He was destined to get injured. So you tell us. Would 2/3 of a season with Wilson have helped? I don’t think so. At the end of the day players just don’t wanna play for Pope. I mean, we’re we got people here super excited when we landed the guy from Iowa State and a recruit for next year. Neither of which puts us in any discussion for any titles or anything.. momicilovic helps us to not suck next year and Probably makes us a sweet 16 team which is awful. Because this toiling around with mediocrity is getting us nowhere. I mean we’re having to pay championship money for freaking hit or miss players. These All-Star type players top 25 recruits. They wanna play for coaches who have notoriety. They don’t care if coach sucks like cal. The guys connected and he has a history of don’t know maybe he’s got more players to the league a short period of time than any other coach I can think of maybe any ever I mean wooden would be next. Pope has to change his calculus completely.. he has to embrace our former UK players that are in the NBA. Instead of taking these long breaks and disappearing for long periods of time, I’m sure his wife tells him to recharge. This job gives you maybe a week out of the year to recharge. There’s no work life balance coaching at Kentucky. Those long periods of time where Pope just disappears in summer the guy needs to spend a lot of time recruiting our former players.. the best thing he can do for himself is to get the school associated with all of the stud NBA players. It’s not a tattoo. It’s not a a little mention about Kentucky. It’s getting these guys to be part of the part of the family. If you have these former players start to pump Kentucky well we can get that mystique back. Hasn’t been long enough yet.. and honestly perfect guy for the job is sitting job was right now that’s Donovan. He will get in good with every single former Kentucky player that’s in the NBA. He’ll have them recruit. I mean he’s done with his guys. He knows how to do it.. the problem is pope. None of them want anything to do with him? You know that picture of towns were popes like hugging on him well towns didn’t want that pope just does that stuff. He doesn’t care who person is he just does what he wants. There’s no conforming. We’re still losing ridiculous amounts of recruits. I feel like a sweet 16 this year would be a disaster. That’s probably the end of UK basketball because either we lose and hire a stud coach or win a little and continue with the stale program that Pope is built. It feels like he’s been here 10 years..
Now the caveat to this is if pope figures it out and gets us to a sweet 16 or get this to an elite 8 and has us super competitive in that game. I don’t think it’s much to demand that are a new coach get to an elite eight in the first three years or bounce. But the other caveat is can’t just get to an elite eight he needs the majority of his team to return along with that so that in two years were favorites to win a title.. I just don’t think any of that is gonna happen. But that I would get behind Pope if he started winning like that.. like a five loss season or better. If it’s an average sweet 16. Well we brought in a fundraising machine with our A.D. so buying out his contract shouldn’t be a problem, man. I’m sorry but I still haven’t seen eliteness out of Mark Pope
