Mark Stoops 2025 = Mark Pope 2026

Anon1760749849

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We are already there. Expect very little other than maybe a nice "underdog" story. Of course, that's unacceptable for UK basketball. There's almost nothing he can do with the remaining roster, outside of pulling off multiple miracles (Stokes + Milan + another big man) that does anything but expect an underwhelming result to the same old approach. It's crazy that we are only in year three and this feels exactly how much of the fan base anticipates next season to go. I felt it going into last year's football season. Literally expecting to go 4-8 or so and anyone who disagreed, was largely not being realistic.
 
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Cliffhanger82

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It’s been petty miserable in Uk athletics for about 2 years now. Now even baseball is sucking.
This. Why,as a university, do we overlook the athletic department? We have rifle and cheer(or whatever they call it now) doing well. Seems our president doesn’t value the dept highly
 

megablue

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Mark Pope surely knows how important this season is to his career here at UK.
We'll just have to hope he builds a quality roster and the season is more successful than his previous two.
If he falls short of showing significant improvement and more promise for the future, then serious decision-making will occur.
I think we all know this, of course, but are a bit impatient because we do not have enough legitimate reasons to be optimistic right now, unfortunately.
 
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