No, but the celebration of his mediocrity this season has been insane.
This Team Is Cooked
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We were having a really good season, until a couple guys got a few boo boo's and decided to miss half the season.
The Cal-first lovers are still around.
Well he better recruit SEC caliber players then or it will be much of the same. This isn’t BYU and I hope he understands this
Some of yall quit easy. Might as well not even watch the last two regular season games and both tournaments since you obviously know the outcome.
Because someone doesn’t agree with you is nonsense but you do you. Only Barnhart would go after a coach with no tournament experience at a place like Kentucky instead of going after the best of the best
This is Kentucky.
You expect to have a team that contends in EVERY home game. Every. Single. One.
You expect to have a team that contends in EVERY home game. Every. Single. One.
He is in the toughest conference in America with a new team. There is a reason he could be coach of the year. He is killing it!
I wouldn’t trade Mark Pope straight up for any one of the ******** you think is a good coach.
Got *** whipped today by SCAnd Ark will prolly win out. Their last few games are very winnable.
No he’s not and he won’t be in the top 15 of COTY
I like Pope a lot but this is silly
Kentucky has a record number of AP top 10 wins, top 15 wins or something like that and you say it has been mediocre plus the committee gave us a 3 seed just 2 weeks ago on the reveal show. Not sure you noticed but Kentucky has had the #2 SOS in the country and is playing in a historic SEC.
Celebration of mediocrity? Dude has more big wins this year than anyone outside of Auburn. When you saw Pope had about 3 to 4 weeks to throw together a team from the portal with a bunch of leftovers what did you think our record would be? Then factor in all the injuries and we are still a top 20 team. Probably a 4 or 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament. If you expected more than that before the season you are a moron and deserve to wallow in your misery. But I doubt you expected more and probably have just been waiting in the winds to hop on any chance possible to tear Pope down. Good for you dingleberry
I’ve seen several today.
It’s almost like they want Pope to fail to be able to say we should’ve kept Cal.
depends on how you rate “good” as a team. in terms of potential, yeah he had better teams. in terms of playing to potential, and AS a team, this team surpasses them easily. if the results are the same, given the talent discrepancy, i’d say there’s no comparison. we are way undermanned with players playing hurt.
Meanwhile Cal got his *** handed to him by South Carolina AGAIN. At least it wasn't in his home arena this time.
This ^^ This Auburn team is really good and has a good chance to win it all this year. We just played very bad today (turnovers killed us ) . I know it is hard to lose but I did not think we could beat this team today with our best shooter out hurt. Just get ready for the next game.
A few things..
1, We didn't put a good product on the floor today..no question
2,Auburn is elite
3,Only blue tinted glasses would expect this team to predictably beat the best team in several years, at least
4,This team has far exceeded most people's pre season expectations
5,The future is much brighter than today. I love what this team has done. If you thought we'd be fine with a team put together in weeks that has fought injuries all season long, you simply aren't a realist.
6,We're not done winning games! The sky is NOT falling and Pope has done an unreal coaching job. Stop with the Pope crap! It just makes ya look..."uninformed"
1, We didn't put a good product on the floor today..no question
2,Auburn is elite
3,Only blue tinted glasses would expect this team to predictably beat the best team in several years, at least
4,This team has far exceeded most people's pre season expectations
5,The future is much brighter than today. I love what this team has done. If you thought we'd be fine with a team put together in weeks that has fought injuries all season long, you simply aren't a realist.
6,We're not done winning games! The sky is NOT falling and Pope has done an unreal coaching job. Stop with the Pope crap! It just makes ya look..."uninformed"
That’s because some people are overreacting. Others were wanting this to say “told ya so”. Best feeling in the world for some people.
Our offensive execution and efficiency has been affected by playing against tougher SEC competition, especially on the road.
Defenses are simply more athletic and aggressive. Plus, the injuries.
Pearl designed his defense to take away the 3.
He was willing to give up 2’s. He even told his team that UK wouldn’t beat them shooting 2’s.
He didn’t even guard Williams.
They wanted him to pass to drivers.
And we kept trying to do just that.
And had some success against it. Only to miss the layup.
Make a few of those and maybe Pearl changes his plan?
We never countered their plan.
We made the game easy for Auburn.
Turnover after turnover didn’t help.
Agree but my point was his coaching options are limited because the number one antedote is spreading the floor and breaking people down which we cant really do. What Pope has tried to on occasion when taken out of our offense is go high low with Williams and Carr but I dont think he's done enough of that IMO in those situations. I also think even though Kobe and Jaxson and others arent necessarily built to break people down, they could have been pushed to try it more instead of getting stuck 30 feet form the basket dribblin in one spot.
But no question if we're stuck taking hard twos late in the clock there has to be some other answer.