Have y’all seen his roster at BYU? He must be a good coach to have gotten that team to tied with Kansas for 6th place in Big 12. There is 0 excuse for Kansas to have the same record as Pope
I Don't Hate The Hire (*Ducks Down As Things Get Thrown At Me*)
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Take the top 5 players on Kansas team away and they’re still more talented than that roster. Now granted, he recruited them.
If he can recruit well here, he may do okay.
Don’t get me wrong I’m shocked he’s the guy. Seems risky
It isn’t risky. It’s just flat out stupid. I guess Mitch wants to lean into cals favorite saying. Pope gets us to even a sweet 16 in 5 years Mitch can say “See?”
In fairness, you have no idea if it’s stupid. You don’t know who they talked to and who said no. Nor do you know how well he will do here.
There’s a lot of uncertainty with the hire. Hence risky
0 NCAA Tournament wins… enough said. I’ll root for the guy and I hope he succeeds but I feel like we deserved a proven coach. Tommy Lloyd or Kelvin Samson would be a much safer pick for me.
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He want in my top 10. I’m not excited. If anything I’m relieved, but not excited. I’ll still support him, and hope like Hubert and Scheyer he works out.
I’m behind him - anyone but Calipari could not take another season of the dumb ass
Again, you don’t know that.
I would have preferred BP. Wasn’t sold on Beard. Bruce had a BBQ he shouldn’t have. He didn’t strangle a woman
Beard would have never been able to navigate the streets of Fayette county with the amount of bourbon around town. Unless the crafts gifted him lex live as a home so he could walk to the games he’d be gone in a month.
Scheyer was groomed to take over for coach K.
He was an assistant for coach K for 4 years, then associate head coach for another 4, then head coach. So he was on the bench for 8 or so years.
Best thing y’all can do for Mark is get in there, support your own, cheer hard, donate, and be positive. Life will be more enjoyable and he’ll stand a better chance at succeeding if he has BBN’s full backing.
No offense to you, I too was really shocked by this, but what has Matt Jones been right on through this whole process? What has he been right on that wasn't obvious in the last 2 years?
The main thing this process showed us is that there is no inside source for UK basketball and our media know nothing.
Not a fan of this hire, but he's the coach and time to get behind him
That is the reason a lot of people are mad and I can u first and that, I just hope it gets to the point where everyone gives him a legitimate chance.
Exactly how I feel, he needs a staff like Cal’s. A recruiting staff. Get him NIL, those dudes, and let’s get some guys back. Then hit the portal to add depth and fill out the roster.
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and fall further behind in building a roster through the portal and recruiting? Not a chance, needed to be done ASAP.
Surely some of the board of trustees or donors had to OK this move, its not what any fan wanted so he surely didn't just make this move by himself? At least he comes from Pitino coaching tree and is not going to be likely to create ugly situations(Pitino). Hopefully it will work out....just a highly risky move.
He recruited well enough at BYU of all places to help beat the likes of Kansas (at Kansas), Baylor, and Iowa state this year alone. Thats 3 teams that were ranked in the top 10 this year. Again at freaking BYU!!!!! Do you think he is going to be able to recruit different kids to UK that would have zero interest in going to play at BYU and agreeing to abide by all the code of conduct rules including abstaining from sexual activity. Yeah, no disadvantage to recruiting there yet still finished 5th in the big 12. Might be the best damn coaching job in America under those circumstances.
Hurley had just 2 tourney wins before UConn. And didn't even make the tournament the first few years there. Then he won 2 championships.
like i said hurley is a flash in the pan albeit a big flash.
I just want to take a lap of a humble brag on this post.
I posted this and started this thread immediately after, while most of this board was in flames. And it was SPOT ON.
That dude GETS IT.
Now go get some TALENT and let's go hang some banners!!
Yes they did have to move quickly.......he comes in behind the 8-ball in recruiting and everyone says that recruiting will be the problem........so if you wait even another week you are purposely setting him up for failure the first season.......I am glad for the hire.....I like Pope and everyone that knows basketball speaks glowingly about him.......I can wait for him to get things rolling.......I sure as hell ain't going to be calling for his head or putting signs in his yard if he doesn't meet (sic) my expectations.......but I bet he does.....
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