No. He'll post a cryptic tweet about it being soon followed by a new graphic with his top 3 schools.
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Who knows with him. I wish he would just go ahead and spurn us so we can move on. He’s not coming here imho.
This is even more depressing to me. Now we can buy players and we have the money and nobody will even play for us. That is more depressing honestly.
Exactly. That's why I keep preaching about staff learning to read a room. It's essential in recruiting. They also struggle to create any leverage for themselves.
Pope has lost 26 games in 2 years.
No contract. Just a Memorandum of Understanding on a napkin.
Mitch has quite the highlight reel.
I agree, and that's at the crux of my argument on BG vs P that some can't wrap their heads around. There's a sense of this program fading to irrelevance that's never been as prevalent as it is now.
Some unhinged loser calling me a turd isn't going to change Caleb Holt saying "UK has problems", recruits with no intention of coming here prostituting us for better NIL, and national media openly laughing at us.
Stokes was just on TikTok or something. My son sent me the link and I don’t remember the name of the fan. Nobody that I know but as Stokes ended in the interview basically he said that guy is the biggest Kentucky fan there is. He seems to enjoy engaging with our fans in a way to build anxiety it doesn’t seem like a guy who’s gonna go to that school.
That's false ,he was smiling and engaging with that fan the whole time, he's been nothing but cordial to Kentucky fans
KSR seems to be wrong a lot.
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I'm hearing if he doesn't commit today he will before next season. Secret source
Yep. You're exactly right. My friend was told about BCG more than a month before Coach Smith left for the gopher job, but didn't tell anyone because his source told him not to until after he was gone. I had no idea who BCG was until he mentioned him being the next coach. I'm more of a football guy.
Seemed so random of a choice back then, but at least he had done something with his teams. Pope hadn't even come close to what Billy Clyde had done at his previous stops when MB hired him. I hoped for Pope's sake that MB saw something we didn't and that he'd be better than he was with UK behind him, but that hasn't happened so far.
MB getting a 950k per yr triple platinum umbrella to go with his retirement package is the big slap in the face everyone didn't see coming. I guess that's what happens when you know where the bodies are buried?
We're not allowed to use injuries as an excuse on here.
Was Patterson injured when Gardner Webb, VMI and UAB beat us in Rupp?
Was patterson injured when Vandy smoked us by 41?
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So, Tubby convinced Liggins and Patrerson to come, why is BCG getting the credit for recruiting them?
I don't think it's about money, I think Pope is telling these kids something that is turning them off.
If he's telling them that they will he getting subbed out often, he's getting what he deserves and we can't help him. That's a stupid hill to die on and that's exactly what will happen.
Injuries certainly matter. Cost UK titles n 2015, 2014, 1997 off the top of my head.
Pope wasn't winning anything that matters if healthy but definitely would have a better overall record of mediocrity.
Against the #3 and #4 SOS.
BCG lost 26 games against the 66th and 42nd SOS.
Pope also has 10 wins that are better than any win BCG ever had.
Don't get it twisted, both coaches suck, but Billy sucks so much worse.
Fading into irrelevance? This.is the NIL and transfer portal era, that's just not possible.
Heck, you say Pope is a horrible coach, but just 2 years ago, Pope had zero players, or staff in mid April. He proceeded to beat 2 final 4 teams, beat Gonzaga, sweep Tennessee and get to a sweet 16.
If Pope sucks and he was able to do all that, doesn't that prove any program that wants to stay relevant, can easily do so?
I'll translate:
"Injuries only matter for coaches not named Mark Pope."
"Pope lost his only pg, his lottery pick center and his starting sf, but in this case, it doesn't matter, because I don't like Mark Pope and I'm so mad".
Immaturity at its finest.
Also, injuries didn't cost UK titles in 97, 2014, or 2015. Are you seriously going to blame those losses on injuries? This is the first time I have seen anyone say the 2014 and 2015 losses were caused by injury. That_s complete horse crap. Cal caused those losses. 2014 lost the same way 2024 lost, they played scared and Cal never adjusted to stop an elite guard.
2015 was misding Alex Poythress, but that team still had more talent than anyone in the country and it wasn't close. Cal got in his own way again. Took the air out of the ball.
In 1997, that team was good enough to make it to the title game, so they had what they needed. Also, Derrick Anderson was cleared to play, Pitino chose not to play him.
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No.
Tubby recruited Patterson, yes, but was not going to come to Kentucky after Tubby left. BCG had to re-recruit him. Liggins was recruited by BCG. Liggins' first year was BCGs 2nd year.
Same reason he doesn't read anyone's posts. He's not reasonable. He's all over the place, attributing things to people that didn't say them, and jumping to irrational conclusions not supported by facts. He's a DA that thinks I "worship CMP" when I've clearly posted to the contrary.
He gets sht horribly wrong, says "my bad" when called out, and then goes right back to getting sht horribly wrong in the same way and using the same methods. He's like HAL in 2001:ASO. Somebody just programmed this bot to focus poorly on UK basketball.
I assume you’re only talking about Kentucky results? Gillespie accomplished more at A&M than Pope did at BYU as in at least winning some tournament games and a top 10 national ranking on several occasions. Maybe not by much but he was actually more qualified to be here than Pope ever thought about. I actually believe Gillespie was a better coach than Pope. The UK job just completely ate him up, just like it’s doing to Pope.
And a small detail was also left out. That being Pope had $22 million at his disposal to go get whoever he wanted and look at what we got. Inexcusable!
There is no comparing Pope and BCG. Doing so or arguing about it is nuts. Completely opposite ends of a poor choice spectrum. Neither should've been our coach and both clearly indicate MB has zero business being involved in choosing our UKMBB coaches or ADs going forward, and he shouldn't be given a million dollar, made up job for any reason.
This thread's been massively Hijacked, and I've contributed to it too long. I'm out.
This thread's been massively Hijacked, and I've contributed to it too long. I'm out.
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I haven’t forgotten. Tubby was by far the worst coach ever at UK. Until now.
But even his teams did just stand and watch the other teams do a lay up line during the game.
There’s never been a UK player just pick up the ball and walk out of bounds with it down 25 points and then just shrug it off. Touch money!!
It’s unbelievable to me that some UK fans are accepting of not giving effort.
But apparently it’s ok as long as he’s better than BCG?
Tubby could coach circles around Pope and BCG. What the Hell are you talking about?
Why do we care what BCG did at aTm? How does that play into this?
Y'all are trying really REALLY hard to put a dress on a really stinky turd.
No, we're just responding to your pathetic ways of trying to make Pope look as bad as BCG.
I mean, you still don't get it, you're actually hurting your case. Pope accomplished more, with a team that quit, against a much harder SOS, in a much tougher conference, than BCG did with a team that, in your opinion, didn't quit. This is the 3rd time I've explained this to you and you still keep coming back with the same crap. Read it again, slowly.
I mean, how far do you want to go with this narrative? You're trying so hard to make Pope look as bad as BCG, but the gap between the 2, is miles and all you have, is 6' of duct tape.
Tubby recruited PP for nearly 2 years creating the relationship with himself and also UK. BCG recruited him maybe a month. He gets credit for the signing but there is no PP at UK without Tubby.
The rest of that stuff you posted was like you replied to the wrong post because my post was specifically about Tubby and PP.