Looks like Mark Pope is the new Kentucky head coach.

[DesotoCountyDawg]

 

[8dog]

Whew boy. This is gonna go over like a sack of hammers.

 

[MaroonSadness99]

Woof

 

[Dawghouse]

 

[Dawghouse]

A Mormon named Pope, can't go wrong there

 

[The Cooterpoot]

Will beat you like a red headed step child of one of his 6 wives?

 

[PearlRiverCoDawg]

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

 

[pseudonym]

I wonder who their coach will be in three years…

 

[17itdawg]

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

We beat his @SS in 1996

 

[Dogpatrol]

KY grad played on 96 championship team

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

 

[mcdawg22]

This guy.

 

[patdog]

Damn! That hire looks like Kentucky had to pay the full buyout and didn't have any money left for the next coach. They've come a long way from names like Hurley, Pearl, Donovan, etc. to Mark freaking Pope. Wonder how many of their fans are wishing they had Calipari back.

 

[Old Fart Dawg]

I don’t think the buyout comes into play with Capillary leaving voluntarily

 

[PBDog]

W!T!F!

 

[WilCoDawg]

I don’t think the buyout comes into play with Capillary leaving voluntarily

so they say…

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Disappointing that it wasn't Jans.

 

[patdog]

Ran off a coach with 55 NCAA tournament wins to hire a coach with 0 NCAA tournament wins.

 

[preacher_dawg]

Disappointing that it wasn't Jans.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Where is @olblue? The hot tub?

LOLOL

 

[RopeDawg]

It actually is a good hire when you look at what he has done at previous stops

 

[mstateglfr]

 

[Air Raid 2.0]

Who dat ?

 

[leeinator]

Hell, I thought for sure Bullard pistol-whipped Pope in that 1996 game.

 

[tbaydog]

Kenny Payne Jr,

 

[DoomSlayer]

Kenny Payne Jr,

Completely absurd comparison.

 

[StateCollege]

Completely absurd comparison.

I assume that's more of a comment on a Kentucky school hiring a former player out of desperation.

 

[Shmuley]

Where da mormon womens at?

 

[Drebin]

so they say…

It didn't. In Cal's contract they owed him a huge buyout if he was fired, but he could leave on his own and not be owed one.

 

[knock him out john]

he ripped off his suit to reveal a KY basketball uniform underneath while on the BYU campus court. Damn!

 

[GloryDawg]

Where da mormon womens at?

My wife and daughter are at the house.*****

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Okay, I’ll be the Contrarian:

This may be the best hire Kentucky could have made after Tier 1 and likely the best available Pitino Coaching Tree candidate not named Kevin Keatts— or Rick Pitino.

 

[onewoof]

They would have hired someone with ties back to Adolph but this was the best they could do.

 

[StateCollege]

Okay, I’ll be the Contrarian:

This may be the best hire Kentucky could have made after Tier 1 and likely the best available Pitino Coaching Tree candidate not named Kevin Keatts— or Rick Pitino.

Certainly could be the case. I guess the issue is why on earth UK would have to settle for anyone below Tier 1?

 

[RocketDawg]

Was hoping they'd get Oats.

This seems like a subpar hire, on the surface.

 

[patdog]

Okay, I’ll be the Contrarian:

This may be the best hire Kentucky could have made after Tier 1 and likely the best available Pitino Coaching Tree candidate not named Kevin Keatts— or Rick Pitino.

He’d be a real good hire for Mississippi State. Not for Kentucky though. I think they got caught by surprise when Cal said bye & panicked.

 

[Perd Hapley]

Okay, I’ll be the Contrarian:

This may be the best hire Kentucky could have made after Tier 1 and likely the best available Pitino Coaching Tree candidate not named Kevin Keatts— or Rick Pitino.

Yeah I mean at the end of the day its still UK basketball. If he can coach even a little bit he’s going to have tremendous success, and it looks like he can. He is the polar opposite of a Rick Ray or Kenny Payne in terms of qualifications.