Bruce Pearl is not coaching right now. I bet he'd come here next week!
If we Fire Pope
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Schertz would be on my top 3. That guy can coach.
Pearl probably would succeed. He'd also be the one coach to make me consider abandoning UK basketball until he's gone due to what he supports and promotes. This is also the guy who took his team to Epstein Island.
whoever UNC wanted and didn't get, UK isn't going to get either.
Established Coaches you make say no: Golden (Florida), Underwood (Illinois), Hoiberg (Nebraska), Oats(Bama)
Young targets: Lucas (Miami), Hodgson (Providence), Calhoun (Cincy), Schertz (Saint Louis)
Pro Targets: Vogel, Donavan
Golden Parachute: Pearl
Honestly just take a look at which young coaches are winning with their mid-major/lesser p5 schools. There's always a few of them. And not all of them should be candidates, but you find the one who has a lot of success, good with recruits, proven to win with a few different teams.. and you get that guy. It will be a huge payday for them, they likely wont say no. And it may not work.. but if it hits, you could land the next Hurley/May. And once you get them, and pay them.. oh and dont **** on them every time they lose (thats a big one), you can keep them for 30 years if you want to.
Donovan is now available, but probably wont be by this time next year.
Go back to whatever board you came from.
Whiners like you have zero vision. If you got your way this place would be a ghost town. Then what would you have to complain about?
Q: If Pope is fired, then who do we hire?
A: A better coach.
This is probably shaping up to be better than the first year talent wise.
19 losses seems at least hyperbolic and overwrought.
I would agree that recent results are not elite but I'd definitely argue that the program still most definitely qualifies as elite.
The program's legacy is elite, the program itself is not. No way anyone could think that it was. Players are not coming here because of the name of the school, otherwise they'd be here. They're not commiting because of the coach. What criteria do you think still puts us in elite status?
In think this is basically a semantics thing but we are essentially in agreement. I think our history, fanbase, resources, facilities, and continuing national interest from media and other fan bases alike certainly qualifies as still being Elite. I have no real qualms with the fact that you hold a different perspective but that's my 2 cents worth.
They are going to have to leave before portal season anyway no matter when we make the move. So now is as good a time as any.
Feels unprecedented. The guy is fighting for his job, his career, his legacy, and he craps the bed like this. I can’t remember a more lame duck coach entering a season. He should be shown the door immediately but those with less imagination counter, he’s getting a 3rd year, as though it was ordained from the heavens.
Pope must either be delusional or near suicidal at this point. How can he bear the misery that he knows is coming? And no foreign wars he can declare to distract us from his incompetence.
There is no way in the world they would (or could?) pony up that kind of money. Buyout and first year of Donovan's salary.
That's a lot of money, and while I'd love to see us become elite again, IMO there are more important things that kind of money should be spent on.
My unsolicited advice: Start backchanneling
Offer Hurley 15 million a year. Ten year contract. Fully guaranteed. Buy his wife a mansion and private plane so she can fly back and forth to keep her happy.
UConn’s Dan Hurley on Kentucky job: ‘No way’ he would entertain it
UConn AD David Benedict said the program would do "everything we can to remain in position to win championships."
www.nytimes.com
I’d probably just skip Dan Hurley on the coaching searches for Kentucky.
UConn’s Dan Hurley on Kentucky job: ‘No way’ he would entertain it
UConn AD David Benedict said the program would do "everything we can to remain in position to win championships."
I’d probably just skip Dan Hurley on the coaching searches for Kentucky.
11 mil isn’t 15 tho
Genuinely if I thought there was even a 0.1% chance of Hurley I’d be all over the idea. There’s no point at all other than further embarrassing our brand and wasting our time.