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Will Mark Pope Succeed at Kentucky? Analyzing College Basketball
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4/17/2024
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>> Do you think that Pope will be successful there?
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>> I think he will be successful there.
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I just don't know what success is now.
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I mean, I look at Kentucky, how quickly they became disenchanted with John Calipari.
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Remember 2020, we have no tournament.
00:26
2020, the Kentucky team wins the Southeastern Conference by three full games.
00:33
They owned, I did a piece then, they owned the last eight minutes like maybe
00:37
no college basketball team had ever dominated the last eight minutes of games.
00:42
They just absolutely because of the three guard attack,
00:45
they had locked down games at the end and
00:48
won the Southeastern Conference by three games, then no tournament.
00:52
Then they come back the following year with a freshman oriented group and
00:56
they can't work with the freshman at all in the summer or the fall.
01:00
The freshman failed as they did at Duke.
01:02
And then they get upset and all of a sudden everybody's mad.
01:06
So I just don't know how,
01:09
like if you put together a Southeastern Conference championship team,
01:13
let's say in year two.
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And then you lose in the second round because you get upset or
01:17
maybe you get a bad draw or maybe somebody gets hurt.
01:20
All of which happened to Calipari at the end.
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I don't know how Kentucky fans react to that.
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I hope that they have great patience with someone who is one of their own.
01:33
Someone who is a rising coach with a great offensive mind, but
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I can't promise that.
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>> They don't have patience there.
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Those people are crazy.
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And let me tell you something else.
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I wanna see, and no, I have nothing but respect for Pope.
01:47
I thought he had a very creative offense at BYU.
01:50
I thought he did a great job in Provo.
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I think he'll do a good job in Lexington.
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I wanna see him win a national championship and go to four final fours.
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Then we'll start judging him.
02:02
When he does those five things, then I'll say, wow,
02:06
this guy was really a great hire because that last coach, he really sucked.
02:11
The guy that won him a national championship and took him to four final
02:14
fours, and those fans there are so insane.
02:17
That going to the final four don't cut the mustard.
02:20
If you don't win at all, it's a failure.
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>> I will say this, Scott.
02:24
One of the things that I pointed out after John was on the verge of departing.
02:30
At that stage, I said basically, the guy who's coaching in the championship game
02:35
tonight or tomorrow night or whatever it was, lost to a 14 seed,
02:42
a 15 seed, and a 16 seed in consecutive years.
02:46
And then in the fourth year played for the championship.
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And there's nothing to tell me that John Calipari could not have done that
02:56
at Kentucky if he continued to be embraced by the fan base
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in the way that he was in the middle 2000s.
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I hear all the time things changed in 2015 when they lost with an undefeated team,
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and it was never the same again.
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Gosh, that's a pretty high standard, Scott.
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They didn't win with an undefeated team, therefore,
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you can't ever feel the same.
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That disappoints me because the guy is a great coach.
03:25
They weren't going to get a better coach out there because there are very few of
03:29
them, and it's not easy to convince those who are.
03:34
I mean, maybe you could say right now Dan Hurley's a better coach.
03:36
He's got two titles in the last two years.
03:38
So yeah, he's better, but he's also not leaving UConn.
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