Mark Pope needs to rescind the Tyran Stokes offer immediately

peterpiper09 said:

Don’t worry, Pope’s going to be just fine

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Did you ever answer my post? I didn’t see it if you did.

kyjeff1 said:

And if he loses games next year and gets fired, nobody can say he wasn't given a fair shot to prove he can do the job. So we aren’t disagreeing on that.

Where we disagree, is WHEN UK fires Pope. You just can't fire him after year 2 when he had injuries and he did what he did in year 1. You fire him now and UK will get blasted more that the Kentucky Shame deal. You absolutely cannot fire him right now.

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This is incorrect. In the NIL era where millions is spent, firing a coach at a blue blood with his record is more than justifiable and would be seen as such. People would understand, his recruiting is the worst we’ve ever seen at a blue blood in history. There’s no way he can keep up because even if he pulled one his history shows he cannot recruit longevity. His blowouts are extreme, he is really bad at roster management and roster sub. His coaching is bizarre. His pressers are more bizarre. Clearly in over his head, it’s been said by several high profile analyst. With recruiting trejectory being so bad, nobody would blame Kentucky for moving on. They’d say the hire was bad and the new AD wants to change it up given the money spend.

Rememeber, NOBODY knew the back door Gillispie stuff at the time. Nobody reported on it, it was said that he had bizarre recruiting strategies and couldn’t win on the court and Kentucky dosnt deal with that. Nobody questioned 2 years and fired even then. It was just said the fit was horrible.

That was a long, long time ago. This is millions wasted, horrible recruiting, many, many blowouts. He can’t even get recruits being legal to recruit illegally to UK. That’s no small thing. There’s no way firing mark pope wouldn’t be understood. It’s simply not a possibility. There’s a lot of incorrect evaluations going on with regard to this.

UKGrad24 said:

He has never recruited elite players in his life Paul. And his injury problem is nowhere near as bad as is made out. This team was not good even healthy at PG. Kam isn’t much to consider. Blown out with him. JQ was never a Kentucky player in reality. Mark pope has a long coaching record before UK, add that to it. He hasn’t been dealt bad hands, he’s been dealt very lucky hands and can’t produce.

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The injury situation has been every bit as bad as it has been made out to be. He has had to play the bulk of two seasons with no PG or rim protector. He has definitely recruited Elite talent but hasn't been very good at actually landing them. This clearly fits with my saying "He has never had superior talent to work with". I made a simple and indisputably factual statement. You should just stick with insulting his recruiting/roster construction as this other line of argument is really stupid.