Jaxson Robinson helping ease teammates transition to playing for Pope: 'It doesn't hurt that he's a NBA-caliber player.'
During Tuesday's summer press conference, Mark Pope spoke on the significance of having a former BYU player on his new roster.
Jaxson Robinson is worth his weight in gold
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Thanks for sharing, Smash. Pope is made for UK. I love listening to the guy talk, and he's straightforward.
99.9% of people said the same thing about Cal after a very short time at UK. Pope may be great. He may also not be. He hasn’t coached a single season yet.
Cal was great until about 2015. He started losing his fire and by 2019, when he got his lifetime contract, the fire was completely extinguished.
Now the question with Cal is, did going to Arkansas relight the fire or is it too late?
Time will tell.
@bookerfan66 completely vanished just hours before JR committed. Not a single post since ......when leading up to it all we heard from this poster was that we'd stink next year. Wherever could he (pretty sure it's a she) be to weigh in on the JR committment?? ruppsrunt66 awol as well.........
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Agree. I suspect he’s pretty much done. Guys don’t play hard for him they’re just passing through been my biggest take away the last five years. Just glad the guy is out of Lexington. GBB!
So much difference listening to him and enjoyable to listen to. I quite listening to Cal about 4 years ago.
I'll mess with you, I'm not prejudice.... (Now to figure out how to mess with you...)
Cal never had love for Kentucky the way Pope does before he came here. It was much easier for him to stop trying and go down with the ship. I have the feeling Mark is going to be absolutely gutted every time we lose a single game.
Oh really like we need another reminder
Even if Cal was winning, I'd still be glad he is gone. I just got tired of hearing him blather on, and I just don't like the guy anymore.
Makes me nauseous to listen to him. Which is crazy because I use to love Cal.
I don’t think Calipari ever spoke like this..at least not without a pre written speech
And I know for damn sure I’ve never seen a coach this excited …practically bursting at the seams…to be here
And I know for damn sure I’ve never seen a coach this excited …practically bursting at the seams…to be here
this post is about…. Robinson. Some people need therapy.
Ccc was/is a 2 faced used car salesman. He was only interested in him and couldn't complete sentence and couldn't tell the truth if flattened by a press. Pope is the complete opposite and will put the university 1st.
Biggest difference in Cal and Pope. Pope actually loves Kentucky. Cal used the facilities to run Cal U. Not UK. Pope is 10000 times the coach that Cal ever thought of being without ever coaching a game here!!!
Thanks for obsessing over me but believe it or not I have a life outside this board and have a job and take care of a parent with dementia.
Y’all don’t like any former coach. Every last one gets hated by this fanbase at some point. It’s just who you are.
Cornbreadandmilk absent since that time as well….. pathetic, but we all knew it. track42??? One loon with tons of accounts, playing it both ways.
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No matter if the fire is there or not... The bigger question is did he learn X's and O's by now... which if he hasn't learned it in so far n his coaching career he won't pick it up now.
Yeah because having those elite players got us so far the last 4-5 years. 🙄
I must have a different memory than you do. As I recall, a lot of posters thought Cal was a lot of hot air and hype but they liked it at the time. They said he had "bravado!" Pope is more straightforward as the other poster said. I don't recall Cal ever being that way.
I said that fans said the same thing about Cal, which was that he was perfect for UK. That is 100% true.
I kind of remember that... It didn't last a real long time though.
He is correct that fans did think Cal was perfect for UK because of his swag, etc.
Yep. Took us a while to realize the emperor had no clothes. Other coaches went from being intimidated by the Kentucky machine, not not even having to game plan for a John Calipari 'coached' team.
I agreed but Cal seemed to act like he was above the fans quickly. He did produce results quickly. Cal never shared nor did he ever become "intimate" with the Kentucky fan base. He never even tried. All I remember is the "You're Crazy" remarks. The fan alienation started very slowly but it progressed regularly. When the results lessened the progression sped up... Take care...
I think his role as translator for Pope is more important than the surface humor. The players and coach need to get to the same place for an effective winning strategy and execution. Glad Coach has that person in Robinson.
It will actually make the games we loose a little easier to accept, for me, knowing we have a coach who has prepared as well as he could his team to win. For me knowing Cal had the talent and would not always prepare his team to use it to the fullest is what always bugged me about most loses. It would be so oblivious we were the better team. This comment is out of place I know but I just needed to say it.
You nailed it. In my work I see this happen a lot. A company brings in a new CEO, President, whatever and they are initially star struck until reality sinks in. One company wanted to hire someone "with a backbone." They fired him 3 years later.
No, it wasn’t really the same things that people were saying about Cal although everyone definitely was excited and high on him. Cal’s in-person introduction to BBN was standing at a podium and staring down at the printed pages he was reading his half stellar/half cheesy “domination proclamation for the big blue nation” off of. Really soon after that he said “the Lamborghini is not leaving the garage.”
We had no idea the magnitude of the bullcrap that was headed for us six years down the pike even though plenty of people were warning us even then. But even then, even though we were very high on him, most fans knew and talked about the fact that Cal was a bullshitter and a salesman. We started saying very very early that “Cal could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves.” ——In addition to which it took a while to convince a huge chunk of people that DDMO was even a real thing as opposed to just a marketing gimmick Cal hawked to bring the talent in here and roll the balls out. (And plenty of people never did believe it at all, including several vocal voices here).
Sure, people were saying complimentary things about Cal back then and were excited with high expectations. And as a result anyone can be forgiven for feeling once bitten, twice shy regarding the similar-level excitement about Coach Pope now. But ultimately there are very significant differences between both what people are hearing from Pope compared to what they heard from Cal and what people are saying about Pope compared to what they said about Cal. Pope has been working hard to achieve those differences. They are significant and he deserves credit for them.
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