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TheBestThereEverWas

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UKFootball78 said:
5 stars on what site? How many posts are you going to make about the same thing? I don't see 3 5 stars on rivals or 247
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Well if you combine ESPN, ON3, and 247 then you get one ranking for each that is a 5 star. Calipari has convinced the younger generation that you can only win with 5 star recruits. Last I checked we haven’t been to a final four since 2015.
 
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Anon1773686487 said:
If cal started our decline pope put the dirt over us
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Oh, Cal definitely started our decline. While Pope's record has not been stellar by any standard, the all-time wins gap between UK and Kansas declined more under Cal. So I guess you could say Pope has not thrown dirt on us, he's just not digging us out of the hole Cal dug us into.
 
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Anon1768287303 said:
Oh, Cal definitely started our decline. While Pope's record has not been stellar by any standard, the all-time wins gap between UK and Kansas declined more under Cal. So I guess you could say Pope has not thrown dirt on us, he's just not digging us out of the hole Cal dug us into.
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As much as Cal’s waning years screwed us, we were still respectable. We’ve basically received Tom Crean at Indiana levels of derision under Pope. The media, opposing fans, and Pope’s fellow coaches. There is zero respect.
 
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Catastic5 said:
As much as Cal’s waning years screwed us, we were still respectable. We’ve basically received Tom Crean at Indiana levels of derision under Pope. The media, opposing fans, and Pope’s fellow coaches. There is zero respect.
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Can't say that I disagree, but I'm waiting to see if how this season plays out before I start feeling like UK is the new IU. But my point still stands. Cal coasted in his "waning years" and that's what made a coaching change inevitable. We were just victims of a possible not so great hire by the former AD.
 
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Will Wade is a POS human being. He is however a really good basketball coach. This isn’t brain surgery. You can either coach or you can’t. You can either relate to recruits or you can’t. It doesn’t take three years to figure it out. We know what we have and it ain’t good.
 
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I think this will be Pope's last year. We will likely have a season similar to all of his seasons as a head coach where we'll have some good wins in between multiple losses with several seeing us get down 15-20+ early in the game and simply not be able to come back. Then a flame out in the second round and that'll be it.

J Batt doesn't strike me as a guy that's going to rearrange furniture on the Titanic. I think he'll get a new boat and probably the best boat available and I think we'll be off to the races in very short order. In some ways I feel like Pope is in an unwinnable situation right now. I think Batt as patiently awaiting his demise and anything short of the Final Four is probably a nail in the coffin for Pope, and given today's college sports landscape, it probably should be.
 
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CutNets said:
I think this will be Pope's last year. We will likely have a season similar to all of his seasons as a head coach where we'll have some good wins in between multiple losses with several seeing us get down 15-20+ early in the game and simply not be able to come back. Then a flame out in the second round and that'll be it.

J Batt doesn't strike me as a guy that's going to rearrange furniture on the Titanic. I think he'll get a new boat and probably the best boat available and I think we'll be off to the races in very short order. In some ways I feel like Pope is in an unwinnable situation right now. I think Batt as patiently awaiting his demise and anything short of the Final Four is probably a nail in the coffin for Pope, and given today's college sports landscape, it probably should be.
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After what Stein just did, I think Pope is all but done here.
 
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Catastic5 said:
As much as Cal’s waning years screwed us, we were still respectable. We’ve basically received Tom Crean at Indiana levels of derision under Pope. The media, opposing fans, and Pope’s fellow coaches. There is zero respect.
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Yes, that nine and sixteen was respectable as hell and damn damn near beat Oakland and Saint Pete, but just let it slip away, right
 
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RunninRichie said:
After what Stein just did, I think Pope is all but done here.
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Yeah I don't think there's any such thing as "time to build" in today's climate. With NIL and free transfers, there's actually no excuse to not be good/great in the first season. Getting players takes literally one off-season. I agree, I think Pope is done.
 
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