Mitchell Not Coming to UK
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I thought Missouri didn't have a spot for him? The SEC really ****** us over on this one.
Lot of people going to have to eat some crow now. Many of you all were convinced it was happening.
Another mediocre season coming. Just great....
Pope is the coach. Mediocrity was coming either way
Major blow. It will be the excuse Pope needs to get a 4th year
Difference in a top 10 team and a 25-30 team.
I don't think he earns another year with current squad. Mitchell isn't an excuse for this season, he was a last minute option that just fell in our laps out of no where.
Mizzou is now better than UK.
At best, we are the 5th or 6th best team in the SEC. Pathetic.
At best, we are the 5th or 6th best team in the SEC. Pathetic.
Mizzou has 15 players listed on their roster. I'm not sure how he can join the team.
I can't blame Mitchell for this. He knows his odds of getting a fifth year are much greater if he stays at Missouri.
Hold up. So Mitchell was cleared to play and then all of a sudden went back to Missouri? Or did SEC eff UK again?
If so.. did Pope get PLAYED again? Wtf is going on?
If so.. did Pope get PLAYED again? Wtf is going on?
Man it’s really amazing how no matter what he tries to do, mark pope fails
I mean this one isn’t exactly his fault but it’s just another time he got the fanbase’s hopes up for no reason. The guy cannot catch a break and he straight up doesn’t have enough talent to keep his job at UK after this year
I mean this one isn’t exactly his fault but it’s just another time he got the fanbase’s hopes up for no reason. The guy cannot catch a break and he straight up doesn’t have enough talent to keep his job at UK after this year
Pope swung and missed. Mitchell or not, he’s coaching for his job this year. And I don’t think we will be good enough anymore.
Yeah, don't really blame Mitchell for not wanting to go through with this whole song and dance.
Also, blaming this on Pope is just stupid.
Also, blaming this on Pope is just stupid.
What’s going on is intraconfernce transfers outside of the portal window were never allowed and pope took a gamble hoping the SEC would back down and they did not
It’s the same issue it’s been for weeks, a lot of yall got lied to with clickbait headlines on twitter. Once the SEC said they weren’t allowing those transfers no matter what, it was over.
No it's not. Mitchell isn't Pope's fault but the fact that we had to have him in order to be good is 100% on Pope.
Pretty much. So many recruiting misses is what will come back to bite Pope.
I don’t blame pope for this but this is like the 15th time he’s gotten everyone’s hopes up and failed to deliver so it’s kind of a pattern lol
and I do blame him for this roster being barely top 25 without Mitchell. So yeah im blaming pope and more so blaming Mitch for hiring him in the first place
He was probably worried the court cases would drag out until next year and he wouldn't get to play at all. Safest place for him was at Mizoo but who was kicked off the team to make room for him?
Death knell for the Mark Pope era.
You're talking about a different issue. Blaming Pope for Mitchell decommitting and going back to Missouri because Sankey won't let him transfer? Stupid. This isn't on Pope.
Do I blame Pope for the quality of this roster (or lack thereof)? Yes. Do I blame him for Mitchell leaving to go back to Missouri because of the SEC BS? No.
Not even slightly. I'm curious to how Mizzou is going to play Tiller and Mitchell together as they're both clearly 4's.
Out will come the children of BBN now whining about Pope because they got what they thought was the taste of a F4 roster, and now it's his fault that the roster is not.
He won't get any excuses. He either does well this year or he is gone.
I'm sorry, but Mark Pope is now the KING of bad optics...
Just cannot win the PR game, ever.
Just cannot win the PR game, ever.
Don’t really care. I didn’t think we were going to win at the level needed even with him here. We will struggle with the same **** we’ve struggled with over the last couple of years regardless. I hope Mark kills it, but I just don’t see it; even with Mitchell on the roster.
It is actually quite shocking how much stuff like this is only happening with Kentucky and Pope. No other program is having to be as paranoid about players that literally commit to them. We're just getting insanely unlucky, or screwed, over and over at this point.
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Our new AD will get the job done if Pope doesn’t do his….
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!?
Oh well.... Another 22-12 season awaits....
Oh well.... Another 22-12 season awaits....
70% everyone else’s fault
30% popes fault
Say whatever you want but pope has had by far the most unlucky head coaching career so far.
players get crazy injuries, HS commits uncommitting stupidly, SEC and NCAA rules messing with him.
I hope pope is absolutely pissed, I hope he’s yelling right now, we still have the opportunity to get a good 15th player but at the same time I’m sure pope is and was confident of the guys he already had, even more now
30% popes fault
Say whatever you want but pope has had by far the most unlucky head coaching career so far.
players get crazy injuries, HS commits uncommitting stupidly, SEC and NCAA rules messing with him.
I hope pope is absolutely pissed, I hope he’s yelling right now, we still have the opportunity to get a good 15th player but at the same time I’m sure pope is and was confident of the guys he already had, even more now
Maybe people will stop the whole cheering on the SEC in non UK games BS. I’ve never understood it and certainly can’t fathom it now.
The conference will always actively screw Kentucky basketball and has for years. Kentucky was the sole reason the SEC was not considered the laughingstock of power conferences in the sport for decades. We were the only respectable name and power program.
You know what’s more lucrative for the conference from a money perspective? Having 4-5 powerful basketball programs instead of 1. And they will gladly cut Kentucky down to prop up the others because we are established and never going away.
The conference will always actively screw Kentucky basketball and has for years. Kentucky was the sole reason the SEC was not considered the laughingstock of power conferences in the sport for decades. We were the only respectable name and power program.
You know what’s more lucrative for the conference from a money perspective? Having 4-5 powerful basketball programs instead of 1. And they will gladly cut Kentucky down to prop up the others because we are established and never going away.
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