Both legacy hires, and records don’t lie. Both mid 60%’s overall. I hope they keep him as long as they want us to keep pope.
Is Brohm Louisvilles Pope?
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I'll keep saying it. If your ever confused about keeping a coach or not, just look at what other fanbases want/say. If they want you to keep your coach, get rid of him. If they pray that he leaves, lock him down.
We didn't lock down Pitino and it's kinda a nightmare to think about how much success we would have had. Uconn got to keep Hurley. Duke got to keep coach K. It's time we get an elite, HoF coach and lock him down.
So there is no need to play this game with Pope.
dickalato, we'll see. Pope HAS to be feeling the heat. We'll find out soon enough if he's ready to ditch the super-friendly role and become a teacher of the game, and whether Batt is willing to do the necessary should it come to that. Hopefully it's the former.
I'll just say to be careful what you wish for. Did we not just have a Hall of Fame coach on a "lifetime" contract that we were terribly lucky to get out of? Locking down a coach can be a detriment if said coach loses his fastball.
I'm not saying to not ever replace a coach...just "locking" one down could pose more of a problem than it fixes.
"It's time we get an elite, HOF coach and lock him down."
We did exactly that with our last coach and people spent the last few years of his tenure here begging for him to be fired and bemoaning how stupid it was to sign him to the contract we did...
Don't get me wrong, it was past time for both parties to move on. (I mean, how could we still have faith in Cal after his last four seasons here?) Just found it a bit funny.
Can't believe Kentucky is being coached by a guy who averages 12 losses a year over an 11 year career.
Well more than half the people on here want Nate Oats to be our coach and he is averaging 10.4 losses a year at Alabama. And for his 11 year career he is averaging 10.5 losses a year. And when Alabama first hired him he was averaging 10.75 losses a year.
Cal was not our only HOF coach we wanted gone. Last few years for Coach Rupp were not exactly a love fest.
I know this is somewhat of an apples to oranges comparison…or better yet, strudel to cannolis, but there are similarities.
As for locking down Coach Pitino, I think we did everything practically possible to keep him here. If you recall, he had been flirting with a move to the NBA several consecutive seasons before he ditched us. Each of those last few years of his time here, Rick’s response to the NBA rumors kept dragging out longer and without a message that slammed the door shut.
Pope is a little further down than Brohm honestly because Brohm's teams have won some conference championships. Pope has never won a conference title at any level.
Don’t think I agree. Brohm has steamrolled us the last two years and pope is 1-1 against UofL and took a comeback last year to avoid getting embarrassed. Pope is much worse for our program as we are (or were) an elite level program. Louisville football has never been (nor will ever be) an elite level football program. Every conference they have ever played in royally sucks from around the 3rd program down so any success they have ever had is tied to that instead of their own accolades. Brohm is an average coach, Louisville is an average (at best) program. Perfect fit.
In today's college sports you are one great hire away from relevance when you have money regardless of the name on your chest. Without a good coach I don't think money really separates you unless you are willing to overpay.
I'm trying to stay positive on Pope. Can you imagine how ******* awesome it would be to have two die hards like Pope and Stein as your coaches? Pope's got a lot of ground to make up and if he doesn't he should be gone. BUT I really do want him to succeed. I think it would be fun as hell if we had two total homers repping us and kicking ***.
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Pope will win big, either here or elsewhere. 99% of the fans on here have never even been on an actual team before but because grandpa watched the Cats, they are “fans” too.
Most passionate fanbase is debatable, probably is us but we also have the dumbest fanbase as well.
I shake my head daily and mumble, “Ain’t no way that they are humans this stupid” while reading this board.
Serious question. When does this winning Big start? He has already coached 14 or 15 years and has never won big at all. He has a grand total of 3 NCAA tournament wins followed by absolute embarrassing losses in the sweet 16 and round of 32. It doesn’t appear we have a team capable of being any better this year than we were last year so more of the same. He is striking out on every 5 star level talent he has pursued. It’s obvious he is like a fish out of water here and this comes from someone who was happy with the hire and thought he would do very well. I vastly underestimated how much his goofy personality would affect his ability to recruit. Don’t mind admitting I was very wrong on pope but he has no business coaching here even this year much less beyond.
Come again? I was told UL spent a fortune on their roster.
Meanwhile Pope has Kentucky in conference standings we’ve never seen in our lives as fans of the program. First time playing on a Wednesday, now that’s impressive!
Pope has gotten 3 years to prove himself. How is that not a fair shake? NC State got rid of coach one year removed from making a Final Four and Louisville got rid of Kenny Payne after 2 years. What else can you ask for?
Pope has us as 6th and 9th place in the SEC, something that’s never really happened before unless you count the Covid year. 3 seasons is good enough in this NIL era to figure out if a coach is “worth it” or not.
They are similar as alumni underperforming in the head coaching position.
They are dissimilar in that Brohm had possible interest from real schools ( Michigan and Penn State ) and could choose walk away into another respectable coaching opening.
But, there was not another top 50 basketball program looking into Pope except ******* idiot Mitch Barnhart.
They are dissimilar in that Brohm had possible interest from real schools ( Michigan and Penn State ) and could choose walk away into another respectable coaching opening.
But, there was not another top 50 basketball program looking into Pope except ******* idiot Mitch Barnhart.
He will not win big. To make that statement is not backed by any facts.
Just wait. He is going to win big lol. Forget his record, his goofball personality, and all the recruits that use him for more money.
Pope is a career loser. Why exactly are you so sure he will win big here? I was told the KY name would recruit for him, it hasn't. I was told every shooter in the country would want to play in his system, they don't. If not for the zillion dollars we paid MM, he probably doesn't come here either.
I am a fan and so where my grandparents. I have played on teams too so I guess I am the 1% on here. I don't even know what point you're trying to make with that.
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