J Batt has to start working back channels

[Pensacola_Cat_Fan]

You have to have your guy ready to go after you fire Pope at year’s end. Not sure how that works, but you must have a home run hire, and that search can’t start in March. In a way, this gives him plenty of time to work everything out.

 

[wildcatsincebirth]

Who TF is bates dude

 

[Loucatfan30]

He is or he isn't the right AD

 

[loublue22_rivals308424]

Hopefully he's been doing that since July

 

[Pensacola_Cat_Fan]

Who TF is bates dude

Sorry, typo

 

[HolySmokes]

Fire Pope first. Let Mo take over while working those back channels. This is still a hot job no matter how bad Pope is. This is Kentucky.

 

[loublue22_rivals308424]

Fire Pope first. Let Mo take over while working those back channels. This is still a hot job no matter how bad Pope is. This is Kentucky.

Mo is actually an ideal guy for an interim run. Can't be any worse.

 

[Pensacola_Cat_Fan]

Fire Pope first. Let Mo take over while working those back channels. This is still a hot job no matter how bad Pope is. This is Kentucky.

Maybe this will happen half way through the season if we keep looking like horse crap. If we manage to make the tourney, he probably gets to stay until year’s end IMO.

 

[HolySmokes]

You gotta fire Pope man. Send a message. Florida state just fired their coach mid season. Show everyone we are still a real program.

 

[Pensacola_Cat_Fan]

You gotta fire Pope man. Send a message. Florida state just fired their coach mid season. Show everyone we are still a real program.

Maybe so. I think he probably gets a couple of months though at least to turn things around. Whether he deserves it or not.

 

[HolySmokes]

Maybe this will happen half way through the season if we keep looking like horse crap. If we manage to make the tourney, he probably gets to stay until year’s end IMO.

Just wait till the Louisville game. Fire Pope. Hell forget interim just make Mo coach. I promise if you give him the keys or if he had the keys this summer we would have Stokes Kinney and his son Mason!

Gotta fire Pope immediately to send a message.

 

[HolySmokes]

Mo has connections to Lebron. Fire Pope. Hire Mo.

 

[wildcatsincebirth]

You gotta fire Pope man. Send a message. Florida state just fired their coach mid season. Show everyone we are still a real program.

that happens pretty often in football but barely ever in basketball especially in power conferences. For some reason they just let bad coaches finish out the year embarrassing themselves

 

[JustBlue]

Mo is actually an ideal guy for an interim run. Can't be any worse.

Sadly, the guy they hired as our director of player development would most likely be named the interim coach. And all the Team Pope folks would be drooling all over themselves because one of the Unforgettables would take us back to the top!

 

[HolySmokes]

For some reason that happens pretty often in football but barely ever in basketball especially in power conferences. For some reason they just let bad coaches finish out the year embarrassing themselves

And that coach has had succes and they still fired him!!

 

[Kyfan96]

Mo is actually an ideal guy for an interim run. Can't be any worse.

Mo was actually getting onto one of the refs really good.

 

[BGCATFAN83]

Does Mark step down with 13 losses. I mean you cant comeback and pretend everything is fine. This may get ugly fast around here. Guess we will all have plenty to talk about on the board. Our old board would have already found our coach.. man I miss Kentucky Basketball.

 

[HolySmokes]

Not making the tournament this year. Kansas would be middle of pack sec team.

 

[loublue22_rivals308424]

Does Mark step down with 13 losses. I mean you cant comeback and pretend everything is fine. This may get ugly fast around here. Guess we will all have plenty to talk about on the board. Our old board would have already found our coach.. man I miss Kentucky Basketball.

13 losses on the season? that would mean we go 21-11 in the regular season, no chance of that. he has to worry about being over .500 at this point.

 

[kfwa]

 

[deplion]

 

[darkshadesofblue]

Yeah he’s toast

 

[crxohio]

Shows he got the guts to do something about lack luster results. . We got some hope here. Since pope failed with it.

 

[UKfan2151]

We should get the earliest head start as we can. The quicker we can get rid of Pope, the quicker we can go after his replacement and start working on assembling players for next season. Waiting until the end of the season accomplishes dick.

 

[NociHTTP]

that happens pretty often in football but barely ever in basketball especially in power conferences. For some reason they just let bad coaches finish out the year embarrassing themselves

It may have something to do with roster sizes. In football you have a ton of guys wanting playing time, in basketball there's not that many guys on the bench and if some quit over a coach getting fired then you're left with nothing until season end.

 

[Skyguyb27]

that happens pretty often in football but barely ever in basketball especially in power conferences. For some reason they just let bad coaches finish out the year embarrassing themselves

Because basketball isn’t the money maker football is. Basketball can sustain bad coaching better than football.

 

[Skyguyb27]

Does Mark step down with 13 losses. I mean you cant comeback and pretend everything is fine. This may get ugly fast around here. Guess we will all have plenty to talk about on the board. Our old board would have already found our coach.. man I miss Kentucky Basketball.

Pope will never resign. He will go down in flames thinking he’s one lucky break away from fixing it all.

 

[HolySmokes]

Because basketball isn’t the money maker football is. Basketball can sustain bad coaching better than football.

Kentucky basketball should be the outlier.

 

[Skyguyb27]

Kentucky basketball should be the outlier.

Some, not you, live in a dreamworld. A bad football season will still make more money than a great basketball team.

 

[HolySmokes]

You live in a dreamworld. A bad football season will still make more money than a great basketball team.

Im not talking about money. I was talking about the tradition and standard that I thought Kentucky basketball held. But I guess not. We are not a blue blood anymore. Just a school with middle of the pack in both sports. So apparently the money comes in no matter what.