Mark Pope's Ass Is Firmly On The Hot Seat After Leading The Biggest Failure Of A Season Kentucky Basketball Has Seen In Decades

Embarrassing. Pathetic. Only way this team should be remembered, only way this year should be remembered. I don't care that Quaintance and Lowe were out for basically the whole year. It was bad roster construction. You don't pay roughly 4 million dollars for a guy coming off an ACL tear. You don't build a roster that can't shoot when your offense is predicated on having a shooting 4 man. 

The bigger thing is every single thing Mark Pope built last year is dead. All the ranked wins, all the fun, all the exciting offense that was new and refreshing. Yeah, that's gone to shit. This is a new era. There's money that everyone can spend and we have unlimited money. You don't fuck up a roster, go down double digits in every big game and get embarrassed in the NCAA Tournament. Don't get me wrong it's not like you lost to Oakland or St. Peter's, but this team sucked. This was my least favorite team maybe ever for Kentucky. It's up there with the second Oscar year and all of the time I was in college with Gillispie and last two years of Tubby. Don't even say the COVID year when they won 9 games. If you say COVID it doesn't count. 

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You can't miss out on stars and then build a roster that sucks. You can't have a team that rolls over and dies. You for sure can't have a team that blows a 7-point lead in 90 seconds. That's what happened today. Up 7 with 90 seconds to go in the first half and Malachi Moreno fumbles a rebound for a 3. You don't even get a shot off in 90 seconds and go down 1 at halftime. It's happened far too much.

Next year is the deciding year. You either prove it or you're fired. You say you love this university, time to prove it. Win or leave. Don't even let us pay you if you stink next year. Mark Pope's ass is firmly on the hot seat and this was the worst season I can remember in a long, long time.