All but 2 will be in the portal. And they are not the two we need back.
Mark Pope show is on now
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Our guys are confused and brain dead after platitudes like this
Pope is in a Catch 22 situation this off season, assuming he’s shameless enough to return for a 3rd season. Either he brings back most the team, who aren’t even good enough for the SEC, much less by Kentucky’s standards. Or he loses most of the team to the portal and he’s forced to start over. Problem with this scenario is he’ll likely have a poor reputation (thanks to negative recruiting by other schools and by his own actions) with portal transfers and boosters are not going to give him the money necessary to bring in a top tier team.
Next year is basically a wash. Pope will be a lame duck coach, a deadman walking with either this crappy team or an even worse team due to all the things I mentioned before. If we don’t end up with an under .500 record this year, I’d be shocked if we didn’t next year. Say goodbye to the all time winningness team again. Thanks a lot, Mitch Barnhart.
I’ve been saying since we hired the guy and his personality became evident. He is wired to coach women. Guys respond to that crap by disrespecting the coach behind his back. This is why we re not bringing in recruits. I wouldn’t be surprised if a player current ran Collin’s off with stories. Knowing Barney he himself started the JMi crap to take heat off mark.
I hope nobody laughs at this. Because we had dudes on here saying the samething in 2024. "It's actually smart to not start Reed and Rob".
I mean, one of the biggest issues he has dealt with the last 2 years, is constantly falling way behind. What the heck does he think causes that?
He says he uses the first half analytics to determine who plays in the 2nd half, well, there are a lot of things wrong with this.
1) He changes players out constantly, so the amount of time the best players are on the court together, is not enough to analyze and how could there be any continuity when there are changing lineups like that? One bad cog and the entire lineup on the floor looks bad. Chandler embarrassed himself and the other 4 guys constantly against Alabama
2) We all know who the best players are, stop being dumb and just play the best players. Even if one of them struggles in the first half, he's still better than the alternative. Our 5 best players are good enough to figure it out within the course of the game
3) There is no way you can take anything from the analytics in that amount of time
4) we keep making comebacks in the 2nd half because he stops shuffling players in and out like crazy and it is usually the same 5 guys each game that end up doing the work
5) if you need analytics to tell you which players are playing the best, you suck.
He played our best 5 players for 1 total minute against Alabama. His substitution patterns made no sense. Chandler got burned over and over, but Pope kept putting him out there and Kam sat. This guy has no idea what he is doing.
Couldn’t listen to the show, but by reading your guy’s comments about Pope’s thoughts and actions, is ANYONE still surprised why this clown is 0-28 recruiting 5*’s?
Honest question… Would any of you want your 18-20 something healthy testosterone level son around this Girl Scout Cookie selling Low-T doofus? Be honest!! Heck to the NO you wouldn’t…
But you want this guy to get a 3rd season? Are you having a good hard laugh at that notion yet?
Honest question… Would any of you want your 18-20 something healthy testosterone level son around this Girl Scout Cookie selling Low-T doofus? Be honest!! Heck to the NO you wouldn’t…
But you want this guy to get a 3rd season? Are you having a good hard laugh at that notion yet?
Wait. There’s still a regular 70s style radio show? He should be granted a third year just for that.
Tom Crean would mop the court up with Pope, and that’s saying something
The trend by a growing segment is to feminize boys so pope is making that group very healthy
A guy called into the ksr show a few minutes ago with a theory on why Pope doesn’t start Lowe.
He said he's hoping he doesn't even have to play Lowe to help him heal. After some thought, this makes sense when you pair it with Pope's responses to the questions about it. He keeps talking about the injury and rehab.
I have some news for Pope. Due to the roster he created, there is a ZERO percent chance you won't need Lowe in ANY SEC game this season, ESPECIALLY in games involving Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, UT, Auburn and UGA. It’s called "common sense".
He said he's hoping he doesn't even have to play Lowe to help him heal. After some thought, this makes sense when you pair it with Pope's responses to the questions about it. He keeps talking about the injury and rehab.
I have some news for Pope. Due to the roster he created, there is a ZERO percent chance you won't need Lowe in ANY SEC game this season, ESPECIALLY in games involving Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, UT, Auburn and UGA. It’s called "common sense".
If true, that is worse to me. If Lowe needs to sit and Pope is playing him then Pope cannot say it’s about protecting the kids. It’s about Pope screwing up, not having a backup point guard and trying to save his own tail.
Tom Crean has won multiple regular season conference titles and has been to the final four. It’s not fair to compare him to Pope.Tom Crean would mop the court up with Pope, and that’s saying something
That is THE most troubling thing about the Mark Pope era so far , for me at least. His UK teams, even last year are constantly getting behind early sometimes WAY behind, you can't beat good teams consistently when you constantly start out in the hole. He unwillingness to even acknowledge this as a problem drives me crazy.
The other thing not starting your best 5 does is it keeps you from evaluating matchups etc as early as possible from a coaching and adustments stand point. That's an example of something that will never show up in an analytic study. If I'm a coach, I'm using the first segmet of every game for my whole staff to be watching with eyes wide open for whats happening, who's guarding who and who's struggling to guard who both ways. Who are our better matchups and whose our bad matchups and on and on. Then at the first and maybe second TV time outs I'm making adjustments.We all have our differing opinions but I disagree with this 100%. It’s absolutely not being overblown. What Pope did Saturday by NOT starting his best players is giving the entire team a “safe” and “cautious” mental approach. The exact opposite of what they should be feeling at the start of the game. What does an approach that basically says “let’s be really careful and play two or three of our inferior players a few minutes and see if we can keep the score within striking distance”. Meanwhile, our likely best three point shooter, our projected top 10 NBA draft pick AND our one and only legitimate point guard will cheer really hard that they’re not down 20 when they finally get into the game.
Guys like JQ, Cam and Lowe sit there and watch CC, Aberdeen and Moreno give up 8-10-12 points in a row and get the Bama crowd in a frenzy - THEN they’re inserted into that? Of course that makes a difference. A huge, gigantic difference. By that time Bama was throwing in everything they shot - it’s called momentum and it’s the deciding factor in most “somewhat” evenly matched games.
Do we win Saturday if the lineup of: Lowe, OO, Cam, Mo and JQ start? Probably not, but at least we would have “come out swinging” with our best pitch. If you’ve got a 103 mph fastball - don’t throw a bunch of ineffective 88 mph sliders
You're also putting more pressure on the other guys defense to guard without fouling. When you best penetator is on the floor I guarantee their guards are more prone to foul early and well know what coaches do when you pick up two early fouls (dont get me started). You get their guys sitting down early and you disrupt the flow of the game in a positive way for us and negative way for them.
All things that can come from playing your best lineup early as possible.
The worst part us, he thinks it's not an issue, so he's not going to change what he's doing.
Mmmmkay, it's your reputation and your job you're about to lose. Have at it hoss.
Folks, I think we're done here. Meaning, Mark Pope was the wrong hire. Full disclosure, I was pulling for Scott Drew during the search process but, was hopeful that Pope would be an under-the-radar-hire that knocked it out of the park. Especially after last season's overachieving results. It is obvious he is NOT that guy.
I don't know what has changed or if it's just adversity that has revealed who he really is. But, he is NOT the coach we all hoped he'd be.
He won't be fired after this season because that isn't who Barnhart is. I think we'd still have Joker Phillips coaching FB if it weren't for a fan revolt forcing MB's hand. No, Pope will be here at least one more year. He'll get at least that long to fix his mess.
I don't know what has changed or if it's just adversity that has revealed who he really is. But, he is NOT the coach we all hoped he'd be.
He won't be fired after this season because that isn't who Barnhart is. I think we'd still have Joker Phillips coaching FB if it weren't for a fan revolt forcing MB's hand. No, Pope will be here at least one more year. He'll get at least that long to fix his mess.
just sucks that next year is likely going to be a lame duck season. oh well