Another Stat About 20+ Point Losses at Kentucky | Calipari vs Pope

Im The Village Idiot

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John Calipari at Kentucky - 15 full seasons, 533 games, 4 losses by 20+
Mark Pope at Kentucky - 2 full seasons, 75 games, 5 losses by 20+

Calipari suffered a 20+ point loss in 0.75% of his official games coached at Kentucky.
So far, Pope has suffered a 20+ point loss in 6.7% of his official games coached at Kentucky.

So Pope’s rate of 20+ point losses is about 8.9 times as high as Calipari’s Kentucky rate.
Put another way, nearly 9× as often, percentage-wise.

Simply unacceptable. Shocking even.

 

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theBlues

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That's a bad stat but I think 29-27 against the top 5 conferences is worse.

 

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Pope will pass Adolph Rupp this year for most 20 point losses in UK basketball coach history. Rupp currently leads with 7, pope has 5. Rupp (1066 games, pope 75). What an effing clown.

 

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Johnnie Africa

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What a disaster of a hire, and will cement the utter incompetence of Barnhart

 

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Catman100

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Wow.....LMAO

 

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That's absolutely unacceptable. Duke, UConn, Mich St. Kansas, UNC would not put up with this nonsense.

 

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Despite what some say on here, Cal is a way better coach than Pope. Until Cal got fat and lazy he did some good things. He is a shell of the coach he was n the 2010s now and he should have left n 2019 but stayed too long to become the villain.

Pope is just Pope. Hes n a league of his own here.

 

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MegaBlue05

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I could’ve sworn Cal had more than 4, but some of the games I thought were really bad we apparently made a late surge to only lose by 17 or so.

I clearly remember losing by 30 at UT in 2013 and getting taken to the woodshed badly at Alabama in 2023.

Bad look for Pope and a sign he ain’t the guy.

 

Mike-D

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Barnhart was gonna make sure he got a basketball coach that shared his values after Cal. Put his own personal beliefs above the program. Just pure neglect and a sure fire way to absolutely suck at doing a job you're paid well for.

 

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kywildcat1021979

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The 64% winning percentage as the UK head coach has got me scratching my head also. When UK’s school winning percentage is 76%. Usually if anything UK help bolster a coach into a better performance it usually isn’t the other way around

 

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kywildcat1021979 said:

The 64% winning percentage as the UK head coach has got me scratching my head also. When UK’s school winning percentage is 76%. Usually if anything UK help bolster a coach into a better performance it usually isn’t the other way around

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Think he’s just cracking under the pressure of the knowledge he isn’t good enough and shown no signs he can be good enough in the future.

I thought he would come out with some fire and passion knowing this is the make or break season for him. Unfortunately it appears it’s just going to be break with no make.

 

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