Mark Pope to UK? That would be ... something.

If recruiting takes care of itself at a place like UK, maybe it makes sense to hire an analytics guys like Pope? Who knows.

Mark Pope? This AD is gonna end up inciting a riot or getting someone killed.

To be determined given that it absolutely did not with Tubby and Billy G. Imagine Pope with Cal's roster from this year though my god.

Well this has been quite the week...

Yeah they would've broke the 3 point record by a comfortable margin.

He boned them by waiting so long. They could have snagged Musselman at least

I'd rather have pope than musselman.

Not that I think Pope will work out, I don't, but he is a "Kentucky Man," and I don't think the hire will be greeted with great hostility. Definitely a "give him a chance" attitude.

Side point: has there ever been a center who became a great/successful coach? Who are they and how many? Seems point guards galore make the great coaches. Here are some guards who became successful coaches: Wooden, Coach K, Calipari, Pitino, Dean Smith, Bill Self, Adolph Rupp, Tom Izzo, Roy Wiliams, Jim Boeheim, Denny Crum, Huggins, Hurley, Calhoun, Tarkanian, Jason Kidd ...

That's a mega sick partial list. Virtually all the greats in college. Knight was a forward, I think. Phil Jackson a forward/ center. Bill Russell as a player coach his last couple years of course, then fail as coach after that.

Might have been a rushed panic hire.

Wow. Bobby Knight played in three NCAA final games in his three years of play.

I dig it.

My

moment is the donors are apparently all in



The knock on Pope was his recruiting. Which I get. But he was recruiting to BYU, without 4 million behind him.

Also as a side story. I attended a UK women's volleyball game with my dad in 96. He noticed Mark Pope a few rows ahead and talked me into asking for his signature. Dude couldn't have been nicer. I so hope he succeeds.

Yeah imagine how much better his recruiting will be when his players don't have to take a pledge of abstinence

I'm a bit skeptical about Sheppard being a super elite 3-point marksman in the NBA for some reason. It just kind of seemed he was on a super heater this year. Had he stayed he could have developed into possibly the all-time UK icon, leading scorer, multi-millionaire on Big Man on Campus, etc. We'll see.

Xavier is doing major work in the portal, working on returning two of their best players for one more year, and get a great big back next season off a season ending injury. Going to be a top 10, if not top 5, preseason team. DK has them at 100/1 right now and hasn't caught up. Might be worth tossing a few dollars on and forgetting about.

As far as I can tell the big problem is the 2024 draft class is extremely weak. I do think if the 2024 class was stronger he might have stayed.

Sounds like Seth Trimble back to UNC

Source?

I see some random posts in the last few hours when I search on X but nothing from anyone I consider reliable.

sorry heels

That's a good one (but not two).

Harrison Ingram is going pro. I kind of figured with all of the wing/SG recruiting that Hubert was doing that he was probably gone. He will be missed.

RJ needs to go ahead and go as well. Time to start fresh with every single player being 100% on Hubert. Our recruits are supposed to be legit. Rebounding is where we seem really soft at the moment.