If Pope doesn't have the balls to respond to this, someone at UK needs to.
It doesn't even matter if it's true or not - this isn't the first time recently that major shade has been publicly thrown our way, and it's not like being sheepish about it is working for us so far.
Tackle this kind of...
It's a major reason why I don't watch college basketball anymore. I used to watch so much more basketball - and not just UK games either. All the big rivalry games, most everything between ranked teams, any tourney game I could fit into my schedule.
Officials were rarely great, but it just...
If I'm an SEC coach watching this I'm licking my chops. Pope had better install an actual offense quick, or we're about to get blasted in conference play.
How can Pope have us looking so clueless out there? And Indiana is NOT a good team, but we're somehow making them look good. If we were just missing open looks and layups I could give Pope a pass, but what are we even doing on offense?!
This is what you get when your AD panics and does something like that - poor Pope is just in over his head. Nice guy but he doesn't know how to recruit UK-caliber players. UK deserves better.
Pope couldn't afford to lose his 2nd season only 8 games in, but that's just what he did. With our upcoming schedule, the season is effectively over at this point. After Cal, all coaches have a short leash - time for UK to start coach shopping.