Mark Dope is being laughed at

BBNUK4Life

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They’re jealous, Pope is on the precipice of building a dynasty here, one stone at a time, they fear his inevitable rise to power.
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NociHTTP

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I get why he's not hiring a GM, I agree with his philosophy. He'll have to decide whether standing up for academics and keeping pro sports out of college is worth having teams that underperform and him subsequently losing his job. There is a reason elite coaches have been leaving the coaching ranks. As fans we're caught in the middle.
 

TFCat11

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Less than a year from now, we are all going to look back and remember Mitch/ AD basically had Billy Donovan standing on the porch with a big bow around his head, practically waiting for the job offer, but we instead all sat around our computers and discussed how the 5th option PF from New Guinea left the closing table without a commitment, only to have KU come in and make him Self’s replacement shortly thereafter!

Then we can spend the next year crying about how incompetent and corrupt UK’s administration is because they let it happen, because we can’t upset the woke members of BBN who couldn’t see past their idolatry of the underdog head coach, who “just has to have a 3rd season!”😩
 

TX Wildcat

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Pope tried last year to "out buy" the competition. Guess he is trying to "out dumb" them now. Watch it pay off just well enough for him to keep a job into year 4.
 
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Catphright23

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Lol same ol whining from the morning mark pope haters. Mark pope sucks, they'll be laughing at him, but I agree mark pope is too nice though. I'd say we have a stalker, a midget, a dude from Little Nicky, that duke guy from the scheyer, have you seen how ugly dukes women are, the girls at Louisville got more stds than a prostitute in vegas, if hurley had any kids theyd be midgets. The ones on this board who can't do nothing but talk crap all hate their lives. If it's objective it's one thing dudes like have been taking managina medicine here lately.
 

BookofMormon

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As a guy who peruses a message board of other relevant programs, I can confirm with conviction that Pope is a laughing stock across the CBB landscape. His approach is so messy, then combine it with the luney tunes in the fan base and it's all a dumpster fire. I'm not even sure landing a Stokes at this point fixes the perception - only thing that would gain any respect is actually coaching whatever the end product is to an E8 minimum. You can't have 22mm dollars and almost get knocked out in R1 to a MM and follow it up with a stinker. The more toxic the situation is created, the harder it will be to get a legit coach in here. Anyone even contemplating will want a deep look under the hood.
 

anot

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Well yeah. Imagine if one of our rivals had a coach like this. We'd be laughing, right?
I don't think so because there's tons of coaches like Pope. It just isn't acceptable at UK so it gets talked about. There's one BBN. We've been going crazy highlighting his failures . There's tons of Mark Popes but only one BBN.
 
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fisherscatfan

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Two clowns, Matt Jones and Kyle Tucker.
I’m not a Jones fan, but I put my dislike of him aside and listen to what he says/“reports” and decide for myself. If Pope were killing it on the recruiting front I would be dismissive of what others are saying. But Pope is struggling mightily and other leaders in his profession are commenting that Pope is an outlier in his approach.

If Im doing my own taxes and my effective tax rate is 40% and others with similar financial positions are at 30% while using an accountant and the accountants (other coaches) are saying I’m doing something wrong, well I probably need to find a tax accountant then.
 
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ftp000

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Do any of you ever take into consideration who you're agreeing with? This BBUK character has been on this board for one month, and made nothing but negative posts. (230 so far) . They came here to trash the team their handle indicates they're a fan of!
No TROLL4LIFE, rooting/hoping your team finds success doesn't make one stupid. But everything you are doing. All the hate you are spewing, does make you an obvious troll.
 

FilsonCat

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Read the article. It's nothing you wouldn't/shouldn't expect from opposing coaches. You think they sit around kissing each other's backsides?
In public, yes. Behind closed doors, you can't hide from your blind spots at Kentucky. When you crash out, the whole profession is going to be talking about it. Some of those guys would kill for this job.
 

RedwoodHigh

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They’re jealous, Pope is on the precipice of building a dynasty here, one stone at a time, they fear his inevitable rise to power.
Pope Is the Ky coach & if you truly support the Cats ,then you’ll lay off the negativity & hope he pulls off a great year 3. I refuse to cheer for the team to Suck so we can fire our coach.
Im not happy with his performance & substitute patterns but the UK BRAND is bigger than one Coach Or player.

BTW Pope is 2 players away from having a 25 win team & a 4th year..
 

Kantucke_rivals

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Pope really should at least be on speaking terms with the sports media in Kentucky. He could use them to his advantage, on PR and recruiting.I have never seen a college basketball coach take this approach with the sports media.
 
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TheApostleSaulSmith

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I get why he's not hiring a GM, I agree with his philosophy. He'll have to decide whether standing up for academics and keeping pro sports out of college is worth having teams that underperform and him subsequently losing his job. There is a reason elite coaches have been leaving the coaching ranks. As fans we're caught in the middle.
...you think Pope is struggling because he is "standing up for academics"?
 

ftp000

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As a guy who peruses a message board of other relevant programs, I can confirm with conviction that Pope is a laughing stock across the CBB landscape. His approach is so messy, then combine it with the luney tunes in the fan base and it's all a dumpster fire. I'm not even sure landing a Stokes at this point fixes the perception - only thing that would gain any respect is actually coaching whatever the end product is to an E8 minimum. You can't have 22mm dollars and almost get knocked out in R1 to a MM and follow it up with a stinker. The more toxic the situation is created, the harder it will be to get a legit coach in here. Anyone even contemplating will want a deep look under the hood.
Who cares what other fan bases say? The entire time Cal was successful they called him a used car salesman and a cheat! How many years did the media spend writing articles claiming we paid Anthony Davis?