All teams are learning this lesson if they want to succeed. All the more reason to hire a sharp GM that can weave through all the Agents and contract stuff.
The money will be there!
The boosters are evidently giving Pope one more chance.
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The money will be there!
I think the only way to be sure he's back, like 100%, is an Elite Eight. I don't think blowouts matter that much if you make it to Elite Eight. No chance he's getting let go with E8 IMO
Pope I'm sure understands he really needs to kick some @$$ this season or he most likely won't get another season. Especially with a new AD, hopefully someone not from the UK family tree.
The blowout line was a joke. But any team that’s getting blown out the way they were last year probably doesn’t have a good shot at an elite 8 anyway
“I came here to chew bubblegum and to eat crow, and I’m all out of bubblegum!”
And eat crow, I happily will! Great great add for Pope and the team, and I hope these guys all compliment each other, and just leave it all on the court every game…
We all had sufficient reasons to believe Pope couldn’t get it done, but after 3 years, he finally did, and I was particularly hard on him since midway through last season for a multitude of reasons!
Now, let’s let Pope mold the team into his vision, and see what he puts together on the court next season, and get behind him in the meantime.
Go Cats
“I came here to chew bubblegum and to eat crow, and I’m all out of bubblegum!”
And eat crow, I happily will! Great great add for Pope and the team, and I hope these guys all compliment each other, and just leave it all on the court every game…
We all had sufficient reasons to believe Pope couldn’t get it done, but after 3 years, he finally did, and I was particularly hard on him since midway through last season for a multitude of reasons!
Now, let’s let Pope mold the team into his vision, and see what he puts together on the court next season, and get behind him in the meantime.
Go Cats
agree !!! Time to coach your a$$ off ..
This is my biggest worry as well. That we get an OK season & he gets ONE MORE chance. I never want UK to fail, but I don’t want mediocrity. Because honestly, I think sweet 16 is kinda Pope’s ceiling from what I’ve seen.
I just don’t want 8 years of 5-8 seeds and “hopefully” seasons. I had enough of that with Tubby’s and Cal’s last few years.
Excited with this team. More so than the first 2. Think Williams and Brown already have really helped put this together. Williams can help our guard play like Rod Strickland did early with Cal. So important and he has size, experience, depth and talent to work with there.
Like the positional recruiting approach better than just grab the highest rated guys. Chemistry so important.
Like the positional recruiting approach better than just grab the highest rated guys. Chemistry so important.
Nope, not kidding. Some of these guys are my age (65) and older. Not everyone is a Brett Setzer. Writing checks to support the program without making unreasonable demands is the norm believe it or not. Now, if he completely falls on his face and the season becomes an embarrassment, that's a different story. Hubert Davis was at UNC for 5 years, right? But he also had a run to the national championship in year one...
If your roster is not pricey, your not winning jack s.hit, there is a reason BYU got Dybatsa and the players Young is getting
Yes it is still UK, but the product has been inferior for several years and coach Rupp isn't on the sidelines
Don't need a link to see teams are paying the price, and for a full team on a top 10 team, has to be up there. If bottom players like Noah are getting $500,000 or more, and your top is $6,000,000, adds up quick.
I think the fact that we beat ST. John's/Pitino, beat UT at UT and at home, beat Calipari at Arkansas, beat Indiana, beat a good Vandy team and made it through the first weekend of the tournament was decent enough in year two to not cause a big uproar from the handful of boosters that I know.