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I listened to a Podcast with Lee Anne Pope that she had done last year...they are a unique family and I didn't realize Pope studied for LSAT MCAT and GRE while playing in the NBA as a journeyman player for 10 years and only had 1 guaranteed contract in 10 years. His story is quite appealing and when he hangs mulitple banners in Rupp, it will only get better!

Plus West normally has some tallent and he doesn't have to deal with deep football playoff runs. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Another plant by UK. Have him redshirt and take some U of L money, have surgery, then enter portal next year and come to UK!

The U of L job was in such a great place when Payne took it...they could have had their pick of top coaches. Good thing Payne and Cal pulled that off!

Cal's message got stale and his last couple of teams underachieved in March...however, the guy is a top tier Coach and recruiter. I don't know how anyone can seriously argue that. Cal also did a great job of getting stars to play team ball for the most part. Cal tried the portal with Grady, Sestina, Big O, Frederick, Reeves, Mitchell ( I may be leaving some out)...I don't think that was lost on him... But it is apparrent now that BBN was ready for a change and behind the scenes, Cal had worn thin on a lot of folks.

Quiet on this one...One of the better 12th region jobs.

Cal is a master at the puppet strings...I wouldn't at all be suprised if Wagner and Flands decision day after the presser weren't somewhat intentional to take some air out of the ball. Pope needs a recruiting win soon!

I did not, but that makes sense. I don't even remember the dynamics of that whole situation (I guess I had already checked out). I just remember that was maybe the first year of the NIL stuff and UK basktball had a collective, and he was suposedly still getting paid.

Cal allowed him to stay on the bench and use up NIL money and UK resources.

Yesterday's press confernce just shows how much BBN had become disconnected with basketball program. Kudos to Mitch for realizing exactly what UK needed at this time. Pope's success will untimately come down to how he is able to construct his roster year and year out. His ability to Coach and communicate with a team are not concerns of mine.

I hope this is true, let's get a couple of these big games back to home and home series and bolster our Home schedule.

The Kentucky Effect!! UK makes the Coach, not the other way around!

Wow, I am not sure I would have ever expected this from Pitino!! Let's GO!

This is going to be a great hire! He will give UK fans everything they have been clamoring for the past 5 years.

I am raising my hand. He out coached Self and a few others this year!