An NCAA record 8 wins against top 15 teams in his first year with a roster he assembled in 2 months. Let’s let them man assemble a roster that stays healthy for a full year. The man can coach. The sky isn’t falling
My Goodness, let the Man have his year 3.
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From my perspective I am criticizing what he's done up to this point. I will be happy to criticize him or praise him on what happens going forward when we get to that.
The narrative was established with 14 losses, a 9 seed in the sec tournament, and a 2nd round ncaa tournament exit. You change it with hope through recruiting, which hasn't happened yet.
You guys just keep going at it.
We get it. Abysmal season. He's getting a third year. Time to move on.
Talk about what you think Pope can do to fix it but just try to refrain from saying resign.
Record number of double digit losses and his track record says otherwise but I’m sure you’ll just ignore that
I didn't make this thread,
You can hold your breath until you pass out in protest of Mark Pope if you want to...
I see SO many threads saying exactly the same thing and I think to myself "does this person actually think that repeating the same thing that's been said a million times change anything?"
I'll take my own advice and stop trying to be a voice of reason going forward.
You realize you repeat the same things over and over right
I'm not ignoring anything. But you're in hypothetical land right now. No one knows what will happen. Remember when Cal went to the NIT? No one thought that would happen but it did.
Ok. Good points. I will start.
*Most importantly to me is to just close on recruits. I think they have did a really good job at targeting them but you must finish on some. Last year for instance we had Wilson and Wilkerson at the dotted line basically and didn't close. I'm not sure about Yaxel but I think he was close too. Two of those 3 or all 3 and we would not be discussing this today.
*Win the pressers. He had a horrible year communicating and with body language.
*Don't try to defend the job you did by saying we barely made progress. Own it and say its 100% unacceptable and it will get back to the standard no matter what.
What does cal have to do with anything, but are you talking about the bit after winning a national championship? We don’t know what will happen but based off data and analytics which pope loves to use we can kind of see where things are gonna go
Show me where I've said Pope doesn't deserve a 3rd season.
The first thing Pope can do to fix this is to start landing some studs. Wait, I already said that.
He is definitely going to be here, but if he doesn't land Stokes and have a portal for the ages, then last season on RR is gonna look like a Swedish Massage compared to what's coming next season. Armageddon
Agree - I'm definitely concerned, but I'm done groaning out loud about it.
Pope has the same track record going back many years. It’s not some 1 year annomoly. Year 1 was an average year. At UK coaches don’t get to sit there whine and point to what amounts as no progress let them spin it as some sort of success. Pope never understood the assignment and no he doesn’t just get a year with no pressure. That’s not how it works as a matter of fact I wouldn’t mind seeing pope canned mid season next year because nothing will change only get worse.
I bet in 2 weeks pope emerges from his hole and we will find he has a tan. The guy has been waiting for the season to end since the suicide comments and the fatigue comments. He mentally doesn’t have it and at UK you gotta get it done in a pressure cooker not “let him have HIS year”. Uk bb done belong to him no year is his. He is the steward not the owner. So no to the op. Tubby and cal didn’t get some free year. When is pope gonnna compare his first two years to tubby last 4. but he should be comparing it to the Billy Clyde Gillespie years. That’s where pope is I’d say Billy Gillespie with coach circles around him .
Agree. Fans who sit back and say nothing when there is an obvious problem are no fans at all, IMO. Those types of fans contribute more to the decline of a program than its benefit. Virtue signaling is always a bad look and result. Blue-blood programs are high maintenance and require excellence at every turn, especially the ADs office. Excusing underperformance will kill the excellence and fans that excuse it are not the type of fans that constantly push for excellence. They're just on the wagon expecting a free ride to glory days trying to tell everyone else what a real fan looks like. Foolishness and they contribute nothing to the opportunity to once again bask in the glory of our rich tradition.
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I have serious concerns about the direction of the program. No one should have any illusions that there will be no criticisms of the Coach or AD on here.
That said, I 100% agree with you that we absolutely should be respectful and avoid name calling / personal insults.
I would love to see us be better than that. I can't control what others do, but I personally am not going to post that kind of garbage.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Clearly we have no say in the what is looking like a death spiral for our program. Keep driving it into the ground. Because clearly a third year is important for the Barnhart to try and save face. We can't stop it......but we know how this ends. With a total implosion or another year of whimpering mediocrity at best.
He can have his year three because he’s getting it anyways.
while we delay the inevitable because it will be another **** show of portal players that’s never played together. Absolutely no reason to keep kicking the can down the road
while we delay the inevitable because it will be another **** show of portal players that’s never played together. Absolutely no reason to keep kicking the can down the road
Actually we do have a solution, but clearly we aren't in charge.Low IQ people tend to never have solutions or discussions, just uneducated opinions and arguments.
You’re such a great fan for constantly complaining.
I still have hope that Pope won’t be the coach here next season.
And I’m not letting go of that hope until the season starts.
It doesn’t bother me that some are just accepting it.
Why would it bother someone that I don’t?
And I’m not letting go of that hope until the season starts.
It doesn’t bother me that some are just accepting it.
Why would it bother someone that I don’t?
How about you don't tell anyone here what to say or think?
I hope that Pope can turn it around but I’d hardly call him “perfect”. His personality is frankly a major hangup for me. And I think it’s true for a lot of fans. Pitino and Calipari were the “perfect” coaches for Kentucky. Pope is just… odd.
Speaking of low IQ.“Farrrrr Pope.”
So brilliant.
Clear solution but you want to ignore it because it hurts your feels.
Me and the Pope fans gonna be dancing after we win the SEC next season
You’re right, so obvious yet so brilliant“Farrrrr Pope.”
So brilliant.
Have a good day brother we all gotta have some fun sometimesMan you’re cracking me up with these
Not telling you to live in fairytale land both can exist. I just got to a certain point where losses and this stuff can really bring you down in life. Didnt want to see someone else like that!
I got you, I hate the shape the program is in right now and I want to see Kentucky basketball back to where it should be but I don’t really let it seep into my daily life. I just get it all out on here lol
Question for you guys. Why are so many of you legit angry at Mark Pope? What did he do to make you guys hate him?
Don't deny it, y'all are slinging a ton of mud at him and even calling him "Dope". That's hate.
Mark is only doing what he knows how to do. Yeah, he accepted the job, you would have too, don't lie.
Every coach out there thinks they're awesome and if given the chance, can win big. Well, some are right, but a lot of them have a great plan, until they step into the ring and get punched in the mouth.
This job looks a lot easier from outside the ropes than it actually is. I think we can all agree on that.
So, why be angry at Pope, this isn’t his fault, it's Mitch's fault.
Additionally: He did have a very good year last year and overcame a lot. But this year. He walked into a storm, partially created by himself. He failed at building this team, but in addition to that, he lost his pg, he lost Kam and JQ quit. But I think the biggest issue is, he lost this team. There was an inner team issue and they never recovered from it. They put on an act all year, but the truth is, the players really didn't like each other. This is obvious to me. To me, I'm amazed Pope won 20+ games given these circumstances. Doesn't mean he's any good at this, bit he did overcome a lot.
Don't hate Pope, he’s just doing what he knows how to do, Mitch is the one that botched this.
Don't deny it, y'all are slinging a ton of mud at him and even calling him "Dope". That's hate.
Mark is only doing what he knows how to do. Yeah, he accepted the job, you would have too, don't lie.
Every coach out there thinks they're awesome and if given the chance, can win big. Well, some are right, but a lot of them have a great plan, until they step into the ring and get punched in the mouth.
This job looks a lot easier from outside the ropes than it actually is. I think we can all agree on that.
So, why be angry at Pope, this isn’t his fault, it's Mitch's fault.
Additionally: He did have a very good year last year and overcame a lot. But this year. He walked into a storm, partially created by himself. He failed at building this team, but in addition to that, he lost his pg, he lost Kam and JQ quit. But I think the biggest issue is, he lost this team. There was an inner team issue and they never recovered from it. They put on an act all year, but the truth is, the players really didn't like each other. This is obvious to me. To me, I'm amazed Pope won 20+ games given these circumstances. Doesn't mean he's any good at this, bit he did overcome a lot.
Don't hate Pope, he’s just doing what he knows how to do, Mitch is the one that botched this.
We must protect pope and his beautiful and positive feelings at all costs. Next season depends on it
The ONLY reason he gets a third year is because of Barnhart being awful with contracts and the optics. Plus uk has zero balls when it comes to this stuff. But make no mistake, he absolutely doesn’t deserve a third year.
There's a difference between critisism and hate. You get that, right? Maybe not.
Heck, I critisize him for being soft and using girl dad words, but I don't hate him for those things.
Shoot, who would fire him? Capaluto? We don't even have an AD right now.