@Prestige4lyfe @Colton_Primm Yes and none of the results since 2020 are to UK’s standard, but Pope is not the only one responsible. The administration is arguably the most responsible for this.
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Spencer Howle
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@STHowle @Colton_Primm Fair take. And all he did was state facts. He didn’t say be happy, he said we are making progress. He deserves at LEAST year 3.
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To compare himself to Cal is comical. UK just took the worst NCAA tournament beating since the year Pope was born with a $22M roster. Cal didn’t have that. Cal also didn’t play Wednesday SEC Tournament games. Bragging about beating bottom of the barrel teams proves his insecurity
Matt Jones@KySportsRadio
Here is Pope’s 4 minute monologue comparing his last 2 years with Calipari’s last 4 years He clearly came with lots of numbers he wanted to share to showcase how he believes they have improved
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1 year wasn’t enough💔.. I thank God for what he has done in my life❤️. BBN , thank you for the memories, it was fun 💙. 1 out🤞🏾
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Mark Pope’s tenure hinges on whether or not this drought ends next season. Mediocrity can’t be the standard.
CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀@CBSSportsCBB
This is now Kentucky's longest Elite Eight drought EVER. Most Consecutive Elite 8s Without Kentucky 2021-26: 6 1987-91: 5 2006-09: 4 1979-82: 4 (Round began in 1951)
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@crayburn90 @MattNorlander “Wasn’t expected to win.” It was the round of 32!
When we don’t expect to get to the second weekend we are not a serious program.
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@MattNorlander 🤡🤡🤡🤡 this is an unserious take. It took a buzzer beater to survive Santa Freaking Clara. We have no recruits. If UK was a serious program, we would make a change this year. Since when do we expect to lose to Iowa State?! We are bottom-feeders of the SEC and it shows.
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Too much spent on a team that wasn't a Sweet 16 threat is an issue in that town, of course.
But: made S16 as a 3 last year. Also got Friday's all-timer juxtaposed against today's loss vs. a much better team. Wasn't expected to win. I think I'd go B overall for Pope two years in.
Eye On College Basketball Podcast@EyeOnCBBPodcast
Kentucky fans, what's Mark Pope's grade through two seasons with Big Blue?
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@KyleTuckerCBB 1) C-
2) Top 4 in SEC, 4 seed or better in NCAA, Elite 8 or better.
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Curious where Kentucky fans stand after two years of Mark Pope. Sweet 16 last season, epic first-round win and second-round blowout loss this season.
1) Grade the Pope era so far.
2) What must happen next season to feel confident?
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Otega Oweh: LEGEND
Thought BG and Mo D were huge in the 2nd half/OT too.
This is March
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@BuckReising No. UK wasn’t winning with him after 2020. Everyone involved needed a reset.
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Might be prisoner of the moment, but do Kentucky fans regret moving on from Cal?
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Worth remembering on the night Bam scored 83 points in an NBA game.
Kyle Tucker@KyleTuckerCBB
Calipari said Bam Adebayo kept a photo of the single-wide trailer he grew up in (his mom walked two miles from there to work at a supermarket) on his phone. Cal would see him in the gym late. "You still here kid? And he'd show me that picture on his phone."
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@KySportsRadio We should be doing whatever Duke is doing because that works
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Lotta words. But it doesn’t look like it’s an actual GM. Seems to be more of an analytics person
Wyatt Huff@Wildcat_wave
Mark Pope asked about the new job opening: "Somebody that can model for us, 24/7, that can do salary cap models, that could do win-share models, that could do comparison research in terms of us trying to have some just get as deep into the details of managing this spring's roster construction as we can. It's really important to have somebody that literally, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is going to be just, you know, war gaming and modeling over and over and over again."
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