Pope to UK?

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- 04/11/2024 at 7:53 PM #213857
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  //r00t4Utes
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  Just saw this alert on my phone
  
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- 04/11/2024 at 7:55 PM #213858
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  //r00t4Utes
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  I really wouldn’t care, except I wonder what trickle trickle effects (good or bad) it could have on the Utes.
  - 04/11/2024 at 9:10 PM #213870
    
    Yergensen
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    They’re coming for Burgess. Will he let down millions of Mormons a second time?
    - 04/12/2024 at 12:04 AM #213880
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      Utah
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      I’d say fire Smith and hire Burgess as the HC.
- 04/11/2024 at 7:59 PM #213859
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  NarfUte
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  Come home Colin Chandler
  
  More likely that they steal Burgess since their pool is so small
- 04/11/2024 at 8:22 PM #213861
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  Ute Dub
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  Go to Twitter and type in Kentucky and just keep scrolling at the meltdown of Kentucky fan.
- 04/11/2024 at 8:23 PM #213862
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  chinngiskhaan
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  TSPP in full on meltdown mode… Its glorious!
  - 04/11/2024 at 8:35 PM #213865
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    NarfUte
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    TSPP and THEM fans are melting down – how could we be so lucky?
    - 04/11/2024 at 8:49 PM #213867
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      chinngiskhaan
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      Ha! Good point. Fun day to be a Ute.
- 04/11/2024 at 8:35 PM #213866
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  The Miami Ute
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  It’s a done deal….Pope is LDS but he did graduate from UK and had a couple of pretty good seasons for the WIldcats (team captain when the Wildcats won the NCAA championship in 96). Makes sense to me.
- 04/11/2024 at 9:07 PM #213868
  
  UtesRule
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  What has he really done at TDS Provo Campus that would make me as a THEM fan be excited about that hire????
  - 04/11/2024 at 10:33 PM #213875
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    krindor
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    This became much more likely after Scott Drew turned the job down in a pretty public way.
    
    Don’t get me wrong, Pope is a good coach, but Kentucky absolutely had their sights set higher for someone with a bigger name and more postseason success.
    
    But after publicly being turned down by Pats, Donovan, Drew and others, they needed to make a hire and couldn’t take any more damage to their status by having more big names not be interested. So they had to recalibrate, stop focusing on pizzazz and moonshots and get the safe option (who as mentioned, is also a very good coach, just not as exciting as they would have liked)
- 04/11/2024 at 9:28 PM #213871
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  RustyShackleford
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  Losing Burgess would be very bad for us.
- 04/11/2024 at 11:32 PM #213879
  
  belli1976
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  Perhaps TSPP will try to get Mark Madsen. But pulling him from Cal may be tough.
  - 04/12/2024 at 6:05 AM #213896
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    MDUte
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    It really is wild that KENTUCKY just hired a coach who has never won an NCAA Tournament game. Like, let that sink in.
    
    — Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) April 12, 2024
  - 04/12/2024 at 9:16 AM #213902
    
    highlandute7
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    Mad Dog has already stated he is staying at Cal. I think Burgess will be the pick, which doesn’t help us.
  - 04/12/2024 at 2:34 PM #213920
    
    Central Coast Ute
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    Madsen said he isn’t going anywhere. Seems like the TDS has their sights on Burgess
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