Mark Pope to be hired as the next coach of the Kentucky Wildcats
Mitch Barnhart and the Kentucky Wildcats allegedly hire BYU’s Mark Pope, is this the right hire for the folks in Lexington? Gary Parrish and David Cobb discuss.
00:00 – Start
00:55 – Mark Pope is the next coach at Kentucky
02:41 – The Pope hire is also underwhelming
16:45 – How much does money play a factor now in big program jobs?
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32 Comments
Absolute embarrassment, grfoh mitch barnhart
Please u all, stfu.with this…..looka t the other coaches just in the sec…killers…pope has 1….ONE…top 100 recruit in his career….we're going to struggle to win 15 games a year….
Absolutely love this hire! 👏👏👏
WHO…..😂😅. HAHAHA. Take the money and run in 5 years if you make it that long.
Obviously you all dont know mitch barnhart….hes absolutely inept at his job, and has no.balls whatsoever, and panicked….AGAIN….this.will go down in flames in about 350 days and hell finally bw.out the door too
Great hire!
Go Cats!!
Mike pratt was the reason we.got john calipari….mitch barnharts "legacy"is.joker phillips and billy.gillespie
The people that are still getting off on the recruiting season championships thinking that that matters are miserable right now. One quick question how many 5 star recruits started in the National Championship Game??
Howie mandell does basketball now?
Im glad I turned off all the devices and collected my thoughts when i heard the news. But after punching the heavy bag, taking a shower, taking a nap, reading Seth Davis's tweets, Reeding Rex's tweets, reading Oscar Combs tweets, watching that video going viral on youtube about Pope's offensive system…I see the vision and Im cautiously ready to get behind this hire.
I grew up during the Pitino era. I was a punk ass 19 year old in 1996 idolizing that team which Mark was co caption and a big part of. He's literally a genius Rhodes Scholar with a 160 IQ who finished medical school while playing in the NBA. So let's let this Mensa brained, with the work ethic and toughness of an NBA journeyman enforcer, and a burning passion for Kentucky Basketball do his thing! Super smart people with incredible work ethics tend to figure things out and succeed. And the thought of one of players I grew up idolizing leading our program and succeeding give me chills. I hope it happens and wish him the absolute best!!!!!
It's Popin' Time!
Where is Norlander!!!
Why go with a retread? Why take a coach who has been out of CB for a decade.
If u a think.boostwrs and donoes arw ponying up for NIL for thos.joke youre.out of.your mind
WOW! This is embarrassing!! Looks like Kentucky is gonna be an average basketball team till they run Pope off in 4 to 5 years. What a joke.
So you're saying we're gonna have to outbid everyone for playwrs because we have a completely lame, completely unqualified coach who nobody will want to play for otherwise yeah spot on….embarrassing
What do you mean Mark is a “them?”
Pope might shock a lot of people at UK. BYU records was 23-11. UK record was 23-10 this season. The bigger difference is that UK had like 10 5 stars in the roster lol.
i’m not saying this a bad hire but this is COMPLETELY under Kentucky standards
Pope will fall on his ass… He can't recruit, he settles for 3 star player's, of course he'll be able to recriut high 3's and low 4's at Kentucky and his idea will be to Develop them because that's they way they did it back then…
14:01 Matt Jones reported this morning that 2 booster pledged $4 million to UKBB NIL cause they want to make sure Pope has every opportunity to suceed.
Love the hire hes one of our own team captain and title winner at kentucky he knows the expectations
I think the pressure just quickly shifted from Cal to Barnhart after this. With hires like Joker, Billy G, Elzy and now Pope. His success rate is maybe .500 with the BIG job hires. This is also the guy that gave Cal the lifer contract and now made Pope who was maybe not even a top 40 coach a top 10 paid coach.
Someone gotta tell Barnhart Jesus doesn't win ball games. Quit trying to hire saints and go get dudes who win balls game in the month of March. There were plenty of them out there not named Hurley or Drew…. This is the kind of hire that may and SHOULD get you fired if it doesnt work out given the other options that were out there.
Pope the Hope is true blue,he has 6m. to work with we will be ok..Go Cats
Billy D gonna be pursued by Florida
Donovan turned us down twice already. He publicly stated he was committed to the Bulls. There are also other reports that he said he wasn't interested. You don't wait a week or longer on someone who's been out of college basketball for 9 years who has a high likely hood of turning you down anyway, then handicap your new coach by giving him an even later start to building a roster.
Who?
Listen!! The majority of HoF coaches were "not accomplished " when they started at great programs (see UCLA, Duke, Connecticut,Indiana).
The not waiting on Billy. Donovan is a byproduct of Mitch being burned by him twice before. You cannot wait around for someone who has proven to say "no" to you again and again. The only caveat to that is I believe Mark Pope would still be available if you had waited for Billy Donovan.
I hope the "one and done" years are gone!
I'm a huge Purdue fan but offer Painter and make him say no. 0 chance he would take the job.
Hurley was unproven when he went to UConn so…