So Milan broke his finger ?………..

Eagles_Ball_69

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Extremely fair take I'd bet probably 75% of the board would agree with. Weren't necessarily thrilled with the hire, but he's the coach so we'll try and support him while voicing legit concerns (resume, lack of post season experience, lack of high major experience, poor lifetime winning percentage for the level of job he's undertaking). Years 1 and 2 were injury riddled, over-performed (for him and having to build a roster from scratch late in the portal cycle due to hire date) and a sweet 16 finish got him some grace and small measure of hope for year 2, a decent high school recruiting class for a Coach without much pedigree recruiting in those high level recruit waters (Johnson, Moreno, Lewis). Year 2 was an extreme departure in the opposite direction (decommit from Lewis, only 1 PG on the roster, the JQ gamble that didn't pay off, multiple pieces that did not fit, despite the roster (and expectations) for that team being off the charts early. It gave plenty of fans the reason to question and doubt Pope, but again, probably 75% of the fanbase assumed year 3 was coming and that he hadn't done any egregious enough to justify getting canned yet, though the seat was definitely warming up. The high school recruiting cycle for year 3 was a disaster, the portal had its ups and downs but we did end up with a solid and high ranked (but probably not as elite as it could have been had he hit on a few more first options) portal haul. And that's where most of us are. Cautiously optimistic about this season. Ready to move on if he fails to deliver, ready to give him some more grace if he shows solid improvement.
Couldn't agree more
 
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FitchandMurray29

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Goodman says the injury happened about a month ago.

Jones says he had additional tests THIS MORNING and determined it was just severely jammed.

Someone is obviously wrong here. UK should come out and clear it up imo.

We know the injury isn’t super recent just by past photo evidence that I brought up and pictures with his family on social media.

Weird this just took off. Not sure if it was all from this thread or not lol.
 

ala_kat2

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Here we go again. One person dares to state some.justififed cynicism and that person is personally attacked by the usual pumper brigade suspects. Why make everything personal? Nothing but a CHILDISH attempt to police thoughts on here by a bunch of old Barnhart cronies. Now I'll sit back and read more bleating from the crybullies. 🍿
It was justified cynicism. but he does it ad nauseum!
 

BigBlueGuru

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So many went from M having a broken finger and numerous supposed fans declaring the season a disaster and taking the opportunity to bash Pope for the 100th time and saying he should be fired to oh thank goodness it isn't as bad as we made it out to be and move on nothing to see here and please do not read any of our overreactions. The level of immaturity in this thread is not shocking. It is commonplace anymore.
 
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Okay...

If someone is advocating for UK to be better, how is that a UK hater?

Break it down for us!

However, those that want to maintain the status quo and act like everything is swell, when it's actually not going well, those seem like people that actually want UK to be bad or fail. And what better way to do that then continue the current course.

So, who is really the hater?
So you trolling pope over a player breaking their finger is “advocating for UK to be better” please

one thing to say pope is kinda in a make or break year and needs to win a lot more games

another to look for anything you can make fun of the team about cause your not a real a UK fan
 

bnewt5

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A top 15-20 team at best...in year three....never once finishing in the top 4 of the SEC?

Gold Standard?

Are we Hoosiers or Wildcats, ole chap?
Sadly this type of season has become the norm and worse the administration and most fans accept it.
 
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Oh no!

It's going to be fine in a couple of days?

What on earth are we going to be able to complain about now?!

😈 Don't worry, something else will be manifested...
 

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So you trolling pope over a player breaking their finger is “advocating for UK to be better” please

one thing to say pope is kinda in a make or break year and needs to win a lot more games

another to look for anything you can make fun of the team about cause your not a real a UK fan
Who is trolling pope? Is pointing out someone broke a finger trolling now? Lulz

Does it have to he said just like that? And if so, why?

Oh, right, right. The people who actually want UK to be better and will acknowledge reality aren't the real fans. The ones who meltdown under any criticism of the coach and want to maintain the status quo are the real fans. Got it!!!
 
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Who hates Pope?

In your world, is thinking someone isn't performing well and really shouldn't be in this situation hating on them?
“Performing well” no that’s not hate

“shouldn’t be in this situation” is hate how and why do you think your a expert on popes career and what his ceiling is, newflash you don’t so all that talk is you dreaming of some reason he sucks
 

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As will I, but I can certainly prognosticate (just like you can) about their likely finish and about the concerns I have. You'll continue to childishly call anyone scared that has similar concerns.

FTR...I didn't want him fired. I think he needed year 3. He didn't deserve year 1 or 2, so I'm not going to say he deserved it. But he didn't do anything in year 1 or 2 to make me think year 3 wasn't a fair ask. If anything, I'd like to see an injury-free year 3 just to see what he's capable of.
Thats the thing. If we are injury free and have a poor record and get knocked out the first weekend of the big dance, I'll bring the pitchfork after the season ends. But I think if we are healthy, I think we do quite well
 

chroix

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“Performing well” no that’s not hate

“shouldn’t be in this situation” is hate how and why do you think your a expert on popes career and what his ceiling is, newflash you don’t so all that talk is you dreaming of some reason he sucks
All you are doing is imagining that he is better than any data has shown. You are dreaming of reasons he doesn’t suck rather than actually living in the real world and acknowledging he has had a bunch of misses since he’s been here.
 
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Who is trolling pope? Is pointing out someone broke a finger trolling now? Lulz

Does it have to he said just like that? And if so, why?

Oh, right, right. The people who actually want UK to be better and will acknowledge reality aren't the real fans. The ones who meltdown under any criticism of the coach and want to maintain the status quo are the real fans. Got it!!!
“Does it have to he said just like that? And if so, why?” What does this sentence mean?

your timing makes no sense why comment on this post and talk about the finger break like it was the next thing pope screwed up, like it’s even his fault.

“If pope was a better coach Milan would’ve never broke his finger” pretty much feels like what you want to say
 

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Thats the thing. If we are injury free and have a poor record and get knocked out the first weekend of the big dance, I'll bring the pitchfork after the season ends. But I think if we are healthy, I think we do quite well
What does "quite well" look like for you? Honest question.

For me...Top 3 SEC finish. No worse than SEC semis. No worse than E8. Anything shy of that isn't really quite well to me. I don't see this team as that, but my quite well could be different than yours.
 
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