GYERO ARCHIVE

[UK_WINS_NCAA]

Bunch of pussies on here nowadays. Awww it's fine he's a former player! F. THAT. This is the worst hire an AD has ever made at Kentucky.

 

[MaxPowerrr]

I’m gonna go to bed and wake up and this will have just been another wrong report.

 

[Strokin_Bandit]

Now is a good time for Llama to drop his GYERO disclaimer: It’s OK to just read and lurk this thread.

 

[Stevo1951]

What a considered/well thought out statment.

BCG, Joker, Elzy, lifetime contract, overpaid football coach….if I had his hiring record I would have been long fired before I retired as Northern US Sales Manager for 30 years

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

 

[Catman100]

How does Barney make this bland, boring *** vanilla hire and Calipari is still in the SEC?

No way he is doing this.

 

[joeyrupption]

After Pope, they should use some of the non-Cal buyout “free money” to get Rondo on staff - like a VP nominee rounding out a presidential ticket. He is a savant and Mitch should be doing everything to get his basketball brain involved in an official capacity ASAP.

 

[legalbeagle123]

Bat Cats win again!!!

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

Bunch of pussies on here nowadays. Awww it's fine he's a former player! F. THAT. This is the worst hire an AD has ever made at Kentucky.

Pretty sure BCG's position is still safe.

 

[creeksman]

Feels like when Renaldo Balkman got drafted in the first round.

Im all in, though. What am I gonna not root for the Cayts?

 

[legalbeagle123]

Wonder what the chances are of Board of Trustees not approving the deal amidst the outrage?

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

Your next coach. LOL

This video is pretty interesting tbh

 

[Anon1700452283]

 

[Get Buckets]

Again, dude been playing against a stacked deck

all students must enroll in prerequisite religious courses and conform to an honor code that forbids sex, alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, profanity and anything resembling same-sex interests. Also, no beards.

So he’s for/willing to accept all those things you listed?

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

We know ONE thing; Pope is MILES ahead of Calipari, on how to run an eloquent/modern offense.

When Kelvin Sampson says, "They're the hardest team in the country to guard", you know Pope can coach offense.

 

[BleedBlueCats21]

I also have little to no concern with Pope starting guys over better options just to appease their agents/handlers.

 

[Wynn Duffy 69]

I retired as Northern US Sales Manager for 30 years

.

 

[wcc31]

So if you’re buying into this hire, you have to think:

a) Culture change
b) Pope’s another Beilein
c) The brand and style of play will do the recruiting
d) Bigtime NIL in the portal

 

[UK_WINS_NCAA]

Pretty sure BCG's position is still safe.

The HIRE, not the results. The hire. Chalk me up for another Henson Davis yadayadayada but you GD know that BCG was a better HIRE than Mark Pope.

 

[tommyg4uk]

Mark Pope
0 NCAA TOURNAMENT WINS
0 Conference Titles
0 Conference Tournament Championships
63.4% Winning Percentage

 

[Btothe4th_rivals376930]

Real talk

We’re all gonna root for him. He’s gonna be the GD coach.

And he’ll win hopefully.

And if he wins a lot there will be jackasses that said they called it tonight. And if he loses horribly there will be jackasses that say the same thing.

But at this very moment there is not a single one of us that has a clue how Pope will handle this because he’s never coached above AAA and he’s walking into Yankee stadium. And as the gold standard fans, players, and Pope himself shouldn’t be in this position.

At no point should UK ever be in a “Pope and hope” position

 

[ukcats2008_rivals103438]

At least it’s not Chris Beard.

 

[roguemocha]

At least it’s not Chris Beard.

Heyoooooooooooooooooo! What a call back!

Your last post was only 2023? Could’ve told me 2013 and I would’ve believed it.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

The HIRE, not the results. The hire. Chalk me up for another Henson Davis yadayadayada but you GD know that BCG was a better HIRE than Mark Pope.

Isn't the quality of the "hire" based upon the "results"? What am I missing here?

 

[legalbeagle123]

So if you’re buying into this hire, you have to think:

a) Culture change
b) Pope’s another Beilein
c) The brand and style of play will do the recruiting
d) Bigtime NIL in the portal

All true. But damn, this idea about boosters not being behind it has to be very, very concerning. That d) in your list is system critical.

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

It looks like the three “home run” possibilities (Hurley, Drew, Donovan) were no-gos, so Mitch decided to go for a reach with (hopefully) big potential vs a safer - but blander - candidate. It’s an interesting approach. If it works he’ll be a genius. If it doesn’t he’s an idiot. No middle ground here.

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

So if you’re buying into this hire, you have to think:

a) Culture change
b) Pope’s another Beilein
c) The brand and style of play will do the recruiting
d) Bigtime NIL in the portal

What choice, at this point, do we have BUT buying into the hire?

It's certainly better than hiring Pitino as a placeholder.

AND, at the end of the day, let's not forget that Calipari's timing really fvcked us royally. And over the last few days, I've come to believe that it was intentional.

 

[MobileCatFan]

MobileCatFan - how do my big swinging balls taste?

Not sure how our AD making an inexplicable decision suddenly improves your 800 posts/day. And while you weren't one of the ones that shouldn't post, believe its fairly unanimous among all that you should post a lot less... that was more geared to the guy giving turn by turn airplane nav and the guy obviously making up inside info posts.


Probably more pissed that they would put a beloved guy like Pope into this situation. He basically has to win A LOT right out of the gate or its going to go Joker-south.

 

[roguemocha]

I feel like the boosters will be happy, like us, to have THEIR program back. Access, friendly cool coach, TONS of former players around from the Pitino era and beyond, one billion less headaches and behind the scenes conversations like “there’s not **** we CAN do about him Finnegan, he’s untouchable.”

I think he’s got a grace year anyway and we’ll get behind him and see what he can do.

I am not elated but I can guarantee you there’s no coach more excited to get this damn job.

 

[UK_WINS_NCAA]

Isn't the quality of the "hire" based upon the "results"? What am I missing here?

Sooo....hire me and just wait for results? FOH with this soft *** ****.

 

[NW50]

Mark Pope was a great UK player.

Mark Pope is a great guy.

Mark Pope is an innovative offensive coach.

Mark Pope understands the traditions and expectations that come with coaching UK.

Mark Pope is not the guy you hire on day four of a national coaching search.

All those things can be true at the same time.

Our competition to hire Pope was…no one.

 

[tommyg4uk]

Can’t be talked into this hire.

I’m f***ing livid.

Pope is a yes at any point…no need to rush this hire 60 hours out.

Cast a wide f***ing net and see the options.

 

[bradyjames_rivals]

Some of us were so tired of Cal’s BS we will settle for anything. Right or wrong I just couldn’t take it anymore.

The day Mitch retires will be one of the happiest days of my sports life.

 

[B Rax_rivals210137]

BYU would have likely won the 2020 tournament, a lot of people forget that

 

[HymanKaplan_rivals48997]

GYERO 1 month ago: It doesn't MATTER who we hire. It will still be an upgrade.

Today: F*** Mitch. He should be fired. LOL

When the Clown is the measured, take it in stride person in the room, the room has gone full on batshit. LOL

This is glorious. LOL

 

[cut_itloosedoubledeuce]

Both can be true

 

[legalbeagle123]

Phone numbers and emails of Barnhart and Capitulo plastered on RR. Would love to hear some of those voicemails from some of our best BJW's tomorrow morning.

 

[Crystalglass]

If you’re driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse with 200k miles on it that won’t start and you hand someone $100k to go buy you a new car and they come back with a 2018 Camry with 45k miles on it, whether or not the car is an upgrade or not kind of becomes secondary

 

[bradyjames_rivals]

Clown, Oates wanted the job according to this guy. Anybody who thinks Mitch handled this search well is misguided.

It’s not about Mark Pope. Hope he crushes it. This search was really weird.

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

Everybody left after the Big 3, and maybe Oats, had baggage (Pearl, Beard, Miller) or had already failed at a big job (Smart). Who else besides those guys was out there that would make people relatively happy? Golden? The Iowa State guy? It’s kind of a sparse crowd tbh