I appreciate this concept but do you expect people to change this behavior? The current times it is the worst it’s ever been. Hard to see this changing anytime soon. We are in the age of influencers not a time where people attach to principles or even ideas.
That’s because we watch everything and talk about it year round. Half the fan base doesn’t even know who we got in the portal.
I’ve seen enough over two years to know he will never be at the level we need him to be. His coaching, subbing, talent evaluation, roster makeup, and ability to lead all show that he will lose 9-10 games in his best seasons. We will never go 29-2 or 27-4 in the regular season with him. He has had terribly bad luck, but his deficiencies in teaching defense and rebounding alone will make us lose way more games a year than we should. His sub patterns kill us. I’ve never seen Kentucky get down by 20 points in a half in my life, more than I have these last couple years.
You may be correct but I think a full evaluation of a complete year without any distractions should be the measuring stick. I think he deserves a third year.
It’s not an opinion it is a constant narrative used to keep uk fans on board. It’s over though . The pope experiment was a massive failure on level with BCG. Maybe worse tbh because pope came in with knowledge of our expectations.
The DOE has limited POLS in high schools for a reason. Don’t worry about economics, leave politics out of it, study France treaties from 1350. Let’s get you kids good and stupid, then vote for the uniparty!! The leader will fix your problems!
That Tennessee game was enough for me to retract my positive feelings toward last year.
There’s a way to must be objective. I was rolling with pope until I saw disaster happen. He can’t recruit that’s a fact. He’s closing in on a season well below Kentucky standards that’s a fact. He lost his team this season that’s a fact. He had no tournament wins in 10 years and has a 63% winning percentage. That’s a fact. He’s never won a conference title as a head coach in going on 13 years. That’s a fact.
He definitely doesn’t deserve a third year because he didn’t deserve the first one. He wasn’t qualified for the job, his resume did not land him this job, Mitch Barnhart checking good guy boxes and looking for a control hire and a distraction from the JMI contract did. Pope 100% doesn’t belong a day in the seat as a UK head coach. The reality is he should be removed today, but realize we’ll have to wait until next season to close it down. And we will, he has no chance.
And also JQ was never recruited to be an impact here really so he’s not part of the injury list. He’s never been healthy and was recruited that way.
Calipari has horrible losses and has like 1 sweet 16 in going on 7 years. He’s washed. The guy cannot be UK’s coach anymore. You cannot be that bad and remain in the seat. I agree if you’re going to hire mark pope then yes keep him for a legacy play. But nah, Calipari was really, really bad here later in his career. He was throwing games and there are contributors who believe that. He didn’t care anymore and made that clear to people that matter. He had a lot of demands that weren’t being met.
Again with the mindless comparisons to Hurley. Y’all really need to quit with that. You throw out numbers without putting any kind of context behind it.
Do you pay attention to college basketball that isn’t UK? To say Cal is done winning is ignorance, perhaps willful at this point.
This right here is where I am. I used to get pissed and didn't want to talk to no one for a week when we lost now it's like it's expected and I don't even know half the time when we even play.
I think most of us expect better than freaking 6th/9th in the SEC of all conferences.
I hated the hire from the get go. When the news broke it was about 10pm and I was sick to my stomach. Barely slept. I admit I was encouraged last season since he put that roster together in about 4 weeks. Then it became clear he can’t close the talent he wants and here we are. He was never qualified for this gig. I really hope he turns a corner
Well we are in it now. So year three with a complete team is feesible. Perhaps he was the wrong hire but I am pretty sure there were others who turned us down before him so we have who we have.
Oats was never approached. Pearl was ready to take it, the boosters wanted Pearl. Barnhart got in the way of Oats and then got with the BOT and talked everyone out of Pearl.
Same as politics can't admit they were wrong can't admit they got fooled
Never said I was ok with just being ok, I am saying that anyone that thinks a program should fire a coach when that coach hasn't even completed 2 seasons yet is a nut job. The only reason Pope should not get a 3rd year is if the first year he missed the tourney and then had a bad year this year. If he can't construct a good roster and make a deep run during year 3, then it is time to move on.
