Intentionally it was a bad reaction. BBN is on board now. I don’t why people who aren’t Kentucky fans or understand Kentucky, talk about Kentucky.

You guys don't have a clue do you?

Wondering if you guys have seen the outpouring of support from the fans online? Did you see the 20,000+ fans at the press conference on Sunday at Rupp Arena? Mark Pope understands Kentucky basketball, he lived it. He understands the assignment and Big Blue Nation is on board with this hire. No miracle expectations for next season, I assure you. You guys are way off on this. Stay tuned. You'll see.

No ….we fans are not pissed We are HAPPY 😻💙😻💙😻

Love it he’d Coach Kentucky for free! Didn’t have to buy a Coach!!! Think he’ll do fine packing largest fan base & deep pockets! 56 year fan & we only ask 3 Hurley,drew Pope Barnhart we’ll never go for any baggage! 💙Go Cats

Send Kentucky lots of Caffeine, Coffee and BOOZE!

We’re not pissed at all 😂 every Cat fan I’ve talked to is happy. C’mon guys

I live and work in Kentucky, and there was a lot of excitement yesterday at the office. A few people were still "wait and see" but nobody was against the hire. This is the most excited and unified the fanbase has been in YEARS. Those with apathy toward Cal are on-board for Pope!

These guys don’t know what they are talking about 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Go Big Blue! 💙

Yall dont understand colleges "BUY" teams nowadays. %10 of all players entered the transfer portal this year, most in history. Hunter Dickinson was 850k. They go out and get 4 or 5 of those caliber 5 star portal players they will be just fine. Alabama went to the final four and only 2 decent players played on the team before. And mark pope beat kansas with a bunch of BYU nobody players.

Saving this for later

They keep talking about Nate Oats. He cam out publicly and said he wasn't leaving Alabama. The boosters made sure that he wasn't leaving. They were willing to give the funds necessary to keep him. These dudes need to do their homework.

Results matter…welcome back Mark!

Love the choice! Go Cats💙🐾💙

Kentucky fan here. Not pissed off about the hire. Nor are any of my friends of which there are many UK fans. Go BBN

Only the Calipari lovers and those who are afraid of taking risks fans are angry at the hiring of Pope as Ky.’s coach. As us older long term fans who understand that if you want a great reward, (Winning championships), you must take a great risk. And we understand what Pope has to offer is a lot more than we’ve seen from him, but he gets the tradition of Ky. Basketball better than most because he’s played here and won a championship here. He will win and it won’t take a long time for it to happen.

You underestimate the power of Mark Pope, the Kentucky fans do not. He was highly recommended by Rick Pitino, who he played for before Rick left Kentucky for the Celtics. Pope is the only Rhodes Scholar coaching in D-1 basketball. Let's face it, Pope is smart! He was the Captain of a National Championship team. He played 10 years in the pros. In a mere two weeks he has recruited an awesome group from the portal! I loved having Calipari at Kentucky, but at a time when big money controls coaching departures and hires, Mark Pope was a great replacement! Don't worry, with Pope brilliance and the "Kentucky Brand", Kentucky basketball will do just fine! Great job Mitch Barnhart!

He will be just fine

Nah I’m good with it

Looking forward for this

These guys are just trying to cause drama. They know nothing about BBN.

This looks, smells, taste, exactly what happened at UofL. Lost a hall of fame coach, then hired a x-player in Kenny Payne. Sure hope it works out a lot better.

Truth is Ky fans did not want Drew, Pearl, Oats etc. you don’t understand this was not a down the list hire . Drew and Mitch are friends but Pope was actually second choice .

Pope will get it done and get it done big! He's probably the smartest coach in CBB. He was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, 160IQ. Dropped out of Medical School at Columbia cause he got the Coaching bug. He played for/worked with/under coaches like Pitino, Donovan, Larry Bird, George Karl, Michael Malone, Mark Fox, etc. He'll use that Mensa brain, the work ethic of a journeyman NBA Big Guy enforcer, and passion for his Alma Mater to win and win big. UK raised a load of NIL $$ today cause all the boosters and fans who soured on Cal want to give Pope ever opportunity to make this work. All of the Pitino era players are united behind Mark. They absolutely love him and really sold the UK fanbase today on social media and doing TV and sport radio interviews all day. Im super excited!

Shepard and pope was roomates. Popr was captain shepard won mvp in tournament 96. Its a pride thing i promise for reed

You guys sound dumb. We’re hyped. GO BIG BLUE LET THE CASUALS SKIP TOWN LETS BUILD

Who’s pissed again!? Everyone’s on boarded💪 I think we’re gonna be just fine, and remeber this video there pals, cause KY is never going away. As much as you people want KY to die and go away , but sorry for you, we will always be winning games. We was UK before cals hire and we will always be the big bad cats playing you all that’s you all scared to play . You’ll see! Keep all the jokes coming and you’ll see who laughing last! GO BIG BLUE! 🐱🏆🏀💪

Mike Shula, Scott Frost, Kenny Payne…etc. this is not a great hire.

Pissed..I'm elated!

Oh man, the posts from Kentucky fans are hilarious. Glad I came here.

BYU fan here and Coach Pope will bring a lot of energy. This is a sleeper hire for sure. He took BYU back to the NCAA tournament.

This is an absolute joke, Kentucky fans love Pope. Nice try though, lol.

No were Not...GOOOOOOO POPEEEEEEE

I wanted Pitino... But I believe Mark Pope is gonna do amazing.

I think Coach Pope is gonna surprise alot of people. GO BIG BLUE!

This video will age like sour milk...

we was shocked but we are all in with pope. prodigal son has returned

What are you all going on about? lol. Some fans were set aback for a hot minute but by the end of the day, all was good! My stepdad and uncles were some of those fans but each one has said the more they thought about it, the happier they have gotten. My husband and I are pumped! I’m certain Pope is going to kill it! Wait and see. Mark my words! Mark Pope will do great and the most important thing right now is he knows we’re backing him 100%! All the wishy washy bandwagon Negative Nancy type fans need to hop off now. Only blue bleeders from here on out.

UK folks are eating humble pie like Bama football fans had to. Kids went to Bama not because of the Crimson A, but because of Saban. Same rule applies with UK and Cal. Outside of the money, UK is not a job established P5 guys will run to because the fans are not realistic.

The tapped out their choices. You don’t know what you’re talking about. The only guy I thought they could have tried was Chris Beard.

I am finally excited once again for UK basketball. Coach Cal ruined it for me with all these one and dones.

Pissed? Did you see rupp arena today ? 🤡🤡🤡

NIL has changed the recruiting game. If you have the money good players will come. Coach's name and maybe not even the school name will matter if they are playing to get paid.

Bro why are you yelling 😂

This show is an example of immature ch'ren trying to comment on things that they have no clue about. Ky. will never be back? MOW-RON! ROLL TIDE, boys.

A dose of reality is a hard pill to swallow..... and yall laughed at me bc you weren't willing to admit it... so I'll say it again......Kentucky has the "Name" but Kentucky isn't where college basketball is happening these days... which is funny, bc that's the very reason you wanted Cal gone...(bc it wasn't or isnt happening at Kentucky)......getting a 2nd tier coach and one who played his entire college career there may be the Very thing Kentucky needs to getting back to Kentucky basketball and not the glitter and glamour....instant gratification is a beautiful thing unless you didn't realize just how far Kentucky basketball has fallen, and you expected it to be turned around in one game one season ..the Bamas the Auburns and the Tennessee's are constantly at the top of the league...years ago, there might have been 1team that stole the SEC Title away from Kentucky... and that's the point, it's not just one team anymore it's 3 or 4 teams that Kentucky is now chasing... that's how far Kentucky basketball has fallen... Kentucky fans should be asking Mitch why he didn't have a contingency plan in place just in case Cal walked....personally I think he dropped the ball... and he thought the name Kentucky alone would get the best coach possible.......swallow gently

We aren’t pissed off lol idk why the media keeps pushing that narrative.

Agreed!

What do you all expect Mitch to do, transfer portal is Monday you don't have a team for next year.

40 year fan here, Big honer to land Mark Pope we will support him and love him! The other hard core fans will come along especially if he recruits the right players and win win win. the more time passes the better I feel about hiring Pope maybe even over Scott Drew! Give me the underdog all day long, that's who we was back in the day with the unforgettables and the comeback cats. those years was special and I believe Pope brings some of that magic back to UK! I think we are lucky to land a coach like Mark Pope!

Can't win with 5 starting freshman. He'll go out and get 4 or 5 five star junior/senior transfer portal players and pay them 850k a year along with trying to keep a couple guys from last year and a couple freshman recruits. UK recieved 4 Million this morning for NIL from only 2 doners. It will be about UK again and not an ego trip about 1st round picks and Allstars. Give him time to recruit and develop his players these teams will actually be progressing better through the year and more players come back and get better from the year before. I say he gets some solid transfer portal guys and a couple guys from last year come back and a recruit or two Kentuckys NIL is about to be INSANELY HIGH. Dodging a 34 million dollar buyout AND not having to pay a coach 10 million a year. For example, Alabama went to the final 4 with almost a completely new team besides like 2 or 3 guys from last year. This is the direction college basketball is going. "Buying" portal players.. They actually might be getting ahead of the curve 5 star portal junior/seniors with experience and pay him 800k each> 5 starting 18 year old kids with ZERO experience. This is the direction college basketball is going portal players will only go to teams who can afford them. Kentucky can afford them.

It remains to be seen which of three states and programs will be most haunted by the unnatural wizardry of #3 Jack Gohlke. 😆😫😳

I don't know who he is but whoever he is he needs to go back to Arkansas where coastal is at Arkansas😮

THE LIES HE'S TELLING POPE IS A HOMETOWN KY HERO 💙🏆😎 GREAT PICK FROM LEXINGTON KY

I have talked to a lot of people about the Pope hire and everyone seems very happy. That said, there will always be haters that will never be happy. I think most UK fans wanted Calipari to stay but are happy with the choice of Mark Pope. It seems that the haters are always making all the noise, but sadly, that is often all it is.

"Some" fans. Why be flaming the drama?

We are behind Pope. Just wasn't expecting it at first

Initially the fan base was disappointed, but a lot has changed the past 24 hours, we’re all in.

These guy are crazy watch and see he coulent recruit at byu he won somwhere where u cant drink coffee or have sex. Pkus shepard i heared comming back he was his dad roomate

Cal was not looking out for ky all he was interested in the NBA and that's the kind of players he recruited he didn't care about championships or Final 4S NO DEVELOPMENT FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS AND I WAS A CAL FAN AT FIRST BUT GOT OLD FAST GOTTA GET BEHIND COACH POPE THINK HE WILL BE GOOD SURE CAN'T BE NO WORSE LEAST WE WILL LOSE WITH PLAYERS THAT WANT TO PLAY HERE AND THEY WILL HAVE TO PLAY WITH HEART OR THEY WON'T PLAY IT WON'T BE AL ABOUT THE NBA

Not sure which Kentucky fans these guys are listening to as I've been one since way back in the day--and I like this decision.

Y'all are way overreacting.

They arent wrong that people are mad but people are quickly turning around on it. Mitch won ne over with his comments on ksr and Pitinos video helped too. It feels like the 90s. Pope had a huge huge recruiting disadvantage a BYU. Like recruits had to sign contracts to obtain from sex.... Cmon, how are you supposed to recruit with that... Mitch said the have 4 million in NIL monies to use on players. Did BYU have that?

WPS!

UK raised 4 million in NIL money in one day since the announcement. Apparently, the money people are behind the move.

Fire Mitch Barnhart

Wasn't your boy John Pelphrey good enough for you guys?

The Kentucky fans did this to themselves should have left Cal alone

I havent heard anyone talk like you guys do! Are you team Val! You stink!

You all are too young to know but every decade since the 70’s. They have said that Kentucky was done. It’s over, lol. You all are ignorant or doing this for click bait, lol

Us Kentucky fans are having major discussions about running Mitch axx out of town now! Kentucky fans are irate about this embarrassment

Agree totally on most everything you guys said. As a UK fan, I am 100% disappointed. KY should have been looking at Donovan, or, Pitino. Pope has little to no experience, plus, he hasn't even won an NCAA tournament game. HORRIBLE hire, I'll not be watching UK again until Pope is gone. I'll give him 3 years, he will then be fired. This will hurt the program, even more. I hope I'm wrong.

Fake news we fuckin love it

I live in Lexington....every single Kentucky fan I know is pissed and want Barnhart gone. This is a ridiculous hire and just does not "look" like the coach of Kentucky Basketball. Tall, goofy, corny dude. I'm sure he's a good dude and that's awesome for HIM..but this is the end of Kentucky being a powerhouse in the basketball world. It's over.

Panic hire by Kentucky, yes. They FAFO that things arent' like they use to be and the fans are just insufferable.

Nate was the man to get should've went hard after him.

Kentucky USED to be a big basketball job.

If I was a Kentucky fan I’d be pissed

Kentucky fans acting like there wasn't a complete meltdown online the night of the hire are hilarious. Get real. We all saw it. Ya'll schizophrenic.

Yes they are....this was nothing more then a garbage hire....

Who would want to play for Mark Pope...

Wow mitch really shot for the stars on this hire ,(in the most sarcastic tone humanly possible) pope has recruited 1 4 star in his life. We realistically may.end like louisville. That is possible. This will make billy g years look like picnic in candy land