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Braylon Butcher 2029 OF, Music City Saints, with this leadoff single. Loud contact with direct bat path to spark a good inning for the saints. #PBTKYOpen||@PrepbaseballKY

@JStreble82 Not sure about that but good get.

Pope saved the best for the end. That takes away a lot of bad feelings from the offseason.

@Ripamaru @KyleTuckerCBB 100 was and average coach average dont work here.

@KyleTuckerCBB Look at their resumes when hired and then compare them to Pope's. Look at how they elevated their previous programs. Pope basically treaded water at his previous stops. It wasn't hard to see in foresight.

Dusty May: took over 8-24 Michigan, won 27 games Year 1, national title Year 2 Todd Golden: 24 wins Year 2, national title Year 3 at Florida Ben McCollum: Elite Eight Year 1 at Iowa, which hadn’t won’t a tournament game in four years New era. Built fast.

@jtgraves02 @KySportsRadio Smh think what u want.

@KySportsRadio He’d assembling a solid roster. Only haters and low iq ball knowers think differently. Every year we have had a squad. Every year we have had talent. Injuries made our roster look different. This whole narrative pope can’t get talent is fabricated by people with an agenda.

Marcio Santos, who Pope is going to see today

@wildcat_walker @MrPrice121 @KySportsRadio Dude why stay no backing from AD or Boosters largely because of his political beliefs.

@MrPrice121 @KySportsRadio He quit dude. Left on his own accord. Showed up to a press conference pretending to stay. Not sure how that is getting ran off but whatever you say

I think there is a chance that at some point in the near future, there will be a push within UK to force Mark Pope to hire a GM, whether he wants one or not

@Marxism4D @MrPrice121 @KySportsRadio And Pope is neither.

@MrPrice121 @KySportsRadio Cal took another job because he burned all his bridges here and couldn’t get out of the first round of the NCAA tournament. Takes more than being a great recruiter to be a great coach

@foxjason617 @PolacheckKSR @JackPilgrimKSR @KSRonX What he said. Lol

@PolacheckKSR @JackPilgrimKSR @KSRonX I had to look him up. That guy won't be pushed around & looks good!

NEW: Kentucky head coach Mark Pope is flying to Israel on Wednesday to meet with Maccabi Tel Aviv center Márcio Santos, sources tell KSR. on3.com/teams/kentucky…

@courtofabney @natedell99 @KyleTuckerCBB That's because 90 percent of the team is Mormons.

@natedell99 @KyleTuckerCBB People in the media are afraid to talk about it because they're terrified someone will call them a phobe, but Mormonism is fucking weird.

From October. Got zero. And the reality is at least a couple of them would’ve said yes if you just bowed out of the Stokes sweepstakes. It’s not a huge secret that playing with him is not for everyone. There seems to be a lack of awareness that’s alarming.

@nathanielcheeks @KyleTuckerCBB Well Cal had no backing from AD or Boosters period.

@KyleTuckerCBB I think a big part of my frustration is there are multiple people to be mad at Cal for getting lazy and letting it the program go Mitch for giving a job to someone not qualified for it Pope for not making some basic changes to help where he falls short

@1DavidReynolds @ArkRecuriting94 Lol at least he can brag about 1 thing our coach can brag about either.

@ArkRecuriting94 No no no. He can certainly recruit. He just loses in March. But don’t worry, he’ll dominate June and brag about it.

I thought Cal couldn’t recruit without the Kentucky Brand?

@TaninSmithKK Smh know matter how u look at it Cal Memphis class were as good as his at Kentucky period.

This conversation will never die man like can we stop with this? Calipari’s brand was not bigger than Kentucky until he got to Kentucky. UK 100% enhanced Calipari’s brand. There’s no debating that. Then, he used Kentucky to sell recruits on preparing for the league Coach Cal is a career underachiever, but he can get elite players to commit to him because he tells them to their face that he only cares about getting them to the league and making their dreams come true. It’s made him the greatest recruiter of all time, but if Anthony Davis wasn’t the best player in CBB history, he would have ZERO championships in his career. He actively insinuated that he didn’t care about winning and wanted to get kids to the NBA. He was the only coach willing to openly admit that, so players loved him and viewed him as the coach they wanna play for. These highly rated recruits care more about getting to the league than winning in college, so that sells Kentucky benefitted from Calipari, and Calipari benefitted from Kentucky. This conversation about what the “brand” was is just so dumb. Kentucky is objectively the biggest brand in college basketball as far as specific programs go. Duke is the only other program in the conversation.

@LLcoolAvery @BBakerHogs Well I not sure but I know Pope has had and is having a hard time recruiting.

@BBakerHogs Wow, this screams damage control on both Cal and Arkansas's part! Knowing they will never be the UK brand so they have a recruit record this scripted message. Sad days for Cal!!

“I grew up a fan of Kentucky…but my dream offer is from Arkansas with Cal.” Cal is The Brand. #WPS

@LegacyBlue_UK @CoachMarkPope U are just as bad as the fans u complain about thinking that everything is ok.

Fickle "Fans" on here hating on @CoachMarkPope and he's just putting the pieces together while y'all look like bitches. Shhhhhhh.

@LiveBlue06 @c3h8HankHill Because he is and average coach.

@c3h8HankHill Then we get a new coach, we all know the stakes this year. Why wouldn’t you just cheer on the coach and kids until it’s obvious it’s over?? What does bashing the players and the coach get you besides heart burn?

If Kentucky is good next year in basketball there are a lot of folks (if I even see their BS anymore) that will look so dumb and then they will play dumb about the stuff they said!! #BBN #GoCats 🔵⚪️🏀

@GetMoTheCloser @caloneofone @NewBBNMemes Well he better then what we have now.

@caloneofone @NewBBNMemes Yep. That’s a used car salesman. Dude is hands down the worst coach in the country. He’s just good at talking. That’s it. Imagine 15 seasons with rosters full of NBA talent well before NIL, and only have one title to show for it. 😂

This image is why I want Mark Pope to succeed and succeed big He is the best character coach we may have ever had. I hope he is able to figure out how to fix the program and bring us back to glory. It would be such a good story and he deserves it after all the criticism he’s gotten, especially from me

@KYMillennial @newyorkgrooovee His center he took a chance on that's his fault period.

@newyorkgrooovee Sure. But there are no valid excuses for year 3. Shit or get off the pot.

Unpopular Opinion: Mark Pope is receiving an unfair level of criticism & a majority of Kentucky’s issues have nothing to do with Pope. In year 1 his entire backcourt dealt with injuries. Despite that he still beat 8 top-15 teams & made the Sweet 16. In Year 2 he lost his starting center & starting point guard to season ending injuries. Still, Pope went 7-3 in games decided by 2 possessions or fewer & beat 5 top-25 teams. The only fair criticism should be his inability to land premier players in the portal this offseason. However, there is a different standard & expectation at Kentucky that Pope has yet to meet. I still would give him 2 more years & if he falls short of a Final Four then it’s fair to move on.

@__NotKG That's all fine and I think u can't but u have to have a stud to go with these guys.

It’s not crazy to think some of these lower ranked dudes turn out to be gems. Especially with a change of scenery. Doesn’t look as sexy from a narrative standpoint, but i’m not sure what other choice we have.

@TimFranklin3521 @DaltonJJones19 100 percent most guys would take less money to play for Cal.

@DaltonJJones19 I mean my argument has always been that I doubt Cal spends 22 million dollars on role players. And the administration never gave Cal the financial support they did Pope

Oh yes, the non nba guys here are doing so much better!!!!!

@MarkyMarkPope @Jimmertown @Big_BlueNation_ Smh he has missed and missed and missed period he is and average coach and a below average recruiter and this is not based on Freeman is base on the last 2yrs.

@UofKFAN2 @Jimmertown @Big_BlueNation_ I mean, coaches all over the country miss on players brother. If it makes you feel better Oats missed on Wilkins. Also important to note that not every player we contact or every player some random says we should get is a miss.

The biggest problem is how UK is now viewed by players, media, coaches, agents, etc That won’t change as long as Mark Pope is here and to me that’s the biggest issue

@MarkyMarkPope @Jimmertown @Big_BlueNation_ U can take any angle u want how many kids has he missed on.

@UofKFAN2 @Jimmertown @Big_BlueNation_ So having the kid himself say he wanted to play here before his agent found more money is Pope not relating? Is that really the angle you’re going for here?