Rob Wright has left Lexington

Catphright23

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I absolutely wanted Cal to leave and talked mad **** during his twilight years here, too. Nice try
so im asking after a sweet 16, and round of 32 exit what other team has fired their coach. Do you believe Pope recruited bad his first year too? Plus do you believe injuries didn't screw things up for us any things year?
 

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i would just take the small time players and if we win so be it, if we lose so be it. some of these kids aren't worth the money or the headache. Charles Barkley love Mark Fox and Pope seemed to do well with first years' team. A lot of people on here 80 percent who hate pope would take Cal back on any given night and probably never wanted to leave. Problem is alot of you had unrealistic expectations on who would have taken the job too.
Frickin loser!
 
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Catphright23

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Dude just stop posting on this website, you obviously dont like uk basketball
Opposite obviously that is why I say **** to people who say **** about Kentucky basketball. You are currently saying **** on the guy who is going to still be coach next year. If he gets fired at the end you can run your mouth but for now geez.
 

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Frickin loser!
Don't you have the hoyas to root for. I know John Thompson isn't coming through that door. What other major team has fired a coach after a sweet 16, and round of 32. Plus if a player is wanting more money on his visit and you can't do it as a coach what do you do? Asking for a friend.
 
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so im asking after a sweet 16, and round of 32 exit what other team has fired their coach. Do you believe Pope recruited bad his first year too? Plus do you believe injuries didn't screw things up for us any things year?
Hi first year was good given the circumstances. He whiffed on recruits and sold it as getting tougher his second year. Lowe was never going to be great injury or not. Below average stats from Pit, JQ was a desperation recruit, etc. Well, we saw how awful we ended up. Supposedly 20 million for that? Yikes.

Now in year three things are looking bad. At UK if you cannot bring in studs with the money and history of this place, you gotta go. He has never been a great coach. Never deserved the job!
 
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kyjeff1

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You know, I'm a guy that loves a good back and forth, but I think this one has gotten stale. Maybe let it go.
 

Catphright23

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Hi first year was good given the circumstances. He whiffed on recruits and sold it as getting tougher his second year. Lowe was never going to be great injury or not. Below average stats from Pit, JQ was a desperation recruit, etc. Well, we saw how awful we ended up. Supposedly 20 million for that? Yikes.

Now in year three things are looking bad. At UK if you cannot bring in studs with the money and history of this place, you gotta go. He has never been a great coach. Never deserved the job!
yeah but you as a fan need to support him. if he winds up bringing in nobody yeah then complain which yeah I get. I'm not meaning to be a dick to anyone here I just don't think the constant negativity helps us any. If we do bad well have a new guy to look forward to. Our Ad did that job in hiring him. I don't care for mitch myself. Last year I think we should have went elsewhere even when we missed out on players.
 

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Loser, I live in Georgetown Ky
I shouldn't fight with two 12 year olds I apologize your life isn't going well. Getting out of middle school and high school usually is better. I'm sorry Calipari isn't here. Please support your current coach and not make our fans look awful. If he don't get any players and don't do well he won't get fired. Constant pessimism does no good. It gets you put on message board geniuses and is read by multiple people. I'm out with yall two.
 

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Pope couldn't catch water in the middle of the ocean
we got aberdeen and our first class was sorta decent. Last year we should have gotten a backup pg and some of our portal selections should have been different. A big part of the reason why we lost out on players last year is waiting on Oweh and offering him probably too much money...
 
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Starting to wonder if Wright might have used UKs interest to get a bigger NIL from BYU.
Absolutely possible
There aren’t any rules
Wouldn’t be the first time either
I don’t think you should be able to go back to the school you entered the portal from
A lot of these kids are just using another school to force their current school to give them more money
 

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I shouldn't fight with two 12 year olds I apologize your life isn't going well. Getting out of middle school and high school usually is better. I'm sorry Calipari isn't here. Please support your current coach and not make our fans look awful. If he don't get any players and don't do well he won't get fired. Constant pessimism does no good. It gets you put on message board geniuses and is read by multiple people. I'm out with yall two.
These were your words:

“I would just take the small time players and if we win so be it, if we lose so be it. some of these kids aren't worth the money or the headache.”

What kind of moron would want to field a team full of rejects and hope we won but if we didn’t, no big deal? I’m happy you’re not responding back. Loser
 

Catphright23

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These were your words:

“I would just take the small time players and if we win so be it, if we lose so be it. some of these kids aren't worth the money or the headache.”

What kind of moron would want to field a team full of rejects and hope we won but if we didn’t, no big deal? I’m happy you’re not responding back. Loser
I say that because all you guys want Mark Pope gone I was being sorta sarcastic. I am saying some of these big players are asking too much and just wanting to waste time and just want huge offers.
 

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Opposite obviously that is why I say **** to people who say **** about Kentucky basketball. You are currently saying **** on the guy who is going to still be coach next year. If he gets fired at the end you can run your mouth but for now geez.
He's going to lose 15 games and you're gonna love it, because he played here 30 years ago.
 
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You didn't want Cal to leave did you? Please Cal come back, we can lose in the first round every year as long as we get nba players. I'm realistic when we have fans who don't know their head from their ***.
What does Cal have to do with Pope sucking...... They both suck.... Cal sucked his last 5 years and Pope has a career 63% winning % and should've never been hire here in the 1st place. I don't understand why people have got to drag Cal back into the Pope sucks conversations he's gone and nobody wants him back. Man we all want UK just to be UK again that's it.
 

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i would just take the small time players and if we win so be it, if we lose so be it. some of these kids aren't worth the money or the headache. Charles Barkley love Mark Fox and Pope seemed to do well with first years' team. A lot of people on here 80 percent who hate pope would take Cal back on any given night and probably never wanted to leave. Problem is alot of you had unrealistic expectations on who would have taken the job too.

Very few people thought Pope was the best we could get though.
 
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I was listening to a podcast last night & this, can't remember the guy's name, he said he used to do the high school football games in Northern Kentucky, I'm assuming like the FT Thomas Highlands area. He was showing on the screen tweets he was getting, some dude that goes by the name "crash" said that he knew someone in the room with the recruits & they all decided on Kentucky, said they were waiting on Freeman Thursday so they could all announce together. This "crash" dude kept tweeting that it's a done deal. The guy that does this podcast also said that Pope asked Stokes who he wanted on the team & he told him Wright, Diallo & Freeman.
This post can be told for ages if it comes to fruition.
 
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