We have a better shot than your boyfriend Calipari. Cal took everyone. Pope had to scrap together a team that now has 2 main dudes out and another player that is nowhere near 100%. When we are healthy, we are a final four caliber team with nowhere near the burger boys that Cal has. Pope isn't perfect, but trashing him right now is just retarded.
We're the worst defense in all power 6 conferences thats a problem.
The only thing that I am sure of is that Pope has done more with less than the coach who went to Pigsville. I also realize that Pope has more talent coming in next year than he ever had on his previous teams. If he fails to take advantage of talented teams, then my position will change. Until that happens, I will give him the benefit of the doubt because he had to quickly put together a team with very little time to do it. If you recall, coach pigsville made certain that there would be nothing for the new coach to work with.
They had one of the highest ranked recruits in the nation out. His future job is the NBA. Our guys out are going to try and find a job just like we have. No excuse about having players out. We just stunk it up tonight. I still think they may be better without the future NBA guy.
Don't know. But if we aren't there after four years, it's time for next man up.
Yeah cool man!! Let’s not say “Calipari” because we are so above it!! Nice! How’s that working out? Two things can be true: we moved on rightfully so but Pope has no aura in an era where you need it. We aren’t relevant.
Same thing at Knoxville though. Against a better team. Pope shit the bed tonight.
Disagree. We got run out of our home court, and our so-called coach had no answers.
Dude, he'd tried to say we should have won because they had one player out. I was just reminding him/her we had more out. In my personal life and with our teams I'm very very judgemental, but Pope is overachieving with what he was left.
Hate to tell you, but he's never going to make a ff.
Are you seriously trying to make excuses? Do you understand just how bad we got beat by a bad team tonight?
THANK YOU! Since when did we we become the excuse train?? It’s such a bad look.
Arkansas got housed at home by Oklahoma. They lost at LSU. We just let them score 90, because we gave them open shots all night long. This is awful coaching. I'm seeing too many red flags and too many fans that are ok with losing.
We know the best team doesn't always win. Florida lost to UT by 20 even though UT was missing two starters.
Gee, thanks Captain Obvious for your first point. It's not just that we lost, it's *HOW* we lost. Secondly, your analogy is inapposite.
Does how a team lose count for an extra loss? We lost because Arkansas was able to do what they haven't done all season, hit 3 pointers. But hey, don't let me get in the way of your pity party. This can be accomplished by not reading any more of my posts because you won't find anything in them that will support your whining.
I think people attack you because they know you were a Cal guy. And you and I (CincyUKFan) did not get along because of that.
Some act like he is supposed to be there 2/3 of the way through season 1.
If you recall Cal, your backup point guard was on the floor and Kentucky's wasn't. Only a fool or a baiter would suggest that a team should play well without a single point guard on the floor.
If we couldn't stay in front of DJ, what do you think would have happened if we had to defend both DJ and Fland? With the same defensive strategy, we would have lost by 20.
You have been able to make this determination about Pope in less than one full season? You made a dumb statement like this when Pope has kept this team in the top 12 for most of the season while playing the best conference in college basketball. You make that statement after we beat Duke. You made that statement after we beat UT on their home court, the same UT who just knocked off UF while playing with two missing starters.
We do. I sure didn't expect to be where we are this year. That smarted last night
