This has been one of the worst officiated games of the season. I'm tired of it. Garbage.
Pope should get himself tossed. Mitch should file grievance w/ SEC
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Pope has to learn to work the officials. 'Monitoring' the refs as he said hasn't worked.
It won't do anything either way. Refs do what they want, are on a good ole boy network grading scale, and dont care. Who you gonna replace them with?
Agreed. When the ref decided to walk toward him I would have lost it.
And people on here thought Popes little talk to the sec post uga game would help lol
Have to disagree for tonight. I was there and he was getting his shots in
He’s been going at refs all year. I’ve always found the “he doesn’t yell enough at the refs” thing to be one of the laziest takes. People are use to a lunatic on the sidelines and it makes Pope look like a yoga teacher in comparison.
Pope needs to channel his inner Pitino and go ballistic on the refs a few times
Excluding all the sears flopping fouls . Why didn't the defender who picked oweh for that break away jam did not get a flagrant taunting technical for pointing his finger at oweh and shaking it at him . God these sec officials suck between listening to the right field ramblers Vitale and dykes and these asinine officials makes it brutal to watch a college game
Furthermore Oglesby is reffing the IU game today...whatever bs he did last night he's already forgotten and doesn't care
Referees completely took the game over after we started up 10-12 points. It was whatever Alabama wanted to do on defense being aggressive. About 10 driving the lane and fall on the floor plays by Sears. Whistle every damn time. This shit has got to stop. Why even play if it ain’t gonna be even halfway fair???
Why does a UK coach need to deliberately get tossed from a game. How many times did Rupp or Hall or K or Williams. I simply don't understand the reasoning here
To me it does 2 things:
1. Rallies the team to see he’s got their back. When you’re on the court getting mauled with no calls and your coach allows it, it’s deflating.
2. Brings more attention to the poor officiating to hopefully have it looked into more. Especially if it’s a guy like Pope who’s not one to lose his cool often.
IMHO, no coach should ever approach a situation in an attempt to get tossed. To me, the REAL question that he should be thinking to himself is how did really good coaches became almost untouchable". Coach's K , Knight, Chaney, Pitino, etc. There's a lot of these guys who were able to assert themselves to a greater degree than others, and get away with it to a greater degree. Why? I think a coach has to have a certain leeway, and more importantly, mutual respect, with these refs, in order to at least get a 50/50 called game.
Pope doesn't yet seem to have that next gear level in order to get pissed and begin a yelling match. He needs to stop always being the nice guy; you're the MF coach at KENTUCKY dude. He seems to have most of what it takes, but his personality just isn't like that. I'm certainly not knocking him in any way, I love the guy and I honestly think he will, at some point soon, get us to a FF.
WW.
Pope doesn't yet seem to have that next gear level in order to get pissed and begin a yelling match. He needs to stop always being the nice guy; you're the MF coach at KENTUCKY dude. He seems to have most of what it takes, but his personality just isn't like that. I'm certainly not knocking him in any way, I love the guy and I honestly think he will, at some point soon, get us to a FF.
WW.
What does Mitch say in his grievance. We only shot 22 free throws and they had a whopping 25 attempts. They were called for only 20 fouls, we had 22 , countem, 22 fouls called against us. You really think that would do anything except make Mitch look crazy.
Officials are on the take in my opinion. Oates was seen laughing with the officials during the game. I would like to know who reviews the officials, and ask them to become transparent about the calls or lack of calls. And how are they held accountable?
You can watch the game and see how awful it was called. They had an official stop the game to eyeball Pope. Totally unprofessional. It was a sideshow.
Dukes top 25 richest alum dwarfs UKs. Money talks. Is it any wonder why kentucky, Kansas and Indiana are struggling a bit in this department? While programs like USC, Miami, and BYU (look up their NIL) can just buy players?
What do you mean your coach" allows it" , he isn't wearing a striped shirt, or calling the game. Once again how many games was Rupp thrown out of.. I fail to see how throwing a temper tantrum makes one a better coach. As for acting a fool to get " someone" to notice the horrible officiating; really?
Let them play physical around the basket but cheap calls on us playing defense. Easy to tell who the most crappy or the most rogue refs are.
I agree 100% about the flagrant for pointing his finger and taunting Oweh. If I Kentucky player had done that, it would have been a technical, just like it's been in other games.
I just don't believe the refs are being mean to Pope because he refuses to stand up for himself.
Yelling at people rarely gets them to be your friend/help you out.
Getting thrown out doesn't always point out bad officiating. Sometimes, it just makes you look like a hot head.
Yelling at people rarely gets them to be your friend/help you out.
Getting thrown out doesn't always point out bad officiating. Sometimes, it just makes you look like a hot head.
I saw that. Pope has to develop a style. A style that at least has him looking in the eye of the official. I am guessing he makes comments but never looks at the official. Even when the official stopped the game, which I agree, is unusual, Pope never made contact. Either Pope doesn't want the direct confrontation, or he is like a ventriloquist and lets an invisible dummy do the work.
What everyone is not getting is that the SEC and refs in general aren't after Kentucky. They aren't after Pope. There were probably some after Cal, but that was the start of it.
What they're after is sticking it to the fans for retribution of the Higgins threat and roofing company reviews fiasco. That really pissed off the brotherhood and until the refs lose a generation, it will likely live on for many more years.
There's simply nothing anyone can do about it.
And the only way refs would ever be held accountable for their ineptness or bias is if someone in the brotherhood finally came out and leaked or made it public that refs do play favorites, protect each other, hold grudges, and GAMBLE and manipulate games for monetary gain. Once that happens we will see a total swing in how they ref games.
Even better would be some kind of successful sleuthing from a UK fan. It would be awesome if one of our own managed to crack open improprieties of the ref "brotherhood".
What they're after is sticking it to the fans for retribution of the Higgins threat and roofing company reviews fiasco. That really pissed off the brotherhood and until the refs lose a generation, it will likely live on for many more years.
There's simply nothing anyone can do about it.
And the only way refs would ever be held accountable for their ineptness or bias is if someone in the brotherhood finally came out and leaked or made it public that refs do play favorites, protect each other, hold grudges, and GAMBLE and manipulate games for monetary gain. Once that happens we will see a total swing in how they ref games.
Even better would be some kind of successful sleuthing from a UK fan. It would be awesome if one of our own managed to crack open improprieties of the ref "brotherhood".
What I've seen on TV is that on the most crazy calls, Pope does get physically animated and will talk to the ref - but every time the ref explains, he just accepts it, nods and moves on. So he's not following through with continuing to challenge the ref's excuse, he just rolls over and says "ok".
Officials are not on the “Take” and it’s not Vegas. Why would it be one team that gets a horrible whistle every game. Why would Vegas put it to UK?
There is a conspiracy against UK by the officials, no doubt. For 5 years every opponent that drives draws a foul whether he gets touched or not. Theiro and Wagner are now getting calls at Arkansas they never got here. Theiro gets a foul every time driving into traffic and flailing his arms. That was a turnover every time at UK.
My top 2 is the Officials have banded together because of the Higgins thing but we were already getting Fked then. That’s why BBN went crazy.
My top theory is it’s the SEC office directing the officials. 8 years ago basketball was all but dead in the SEC. 400 people showed up for Alabama- Georgia. No one cared unless UK was in town.
Alabama gave out T shirts that had blue blood scratched ou and NEW BLOOD written. I think that’s exactly what the league office wanted. Basketball is back in the SEC! Fans are showing up. All it took was for UK to be knocked off its perch.
I think it might even go beyond that. UK isn't an ESPN/NCAA protected program (Kansas, Duke, UNC), it's not a prestigious academia school(West coast schools, Big10), and it's also, for right or wrong, got a past that ties in to race and civil rights. I mean, they even made a movie where Kentucky is the big bad racist school against Texas Southern. And then you have the whole "Rupp didn't recruit African Americans" stuff.. and I think you add it all together, it sort of creates a situation where the sport, outside of Kentucky and it's fanbase, doesn't really want to see Kentucky win.
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