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It's not [most] "KY fans." Most UK fans are happy with the win but troubled by the direction of the program since 2020.
No concerns about roster construction? No concern about blowout losses? No concerns about ever winning anything of value before UK? No concerns about fist half performance? No concerns that a guy tha has been a head coach for over 10 years is still trying to figure out how to motivate? No concerns about him not having his teams prepared on a consistent basis? I love the optimism.
Assuming he gets one, I’m sure that recruit will be both special and beautiful.
What’s it like proclaim that Pope is done and be woefully wrong?? Whats it like to be ready to ambush this board with negative “I told you so” posts like after every loss only to have to scrap them?? Enjoy your cheap Bourbon. Laughing into the night. OUT.
I get it. I follow UK bball and have for 3 decades. And in some ways you can only react to the most recent events.
Cats have Oklahoma and Tenn at home this week. Win both and we’ll see what what the rest of Feb looks like.
You mean he overachieved last year with leftover transfers that were assembled in a few weeks. And while this year has been up and down so far, we’ve battled injuries once again and have zero point guards on our team right now.
We’ve won games we had no business winning simply off adjustments made by Pope. His lineups can be a little wonky sometimes but I think he’s forced to sometimes based on injuries, foul trouble or rest.
He’s shown plenty of good signs that he knows what he’s doing, he deserves year 3 without a doubt.
The game tonight is what Pope has always been. At BYU he would upset Kansas and then lose a game against a dog crap team. We were inconsistent last year and the same this year. It was a big win tonight but we should be use to this. Remember beating Duke and Gonzaga and then completely not showing up against Ohio State.
I answered all this in another comment to another comment. Just sit back and watch, I bet I’m right about year 3 being very special.
PS: This is Pope’s 3rd year coaching in a major conference, he’s going to be GREAT here. Give it time.
Speaking of Tom Crean, he beat Cal with less talent multiple times. We all criticized Cal because he never had shooters and couldn’t coach. Now people are crowing Pope as god for beating Cal. I just can’t with the Irony.
Going into the year with a single point guard on your team is not good coaching. Just an FYI in case you were not aware.
Gonna have to do lot more than get a win against Cal/Ark.. 1.2 years left to get to a final four or title or next man up..
Totally agree. What a group of thugs. Worse than UT. Cal ought to be ashamed. But he is a POS with no class so it doesn’t matter to him.
If you weren’t aware, Lewis decided to be weak and transfer, we should have been set at PG if it went Pope’s way.
This team would have had to keep losing by 40 for Pope to not get another season.
He can’t recruit. It’s the lifeblood my man. He’s already got some issues with the booster base too. Glad he won this, but highly doubtful he makes it. Would love to be wrong but probably won’t be.
Mark’s days were numbered early, and there are reasons for it. I’m glad he won tonight but barring a huge turnaround he can’t stay here because he’s not a good recruiter and he’s not consistent enough. We’ve never seen this amounts of blowouts at UK.
Program comes before how much we like a coach. Doesn’t matter. Win to the standard at UK, final fours and titles, or you can’t stay. This is an unranked team in year 2, there won’t be a final four. Next year he’s got no recruits and will settle for portal, probably same result. And if it is he’s got to go. Anyone saying otherwise is putting the coach ahead of our tradition and our program.
Yea and it didn’t go his way and he didn’t land him. What do you mean? He couldn’t land him. He whiffed.
Listen Mark is not going to remain at UK getting blown out half the time. Arkansas might matter that much to you but not the majority. I’m glad for it tonight too, I am. But if you’re telling me constant teams like this are okay with you? Then you’ll have to explain this to me?
What are your expectations here?
On April 10, Pope had plenty of time find a replacement. He didn’t. Nice try though!!!
I see that you’re not knowledgeable about AL or his dad, it shows.
Mark Pope will win a championship as head coach of Kentucky, mark it down!
Aberdeen? Try to keep up small guy. Lewis left UK on April 10th and Aberdeen committed on April 21st. Where do these know nothings come from????
No one is saying that a regular season game is the determining factor, it is just a counter to the many threads saying that Ark and Cal were going to blow UK out. They're is no where on this board that the few that are happy with this win comes close to the faint of heart that were predicting a hog blowout. when those negative nancies are wrong they get their panties in a big twist and want to piss on those enjoying a win that the doubters said couldn't happen...hogs by 30!
I honestly can't tell if this thread is tongue in cheek.
I think some UK fans have the memory of a gold fish. Either that or have standards unbefitting of a blue blood -"Right on! Now we'll surely make the tournament this year!"
I think some UK fans have the memory of a gold fish. Either that or have standards unbefitting of a blue blood -"Right on! Now we'll surely make the tournament this year!"
Dude can’t recruit, period! If you guys are okay with 12+ losses a year, then Pope’s the guy
I’d say you’re more likely the Duke fan considering you’re okay with getting blown out, where were you after the vandy game?
Their * . Like I said we are all happy for this one. But the reality of the season isn’t lost on me.
The discussion is about point guards and why we only had one on the roster. Aberdeen is not a point guard. Again another miserable fail on your part. No matter what you want to keep coming back with we had one and only one point guard on the team. What was that again about know nothings?Aberdeen? Try to keep up small guy. Lewis left UK on April 10th and Aberdeen committed on April 21st. Where do these know nothings come from????
Still rooting for UK, not basking in us getting beat down like you
No one is basking in us getting beat down, if you read you’ll see it’s mostly anger and disappointment, we don’t like Kentucky to suck. Didn’t you predict we wouldn’t lose by 20 to vandy?
The majority of this board, and rightfully so, thought this would be a double digit loss. Hell I thought we would lose by 40. We didn’t and probably played the most complete game of the season. I don’t see that anyone has their panties in a wad over it,ever heard of the phrase pleasantly surprised. But to say the ship has been righted and we can all back off pope and he is the right man for the job afterall seems to be contention between the fanbase. One, two, or even three games is not going to be the deciding factor on the above in either direction. For now the wind is still blowing in the wrong direction with the massive inconsistency on effort and overall team play. But those, like me, who don’t think pope is going to make it, will certainly enjoy the win, and hope like hell that this game serves as a catalyst for a season turn around. Arkansas turned theirs around last year against us, maybe the same just happened for us this year against them.
We don't suck. We are down 3 kids who were predominantly starters when they played and the team is hanging in and played their best game of the season last night and you are pouting because your two year old whiney baby crying about the team getting blown out last night left egg on your face
The majority of this board.....was wrong.....
And you were wrong about vandy
About a single game to a coach that is synonymous for losing games he has no business losing,