Our fanbase is trash
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With NUMEROUS NBA players playing for him in those 15 years.
Pope just needs some time. Unlike Cal, who QUIT his last 4 years with future NBA players. Losing to LOW major schools not only during the season but during the NCAA Tournament!!!
At the end of the day it was more fun to watch.. Cal never lost by 30 at UK
Sure, all of those "Rock fights" with dudes that couldn't throw it in the ocean here until last season, then he decides to sit the 2 that could make shots on the bench.
Those NCAA Tournament games were a HOOT!! Heck, Bruce Pearl beat Cal with his best player HURT in the Elite 8 in 2019. And St Peters and Oakland were JUGGERNAUTS!!!
Look I'm gonna be real with you sonofbitches. I don't think most expected to win tonight, I didn't. However I didn't expect the biggest beat down of the year in friendly Nashville after losing by 13 with about the same team at Bama.
I'm not throwing in the towel, I love this team but we are the only blowout of the entire SEC tourney and I'm confident it stays that way. 29pts is an embarrassment to a team you lost to by 5 and 13.
The refs are trash, Bama is good and it's not easy. I get it, but I just wish there'd been a little more fight. Plus how does Carr go 8 of 10 and only play 19mins. Dudes unstoppable inside. I don't know play Remember the Titans or something for them. Just don't lose the first one. Win 2 and you're our heroes. 29 just hurts. That may have cost us a seed line and maybe it should.
I'm never ok with losing but I know the score and throw in SEC refs and I just wanted us to compete. Not sure we did in the 2nd half.
I'm also ready and 100% ok with Pope's 1st technical. Guys getting stitches back to back nights and only a call against us. I love Pope but you gotta fight for your players if you want them to fight. Oweh splashed blood all over the court and got called for his jaw fouling the guy. Chandler had more than Ulis blood coming down and Carr bad back got pummeled to the ground and Pope has the same look.
Maybe even keel wins the day at some point but this bs the past 2 days I wanted him to loose it. I mean some of this was bad I want these refs to at least go oh **** he might not take everything we are gonna cram down his throat.
I'm not throwing in the towel, I love this team but we are the only blowout of the entire SEC tourney and I'm confident it stays that way. 29pts is an embarrassment to a team you lost to by 5 and 13.
The refs are trash, Bama is good and it's not easy. I get it, but I just wish there'd been a little more fight. Plus how does Carr go 8 of 10 and only play 19mins. Dudes unstoppable inside. I don't know play Remember the Titans or something for them. Just don't lose the first one. Win 2 and you're our heroes. 29 just hurts. That may have cost us a seed line and maybe it should.
I'm never ok with losing but I know the score and throw in SEC refs and I just wanted us to compete. Not sure we did in the 2nd half.
I'm also ready and 100% ok with Pope's 1st technical. Guys getting stitches back to back nights and only a call against us. I love Pope but you gotta fight for your players if you want them to fight. Oweh splashed blood all over the court and got called for his jaw fouling the guy. Chandler had more than Ulis blood coming down and Carr bad back got pummeled to the ground and Pope has the same look.
Maybe even keel wins the day at some point but this bs the past 2 days I wanted him to loose it. I mean some of this was bad I want these refs to at least go oh **** he might not take everything we are gonna cram down his throat.
Cal’s 2010 roster or Cal’s 2025 roster?
Yes his 2010 roster was better. He also inherited Patrick Patterson, DeAndre Liggins, Daniel Orton, Josh Harrellson, Ramon Harris and Perry Stevenson. Pope inherited Walker Horn and Grant Darbyshire.
Cal brought Cousins and Wall with him. Bledsoe and Dodson were Memphis bound too. Pope brought Robinson.
The results are yet to be determined. If you remember, we had no business losing to WVU with all that talent. Our 6 first rounders got owned by the current Celtics coach.
If you can’t see these two situations were totally different in completely different eras of college basketball, I can’t help you. **** that worked in 2010 is no longer applicable to 2025. 15 years is a long time.
Welp, you’d be wrong.
Cal lost by 30 at UT in mid-February with a shorthanded team due to injury to the team’s most important player, Nerlens Noel.
UT finished 20-13 that year and lost to Mercer in the first round of the NIT.
Cal also lost by 26 at Alabama in 2023 in a game we trailed 72-41 with 5 minutes left.
It is true Cal never lost a postseason game this bad at Kentucky, but losing to a 15 and 14 seed twice in three years is still worse. Nobody will remember taking an *** kicking in a conference tournament quarterfinal. The Peacocks will live forever in UK infamy.
i wonder how many missed tournaments he’d have with a roster full of 5 stars. which is the most embarrassing **** in the history of college basketball. hell, dean smith is laughing. how many oakland’s does he have with multiple top 10 nba draft pick? how many st. peter’s does he have with the national player of the year? good lord. epic, all-time embarrassment.
cal is a supreme underachiever. he’s had how many all american’s and players of the year? one title? and he nearly blew that.
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I can't wait for clowns like you come Thursday or Friday, have to find some new material when Pope may get that first win in the NCAA Tournament.
he did.
but more cal is to take a 20 point lead, with supreme talent, and then lose by 10. because he can’t coach worth a ****.
Lost by 34 to DOOK in the Champions Classic. Pope beats them first time out in the Champions Classic. You're an idiot and look like a fool. You think that you are funny sitting in your parents' basement giggling your fat titties off eating Cheetos thinking how you got these guys good..but the joke is on you!
And **** the bed with all of those NBA All-Stars then and throughout his career except one year. A real winner that one is. I'm convinced if he had it all over to do again with Anthony Davis, would find a way to screw that up to. Lost 11 games with 7 NBA players in 2017-18. Can't win a title with KAT, Booker, WCS, Ulis and the Harrison Twins.
Arkansas should hang a banner up for that next to the lone '94 Championship one. It is the only thing they will raise while he is on the sidelines there.
I have to believe that you are just joking. Cal had several NBA star players on his first team that he had recruited. How many of those are on this team? Pope had no time to recruit. I thought we would be a bubble team this year if that. Pope far exceeded my expectations even in the face of injuries to key players. I loved Cal when he actually tried to win titles, but he stopped doing that years ago.
Losing by 30 sucks. But given all the injuries and who pope is having to play what else can we expect honestly. A very fun season, with some over achieving moments. He is gonna get a 3 seed with his dang backcourt being injured, that’s pretty remarkable.
Dude... Cal's March record was LOUSY the last few years at UK. Don't post stupid stuff.
I can tell you after a loss all the trolls come out with their fake accounts. I have been tracking this site and after a loss there has been almost 58% more poster on here than after a win, and those posters have all been negative.
Bud welcome to sports. Every fanbase in America does this. You equating somebody living in their parents basement because they have a different perspective than you, is more loser **** than the stuff you’re upset about. Should people be questioning popes coaching ability, hell no. He is a damn good coach in an impossible situation. Is it okay to admit Perry and Noah aren’t ready to be playing right now, yes. Criticism doesn’t equal an all out attack on the players.
Well Brad your dad was fine in year one.
It was lately that he began to suck monkey balls.
I see Mr Potato Head is cherry picking data again. You really need to grow up a bit.
I guess we won't count the 30 point loss to Tennessee or the 41 point loss to Vandy or the 34 point loss to Duke. Yep, you're right Poindexter, Cal never had horrible games.
Some people will try to convince you Cal lost to #15 St Peters and to #14 Oakland but don't let them trick you.
I think every fanbase, especially, those that have had teams that dominated a conference for decades have extremely high expectations. Kentucky fans expect to win the SEC and compete yearly for titles. Kentucky fans are accustomed to having the best rosters in the country. Those expectations haven’t changed but the landscape of college basketball has.
The SEC is throwing money at basketball. It was the worse thing that could happen to UK basketball because fans expects to win like they used to. It has completely changed their ability to dominate the conference. The SEC will no longer be dominated by a team. It will be like winning a national title. It is a genuine accomplishment. UK is now in a conference like the old ACC and Big East. All the talent resides there.
Pope is a good coach that had a legit team that was crushed by injuries in the best league since the glory days of the ACC and Big East. To expect them to manage this conference with those injuries is unrealistic.
Fans need to be more realistic in SEC play in this current environment. They are still going to put together great rosters. They still should have high expectations for March. They get the right draw anything can happen.
The SEC is throwing money at basketball. It was the worse thing that could happen to UK basketball because fans expects to win like they used to. It has completely changed their ability to dominate the conference. The SEC will no longer be dominated by a team. It will be like winning a national title. It is a genuine accomplishment. UK is now in a conference like the old ACC and Big East. All the talent resides there.
Pope is a good coach that had a legit team that was crushed by injuries in the best league since the glory days of the ACC and Big East. To expect them to manage this conference with those injuries is unrealistic.
Fans need to be more realistic in SEC play in this current environment. They are still going to put together great rosters. They still should have high expectations for March. They get the right draw anything can happen.
With the development of these message boards, it has given a LOT of morons a platform to profess their idiotic views. This site has gotten hard to come on and read/discuss UK Sports.
I agree with you about giving Pope a break, it's year 1 for God's sake. However, I do not agree with you about the fan base at all. THERE IS NO BETTER FAN BASE IN ALL OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL, PERIOD!!!! Nashville will become a ghost town now that KY is out of it. No one travels better or supports the team better than UK does, NO ONE! Maybe choose your words more carefully next time. This message board does NOT equal the fan base as a whole.
Just for reference purposes…
Mark Pope hire date April 12, 2024 at UK
Pat Kelsey hire date March 28, 2024 at UL
Let’s see how it plays out, hopefully in our favor in the end.
Mark Pope hire date April 12, 2024 at UK
Pat Kelsey hire date March 28, 2024 at UL
Let’s see how it plays out, hopefully in our favor in the end.
Yes sir. The ones who bash and whine have worn me out over the years. Zero knowledge or understanding by them. Makes this board unbearable.