People saying The Fire Mark Pope talk is premature.

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If we had a real AD that did his damn job we wouldn't be in the situation we're in and Pearl, Oats, Hurley, or Donovan would've been our coach right now! It's really that simple Mitch Barnhart sucks as an AD! The only thing he is good at is signing stupid *** lifetime contracts!
 
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It’s amazing that people are still saying. Wait until Lowe gets going, Mo and JQ are back, “then you’ll see”!! Lowe is made of glass and can’t guard anyways, Mo is so challenged offensively and from the time he has played, hasn’t played much defense either. JQ averaged 9 points last year, do people think that a guy that hasn’t played in a year is going be a 20 point a game scorer. This team is broken and no one can save them. I would like to see Hawthorne play, he can’t be any worse.

Maybe. But we wouldn't have needed a whole lot more to have knocked off UNC. And despite UL jumping out to a large lead not once but twice.......it was 88-84 with like 5 mins left in that.

I don't know how anyone can not make the argument that having those three on the court makes us a better team. Does it make us significantly better ? No probably not. Could we have beaten UL and UNC healthly? Probably.
 
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BlueBloodKyFan73

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You all are going to be eating crow when he turns this thing around once we start conference play. Have some faith.
I hope so I don’t want him fired but you can’t keep doing the same thing every game and expect a different result
 

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Yes you did. You just said you think he’ll get fired before the end of the year.
BS. I never said that. After looking at your posts I’m not surprised that you don’t understand what I was saying. LOL Either that or from some of your opinions you sound like a troll.
 
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If we had a real AD that did his damn job we wouldn't be in the situation we're in and Pearl, Oats, Hurley, or Donovan would've been our coach right now! It's really that simple Mitch Barnhart sucks as an AD! The only thing he is good at is signing stupid *** lifetime contracts!
Oats, Hurley and Donovan told us to kick rocks...
 
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If we had a real AD that did his damn job we wouldn't be in the situation we're in and Pearl, Oats, Hurley, or Donovan would've been our coach right now! It's really that simple Mitch Barnhart sucks as an AD! The only thing he is good at is signing stupid *** lifetime contracts!
Hurley started out 35-29 his first two years at UConn. Pope is 32-16. Why would you want a bum like Hurley, you would have fired him halfway through season two. Unless you are a HYPOCRITE
 

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Hurley started out 35-29 his first two years at UConn. Pope is 32-16. Why would you want a bum like Hurley, you would have fired him halfway through season two. Unless you are a HYPOCRITE
And Mark Fox went 37-87 at California in four years and now he’s on our bench. Just because one coach manages to break the trend of losing doesn’t mean everyone else will. Hurley is an outlier of an outlier.

Pope is just as likely to end up fired by the end of the season as he is to ever winning a title at Kentucky. No two coaches are the same and not every coach is guaranteed to have a storybook ending.
 

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And Mark Fox went 37-87 at California in four years and now he’s on our bench. Just because one coach manages to break the trend of losing doesn’t mean everyone else will. Hurley is an outlier of an outlier.

Pope is just as likely to end up fired by the end of the season as he is to ever winning a title at Kentucky. No two coaches are the same and not every coach is guaranteed to have a storybook ending.
Just answer the question dude. You are calling for Popes head when he stands 32-16 right now. Hurley started out 35-29...so you would have fired Hurley, right? Don't hide behind your mom's skirt, answer the question, yes or no?
 

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BS. I never said that. After looking at your posts I’m not surprised that you don’t understand what I was saying. LOL Either that or from some of your opinions you sound like a troll.
“If he’s the coach by seasons end, I’ll be surprised”

Your exact words.

Call me a troll just cuz you can’t gaslight me.
 

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I disagree. I will agree that I’ve never seen a fan base flip so quickly. The reason is 0% wanted or expected Mark Pope to ever be the head coach at UK. We had to accept it because we aren’t the decision makers. We had big dreams of replacing Cal with a proven winner, leader, someone we knew would return us to relevance. Pope was a huge gamble and it has turned to a place that can’t be recovered from short of going on a 10-12 game winning streak and that isn’t going to happen. I honestly don’t know how you fix this quickly. The naysayers will say if you get rid of Pope this quickly then it hurts getting a good coach to replace him. What coach will come knowing that if they do terrible in a year and a half, they’ll be fired. I know what coach would come. A killer, someone like Cal that oozes confidence. I’m not sure who that name is but at UK you can’t hire a labradoodle to do the job intended for a pitbull.
Anyone saying fire Mark Pope can go back to the Little Brother board!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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I don't think it's premature at all, He's responsible for player development, recruiting and roster construction. He has failed on all of those. You cannot just overlook blowing 20 million on this roster & Kentucky is the laughingstock of college basketball.

They're mutually exclusive?
He responsible to get these kid on campus. Which he has done. Some people have no idea that JMI takes over once this happens.
 
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He’s likely gone because he’ll resign at the end of the year. Either on his own or from boosters pushing him to, especially if he can’t pull off a miracle and make it to the tournament. Pope is toast with a losing record and it won’t be the AD who gets to decide. Boosters will be threatening to withhold future funds if their demands are not fulfilled.

No fanbase is flipping. It’s the 1% that hate Uk.
He brought in J Q
 

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I hope so I don’t want him fired but you can’t keep doing the same thing every game and expect a different result
He isn't doing the same thing every game. The previous game he showed he was willing to change by benching players that had decided they didn't want to be there

Yesterday's game he proved he was willing to change by playing smashmouth basketball.

The last two games the defense has been STELLAR for a half each game.
 
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