Assistant coach rumor news

[JwUKFan11]

A bunch of goofy losers on the board talking **** behind a keyboard. You goof balls aren't helping our fan base looking any better. Talking about nerdy, goofy while you sitting behind a keyboard 500 pounds. They let the shittiest fans on here.

Nice of you to join us, Pope.

 

[BigBluefoot]

A bunch of goofy losers on the board talking **** behind a keyboard. You goof balls aren't helping our fan base looking any better. Talking about nerdy, goofy while you sitting behind a keyboard 500 pounds. They let the shittiest fans on here.

The fans aren't the issue. Hush, Barney.

 

[lookinfor8]

Flush it all

Flush it all

Yes Sir

 

[UKfan2151]

Get rid of Fox. Replace him with Rick Pitino. Put Pitino is charge of the defense, let him handle team discipline and conditioning, and also put him in charge of pregame motivation. Let him mentor Mark and advise him on every important issue. Then hire a trio of stud recruiters who can get chit done. That might be the only possible way a Mark Pope coached team could ever achieve any level of success. Otherwise, we're just pissing into the wind.

 

[UKAlum84]

Build up your entire team, not down.

 

[KyKevin]

i can see why fans would get excited about that news but in reality its a terrible sign. in any other business when you have that kind of defection it means the personnel have lost faith in leadership and are getting out now before it gets real bad.

Getting out and being shown out are two different things

 

[UKCowboys]

So is it definitive that Pope is 100% back

 

[KyKevin]

2 years ago we were all told how great this staff is. i think its fair to say the under performed but my guess is they are frustrated and concerned about their own coaching future. mark is making them look bad by not being able to land recruits. which is how you make your mark as an assistant.

i dont think a change will make much difference. unless a new assist coach brings a player with him. and i doubt pope will play that card/game.

Damn 0, that's ZERO marks, not one of them can get a Mark, including Pope, because we are a 0

 

[BlueBloodKyFan73]

So is it definitive that Pope is 100% back

Unless he steps down he’s coming back

 

[*Fox2Monk*]

Yes! Now hire someone that actually does good work. That’s the issue, will Pope hire and then let them actually help him?

 

[Anon1760284409]

A bunch of goofy losers on the board talking **** behind a keyboard. You goof balls aren't helping our fan base looking any better. Talking about nerdy, goofy while you sitting behind a keyboard 500 pounds. They let the shittiest fans on here.

The only person that makes us look bad is the loser in the bench

 

[*Fox2Monk*]

We need to replace the strength and conditioning coach too.

Also Pope's analytics software needs an upgrade. Seems like its running on Windows 95

It ran on Apple Intelligence. He needs to let Grok take over lol.

 

[*Fox2Monk*]

Hart and Brooks III are both better coaches and recruiters than Pope. Not sure about Cody F., but Pope and Fox are a push.

Yeah UK, get rid of your assistant coaches, for new, lesser know ones… I’m sure recruits will love to hear that

I haven’t seen anything that leads me to believe they are so Greta sadly. Unless Pope is that bad it effects everything and what they do doesn’t matter. We can’t recruit and we didn’t improve on the floor in any skill capacity either.

 

[Hush4872]

We can only hope. Pope NEEDS help, and we need an ace who can close unlike what we have now.

I'd imagine it's usually the head coach that does the closing as he's ultimately the one they're playing for. I don't see recruiting improving as long as he's the coach.

I think we need basically a GM, OC (not a system guy like Fueger, but someone who can tailor the offense to the team we have- think a guy like Welch), DC, Player development coach for bigs, Player development coach for guards. That's probably the best we can hope for with Pope as the coach.

 

[AllBall]

An assistant I’d look at is Mike Burgomaster from Auburn. He was their offensive coordinator under Bruce and now Steven Pearl

The patented flex offense

 

[Hush4872]

It’s just like in football where a doomed coach is allowed to scapegoat coordinators a year before he gets canned himself. It buys the administration more time to do essentially nothing.

Or in Stoops' case, half a decade. F Barnhart.

 

[bnewt5]

Wheels are turning just hope they turn onto the right road

Spinning in mud

 

[bnewt5]

You still need a Coach that teaches blocking out - help side defense and running a semblance of offense

Still need a coach that teaches.......period

 

[Hush4872]

I believe Rondo would bring an element of fire to the situation. Great defensive guard coach, not to mention a hell of a player coming in a couple of years in his son

No shot Rondo would be willing to coach under a guy whose understanding of basketball is so far below his own. That would be a disaster waiting to happen. I'd like to see Rondo as an assistant at some point, but not with Pope as the head coach.