Everyone has injuries, we’re just the only ones complaining like it matters. Reddit was making fun of us hard last year when we used those excuses.
No worries. Pope says they
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I'm glad we suck so bad and came away with winds over St. John's Tennessee twice Arkansas and Vanderbilt. I wish we could've been a little worse yesterday so we could've beaten Florida.
The one thing I’m thankful for is you aren’t breaking down basketball concepts and explaining basic basketball fundamentals for him anymore. Just a terrible horrific poster not worth anyone’s time.
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From the automatic extension? Because finishing 9th in the SEC with a Sweet-16 appearance isn't the standard.
But we didn’t lose three starters. We only lost Lowe. And hell he only started 4 games
Getting into the Sweet 16 means nothing if we continue to place in the lower half of the SEC. Like it’s insanity to think conference placing isn’t important to Kentucky. And getting in the “top 4” isn’t good enough either. We expect to win the conference title.
It’s not the standard, but find me a coach that was fired after getting to 2 sweet 16's with massive injuries to 3 starters each year. Nobody is firing Pope and it’s not about standards.
Bullsh*t.
Kam was a starter when he got hurt.
Lowe is our only pg
JQ was always going to start.
Nice try though.
So guys from Tulane and Pitt were going to save us? Yeah right..
Y'all are the ones complaining and hoping we lose, I'm hoping we win.
Weird take by you.
So I guess when Piper takes 5 injured guys that can’t play until January you will have a built in excuse for the first half of the year? Keep sunshine pumping. It won’t matter in the end but keep doing you.
Pope is not getting fired after this season, even if we lose in the first round.
I think you would need to see a Final-4 run before we labeled this a successful season with a contract extension.
But under the current contract language, Pope would receive an auto extension if we make it to the 2nd weekend. I could see that making fans angry. We're literally just adding to the buyout if this doesn't work out again next season.
I dont see anyway this team beats any of the 2 seeds to get to the S16. We needed to get a 6 to get one of the 3s to have a chance. Only way we get to the S16 is a 15 2 upset in our region.
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I don’t think there’s any danger in it, but mark my words if they pull off a miracle and get to the sweet 16 it will just set the program further behind and do more harm than good. Why? It gives Pope an extra year on his contract and makes the buyout that much more when he stinks it up again next season.
I personally don’t think losing 14 games and finishing 9th in the SEC is a good season and worthy of that. Call me a bad fan if you want I don’t care what the fan police has to say. I can use my eyes and see Kentucky under this staff is way behind several teams in the conference and even more nationally.
I personally don’t think losing 14 games and finishing 9th in the SEC is a good season and worthy of that. Call me a bad fan if you want I don’t care what the fan police has to say. I can use my eyes and see Kentucky under this staff is way behind several teams in the conference and even more nationally.
Innovative and bold. Sandbagging all season and flipping the switch for the big dance is a gutsy strategy.
Before tourney play, we gotta find out how to expose the weaknesses of the team's we play. Scouting reports could be make or break.
I just hope they play with renewed interest in winning games....We all long for the team that beat Purdue early in the season.
I just hope they play with renewed interest in winning games....We all long for the team that beat Purdue early in the season.
So I guess we should just accept being mediocre huh?
Cal about to win the SEC tournament, be a top 5 seed that could make a run and have a good recruiting class while we’ve finished 6th and 9th in conference the last two years. People will still say they’re so happy we have hope with Pope instead though and he needs time 
Agreed. As the song goes, "It is what it is, but it ain't what it should be." I still support any team wearing the blue and white (sometimes denim) of UK.
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I was right there with you as well. Rick Pitino was a god-send at that time in UK history.
Fact - by the start of next season Pope will look he’s aged 5 years since the Rupp press conference …. this job does that to coaches.
I may be wrong, but I believe Florida losing to Vanderbilt eliminated that possibility.
Another Mitch Barnhart contract masterpiece
Based on what? What does this team do that would scare a 2 seed? Or a 10 seed for that matter?
Nothing at all, man. Just carry on. They do nothing good and are probably a very low-quality 7 seed that hasn’t shown a propensity to play above their normal performance level time to time. Nothing to see here. I’m just an idiot who throws my opinion out there without first carefully considering the “why” behind it unlike the very reasonable people who spent most of the year telling anyone who would listen that this team was going to miss the tournament and that Pope won’t be back for a third year…..
This team is the “unpredictables”. Can play with anybody or lose to anyone. Who knows which team shows up lol
Ok. I know the LSU game was on Wednesday in the middle of the day so maybe you didn’t see it?
But anyone that did see it and says our defense improved is certifiable.
Getting rid of Pope and playing without a coach would be an improvement.
Our defense actually has improved. It’s up big from where it was early in the SEC schedule, but I digress.
So that’s what it sounds like when Homer Simpson is trying to be Phil Jackson.
Yeah, I would not want to see Pope get an extension until he shows something other than a coach that can, at best, lose 10 games and reach a sweet 16.
Now take Acuff, Knox and Brazile off their team, are they in the SECT finals?
Cal was an 11 seed last year, we were a 3. He lost to South Carolina by 30. Facts suck sometimes, don't they?