Pope's Assistants
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See your way out the door troll
Really wish you would just cheer for the hogs. We don't need fans like you.
Yup. I used to defend this fan base profusely. No more. Most of them really are spoiled brats. Is what it is. All I can do is try to represent with class.
According to Matt Norlander of CBS Sports, former Kentucky head coach John Calipari is expected to bring most of his staff from this past season with him to Arkansas. In fact, Calipari intends to bring four of his five assistants from the 2023-24 Kentucky team.
Those include associate to the head coach Bruiser Flint, associate coach Orlando Antigua, assistant coach Chuck Martin, and assistant coach Chin Coleman. Additionally, Norlander reports that Calipari’s son, Brad, who served as Vanderbilt’s director of on-court player development this past season, will also join the Razorbacks’ staff in Fayetteville.
The lone staff member not tagging along with Calipari to Arkansas is John Welch, who was tabbed the associate head coach at Fresno State earlier this week.
Those include associate to the head coach Bruiser Flint, associate coach Orlando Antigua, assistant coach Chuck Martin, and assistant coach Chin Coleman. Additionally, Norlander reports that Calipari’s son, Brad, who served as Vanderbilt’s director of on-court player development this past season, will also join the Razorbacks’ staff in Fayetteville.
The lone staff member not tagging along with Calipari to Arkansas is John Welch, who was tabbed the associate head coach at Fresno State earlier this week.
He also coached at a school that doesn't allow players to use caffeine and has only 5 sweet 16 appearances in it's history. He beat teams Cal lost to at that same school. LET THAT SINK IN.
Move on new guy. It's over. He's our coach. Deal with it or go back to the team you loved 139 posts ago.
GTFO clown back to your parents basement to finish yourself off
What excites you most about Rondo, the guns. Or the underage girl?
No way that happens
No chance. This is a coordinated effort to shift the program away from the way Cal did things.
He could head up the NIL. Exp w Reeds and isn’t he a financial guy?
What does him being a Mormon have to do with anything? And the ceiling here is Hurley.
I like the idea of asking Robic if he’d like redemption and maybe a little revenge.
I don't care where the assistants are from, I simply want Pope to hire the best assistants in the game.
He is going to have to pay him at Ark. He was a grad-assistant at UK. Might change things for Cal having to pay him, plus he is bringing his son to the staff.
Right. And how did he do compared to Dave Rose? Or Steve Cleveland? Or Roger Reid? What's my point? He did just about the same as the previous coaches at BYU. What's that point? Would you be cool hiring those other dudes from BYU? Yeah, that's what I thought. You act like he did something special at BYU. He did NOTHING at BYU that no dude hadn't done before him.
All of this said, I think he'll be just fine. But you shouldn't have to gamble at UK. And make no mistake, this is a HUGE gamble. And there's not a chance in hell he'd be the UK coach had he not played here. That's not a reason to hire someone.
Does he hate St. John's enough and love UK enough that he'd essentially retire from the head coaching world?
