Replacing pope would be all in on one guy.

Goingfor9

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Not nate Oates. Nothing Hurley. It’s embarrassingly obvious Todd golden is the guy for the job. He’s expressed a desire to coach at a blue blood or nba. I say you make him the highest paid coach and if you want to lock it down. Make Scott Strickland the highest paid AD. Would solve a lot of problems and he knows our expectations. He was all in with UK
 

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Not nate Oates. Nothing Hurley. It’s embarrassingly obvious Todd golden is the guy for the job. He’s expressed a desire to coach at a blue blood or nba. I say you make him the highest paid coach and if you want to lock it down. Make Scott Strickland the highest paid AD. Would solve a lot of problems and he knows our expectations. He was all in with UK
Seems like he’s doing fine right where he is.
 
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Goingfor9

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Florida would never let that happen
Why? What power do they have? If bama wanted sumerall they could have him he would leave Florida for the history of the program. UK is no different other blueblood in any sport. Coaches want to be there and I promise. If UK made golden the highest paid coach from day 1 Florida can’t match it they won’t. This is the most common sense hire that has lined up for us. Mess around too long with pope and the window will slam shut. But this crap that bama or even lsu can get who they want in fb but UK can’t bring an elite coach from a fb school for our elite bb program. That’s what we have dealt with for a quarter century is this trash of lower expectations Barney used to brainwash Kentuckians. Are we a blueblood or not? If we are we need to act like it and believe we can land who we want. The ad who is leaving he didn’t know how to win. How to maintain our tradition. He didn’t care. Well time to make it right but it’s gonna be $$$$
 
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Why? What power do they have? If bama wanted sumerall they could have him he would leave Florida for the history of the program. UK is no different other blueblood in any sport. Coaches want to be there and I promise. If UK made golden the highest paid coach from day 1 Florida can’t match it they won’t. This is the most common sense hire that has lined up for us. Mess around too long with pope and the window will slam shut. But this crap that bama or even lsu can get who they want in fb but UK can’t bring an elite coach from a fb school for our elite bb program. That’s what we have dealt with for a quarter century is this trash of lower expectations Barney used to brainwash Kentuckians. Are we a blueblood or not? If we are we need to act like it and believe we can land who we want. The ad who is leaving he didn’t know how to win. How to maintain our tradition. He didn’t care. Well time to make it right but it’s gonna be $$$$
Would Sumrall leave if he had just won a national title and was on the verge of a possible repeat? We could have got Golden instead of Pope, if our AD was capable of doing his job and had any foresight. But that's a long time ago at this point. I think they would match our offer.
 

BleedBlue747

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Why? What power do they have? If bama wanted sumerall they could have him he would leave Florida for the history of the program. UK is no different other blueblood in any sport. Coaches want to be there and I promise. If UK made golden the highest paid coach from day 1 Florida can’t match it they won’t. This is the most common sense hire that has lined up for us. Mess around too long with pope and the window will slam shut. But this crap that bama or even lsu can get who they want in fb but UK can’t bring an elite coach from a fb school for our elite bb program. That’s what we have dealt with for a quarter century is this trash of lower expectations Barney used to brainwash Kentuckians. Are we a blueblood or not? If we are we need to act like it and believe we can land who we want. The ad who is leaving he didn’t know how to win. How to maintain our tradition. He didn’t care. Well time to make it right but it’s gonna be $$$$
We wanted Hurley, Drew, Oats and Few and we're willing to make them the highest paid in CBB. They all said no thanks and got Pope. I doubt it will be any different if Pope goes.. ..
 

Legionofdoom96

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Not nate Oates. Nothing Hurley. It’s embarrassingly obvious Todd golden is the guy for the job. He’s expressed a desire to coach at a blue blood or nba. I say you make him the highest paid coach and if you want to lock it down. Make Scott Strickland the highest paid AD. Would solve a lot of problems and he knows our expectations. He was all in with UK
He's one of "those" people no thanks

Dusty may or Tommy Lloyd
 

Leo3011

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We wanted Hurley, Drew, Oats and Few and we're willing to make them the highest paid in CBB. They all said no thanks and got Pope. I doubt it will be any different if Pope goes.. ..
One can hardly blame these guys for turning us down. The least little adversity and 3/4 of the fan base is ready to FARRRRRR the coach
 
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