The SEC is shaping up to be a tough Conference
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There's no doubt he's trying to get back to the last weekend.
He's at a school who's never done it, but if he can, I can see that as a life-long accomplishment.
Barnes is immortal, he will coach long after you're gone.
i don't recall ever losing to Danny Hurley.
Also, if you want him to be your coach, you'll need to move the entire university of Tennessee to the Northeast, he isn't leaving there.
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fun to speculate who we'd hire. probably wouldn't be a great coach sitting at a p4 school like TJ Otzelberger, someone like Brad Brownell would could probably lure away. I'd be more sure it'd be a mid major coach like Bucky McMillan or the guy at Furman
It was a joke, Jeff. I wouldn't want Hurley, but since he is the "best &$*!# coach ever", I mentioned him. Right nw, we got Barnes and I like that.
Yeah, the formula that seems to work is finding the young mid major coach that has been beating good teams with less, a guy that uses analytics and has bigtime passion for winning. looking at Nate Oates, Dusty may and Kelsey at Louisville, those are great hires.
Heck, the guy at Vanderbilt is looking really good too.
Brad Brownell, meh, he had 1 good run, other than that, he hasn't proven anything that makes him worthy of the Tennessee job.
I'll admit, once Cal got canned, I was excited to watch the coaching search. I'm glad we have Pope, but at first, I didn't think he had the chops for this job, I was way wrong.
You still are wrong. He hasn't completed a season. It is still too early to make any judgements on Pope.
Regarding post Barnes, who knows.
LOL, yeah, that guy wants the spotlight, until he gets caught doing/saying something stupid, then he complains about being on camera all the time.
That guy is the worst type of guy to have success, he is a mess between the ears and now, he thinks he's the greatest coach ever, so he goes bonkers at the very first sign of struggle, because he thinks he has it all figured out.
He couldn’t survive in the SEC, it's a big fishbowl and the lights are too bright, he'd spin himself into the ground.
He is self inflicting wounds to himself. He comes off as a big narcissist.
LOL, what? How can I be wrong about Pope being a good coach? He’s already shown what he can do and he is driven to improve every day. That’s all you can ask for.
We've been stuck with a guy that refused to listen to anyone, had mailed it in years ago and wasn't interested in adapting to the game, so having Pope is a huge relief, no matter what he does the rest of this year.
He may never win a title, that would suck, but he understands UK and nobody is going to outwork him. To me, a coach that gives 100% heels a lot of wounds.
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