Nah, it’s time to sound the war drums, you might want to support a coach specializing in mediocrity, I don’t, he’s a disaster, a blight at this point.
It’s going to continue to be “beat to death”, because it can’t be allowed to continue on the path the program is on, which for some bizarre reason, you folks seem to be vehemently defending!
Are you expecting Mitch to come on here and answer that, lol, he’s the one that hired him…
Personally I want Jai Lucas, but I’m sure UK boosters will be schmoozing with Donovan in the offseason and while CMP is losing every other SEC game.
Technically the 90th ranked recruiting class. However, Ousmane won't move the needle because he isn't ranked by any of the rating companies as a high school prospect. So he's basically counted as a 0 star. That's why computer generated ranking sites are poop.
I believe he a good pickup, though I don’t expect him to score 10ppg, believe he’ll be a solid piece, nothing special.
I get your point because of the timing. He's our coach this year so we are kind of forced to support him...but if this season starts going terrible I hope everyone makes a thread like this 100 times a day. I really hope the fan base turns up the heat if it goes bad which is likely.
Yet you reply to keep the thread going.
CMP did rather well in his first portal considering it was ranked 5th overall.
Who is vehemently defending Pope? Who are these people and how exactly are they defending Mark Pope?
So, the folks that are remaining calm and letting this play out, are defending Pope and hoping the program falls? Really?
He needs to gain a lot of muscle, or he's going to have a tough year in the SEC.
And that's where the vile hate should be directed. Mark Pope never should have been offered the job. It was a lazy hire and Mitch is the one that did this.
What has Jai done to deserve the UK job? He won a few games in a bad conference.
Who are you guaranteeing that we are signing today?
Right, but isn't that what you want?
Yeah, Tayshaun and AD never could get it going, they were just too darn skinny.
We’re trying to get to 10K posts on the issue to bring about situational awareness.
I've stated it at least 50 times and here we are again. I'm amazed at how good, solid posters continue on with this narrative that there are Pope fans out there that care more about Pope than UK.
Fair points, though I go with the notion he should have been hired in the first place, when one sees the drive and motivation of what Stein is doing, Pope comes across as a sloth in comparison. In his first year he did show promise and collectively we all want to see that return, no question, though on a percentage scale, I give that less than 10% with the talent he will likely have next season. Though hope that I’m brutally wrong!
Comparing this kid to TP is ridiculous, TP was thin though he was in great shape physically and he was one hell of a defender, essentially a poor man’s Scottie Pippen.
I don't disagree with you. Pope never should have been hired, never even should have been considered. I've stated this a hundred times.
I want CMP to succeed. Did I want the guy? No, absolutely not. But I don’t want to have to go through another coaching search. But it’s hard to not look at where UK is right now from a roster standpoint and what the rest of the SEC is doing and think that we’re going to succeed.
The only comparison I made, was their skinniness, Tayshaun was a skeleton and AD wasn't much thicker.
Okay, well, I hate to break the news to you, but on this board, this means you are a "Mark Pope pumper" and/or a "Popette".
