Yeah, because that's what we need. Get rid of a coach before midway through his 2nd year. I'm sure all the good coaches will just be waiting for our phone call.
UK hired a coach with ZERO tournament wins
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Its worse than that-
-He never won a regular season conference title
-He never won a conference tournament championship
-His record was worse than the coach that preceded him
-He had zero record of being able to recruit elite college basketball players
He was making something around $1-2MM per year at BYU. Mitch bumped him up to $5MM. And, he gets an auto 1 year extension for making the Sweet 16 lol.
People are blaming Mitch, but Pope is getting paid and knew what he was getting into. Now- If he didn't get a sweetheart contract....then yeah, I would feel bad for him also. He belongs back at Utah State.
I think he is classy enough to "resign"....but he will get all of his money that is coming to him. His next job would be at the level of the Hilltoppers.
Yes.
the supreme divine being who created all things (who isn’t flesh but spirit) having physical intercourse with a 13 year-old girl seems more weird.
Their holy book also says dark skin is a curse and it wasn’t until the 1980s that some prophet said that was wrong and blacks could be Mormons. It’s diabolical.
I do agree that the major world religions all have stories that defy belief, but Mormons are twisted bro.
What about developing a team with what you got? playing to your strengths instead of weaknesses?
theres still time to do well, but i've already said it, we may be toward the middle of the rankings in the sec end of season...
Coach Pope is frustrated with the results but i think if the team listens to him, we may get better.
theres still time to do well, but i've already said it, we may be toward the middle of the rankings in the sec end of season...
Coach Pope is frustrated with the results but i think if the team listens to him, we may get better.
Scheyer coached under the GOAT. Hubert Davis has been trash save for being bailed out by Manek.
Equally hard to listen to people who think that the Bible says that God had physical intercourse with Mary.
UNC and Duke both hired a coach with ZERO coaching wins.
We just hired a football coach with zero wins.
Isn't he trying or is in politics now? I actually like Pearl a lot.. but if someone is looking at a new career, and is already 65 years old.. idk. I think we'd be getting 5 years out of him if wete lucky and I think if your UK, you have to go a little more youthful. Same with some people mentioning Barnes
I had really high hopes after some games last season and the way he talked to the team about Flagg during the end of the Duke game. I guess that was so easy to see it just sounded good because I haven’t seen any in game stuff in the last 2 months of last year until now that shows me this staff is any good.
You don’t think an all powerful god who created everything could make that happen? It’s not magic, you are looking at it from a human perspective. Regardless of what you or anyone believes his religion or beliefs have nothing to do with basketball or the job he’s doing.
Pope and the staff just seem different. No juice. Pope just seems lost on the court and off.
Pope is giving us the same results he got at BYU. Don’t know why anyone is surprised.
Fire Mitch first he should have been fired before Stoops
Barney only asked 2 coaches. And those guys were already long shots at leaving their current location.
I would have written a blank check to Donovan and made him say no.
Then i would have hired Pearl. He has been begging for the UK job for about a decade now.
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Pearl is absolutely tailor made for the UK job. He was my #2 pick behind Donovan.
Nobody else comes close, with the exception of 1990's Pitino and Swaggy Cal.
Idk hes going into politics but he certainly is vocal, which isnt good no matter which side hes for.
I agree only 5 isnt optimal but he'd give you 5 good ones. There really wasn't much to choose from that cycle after drew stayed, but Pearl was the layup.
Well, we are Kentucky, we are BBN! .. we get our top pick, so I'm not too worried about it. We've never had to settle for scraps before. /sarcasm lol
We need to pray that Mitch is gone soon and we get a replacement that's much more forward thinking.. of basketball as a business and doing what's needed to be done to win games.. not make the blue hairs happy, not be able to say we did it "the Kentucky way".. to win. Thats it.
We do when Mitch is in charge. Look at the recent football hire, Mitch wasn’t involved like he was with previous searches and it was quick and efficient with Kentucky getting the guy most of us wanted after Sumrall ended up at Florida.
In all likelihood, if Mitch isn’t involved with the next coaching search it’ll be over within a day or two with feelers being put out beforehand to get a grasp on who wants to coach here.
Any ideas of how that went down? How could the AD be circumvented like this? It's just wild to me that Mitch would not really be included in this, and also still have a job the next day. He has to be nearing the exit. He can't possibly last what looks like a 15-loss basketball season..
I could be wrong, but I believe the Champions Blue board was responsible for the coaching search or at least that’s what everyone is saying.
Mitch is technically on the board, but wasn’t as involved as he was with previous searches.
It’s likely they’ll be the ones doing the coaching search if Pope ends up leaving this year. If it’s next year, probably the new AD. But we don’t know want to have to do a coaching search next year if the Kansas and UNC jobs open up, which is a big possibility since Self will be on thin ice if his big recruiting class fails and Davis doesn’t turn things around. We’ll be competing for coaches with two other blue bloods. That has disaster written all over it.
Hopefully the people who just made the football hire get to push Mitch out before be makes any more decisions. We finally had a process that worked like it should and will reorganize the business side.
Basketball desperately needs the same no matter what happens this year. No way we should've paid 22 mil for this bunch. An actual gm would've either cut that cost drastically.
Agreed, and starting to think some of these players absolutely fleeced us. Which can't really blame them when Pope had to go to his 7th and 8th options and just hand them a **** ton of money that was meant for players of much higher caliber.
Glad Kentucky Atheltics is starting to wake up.
That’s what you do when your goofy fanbase gets riled up and is controlled by a radio host and runs a coach off before you have a sure fire replacement ready.
Mitch would have felt the need to hire an exorcist if he was forced to bring in Pearl. He promotes himself as the squeaky clean AD who hasn’t gotten us in any major trouble in his 23 years. Dude also thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, he was so confident that we’d get in trouble when NIL first started that he tucked tail and sank the football program into an abyss that we still haven’t recovered from. Hope the rumors are true and he retires this coming summer.
And this is why pope has a short leash and likely not back next year. He had no resume other than playing at UK and coaching some Utah schools. That’s it. He was hired as a hunch. Fire Barney and bring a real comittee to hire Oates who has a final four
Except he has, the football program is literally on probation.
Calipari had to go. We were fortunate that he dug his own grave. Timing couldn't be helped.
Calipari did that to himself, again a dumb contract and he didn’t even speak with Cal. He doesn’t do his job, the only thing he does is make the school money and his friends money. He fails in his actual duties of producing good coaches and teams.
@coriolanus92
Does this above look like someone that wants to be wrong, maybe let it play out a bit? lol.....
Does another guy saying "Pope knows it's over" and "bring Oats home" (same poster) sound like someone that wants to be wrong?
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He had to go because y’all are controlled by your emotions and he made Matt Jones mad. Timing is what it is and it’s dumb to run a coach just to take a gamble. Y’all are so filled with hatred that you couldn’t help it.
Man, some of you guys are just weird. It's a sports team. I went to school there. I want them to be successful. I don't hate Calipari or anyone else. I was unhappy that he was coasting. Get a grip.
Lord.