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To the Un-named poster who said Pope wasn’t Elite

A lot of people having to backpedal and, frankly, given the roster situation they had no reason to be down on Pope to start with. Absolute blast of a win and blast of a year
Most teams would have folded, losing 3 starters for an extended period and a key backup for most of the season. Somehow, Pope was able to manage the lineup and keep the possibility of a post season run in tact. All the while, playing in arguably the best conference in college basketball history. Losing 10 games has pretty much knocked him out of COY consideration. However, IMO, there's probably only a handful of coaches who could have done the same thing.
 
Most teams would have folded, losing 3 starters for an extended period and a key backup for most of the season. Somehow, Pope was able to manage the lineup and keep the possibility of a post season run in tact. All the while, playing in arguably the best conference in college basketball history. Losing 10 games has pretty much knocked him out of COY consideration. However, IMO, there's probably only a handful of coaches who could have done the same thing.
Right now, even though Carr and Butler aren’t 100%, they’re battling and playing with heart. So at this point Krissa and Robinson are our losses going into the post season. Chandler has picked up his game the last few to almost offset the Krissa loss and actually the combo of Chandler, Noah, Perry and Almonor have helped offset the loss of Robinson by their combined play and more experience. Hope todays win gets us away from having to face Auburn on Friday in the SEC.
 
A lot of people having to backpedal and, frankly, given the roster situation they had no reason to be down on Pope to start with. Absolute blast of a win and blast of a year
He starts getting top 5 guys and mixing them with portal guys and he will be really cooking. He is really cooking now but do that and he really really cooking
 
For what all Coach Pope and this team has been through in just his first season here, he deserves the freakin National Coach of the year award!!!

Coach Pope is the real deal! Just wait until he has more than 6 weeks to build a team!!!
My biggest fear is not players, it is the staff. Pope also put together a really good staff. Elite recruiter and bench guys.
Other teams are gonna come hard at our staff and try to hire them away.
 
My biggest fear is not players, it is the staff. Pope also put together a really good staff. Elite recruiter and bench guys.
Other teams are gonna come hard at our staff and try to hire them away.
I believe Fox and brooks stay but Hart is the one I’m concerned about. Highly thought of. A mid major or nba could come calling
 
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