Never underestimate my ability to be ignorant. That said, I’ve seen no one on here ever say they are ok with losing 12+ games. Literally ever.
Hey morons, quit taking your frustrations out..
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Well, he did. That would be fact.
Now if someone said winning 20 games is more than enough for me every year, I’d be concerned.
I’m saying the guys that pretend to be uk fans are happy we lost that many. Not everyone on this board is really a UK fan.
If he loved UK he would resign and maybe help find us a great coach to get us back top again
Cal has been at Kentucky for almost 15 years and won a title here. Maybe the love is lost but to question Cal not loving this program in spite of the last couple seasons is sad. Meanwhile your boy Pope played for 3 years and is only on his 2nd year here. And the way he acts isn’t exactly filling me with the love that people claim when they say he “loves” program. He might very well love it, but he sure as heck doesn’t show it.
I’ll always appreciate what Cal did for us early on. But Pope needs to get the f*ck out of Kentucky before a lot of us start treating him like Nebraska fans treat Scott Frost.
Because Cal just won the SECT while we can’t even get past the quarterfinals with the dope we’re forced to call head coach.
His posts are all over the place. He's way more like Chris than Tony.
Looking back at our postseason finishes, I believe this is the longest drought without an Elite 8 since Kentucky basketball even became a thing with Rupp.
Kentucky played musical chairs with BYU and Arkansas. We lost. While BYU and Arkansas improved, we’re somehow worse than when Cal was here. It sucks, I get it. But we don’t need people acting like Pope is a caterpillar in the process of becoming a butterfly. Problem is he’s developing into a moth chewing the remaining life out of our program. And Cal no longer coaches here. We both moved on.
I was against the hire when it happened then got behind him after the pep rally but it's not going to work.
The truth is, Pope had the worst resume of any coach before being named the head coach of UK. Granted, Joe B. Hall had not been a head coach but he was the assistant that went to at least four Elite 8s and a national runner-up. Sutton had a Final Four at Arkansas, Pitino had a Final Four at Providence, Tubby went to three Sweet 16s with lowly Tulsa and Georgia, Gillispie went to a Sweet 16 with A&M, and Cal went to two Final Fours.
Pope? Zero NCAA Tourney wins before coming here and no big crazy recruit that showed he could do this job.
It is what it is now but it's inevitable that this guy will be gone by the next year or two.
Cal is winning the tournaments and recruiting battles is all.
It should have been time for Mitch to go. He was the BIG problem. It like having a boss never support you, never want to hire you to begin with and then never take up for you. Any of us would have not liked our jobs.
My wife and I just got back from the sec tournament. She doesn't watch much basketball but even she could see that he was lost and not coaching like all the other coaches we played. We were lucky to beat LSU without there best two players.
I think I speak for everyone, were all still pissed Billy G got the shaft from Barnhart back in 09
Mitch should have been fired after Gillispie and joker. It is 100% fact at any serious SEC institution he would have been canned right there. My father told me when Mitch was hired when I was in middle school, that outsider is here to keep the booster and basketball guys out of affairs. They better watch him. And man was he right on the money. Mitch was brought in to stop the network that built Kentucky basketball. I don’t know why anyone is surprised, this is the result.
No they actually said it like, “he got a sweet 16 year 1 and he’s won 20 games year 2”. Using it to pad his resume.
Son of the pope stuff, I have to log out and log back in just to make sure I’m not on a EKU message board.
Zero chance UK got outspent on every one of these players. Just no way. So if UK didn’t get outspent, why didn’t/haven’t we landed a single one of these guys?
- Tyran Stokes – No. 1 overall recruit
- Christian Collins – 5-star forward
- Caleb Holt – 5-star guard
- Deron Rippey Jr. – 4-star point guard
- Brandon McCoy – 5-star center
- Tajh Ariza – 5-star wing
- Jason Crowe Jr. – elite guard
- Jordan Smith Jr. – 5-star wing
- Tay Kinney – 4-star guard
- Bryson Howard – 4-star wing
They just don’t want to be coached by Pope. It’s that simple. No one respects that man. Not the media, not other coaches and certainly no players. His own team probably doesn’t respect him. He’s a pushover to the extreme. Coaches are probably thinking “Him? You seriously hired him to be your coach, Kentucky?”
No trying to be a wise guy, but I think the issue is that a large portion of the fans do have that conclusion . HOWEVER, a large portion of the fans have the conclusion that Cal was going through a rough period for a variety of reasons and was still the coach for the job. However, neither group of fans will respect the others opinion and instead it has become a name calling I told you so conversation.
I just got back from SEC tournament and I can tell you UK is a laughing stock for losing Cal and getting Mark Pope. I walked around and listened to others without my UK gear on and it was amazing how much people think we are idiots. I even had one person say he spoke to someone that played with Pope on one of our UK teams. He said the player said UK was crazy to let Cal go and end up with Pope and he played with Pope.