandy (who finished 19th) and #3 Tennessee (who finished 5th). Other than those 3 games he lost to every ranked team he coached against. So as you said, although their records are similar they got there in very different ways.

As frustrated as we all are with Pope this season our losses are to teams currently ranked 20, 17, 13, 12, and 8. We haven’t lost to a single team outside of the current top 20 AP poll.
 
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Goingfor9 said:
We will go 2-2. We have beat a couple decent teams. IF we lost the next 4 we would be 0-5 in the SEC likely players are quitting and shutting it down by then putting us in jeopardy of a losing season.

Pope is on a very hot seat right now. I’ve heard the “they won’t do it this year” so many times to see people proven wrong more times than not. If we miss the tourney it’s gonna be 50/50 on whether he’s back or not. I promise. The money that has to be put up to field a competitive team won’t be there next year and there is zero in the till. The redshirt guys and the team will all enter the portal.

I think popes knows bcg is the butt of jokes and I don’t think mark wants to be remembered like that. At times he seems like a guy who’s already mailed it in. We have gone 11 years since a ff. 14 since a title. UK fans are sick of not being a factor and this era isn’t one that abides by the 3 year rule. The 3 year rule was established when coaches needed to rebuild programs. If by year two you blow big money on a losing roster that is a hot asss seat. I’m sorry spin it all you want. We have learned the hard way “it’s not about the money”. (A big segment of bbn never got over the cal “it’s all$$$$”) the reality….It’s about relationships. It’s about being able to sell and close deals. It’s about being coherent and have a clear vision for individual players. It’s about projecting toughness to young men who need a strong male role model. Not this feelings crap. Feelings don’t win games. They don make baskets they don’t defend. All feelings do are confuse. You mark need to tell them how they feel. Like I’ve said this is the stuff that goes on in women’s programs and that’s not a joke. 85% of bbn thought pope was a bad hire. 85% today think he cannot coach nor do the other things the uk coach should be able to do. If we apply some common sense here. How is it what does mark going for him? And if he did he knows the risk would be to be the butt of jokes for the rest of time. UNCheat fans still aren’t over Matt Daugherty and with pope if he does this again he will undoubtedly be fired and the jokes, the critique will be brutal and humiliating. This could get far worse than cal if pope over stays which he currently is doing.

UK fans know from watching a Daugherty or heck Hubert davis. It’s like “dont fire davis” UK is better off with that guy coaching UnCheat than a will wade. Cbb is wishing bg “uk don’t fire pope. Please!” And to think we could have a nate oats. Oh how the mighty have fallen since the 89 rebuild. We had no doubt then we would be back. There was always hope. Since the advent of barnhole there has been zero certainty except about 5 years there. And the clowns say “nate oats won’t leave for bama”. These are the same it’s all about $$$$ when it comes to draft or Barney. But our all time bb program it does not apply”. That’s hogwash! You make oats one of the top 3 highest paid coaches or the highest. That’s what you do at UK. That’s the leadership that has brought 8 titles with 5 different coaches. And think about it. Barney has presided over 4 for a quarter century and 1 title.
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You wrote an entire books worth of nonsense lol
 
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