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Holy crap. Milan plus the projected #2 draft pick would be a hell of a way to end the offseason.

Oh I’d take MM 10 times out of 10.

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...

Yeah, that’s what people who were plugged in UK always used to say right before Cal lost a recruit.

To To be fair, Pope is doing his best. He’s a decent coach got a school like BYU. Mitch was the one who turned us into a joke of a program.

Who said anything about Cal? The whole reason we were happy when Cal left was because we thought things would improve.

Honestly if we had an AD that gave a crap he might have actually pursued Billy Donovan instead of sitting on his thumbs being content with the current basketball product.

That sounds great but it just doesn’t work like that any more. The current national champions had 5 starting transfers. If you’re putting your efforts into building a roster with players who “want to be here,” we’re sunk.

Yep. And I think that’s a big part of the reason they didn’t get him last time. The NBA season was still going on and they would have had to wait to talk to him. Mitch didn’t want to wait that long, taking a chance that it wouldn’t work and leave him scrambling even if it did. I don’t know that...

I have no clue how these things work behind the scenes. But I really hope the new A.D. gives Billy a call and says “listen, we promised Pope another year and we’re gonna give it to him. But if it doesn’t work out, you’re my guy after this season is over.“

I would absolutely take him. He has huge name recognition and kids would be intrigued to play for an NBA coach. The game has changed but you don’t win back to back college championships if you can’t coach college ball. I don’t necessarily think he’s the absolute number one best guy for the job...

Oh man, that’s too bad. Those guys have brought me a ton of laughs over the years. 😔

I mean, I’m technically a millennial but I agree. I detest the way college sports works with people just transferring to the highest bidder.

I like Chandler but if he’s asking for 3 million, don’t let the door hit him on the way out.

Yeah I think so. I’d LOVE for him to put together a great team & turn it around but man, it looks unlikely. My fear is that he does juuuuust a little better this year. Loses 8-10 games, gets a 5-6 seed and maybe makes the Sweet 16 again and they give him another year. Mind you, I want...