Pope on X - let’s talk. Round 3 Q & A KAM starting?

FitchandMurray29

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He said he went to Slovenia and Milan as well as Israel. I haven’t looked, but I wonder what players are there. Cremona is a very specific place to randomly mention.
Ousmane plays for Vanoli Cremona so that would confirm he met up with him in person while he was over there which would make sense. I See other responses confirmed the same.
 

four_every_hour

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So what basically everyone here expected to happen, happened, and Pope was seemingly the only one who didn’t realize it until it was too late, and what. You want people to be happy about that?

He can’t keep putting all his eggs in one basket and walking away empty handed, and he is unlikely to get another chance to do so.

I don’t need him to tell me he spent too much time focused on Stokes and missed out on others because of it. That was brutally obvious. I want him to tell me why he continues to make that mistake and what he will change going forward.
He hasn’t continued to make that mistake. He did it with stokes and who else? And the answer answers your question. By saying he put too much time into one recruit he’s saying he won’t do that again. At least that’s what I take from it. If you’re looking for a college basketball coach to tell people their recruiting tricks moving forward you’re going to be disappointed because that ain’t gonna happen
 

Padsfs07

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Cameron Houindo is a solid player. Really young, only 18. He looks like Tyler Davis, who used to play for Texas A&M.
 
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Bugs092056

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It was never going to happen. Other sec programs notice the hire and went into immediate “destroy mark pope mode” and took advantage of all his mistakes and early stumbles. They buried him in the recruiting trail early on. He’s got no chance to rebound from that. His background is too bad, and his situation is too risky. There’s no way in this business to rebuilt it and become something else. Yes, an absolute. It cannot happen. 0% chance and those of us who’ve done this a very long time understand it. The Facebook fan page moms do not.
Other coaches love Mark Pope being the coach here
 

ZaytovenCat

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Hey man, I respect the dude for manning up and facing the music. It might actually buy him some grace from the part of the fanbase that graduated high school
lol you can’t be serious. This does absolutely nothing to calm the pissed off fanbase. If anyone it just shows even more how clueless he is.
this is the kind of thing that will scare coaches and prospects away.....
Oh no.. not scare away prospects. I doubt Pope could whiff on more if he tried.
This is one of those times where I hope Matt Jones realizes he can be a real prick. I’ve been right on with almost everything Matt has said this off season, but goading this from UK coach is pathetic. Mark may be a **** coach, but he is a nice guy and only wants the fans to be happy. I truly believe that. And I truly believe he did this only because KSR has made such a big deal out of Mark not talking since the end of the season. Just my opinions.
Matt can be a prick but this isn’t on him or KSR. He’s mentioned the staff not speaking for weeks now but absolutely nobody would have said to do this. A simple interview or written statement would have been the common sense move.
Wonder who he was visiting, ik Tel Aviv was for Santos.
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He was seeing Whiff 1, Whiff 2, Whiff 3 and Whiff 4.

Dude looks good so I’m sure we don’t have a snowballs chance in hell.
 

ZaytovenCat

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Here’s how you know that a coach needs to be fired asap, when all of your school’s rivals fanbases are leaving comments hoping he stays for many years or sign a lifetime contract. When you actually want a coach at a school that you don’t like then that coach is garbage and all of our rivals hope he stays here forever.

It’s the same as when we wanted Crean and Payne at IU and UL forever. We sure as hell didn’t want them there because they were doing good at those schools. We knew they’d be irrelevant as long as they’re there.
 

TheApostleSaulSmith

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He hasn’t continued to make that mistake. He did it with stokes and who else? And the answer answers your question. By saying he put too much time into one recruit he’s saying he won’t do that again. At least that’s what I take from it. If you’re looking for a college basketball coach to tell people their recruiting tricks moving forward you’re going to be disappointed because that ain’t gonna happen
Are you high? Nobody is wanting recruiting tips from Mark frickin Pope
 
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lol you can’t be serious. This does absolutely nothing to calm the pissed off fanbase. If anyone it just shows even more how clueless he is.

Oh no.. not scare away prospects. I doubt Pope could whiff on more if he tried.

Matt can be a prick but this isn’t on him or KSR. He’s mentioned the staff not speaking for weeks now but absolutely nobody would have said to do this. A simple interview or written statement would have been the common sense move.

He was seeing Whiff 1, Whiff 2, Whiff 3 and Whiff 4.

Dude looks good so I’m sure we don’t have a snowballs chance in hell.
As soon as another school catches wind that we were over there looking at him Pope's chances just went to 0% chance...
 

Seth_C

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He hasn’t continued to make that mistake. He did it with stokes and who else? And the answer answers your question. By saying he put too much time into one recruit he’s saying he won’t do that again. At least that’s what I take from it. If you’re looking for a college basketball coach to tell people their recruiting tricks moving forward you’re going to be disappointed because that ain’t gonna happen
He did the exact same thing last season and ended up scrambling for his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choices. It's a pattern. You know that, I know that, and your ******** meandering deflection just won't work on me. You are clearly too intelligent to believe what you are saying, which makes it useless to engage with you. Join my ignore list, you disingenuous trash.
 

four_every_hour

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He did the exact same thing last season and ended up scrambling for his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choices. It's a pattern. You know that, I know that, and your ******** meandering deflection just won't work on me. You are clearly too intelligent to believe what you are saying, which makes it useless to engage with you. Join my ignore list, you disingenuous trash.
Lmao. You need a therapist for real. And name who he did it with last year
 

UKgrad22

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Appears Kam will be our starter.
I read/heard it as he is ready to take steps towards competing to be a starter, not that he’s a lock to be a starter. Think it more implies that he’s making progress towards being that starting caliber player, but no guarantee that he’s starting.
 
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TheApostleSaulSmith

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“hsushthruwhsndjfieiwkaksnrjrowpaldjnruruejdjdbfhrhriejdjdjfjriejdnfhrururieieididjjrjeiwiwirjrnrjdjdidieijeiwosjtjtjridowoejjtnfjxieorjtnsjwejbrnfjwkwoeirhrjjeiwiejrjrfnhdwiowjebrnrkwowjrjrbrrnjwowoenrnrmeowoekenjejeiensndjeiejdbrjeiejjjeieienenepspemroreohsahuwrjrueismdnkwoektifoemwkrirkwkejdiwekrbnrieor” - Mark Pope
Nah, too coherent