Last night sucked, too many mistakes the last 4 minutes, Texas could have been called for more fouls than they were but that was actually the friendliest whistle we've gotten home or away in SEC play. At one point late we had been to the free throw line 10 more times but I stopped watching with a minute left so I'm not sure what the total ended up being.
Can't say enough how happy I am that Mark Pope is our coach this year. Not the coach a lot of us wanted but the one we needed. If it was still Cal, our schedule, both non conference and conference, is a lot tougher than Arkansas's. We'd be something like 10-14 now.
If it had been Hurley or Drew, I don't know what they could have put together on the fly. What Pope has done with a completely bare cupboard except for Perry coming in ranks up there with Jesus feeding the masses from five loaves and two fish. His love and enthusiasm just like we have for this program is something we really needed and wouldn't have gotten anywhere else. I also don't know being so well established and insulated at their current schools that they (and their spouses too) would handle push back from BBN if things didn't go well.
