Got it down to nothing and here comes Garrison (horrible) Jasper (unplayable) and Jelavic (not good enough), and ball game.
Pope gave it away again…
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Lets make some noise in the Sec Tourney and take some momentum into next season with our loaded team!
How do we have those 3 in the game at the same time?
Wow. Never thought I’d see the day that UK basketball is so pitiful.
Pope is just a fall guy. Blame the POS who hired him, and who is enriching himself with no concern for winning.
BG much less of a problem this game. Jasper Johnson cannot play in this one. Jelavich giving 0.
Have to rest the players at some point. The roster just sucks. Zero quality depth.
So you’re saying you’re good playing those 3 dudes at once right after we erase the lead?
This. Florida would've made a huge run regardless. The difference in size, talent and coaching is staggering. Even with our starters on the floor.
Yep, this is going to get embarrassing. And I hope to all that's holy, the national TV audience hears the loudest booing you've ever heard from KY fans. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for Florida to have superior talent in basketball.
It’s his rotation though. They are horrible and his timing is awful. He can’t coach at this level.
That will turn into a blowout in Rupp most likely. Florida is just on another level like UK used to be.
You do realize that the players you say should be playing also started the game down 11-0?
Nope, saying our roster sucks, period. Would only let 2 or 3 players return.
I remember when Rupp was a tough place to win.
It is mostly the players. Coaching mistakes dont help, but it is the players.
Jasper's pounding the air out of the ball turnover and subsequent flagrant foul is about as selfish as it gets.
Popes rotations have costed us at least 4-5 games this year.
Mark Pope has 27.5 million reasons why he would never do that.
Don't disagree completely with the "it is the players" comment. But, Pope put this team together and he just isn't good enough for this level. Putting the roster together and recruiting are a HUGE part of the job. His warts are showing and elite kids don't want to come play for him.
Yep. Kid is terrible. At the point where I hope he just goes to the cheats. He hasn’t improved a lick.
These coaches recruited these 22 million dollar players.
He’s gotta be fired. And the new AD needs to make a statement in doing so. Marks clearly over his head with this job. He looks like he’s aged 6 years in 2, that’s clearly the job and lack of doing it taking a toll on’m..
Just don’t see anything close to top 25 talent. I wish him nothing ill but he’s absolutely not worth bringing back. Powder blue would be a good color for him
I agree.
It sure looks like he’s trying to get fired.
There’s no way he’s really this bad at coaching.
Playing 1 horrible player at a time is better than playing 2-3 horrible players. You would think that even the analytics would tell them that at this point. This staff is completely clueless.
We will see how the next portal class comes together. Pope was successfull with the first portal class, but failed with the last one. Got to see if he can get turn it around.
In four years, Mark Pope never won a regular season title or a conference tournament title at Utah Valley State. Their previous coach did it three times. Yes, Mark Pope really is that bad at coaching.
The new AD needs to put him down like ole yeller. Take him out back and do the right thing. He’s killing the program.
Yes, they definitely failed with the last portal class. They were successful with the first one. Have to see if they can get back to that. 22M is not exactly true because some of that was multi-year deals that wont actually be paid out because the players will be run off.