Pope badgers should be ashamed of themselves

RuppFan

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Feb 20, 2026
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You people who bash Pope all the time are disgusting. Of anybody deserves more time it’s Pope. Hes one of us! He knows what the program is about! You people have shown no mercy at all!! The guy is down right now and you people keep kicking and kicking him! Disgusting! You make fun of anything he does or doesn’t do, you do your best to destroy the man any way possible.
Do you really think last year would have been as bad had Lowe stayed healthy? No! It wouldn’t have! Both years hes been here Pope has had to deal with injuries that any coach would have struggled with! Instead of kicking him let’s do our best to help him up. the potential was there last year. All you all were talking title after they beat Purdue in the exhibition game.
Pope is not Cal he isn’t going to get all 5 stars like Cal needed to win. Pope needs his style players for his way. Give him a year or two with no injuries and his players and see what happens. Pope cares and he wants what we want. None of you know why a player doesn’t come here there could be any reason other than Pope. Maybe they don’t like Lexington or the style of play or the nil crap or maybe just maybe they hear about fans like you people who turn on someone unfairly. Shame on all you who hate!
 

WeWant9

Heisman
Dec 18, 2013
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BBNUK4Life

All-Conference
Mar 13, 2026
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You people who bash Pope all the time are disgusting. Of anybody deserves more time it’s Pope. Hes one of us! He knows what the program is about! You people have shown no mercy at all!! The guy is down right now and you people keep kicking and kicking him! Disgusting! You make fun of anything he does or doesn’t do, you do your best to destroy the man any way possible.
Do you really think last year would have been as bad had Lowe stayed healthy? No! It wouldn’t have! Both years hes been here Pope has had to deal with injuries that any coach would have struggled with! Instead of kicking him let’s do our best to help him up. the potential was there last year. All you all were talking title after they beat Purdue in the exhibition game.
Pope is not Cal he isn’t going to get all 5 stars like Cal needed to win. Pope needs his style players for his way. Give him a year or two with no injuries and his players and see what happens. Pope cares and he wants what we want. None of you know why a player doesn’t come here there could be any reason other than Pope. Maybe they don’t like Lexington or the style of play or the nil crap or maybe just maybe they hear about fans like you people who turn on someone unfairly. Shame on all you who hate!
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AllBall

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May 5, 2015
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You people who bash Pope all the time are disgusting. Of anybody deserves more time it’s Pope. Hes one of us! He knows what the program is about! You people have shown no mercy at all!! The guy is down right now and you people keep kicking and kicking him! Disgusting! You make fun of anything he does or doesn’t do, you do your best to destroy the man any way possible.
Do you really think last year would have been as bad had Lowe stayed healthy? No! It wouldn’t have! Both years hes been here Pope has had to deal with injuries that any coach would have struggled with! Instead of kicking him let’s do our best to help him up. the potential was there last year. All you all were talking title after they beat Purdue in the exhibition game.
Pope is not Cal he isn’t going to get all 5 stars like Cal needed to win. Pope needs his style players for his way. Give him a year or two with no injuries and his players and see what happens. Pope cares and he wants what we want. None of you know why a player doesn’t come here there could be any reason other than Pope. Maybe they don’t like Lexington or the style of play or the nil crap or maybe just maybe they hear about fans like you people who turn on someone unfairly. Shame on all you who hate!
Not my pig, not my farm.
 

Dr.LutherSan

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Sep 6, 2019
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You people who bash Pope all the time are disgusting. Of anybody deserves more time it’s Pope. Hes one of us! He knows what the program is about! You people have shown no mercy at all!! The guy is down right now and you people keep kicking and kicking him! Disgusting! You make fun of anything he does or doesn’t do, you do your best to destroy the man any way possible.
Do you really think last year would have been as bad had Lowe stayed healthy? No! It wouldn’t have! Both years hes been here Pope has had to deal with injuries that any coach would have struggled with! Instead of kicking him let’s do our best to help him up. the potential was there last year. All you all were talking title after they beat Purdue in the exhibition game.
Pope is not Cal he isn’t going to get all 5 stars like Cal needed to win. Pope needs his style players for his way. Give him a year or two with no injuries and his players and see what happens. Pope cares and he wants what we want. None of you know why a player doesn’t come here there could be any reason other than Pope. Maybe they don’t like Lexington or the style of play or the nil crap or maybe just maybe they hear about fans like you people who turn on someone unfairly. Shame on all you who hate!
1. Just because he is "one of us" doesn't make him worthy of the job.
2. What has "his style of players" ever accomplished to give anyone hope of success for a blueblood program?
 

TheApostleSaulSmith

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Mar 30, 2026
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A functional natural point guard typically makes a basketball team worse and healthy players in general are an anchor.

Great point!

Thank goodness Oweh missed the preseason, Mo missed five games, and Kam was out for six weeks or we would have been below ten wins.
Lowe was a bad player and we were worse with him playing.
Everyone was healthy vs Alabama. Stop with the injury bs. We all watched this season
 

JAC71

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Jun 28, 2015
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1. Just because he is "one of us" doesn't make him worthy of the job.
2. What has "his style of players" ever accomplished to give anyone hope of success for a blueblood program?
That gimmick offense will work some of the time but once good coaches watched us play a few times they had it figured out… just to be out hustled and bullied into submission
 

Loucatfan30

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Apr 11, 2024
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You people who bash Pope all the time are disgusting. Of anybody deserves more time it’s Pope. Hes one of us! He knows what the program is about! You people have shown no mercy at all!! The guy is down right now and you people keep kicking and kicking him! Disgusting! You make fun of anything he does or doesn’t do, you do your best to destroy the man any way possible.
Do you really think last year would have been as bad had Lowe stayed healthy? No! It wouldn’t have! Both years hes been here Pope has had to deal with injuries that any coach would have struggled with! Instead of kicking him let’s do our best to help him up. the potential was there last year. All you all were talking title after they beat Purdue in the exhibition game.
Pope is not Cal he isn’t going to get all 5 stars like Cal needed to win. Pope needs his style players for his way. Give him a year or two with no injuries and his players and see what happens. Pope cares and he wants what we want. None of you know why a player doesn’t come here there could be any reason other than Pope. Maybe they don’t like Lexington or the style of play or the nil crap or maybe just maybe they hear about fans like you people who turn on someone unfairly. Shame on all you who hate!
You people that take up for him are worse. How can you accept this at Ky basketball. Pitiful excuse for a coach. Pitiful excuse for a fan.
 

wildcat111

All-Conference
Dec 9, 2020
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You people who bash Pope all the time are disgusting. Of anybody deserves more time it’s Pope. Hes one of us! He knows what the program is about! You people have shown no mercy at all!! The guy is down right now and you people keep kicking and kicking him! Disgusting! You make fun of anything he does or doesn’t do, you do your best to destroy the man any way possible.
Do you really think last year would have been as bad had Lowe stayed healthy? No! It wouldn’t have! Both years hes been here Pope has had to deal with injuries that any coach would have struggled with! Instead of kicking him let’s do our best to help him up. the potential was there last year. All you all were talking title after they beat Purdue in the exhibition game.
Pope is not Cal he isn’t going to get all 5 stars like Cal needed to win. Pope needs his style players for his way. Give him a year or two with no injuries and his players and see what happens. Pope cares and he wants what we want. None of you know why a player doesn’t come here there could be any reason other than Pope. Maybe they don’t like Lexington or the style of play or the nil crap or maybe just maybe they hear about fans like you people who turn on someone unfairly. Shame on all you who hate!
Are you campaigning for a 15-20 loss season? Pope is just not getting the job done and the fans see a worse record next year. It is not so much that BBN hates Pope....but yes they do hate the continuation of the downward spiral.
 

Son_Of_Saul

Heisman
Dec 7, 2007
45,411
99,672
113
You people who bash Pope all the time are disgusting. Of anybody deserves more time it’s Pope. Hes one of us! He knows what the program is about! You people have shown no mercy at all!! The guy is down right now and you people keep kicking and kicking him! Disgusting! You make fun of anything he does or doesn’t do, you do your best to destroy the man any way possible.
Do you really think last year would have been as bad had Lowe stayed healthy? No! It wouldn’t have! Both years hes been here Pope has had to deal with injuries that any coach would have struggled with! Instead of kicking him let’s do our best to help him up. the potential was there last year. All you all were talking title after they beat Purdue in the exhibition game.
Pope is not Cal he isn’t going to get all 5 stars like Cal needed to win. Pope needs his style players for his way. Give him a year or two with no injuries and his players and see what happens. Pope cares and he wants what we want. None of you know why a player doesn’t come here there could be any reason other than Pope. Maybe they don’t like Lexington or the style of play or the nil crap or maybe just maybe they hear about fans like you people who turn on someone unfairly. Shame on all you who hate!
1. 0/14 on top 20 recruits.
2. No primary portal recruits in two cycles.
3. 64% career winning percentage.
4. Averaging a 7 1/2 place finish in the SEC in two seasons.
5. Scarce player retention.
6. Historic number of blowout losses.
7. Averaging 16 points per tournament loss while at UK.
8. 26 losses in two years.





 

RuppFan

Freshman
Feb 20, 2026
31
51
18
1. Just because he is "one of us" doesn't make him worthy of the job.
2. What has "his style of players" ever accomplished to give anyone hope of success for a blueblood program?
After reading your response im pretty sure your mother had you for tax purposes.