His introduction tomorrow at Rupp, so what are some selling points you think Mark Pope will have to make for future recruits and for fans that isn’t on board yet?
Selling points
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For fans:
Tubby Smith - Needed to prove he could do it without Rick's recruits. He almost succeeded (2003-05).
BCG - Needed to prove he could coach UK basketball to a winning culture without being an ambassador for the program. His personality failed, and he was an alcoholic, loner, who was asked to be who he was not.
Ellen's Roommate - Needed to prove he could adapt to the changes in college basketball and be about the promotion and advancement of the Kentucky brand - and everything that entails - instead of self-promotion, and recruiting talent that used Kentucky for their own advancement, rather than being about Kentucky. Not every recruit was like that, but there were enough to where it was proving exhausting.
Mark Pope - He will out-recruit OTS and BCG. He will have the personality, and understands the Kentucky culture enough, to not fail like BCG. He will have a love for Kentucky that far outweighs anything Ellen's Roommate could have ever drummed-up.
For Recruits:
It sounds like Mark Pope will have NIL money to put together rosters that Ellen's Roommate wasn't going to get, because of his asinine personality behind closed doors with all of those who would fund NIL.
Tubby Smith - Needed to prove he could do it without Rick's recruits. He almost succeeded (2003-05).
BCG - Needed to prove he could coach UK basketball to a winning culture without being an ambassador for the program. His personality failed, and he was an alcoholic, loner, who was asked to be who he was not.
Ellen's Roommate - Needed to prove he could adapt to the changes in college basketball and be about the promotion and advancement of the Kentucky brand - and everything that entails - instead of self-promotion, and recruiting talent that used Kentucky for their own advancement, rather than being about Kentucky. Not every recruit was like that, but there were enough to where it was proving exhausting.
Mark Pope - He will out-recruit OTS and BCG. He will have the personality, and understands the Kentucky culture enough, to not fail like BCG. He will have a love for Kentucky that far outweighs anything Ellen's Roommate could have ever drummed-up.
For Recruits:
It sounds like Mark Pope will have NIL money to put together rosters that Ellen's Roommate wasn't going to get, because of his asinine personality behind closed doors with all of those who would fund NIL.
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