Mark Pope wasn’t even on his “tier 2” list. Did he just make that up? Were those candidates he wanted to see? Seems like he was full of it.
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We can talk about multiple things but he gave a bunch of names that we’d look at and none of them were Mark Pope, and Mark Pope was hired immediately. Worth discussing if our most prominent media member just fabricates stuff whole cloth.I love how since Mitch made a terrible hire the conversation goes to “why didn’t Matt Jones know”. We should be talking about why we made the hire in the first place.
Show me one insider that said “Mark Pope”, yet because most are jealous of Matt Jones they pick a fight with him. No one had Mark Pope because he shouldn’t have been on any list to begin with.We can talk about multiple things but he gave a bunch of names that we’d look at and none of them were Mark Pope, and Mark Pope was hired immediately. Worth discussing if our most prominent media member just fabricates stuff whole cloth.
How can you defend it? He made it sound like he had sources in the program. Obviously he didn’t. They were just names he made up.Show me one insider that said “Mark Pope”, yet because most are jealous of Matt Jones they pick a fight with him. No one had Mark Pope because he shouldn’t have been on any list to begin with.
Just like every local and national reporter that talked about it. No one knew yet we constantly bitch about Matt Jones, most info I saw from Jones was very vague and obviously an opinion.How can you defend it? He made it sound like he had sources in the program. Obviously he didn’t. They were just names he made up.
So basically like every media person in the country. He was right on 1 and 2 by the way.
No. Jon Rothstein broke the Mark Pope interview. Norlander broke the hiring. You know, real journalists.So basically like every media person in the country. He was right on 1 and 2 by the way.
It's also worth entertaining the idea that this is how far down the list we had to go to hire a coach. That there were other guys on a tier 2 or 3 and nobody was interested.We can talk about multiple things but he gave a bunch of names that we’d look at and none of them were Mark Pope, and Mark Pope was hired immediately. Worth discussing if our most prominent media member just fabricates stuff whole cloth.
And none of them thought Pope was a candidate until this afternoon.No. Jon Rothstein broke the Mark Pope interview. Norlander broke the hiring. You know, real journalists.
I hope Pope reads this and cuts Jones’ smarmy a$$ off on day one.
No thanks. Just here for the paycheck.Pope should have been on no one's tier 2 list. That should have ended with the names of a Golden, Pearl, Pitino, Smart or Beard.
The TRUTH here is you or anybody else has any idea whether this is a bad hire for UK or not,if it's done give the guy a chance and see how he does. My guess is some will not. I said elsewhere this is not who I would have hired but I nor any of our fans get to make that decision. I am willing to give him a chance,in reality that's all we can do. If you won't do that who needs youI love how since Mitch made a terrible hire the conversation goes to “why didn’t Matt Jones know”. We should be talking about why we made the hire in the first place.