Sad thing is we wouldn’t have even gotten Cal had it been up to him. I miss having the guys in the right places to make sure these Pope type hires never happen again.
Well Miller and Wade were in their first years. Beard had a bad year but he has a track record of success. Meanwhile, Pope has a mediocre resume his whole career and here he is at the supposed top basketball school. Through two years at UK his overall record is about par for his career. It’s really sad.
I don’t know about Pope, but Mitch deserves to be in prison for stuffing his wallets with public money. He deserves be kicked out of the state by an angry mob and told to never return. We could post 100 hate threads on Mitch Barnhart a day for a decade and it still wouldn’t be enough to absolve his guilty *** who knowingly hiring a rapist as a swim coach or the underhanded payments he’s gotten from the likes of JMI to sell a public university’s sports program. When he dies I hope he burns in hell. Sanctimonious, immoral jackass who has profited off Kentuckians’ misery.
Not disagreement with any of that, but currently, all 3 schools weren't exactly good this year. Will those guys be able to recruit well enough going forward given their histories, or will they continue to be average? That remains to be seen.
Well, Texas made it to the sweet 16 (and lost on a last second shot) and Ole Miss made it further than we did in the SEC tournament so not sure what that makes UK.
We're horrible. However, we did beat both of those teams. TX was 9-9 in the conference and finished 10th. Ole Miss was 15th in the SEC at 4-14 and 15-20 overall. They didn't even make the NCAA tournament.
Miller won 74 percent of his games at Arizona. He won the PAC12 5 times. And he won 30+ games four seasons.
Would you have been happy with Miller this season? Personally I think he’s a really good coach and would have been ok with us hiring him. But his first year at Texas was worse than Popes first at UK.
Miller has a higher ceiling for sure, he just always couldn’t get past the Elite 8. Like he was really good, but not elite.
Idk why but he would have great teams at Arizona and would blow it in the tournament every year.
Quit trying to police the board with your little puss minority bs. Nobody cares what you think about pope and Mitch. They both need to be out of here.
Same thing I've thought every time Miller's name has been brought up. Coached many years with talented players and what has he ever won? Will Wade, are we really that desperate to hire a slimy coach like him to be part of UK 's illustrious program? Shake my head when I hear UK fans wanting guys like these two.
Bored and looked up Miller's performance in the NCAAT while at UofA. I would say on the numbers, put him a rung below "very good", even. Most of his teams finished worse than preseason rank, and he usually did worse than he should have in the NCAAT. I would call Mark Few a "very good" coach -- he knocked on the door enough times and broke through to the FF eventually. Miller didn't really get to the EE consistently enough, let alone FF.
| Year | AP Preseason | AP Final | NCAA Seed | Outcome | Achievement Level (vs seed) |
| 2011 | NR | 17 | 5 | E8 - 2pt loss to champ UCONN | Over |
| 2013 | 12 | 21 | 6 | S16, lost to 2-seed OSU | Average |
| 2014 | 6 | 4 | 1 | E8, lost to 2-seed Wisky bt 1 pt (OT) | Under |
| 2015 | 2 | 5 | 2 | E8, 7-pt loss to 1-seed Wisky | Average |
| 2016 | 12 | 17 | 6 | R64, 10-pt loss to Wich St | Under |
| 2017 | 10 | 4 | 2 | S16, 2pt loss to 11 seed Xavier | Under |
| 2018 | 3 | 12 | 4 | R64, 21pt loss to Nate Oates Buffalo | Under |
I'm not policing anything. Your name calling and constant negativity is tiring to me and everyone else. Grow up little man. You are the minority here. You're just trying to bring everyone else down to your level of miserable childishness. It's pathetic.
If you think caputo and MB were good ol boys….lol.
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I never said I wanted these two. Are they more qualified than Pope to get a job like UK? Absolutely.
Nope, the majority aren't continually posting threads about not wanting or liking them. Big difference.
And Miller seems to be easy to understand in his postgame remarks instead of the blah blah blah from Pope.
