The comments are toxic. Its Kentucky fans vs cals fans. No respect for opinions. Pope has never won that is true. Kentucky as a state school wants cal players to love the school and not the nba and money. These guy arent wrong you guys are pushing 5 star recruits from cal class away from Kentucky. Recruiting without the nba pull is all transactional. Kids not growing up saying i dream of playing for mark pope but good luck. Go SEC.

He was their 6 or 7Th pick. No one else wanted Kentucky.

You gotta give him a chance before you judge.

You a clown,BBN WILL BE BETTER THAN EVER.WATCH

Crap content like this is what happens when you give the autistics access to the world wide web and a camera

Full stop. If you think fans or the administration push Cal out, then it just shows you know nothing about the situation in Lexington. All opinions are welcome but any opinion formed out of ignorance or lack of research is a poor one 🤷🏽

Your right I been a Kentucky fan all my life and this hire was ridiculous. Most Kentucky fans will realize you’re right pretty fast. They are just in denial. The whole world push him to take the Arkansas job.

Well, I’m a Kentucky fan. Cal has ALWAYS had the top recruiting class and won it all only once in 15 years. Not great. Why be impressed with that?

Keep that same energy.

As a Razorback fan I hope Pope blows it for sure. He doesn't have a big time resume that's true. However, winning at kentucky is probably easier than any other job in the nation. Makes me sick to say that 🤣 Pope will will do well I believe...not saying he will win a title, but at kentucky I think he will do good. All that aside...Woo Pig Sooie!!!

Dude, ya’ll have 257 followers ! 😂😂 Good luck!

As a Tennessee fan that lives in Lexington, I think it’s a solid hire. Why not take a chance. He’s gonna get players. Plus his system is good.

I respect everyone’s opinion…. But you might want to do a bit more research on things before making a show …. There more deeper things to situation to much to mention here … Cal is not an X and O guy he lost his guy in 2018 that did that for him . The way he dose things can get a stable team year after year. You can’t loose 8 or 9 guys every year and start over every year … Kentucky became a NBA training camp for 1 year… you only get to see 50 to 65 percent of players potential and no core team returning, that’s hard to do every year. There much much more on both sides of situation to discuss here .

Cal cannot coach period 3 coaches in the sec said before the season started that they wasn't worried about Cal because he's ran the same plays for the last 15 years. Pope is a great x's and o's coach.

WE BELIEVE IN POPE AN WE HAVE HIS BACK 1000%. POPE WILL WIN 🏆 #9 GOOOO CATS 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀

He right though 😂😂 ..oh boy a lot of Kentucky fan piss right now 😂😂😂

ever try to recruit at Byu

As a Kentuckian, imo Cal was not using his players in the best way or giving them the plays that would benefit their playstyles the most. The best example is having your best shooter (who arguably is shepard) not starting as well as your best driver/ball handler not starting either which was Dillingham. Who does that??? Don't get me wrong reeves is good but he was hit or miss at times and the rebounding when he would miss just wasn't there. You had often the most rebounds coming from Shepard (the shortest guy) at times. This tells me Shepard didn't need to be the point guard at all. He needed to be freed up for the 3 and inside shots. The point guards should have been Dillingham and DJ should have been the back up guy. Ugonna Onyenso was under used from the beginning who had standout games in 2019. Aidoo didn't get enough playtime and could have helped on defense against the Oakland 3 point shooter. Cal talked about bringing in two bigs and switching things up when they lost the SEC tourney. Then he did none of that and the only change he made was he put back in Trey Mitchel who was under preforming. Now he did do better in that game but he isn't known as a defensive player. It's not the first time Cal has made poor decisions and played his golden boys and failed to put someone in the game who would be a difference maker for the team on defense. Back in 2017 he said he "forgot" about Nick Richards after benching him for doing something wrong. Yeah sat him down towards the beginning of the 2nd half and didn't bring him back in at all. We lost that game by a bucket which was a simple jumper that could have been blocked but we didn't have a big on the floor in that moment. Kentucky hasn't had two top defenders in the NCAA since 2019. Defense wins basketball games so regardless of Mark Pope not winning with previous lower budget schools...If he is doing somewhat the opposite of what Cal was focusing on then maybe there's a chance for Kentucky to be a factor in the tournaments this year. Now I will say that the cats probably will need a couple of 7 foot + bigs to fill the roster or Kentucky may be in trouble. BTW Cal was already negotiating leaving during our tournament and didn't decide to tell us until after when he was trying to get players to go with him so he wouldn't feel as bad for job shopping during our tournament time.

Dude, you are so wrong. Look what he did at BYU! That is a tough place to win. Pope will kill it at KY, he will have way more resources. I can’t wait for you to eat your words!!!

stop running your mouth young man and wait and see what he does

Holy shit you are really bad at this

What a dummy ( I'm not a Cal fan ) shit sounds like you'd drink his bath water 😂😂😂

this aged bad in just 3 weeks lol, uk got lamont butler andrew carr and koby brea lol

Funny how they think Cal is UK. UK has been a powerhouse way before Cal was even thought of. UK is fine and will be fine! You all just hoping like hell they ain’t but that’ll never happen. GO BIG BLUE!!!!!! 🏀🐱🏆

Did you know also know that he wanted more money to stay? Toll whole story not just 1 side sir .

This video aged well. lol NOT! Pope signed the #2 portal class and will start 5 upper classmen (4 of them in the top 150) that have all won game in the tournament. Not to mention he has assembled one of the best coaching staffs in the nation. AND Pope is a significant upgrade in the X’s and O’s. Sounds like a significant upgrade to me. Question is, are you going to eat that crow? If you don’t, I can’t see how you can take yourself serious let alone anyone else.

Everybody has opinions it's like assholes but wait till next year and then you come back and say wow what was I thinkin go cats

The fans did not push Calipari out. They mostly loved him. Big money contributors to the program put the necessary pressure on Calipari's departure. John Calipari is a good man and one hell of a coach. Mark Pope is also a very good man and a fantastic coach. He will do just fine!

Never underestimate the power of Mark Pope. He was highly recommended by Rick Pitino when Rick left Kentucky for the Celtics. Pope is the only Rhodes Scholar coaching in D-1 basketball. He was the Captain of a National Championship team. 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 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!

You totally underestimate the abilities of Mark Pope. Mark Pope was the captain of the 1978 NCAA championship game. When Pitino left Kentucky he recommended Mark Pope as a replacement. Mark Pope is a Rhodes scholar and played 10 years in the pros. He is the only Rhodes scholar coaching D-1 Basketball. He did a great job at BYU, which is extremely hard to recruit players to. They have many disliked rules including early curfew, no alcohol anywhere and no Coffee on campus! In two weeks, Pope has really recruited more talent than anyone shopping in the portal. Kentucky fans are super pleased with Popes aggressive and successful recruiting. His on the floor coaching is much like Rick Pitino with an added flair. I loved the Calipari years at Kentucky, but do

These guys has no idea what they are talking about!

Two weeks later and this video already hasn't aged well.

This is the Beavis and buthead show Dude before you get on here starting on Kentucky do your research first please

Calipari wasn’t pushed out-he left. These are the most ill-informed “commentators” I’ve seen on the internet.

LOL this take will not age well. Pope will be successful for sure just put together one of the best coaching staffs out there especially recruiting wise. And can coach circles around Cal. Also killing it in the transfer portal. And Kentucky still carry's a lot of clout from the name alone whether you like it or not. Legendary coach at Marquette Al McGuire said it best like it or not Kentucky was there before you, there during you and will be there after you facts. That's been true as long as collage basketball has been relevant.

Spura should draft castle after 5...he won't be a star or a bust...but he will become a smaller version of mcdaniels from the wolves..you need a guy like that in this era...

Wemby getting too much praise...duncan won 5 titles....let's hold him to that standard

Still carry the same opinion some three weeks later? 😂

Go away!

Came back here just to say they got swept 0-4 😂

They got swept 0-4

He truly looks like an idiot today! His viewership is going to drop drastically after this video. 😊

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sorry dude you have no clue what your talking about . he can't get the 4 or 5 star's at byu like at uk . mr pope did something that coach that coach cal never done ,he beat the zag . no body force cal out ,he had left on his own ,life time contract . listen to what ricky P has to say about mark pope .

not to question the toughness of hockey players, but jumping 30in on a messed up knee probably isn’t the best thing to do if you plan to play at least a couple more years, not to mention all the other stress nba games put particularly on the knees. i think most pro bb players are not allowed to ski because of the wear that puts on their knees. also if kawhi can’t even move properly, he’s not really helping the team, quite the opposite

Greed and selfishness is not a mental issue…it’s a personality issue

He must like getting knocked out it the first round

You know crap!

The texas gear tells me not to listen to hoops talk. Win a few years in the SEC and you’ll get some experience. I heard Kieth Jackson once say they you can tell a texas anywhere, but you can’t tell a Texan anything. Kentucky fans and talking heads dealt with this stuff early on. The brand is diminished with no way out. It was time to flush the commode. We’d eat take this laughter than settle for where we were trapped. Nobody in texas has won enough of anything besides baseball to understand this. You’re simple and presumptuous in your arrogance.

Look byu is not UK you think byu gets great players I don't think so UK is the Roman empire of college basketball with pope he will build that culture again with players that will play more what's in front of the jersey and not in the back and don't forget he played for rick with that great 96 team using that same style of basketball high octane fast paced shooting offense and relentless defense witch ran teams out the gym on rout to the title give him a chance and see what happens he took byu as far as it can go remember byu is not a blue blood basketball school kentucky is