Pope converted a HATER

[ukfan1622]

Somebody posted a video recently from Sleepers Media on Youtube and a lot of folks rightly pointed out that they really didn't know much about Kentucky and one of the guys was just negative towards Kentucky and Pope constantly. All of which was spot on. So I decided to watch their recap of the Duke/Kentucky game. I always like it when somebody is man enough to admit when they're wrong and I've never saw one person go on for so long and list so many things they were wrong about. He had said Pope couldn't recruit and his offense was nothing special and our players were just not good enough. Just paraphrasing but he said:

I see it now, how the pieces fit together.
Pope's offense is beautiful.
He went down the list of the players we have that were better than he thought they were.
He has already proven he could recruit, that Jasper and Lewis were his 2 favorite guards in the class.
Pope didn't just put together a good team in 30 days but that he thought they were a championship caliber team.

It was interesting to see the conversion of one of Pope's biggest doubters into a fan.

 

[Neanderthal]

I love Coach Pope. I can pull for the Wildcats again. Left them when Cal was hired. Kentucky fans are the best in the nation. Thru always show up.

 

[will1976]

I love Coach Pope. I can pull for the Wildcats again. Left them when Cal was hired. Kentucky fans are the best in the nation. Thru always show up.

Wow that's along time to be away! Welcome back to the fold.

 

[Blue832]

I love Coach Pope. I can pull for the Wildcats again. Left them when Cal was hired. Kentucky fans are the best in the nation. Thru always show up.

I done the same thing brother! Didn't really like the Cal hire in the very beginning. I just couldn't get into it. Glad Pope is here. I was glad when announced that he was coming to be our coach. I hope that they get the mentality of "we will play any body and where, any time that Ricky P had with his teams.

 

[G-PIP]

I always like it when somebody is man enough to admit when they're wrong . . . .

Very few confident enough to do that, right? But yeah, when you see somebody that is man enough to admit a mistake or wrong opinion and discuss it, that's somebody to listen to. I enjoyed watching that clip and a few more from Sleepers Media posted on here recently.

 

[Allcats08]

I love Coach Pope. I can pull for the Wildcats again. Left them when Cal was hired. Kentucky fans are the best in the nation. Thru always show up.

lol you’re no fan.

 

[kywildcat41086]

Exactly regardless of the hire I bleed Blue first and foremost and always will!!!!

 

[Rockfly78]

I love Coach Pope. I can pull for the Wildcats again. Left them when Cal was hired. Kentucky fans are the best in the nation. Thru always show up.

Yeah I’m not buying this.

 

[UKSanders]

Yeah I’m not buying this.

I didn’t love the Cal hire, and I didn’t leave initially.

I thoroughly enjoyed the platoon season, and I have never, never seen a more dominant performance than the first half of the UCLA game that season.

However, Cal’s coaching (or lack thereof) had created a complete apathy to watch UK games the last few years, so I can believe some would have stopped watching long before I did.