J Batt has to start working back channels

Pensacola_Cat_Fan · 2026-11-10T23:46:49-0600

You have to have your guy ready to go after you fire Pope at year’s end. Not sure how that works, but you must have a home run hire, and that search can’t start in March. In a way, this gives him plenty of time to work everything out.

wildcatsincebirth · 2026-11-10T23:47:37-0600

Who TF is bates dude

Loucatfan30 · 2026-11-10T23:47:48-0600

He is or he isn't the right AD

loublue22_rivals308424 · 2026-11-10T23:48:41-0600

Hopefully he's been doing that since July

Pensacola_Cat_Fan · 2026-11-10T23:49:07-0600

wildcatsincebirth said:
Who TF is bates dude

Sorry, typo

HolySmokes · 2026-11-10T23:51:34-0600

Fire Pope first. Let Mo take over while working those back channels. This is still a hot job no matter how bad Pope is. This is Kentucky.

loublue22_rivals308424 · 2026-11-10T23:52:14-0600

HolySmokes said:
Fire Pope first. Let Mo take over while working those back channels. This is still a hot job no matter how bad Pope is. This is Kentucky.

Mo is actually an ideal guy for an interim run. Can't be any worse.

Pensacola_Cat_Fan · 2026-11-10T23:53:56-0600

HolySmokes said:
Fire Pope first. Let Mo take over while working those back channels. This is still a hot job no matter how bad Pope is. This is Kentucky.

Maybe this will happen half way through the season if we keep looking like horse crap. If we manage to make the tourney, he probably gets to stay until year’s end IMO.

HolySmokes · 2026-11-10T23:54:11-0600

You gotta fire Pope man. Send a message. Florida state just fired their coach mid season. Show everyone we are still a real program.

Pensacola_Cat_Fan · 2026-11-10T23:55:42-0600

HolySmokes said:
You gotta fire Pope man. Send a message. Florida state just fired their coach mid season. Show everyone we are still a real program.

Maybe so. I think he probably gets a couple of months though at least to turn things around. Whether he deserves it or not.

HolySmokes · 2026-11-10T23:56:13-0600

Pensacola_Cat_Fan said:
Maybe this will happen half way through the season if we keep looking like horse crap. If we manage to make the tourney, he probably gets to stay until year’s end IMO.

Just wait till the Louisville game. Fire Pope. Hell forget interim just make Mo coach. I promise if you give him the keys or if he had the keys this summer we would have Stokes Kinney and his son Mason!

Gotta fire Pope immediately to send a message.

HolySmokes · 2026-11-10T23:57:03-0600

Mo has connections to Lebron. Fire Pope. Hire Mo.

wildcatsincebirth · 2026-11-10T23:57:27-0600

HolySmokes said:
You gotta fire Pope man. Send a message. Florida state just fired their coach mid season. Show everyone we are still a real program.

that happens pretty often in football but barely ever in basketball especially in power conferences. For some reason they just let bad coaches finish out the year embarrassing themselves

JustBlue · 2026-11-10T23:57:50-0600

loublue22_rivals308424 said:
Mo is actually an ideal guy for an interim run. Can't be any worse.

Sadly, the guy they hired as our director of player development would most likely be named the interim coach. And all the Team Pope folks would be drooling all over themselves because one of the Unforgettables would take us back to the top!

HolySmokes · 2026-11-10T23:58:30-0600

wildcatsincebirth said:
For some reason that happens pretty often in football but barely ever in basketball especially in power conferences. For some reason they just let bad coaches finish out the year embarrassing themselves

And that coach has had succes and they still fired him!!

Kyfan96 · 2026-11-10T23:59:18-0600

loublue22_rivals308424 said:
Mo is actually an ideal guy for an interim run. Can't be any worse.

Mo was actually getting onto one of the refs really good.

BGCATFAN83 · 2026-11-11T00:04:55-0600

Does Mark step down with 13 losses. I mean you cant comeback and pretend everything is fine. This may get ugly fast around here. Guess we will all have plenty to talk about on the board. Our old board would have already found our coach.. man I miss Kentucky Basketball.

HolySmokes · 2026-11-11T00:06:05-0600

Not making the tournament this year. Kansas would be middle of pack sec team.

loublue22_rivals308424 · 2026-11-11T00:07:40-0600

BGCATFAN83 said:
Does Mark step down with 13 losses. I mean you cant comeback and pretend everything is fine. This may get ugly fast around here. Guess we will all have plenty to talk about on the board. Our old board would have already found our coach.. man I miss Kentucky Basketball.

13 losses on the season? that would mean we go 21-11 in the regular season, no chance of that. he has to worry about being over .500 at this point.

kfwa · 2026-11-11T00:10:04-0600

deplion · 2026-11-11T00:13:57-0600

kfwa said:

darkshadesofblue · 2026-11-11T00:16:11-0600

Yeah he’s toast

crxohio · 2026-11-11T00:19:25-0600

kfwa said:

Shows he got the guts to do something about lack luster results.

. We got some hope here. Since pope failed with it.

UKfan2151 · 2026-11-11T00:21:22-0600

We should get the earliest head start as we can. The quicker we can get rid of Pope, the quicker we can go after his replacement and start working on assembling players for next season. Waiting until the end of the season accomplishes dick.

NociHTTP · 2026-11-11T01:16:47-0600

wildcatsincebirth said:
that happens pretty often in football but barely ever in basketball especially in power conferences. For some reason they just let bad coaches finish out the year embarrassing themselves

It may have something to do with roster sizes. In football you have a ton of guys wanting playing time, in basketball there's not that many guys on the bench and if some quit over a coach getting fired then you're left with nothing until season end.

Skyguyb27 · 2026-11-11T01:44:29-0600

wildcatsincebirth said:
that happens pretty often in football but barely ever in basketball especially in power conferences. For some reason they just let bad coaches finish out the year embarrassing themselves

Because basketball isn’t the money maker football is. Basketball can sustain bad coaching better than football.

Skyguyb27 · 2026-11-11T01:45:18-0600

BGCATFAN83 said:
Does Mark step down with 13 losses. I mean you cant comeback and pretend everything is fine. This may get ugly fast around here. Guess we will all have plenty to talk about on the board. Our old board would have already found our coach.. man I miss Kentucky Basketball.

Pope will never resign. He will go down in flames thinking he’s one lucky break away from fixing it all.

HolySmokes · 2026-11-11T01:46:52-0600

Skyguyb27 said:
Because basketball isn’t the money maker football is. Basketball can sustain bad coaching better than football.

Kentucky basketball should be the outlier.

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