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It's crazy we're letting Pope have a lame duck year at Kentucky. This should have easily been foreseen by his inability to sign a high school recruit all year, a real administration would have had him out the door as soon as the season ended. Mitch fiddles while we burn.
Said the samething at a school like UK and you had not a recruit signed for the next year when the season ended that should've been grounds for TERMINATION! Mitch don't give a **** because Pope is a YES MAN!
 

Ash Williams

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I don’t have the attention spam of a gnat and handwringing isn’t something I do.

I will evaluate the finished roster and either raise hell or be OK with it.

Either way, it’s fine. It’s either a bad roster, which equals a bad team, which equals a new coach in 2027. Or a he lands a good roster and good team and the coach keeps his job another year.

Me pissing and moaning online won’t improve the roster, so wait and see is my approach.
We all have our coping mechanisms.
 
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Tri-Countycat

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If Pope lands two shooters including McNeil, Stokes and goes to get Milan Slim Jesus. Or pulls a could guys out of the draft, we could have a roster needed to be a top ten team. Thanks not gonna happen.
Said the samething at a school like UK and you had not a recruit signed for the next year when the season ended that should've been grounds for TERMINATION! Mitch don't give a **** because Pope is a YES MAN!
take it easy, he only offered 11, give him a break.
 
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If Pope lands two shooters including McNeil, Stokes and goes to get Milan Slim Jesus. Or pulls a could guys out of the draft, we could have a roster needed to be a top ten team. Thanks not gonna happen.

take it easy, he only offered 11, give him a break.
He needs a break alright he needs a permanent break from being UK's head coach.
 

anot

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We should’ve done what Texas A&M fans did when they heard they were hiring Stoops and revolted to the point where the administration had to reverse course. We sat on our hands and did nothing. I was upset at first but then supported the hire. I’m upset I didn’t do more.
I've said that many times which is my reason for the thread. I'm not really whining or coping. I literally wish people would say a time and date to show up and at least try. Been saying it for months.
 

BlueSince92

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I'm with OP -- my biggest worry in all this is the support for a year 4. I've seen so many posts here like "he might have a year like his first year" as if that's something that supports keeping his job. The final 4 or bust consensus has already degraded into "yay we got 2 players".
I got crucified for saying it’s not impossible albeit terrifying that the administration might keep him even after a 15 win season but I still think it’s a real danger.
 

CELTICAT

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bbc three you need help GIF by BBC

This you?

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Sure is! And I still stand by that! Freeman would have been a good, not great get. But when I’m dealing with uneducated fans like yourself, you’ve not watched full games of him like I have and you’re going by what you’re told to think and the player you’re told that we need. I’ve done my research and got some info and I know what we need and what we are getting, I don’t need to be told what player we should target by Matt Jones like you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
 

CELTICAT

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Sure is! And I still stand by that! Freeman would have been a good, not great get. But when I’m dealing with uneducated fans like yourself, you’ve not watched full games of him like I have and you’re going by what you’re told to think and the player you’re told that we need. I’ve done my research and got some info and I know what we need and what we are getting, I don’t need to be told what player we should target by Matt Jones like you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

this you too?

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*Fox2Monk*

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Personally im not freaking out because i already have accepted that we will be dogshit next year. Pope already missed on too many top targets for us to be a realistic contender. So basically the only enjoyment I’ll get next year is watching Pope go down in flames again and get fired.

With that said, I think I’m different in my reason for not freaking out compared to many on here. This board has a lot of delusional posters who will talk themselves into literally anything. Most of the fanbase talked themselves into believing Pope would be worth a damn just 24 hours after being livid that he was hired. They talked themselves into believing Zoom and Wilkins will be this amazing backcourt. In reality we have two guys who are ball dominant and have to have the ball in their hands to be effective. It’s not a good pairing at all and the bad part is they’ll likely be our two best players.

But it’s probably for the best that it happens this way. The last thing we need is another 24-12 season where we get a 5 seed and Pope lucks his way into a sweet 16 and our nutless administration keeps him for year 4.
We are going to have a lot of Gonzaga games next season. I probably won’t even watch honestly. It won’t even be anywhere near fun. I can’t believe how inept our entire administration is that they could turn me off a basketball season.
 
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*Fox2Monk*

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I got crucified for saying it’s not impossible albeit terrifying that the administration might keep him even after a 15 win season but I still think it’s a real danger.
At this point I think we get beaten down so badly that it will be impossible for the media to defend him.
 
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UKWildcats1987

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We are going to have a lot of Gonzaga games next season. I probably won’t even watch honestly. It won’t even be anywhere near fun. I can’t believe how inept our entire administration is that they could turn me off a basketball season.

Make it a drinking game.

That's what I did this past season.

Do the same thing with the awful Titans.
 
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