It's really hard to be a positive fan right now.
Really damn hard.
It's really hard to be a positive fan right now.
Really damn hard.
Pope is gonna have one miserable of an offseason if he misses the tournament and decides to return. I know I’d be scared stiff. But he’s got $5 million reasons to try again.
And what do both of those all-time stretches of UK basketball mediocrity have in common? Hint: rhymes with darn fart.
I see ZERO reasons to run this back.
One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel
All roads go back to one man. Our AD has screwed this program over. Does anyone else on earth get to be this bad at their job and not have consequences?
It’ll be worse next year without Oweh.
That's why it's just time to cut our loses and just fire Pope.
We literally have nothing to lose at this point.
imagine being the AD presiding over that and the Stoops fiasco and you still have your job
I speak for many people when I say just stfu.
Pope simply HAS to get much better players.
It is just that simple. He and his staff know this.
It is just that simple. He and his staff know this.
This is correct. There is absolutely no reason to give Mark another year. He can’t coach. He’s made that clear. He can’t recruit, he’s made that clear. He can’t construct a roster, can’t handle the media, can’t manage a roster on court or off. What reason? Something he give me a solid reason he deserves another season?
I couldn't care less about you or your band of cronies. I support UK. Everyone on the board including me has said this is a bad season. Guess what...its still this season so its still bad. If you and your buddies want to attack everyone who won't fire the man over one bad season(though he has never been the coach I wanted), then having the numbers doesn't make you right
lol so the people that put this year‘s team together, you have confidence moving forward they’re going to get the right players next year?
If we fire him now, we'll lose all the recruits signed for next year!
Why in the world would anyone want to fire Pope???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Bingo. This is a personnel issue and that’s popes fault. He can’t recruit. He never could and that’s on Mitch for hiring him. He also failed to hire a GM to help him.
it’s all about recruiting
I’d still like to know what happened before the Louisville game. Pope has lets the convict run the prison all year. Lack of institutional control. He’s a beta by golly.
It’s not just that. You still coach the players you have. These players are not coached. You still compete with the players you have. We do not compete.
If you are undermanned you get the players you have in Ironman shape. That’s not happening either.
When you are undermanned you over prepare. That’s not happening.
There is not one thing Pope does well as a coach.
You could give Pope an NBA roster and you would watch a poorly coached team go thru the motions.
Oh piss off. Same was said for Stoops. Sometimes hanging on to a bad hire is worse than moving on.
I don’t think he’ll be fired. I’m all for gentle nudging $ to convince him that stepping down is best for the program. But it can’t come from Mitch. That guy needs to go first.
That was true for Joker and Stoops and it’ll be true for Pope as well.
Mitch needs to go yesterday, but I truly think he believes he’s one of the best ADs in America.
He’ll never walk away unless it’s on his terms and he gets to hand the reigns to one of his own protégés.
Lee Todd was the one who forced him to hire Calipari, Barnhart never wanted to hire him.
Capiluto lets Barnhart do whatever the hell he wants which has led to both the football program and basketball program completely tanking.
But hey, volleyball!! Am I right?!
He’ll never walk away unless it’s on his terms and he gets to hand the reigns to one of his own protégés.
Lee Todd was the one who forced him to hire Calipari, Barnhart never wanted to hire him.
Capiluto lets Barnhart do whatever the hell he wants which has led to both the football program and basketball program completely tanking.
But hey, volleyball!! Am I right?!