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seccats04 said:
No, I get it. Pope was always getting a year 3. But Mitch should've never hired him in the first place because nothing on his resume qualified him to be UK's HC. Then Mitch extends his contract for going to a S16. Utterly ridiculous. These stupid contract extensions are how we ended up in the Cal and Stoops situations, where we were financially stuck with them. Cal I kind of understood because other big schools wanted him and Cal loves money more than anything else. But Stoops was a bonehead move because nobody else was coming after him. TxAM almost did until their fans rightfully revolted. He was a .500 coach.

I was just saying Mitch was a cancer to our football and basketball programs. Glad he's gone.
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I would love to see Pope succeed, but yes it is undeniable that he did NOT have the resume to be a UK coach and had he played anywhere other than UK he'd have never been on a list of 25 options to call about the coaching job.
 
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Wildcat_in_DC said:
thats not enough for me. if we loss 13 games and sneak into the NCAAT as a 11 seed or something and manage to get to a sweet 16, or even an elite 8....replacing pope needs to be considered. the season is 5+ months long and everything needs to be taken into consideration.
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I also wonder about the opposite scenario. Say we are a 1 or 2 seed but get upset in round 2. Yeesh.
 
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WeWant9 said:
That's a little too simple of an approach. Say we have a regular season like last year and get a 7 seed; pick up an upset and get to the S16. I do not think that is enough. We need to see consistency throughout the regular season and have that lead into the tournaments.
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I don't think it's just making it to the second weekend. If we're 34-1, a one seed and go ice cold against the 8/9 that just goes off I would bring Pope back. Likewise, in your scenario I'd still want him gone. And let's say we were a 12 seed but snuck our way into the Final Four I'd want him gone before we even played the FF.
 
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to me the goals are clear:
  • 66% winning percentage (4 of 6) vs KU, Indiana, WSU, Virginia, UNC, UL
  • win all other OOC games
  • top 4 finish in the SEC
  • win at least 2 games in the SECT
  • win at least 2 games in the NCAAT
secondary objectives:
  • no blow out losses
  • 6 or less games where we fall behind by 10+ points
these goals are weighted differently but this should be the expectation. I'd also say we add 2 more top 30 players in the next 5 months but i have zero belief that is possible
 
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ScWildcat3 said:
I’ve assumed Morton’s is a MCL associated injury. The good news could be no surgery needed and he will be back sooner than expected.

As for Kam, he would be back already if he didn’t come back early last year. He aggravated it in the offseason and had to get it cleaned up again. He will be fine though. It will always be some pain but that’s part of basketball and feet. Lot of players have lingering foot stuff. It’s manageable though.
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If you do not mind, please let me, us, know how you know all of this to be accurate.
 
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UKWildcats1987

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TFCat11 said:
Zero chance this team makes a S16… Probably less than zero! Pope has a better chance to miss the tournament, than he does making the S16 with this group.
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I think they will make the sweet 16. And get blown out again as is Popes go to move.

And apparently not wanting a year 4 of thus crap fest when the above happens makes me crazy according to the Popes Dopes like Paulie.
 
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Beatle Bum

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The idea that Jerone could play this year at any point was unknown before the presser. He clearly wont need major surgery.
 
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The Space Happy Cat said:
Do we even know what sort of injury Morton has to his knee? That info would really change what "a little bit away" means
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I don’t expect Morton to play until like February if at all. That way if he does play earlier than that it will feel much better than the will he play every week update we will get until then.
 
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KYAnywhereEverywhere said:
The recovery time on Kam's stuff has seemed a little surprising, like almost surprising to the point that you could think his injury might be a career changing injury, the kind of injury that lingers forever.
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Well he had to have another cleanup procedure done right? He came back for us in the tourney which he shouldn’t probably have done so I respect him for that. He also came back and didn’t transfer so heal up Kam!
 
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TheResistance said:
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That is what I like to hear. I mean Batt has no relationship with Pope. He didn’t hire him so I would try to do the coaching job of my life if I were him. I wonder if GP has heard anything FR or if he just feels like we do in that it shouldn’t be tolerated after this year?
 
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BlueSince92 said:
Well for one thing, it means Jack Pilgrim and Jeff Drummond have a critical disagreement about what Pope even said. If Drummond is right and Morton really is, “a little bit away from returning” then it sounds like we’re probably in more or less good shape. There’s still room to worry about what he means by “a little bit.” He has kind of a track record of big time stringing us along in situations like this. But at least on its face his claim sounds pretty good.

Otoh if Jack Pilgrim is the one who is right—if Pope instead really said Morton is “still a little bit away from the journey”…..then who knows wtf that could mean but it sounds like it would mean he hasn’t even started to rehab yet. Like we’re looking at a freaking Quaintance situation all over again.

So let’s all pray Drummond has the better pair of ears.
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Knowing Pope I would go with he’s a little bit away from starting his journey. That could mean anything.
 
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