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IUc2016    7,121

IUc2016
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33 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

We're ranked in the Top 16. LOL.

According to College Basketball Report, how the coaches rate in the new-look B1G. 

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No way there are four coaches below Kevin Willard. 
 

not a chance 

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IH8PU    220

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I've never liked UK and never will. I liked Pitino though and I was interested in his 1996 team because of Mark Pope. I attended UW games while living in the Seattle area and Mark Pope was a Freshman then. He transferred to the UK the following year, so that is the connection. I don't know him but only watched him play.

Well like I have for Matthew Graves at ISU, Dusty May at Michigan ... I was curious today so I wandered over to YouTube to find the UK press conference. Only UK could pull something like that off. Their intro was amazing. Their area was full. It lasted almost an hour and a half because Mark liked to tell stories.

It was a much different press conference than any I have seen for college basketball or college football. It will be interesting to see what changes he brings to UK because watching that you would have forgot that Calipari was ever at UK ... seriously.

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lillurk    4,146

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On 4/12/2024 at 4:22 PM, Demo said:

The Pope thing is a problem for me, too. I really like the guy and I'd like to see him do well to stick his finger in the collective eye of that entitled-a$$ fanbase. And yet, I don't want them happy in any way for any reason. Coining this the pUKe Paradox.

A lot of us have this with Painter, too, I believe.

To me, yes, best case scenario in balancing those two feelings is 1) we win head-to-head, 2) ideally we’re better year-to-year (if not always, then at least much more often then post-2016), 3) they hilariously slip on a banana peel sometimes and 4) they don’t get titles.

Unlike Painter, Pope probably can’t last forever at UK with a resume that has those blemishes.

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LamarCheeks    20,484

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59 minutes ago, IH8PU said:

I've never liked UK and never will. I liked Pitino though and I was interested in his 1996 team because of Mark Pope. I attended UW games while living in the Seattle area and Mark Pope was a Freshman then. He transferred to the UK the following year, so that is the connection. I don't know him but only watched him play.

Well like I have for Matthew Graves at ISU, Dusty May at Michigan ... I was curious today so I wandered over to YouTube to find the UK press conference. Only UK could pull something like that off. Their intro was amazing. Their area was full. It lasted almost an hour and a half because Mark liked to tell stories.

It was a much different press conference than any I have seen for college basketball or college football. It will be interesting to see what changes he brings to UK because watching that you would have forgot that Calipari was ever at UK ... seriously.

It's sorta hard to not like Mark Pope, though it's still easy to detest UK! 

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Demo    21,250

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17 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

@Demo

https://x.com/sunsetamir/status/1780305540825890839?s=46

he is awesome 

He is a Guy. Love him. There’s video of a presser from when Kennesaw St made the tournament of the guy choking up talking about everything his kids had done to resurrect that program and, hell, I would have run through a wall for him. Some smart power conference AD is gonna hook that guy up and not have to worry about it again for 25 years.

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LamarCheeks    20,484

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Ranking coaches in the new-look ACC.

Not a lot of recency bias here. A Final Four and an Elite Eight coach are in the middie of the pack. 

I was once a big Tony Bennett fan, but have cooled on him a bit. That 2019 team was a ton of fun to watch, but he hasn't done much since. Seems as if I've read he doesn't get a whole lot of NIL funds to play with in Charlottesville, so I'm sure that doesn't help.  

Not sure I'd have Smith and Kelsey quite that high. 



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