Looks like Mark Pope is the new Kentucky head coach.
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Whew boy. This is gonna go over like a sack of hammers.
A Mormon named Pope, can't go wrong there 
Will beat you like a red headed step child of one of his 6 wives?
I wonder who their coach will be in three years…
Damn! That hire looks like Kentucky had to pay the full buyout and didn't have any money left for the next coach. They've come a long way from names like Hurley, Pearl, Donovan, etc. to Mark freaking Pope. Wonder how many of their fans are wishing they had Calipari back.
Ran off a coach with 55 NCAA tournament wins to hire a coach with 0 NCAA tournament wins.
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Hell, I thought for sure Bullard pistol-whipped Pope in that 1996 game.
I assume that's more of a comment on a Kentucky school hiring a former player out of desperation.
It didn't. In Cal's contract they owed him a huge buyout if he was fired, but he could leave on his own and not be owed one.
he ripped off his suit to reveal a KY basketball uniform underneath while on the BYU campus court. Damn!
Okay, I’ll be the Contrarian:
This may be the best hire Kentucky could have made after Tier 1 and likely the best available Pitino Coaching Tree candidate not named Kevin Keatts— or Rick Pitino.
This may be the best hire Kentucky could have made after Tier 1 and likely the best available Pitino Coaching Tree candidate not named Kevin Keatts— or Rick Pitino.
Certainly could be the case. I guess the issue is why on earth UK would have to settle for anyone below Tier 1?
He’d be a real good hire for Mississippi State. Not for Kentucky though. I think they got caught by surprise when Cal said bye & panicked.
Yeah I mean at the end of the day its still UK basketball. If he can coach even a little bit he’s going to have tremendous success, and it looks like he can. He is the polar opposite of a Rick Ray or Kenny Payne in terms of qualifications.