Bruce Pearl made 2 final fours in the last 7 years at Auburn. Let's see what he does with the UK brand.
The answer is Nate Oats truth be told. 40s, hungry for a title, will do whatever to win. Mitch is too soy to hire him.
Mitch offered 2-3 guys. Drew, Hurley, and Pope. Stop buying the UKAA propaganda.
LoL you guys would have wanted him fired in first 2 years here. He went 15-20, 11-20 and 6-14 his first 3 years at Auburn.
Retarded post. The same Auburn program that was a total joke and just came off being led by....Tony Barbee? The same time, there was no NIL or portal? Notice how his wins went up each year?
UK fans were stupid and racist for running Tubby off. We'll never get a better coach. Tubby won a title here, never missed the NCAAT. UK is done, no coach wants that job. Just ask Dick Vitale... Then we got Calipari.
I get what you’re saying, but there’s no way Mitch will have say in who the next hire is. No way. He had to claw against the donor class last time and the president basically went against what was wanted. He was already on thin ice in basketball. There’s no way.
That’s at Auburn. Building a doormat into a title contender. What the crap is this? Who cares what he did there in 24 months doing it? And what does that have to do with Kentuckys brand and NIL?
Pope is the next Hurley. Book it. "He sucked at Uconn his first 2 years. So just hold onto Pope. He could be the next Hurley".
I could not believe the Hurly stuff. Scour 100 years of basketball history JUST to find a guy who did something like that and run through the house screaming I FOUND IT!!!! HONEY PULL UP THE INTERNET! HTTP RAFTERS FOR ME!
Look at the coaching staff. You'd leave too.
It’s always been the same. Blue bloods and the recognition coaches get is the draw. Great coaches come and players follow great coaches. We’re just repeating history now “Kentucky is the next Notre dame” hires Calipari “Kentucky cannot be stopped”.
100% absolute. Mitch will never make another basketball hire here, and I really don’t believe he’d even want to anymore. No way Mitch wants to have to try that. He just wanted control of basketball before he left. He hasn’t been allowed around the program for over half of his tenure.
I get you, but do players and agents feel the same way now with NIL$$$ in the mix ?? How come UCLA and Indiana have never rebounded back to status ?? I do not know the answers and I get that Pope was not truly qualified to be here, but have things changed more than we realize ?? Just thinking out loud ... ????
Money has to be there but in some ways it always Had to be there in some form. Just way less of it. Kansas Unc and Duke are fine, pretty much the same. Unc is actually doing better than I figured with Hubert. Kentucky doesn’t have financial problems either, so you get the UK brand the SEC the history the money etc. it’s just the coach. Now is it like it was in 1971 where you needed Kentucky to be on TV? No. That’s not happening now. But you’ve always needed a great coach, way more so now. So times change and things change but Kentucky is always just a coach away.
It’s amazing some of these people can get through life. Not being mean, but it’s difficult to see how.
Nice reply, makes sense, but to continue: Does a great coach see the brand and want to be here now ??? I will assume so, but am not sure. For the record, I wanted Sean Williams from day 1 and thought he would come and win big here.
Neither team appears to be investing much money into their basketball programs. Indiana did last year, so maybe that changes in the future.
I hate comments like this, with no offense to the poster. Do Indiana or Miami football have a good brand? It’s all about the coaches. The whole point is that UK can absolutely lure in a great coach if they don’t have an idiot for an AD. All we could hire after tubby was BCG or is Barnhart just an idiot? The SEC, the salary, the exposure, the NIL. These are all things that Kentucky has and is near the top in. There is absolutely no reason, WHATSOEVER, that Kentucky can’t attract a good coach, like we have countless times.If Tubby was good he would’ve been great at other schools. He was only great when someone else left him a team.
Our only real hope is a booster/boosters offers to pay the buyout. That or the man succumbs to pressure and leaves but why would he leave $5 million/year behind? He’s not as nice as we think he is.
UKGRAD24 is Morgousky?
I'll be honest Richie, I'm hoping we lose out and the decision is taken out of Mitch's stupid little hands and Pope is gone. And I'll say I go back to the Joe B Hall days. Listened to Cawood every game. As a young adult I cried over the Laettner shot. And I never thought I would I be hoping we lose. But I think that will be the only way. Many people don't understand the true situation we are in. We are at a crossroads. I warned people with Cal after the Evansville loss. We are headed down the same road as Indiana if we don't get this fixed
Or do like with football and the Cal hire, tell him to go stand in the corner.
