Pope to UK?

[//r00t4Utes]

Just saw this alert on my phone

ESPN Link

[//r00t4Utes]

I really wouldn’t care, except I wonder what trickle trickle effects (good or bad) it could have on the Utes.

[Yergensen]

They’re coming for Burgess. Will he let down millions of Mormons a second time?

[Utah]

I’d say fire Smith and hire Burgess as the HC.

[NarfUte]

Come home Colin Chandler

More likely that they steal Burgess since their pool is so small

[Ute Dub]

Go to Twitter and type in Kentucky and just keep scrolling at the meltdown of Kentucky fan.

[chinngiskhaan]

TSPP in full on meltdown mode… Its glorious!

[NarfUte]

TSPP and THEM fans are melting down – how could we be so lucky?

[chinngiskhaan]

Ha! Good point. Fun day to be a Ute.

[The Miami Ute]

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.

[UtesRule]

What has he really done at TDS Provo Campus that would make me as a THEM fan be excited about that hire????

[krindor]

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)

[RustyShackleford]

Losing Burgess would be very bad for us.

[belli1976]

Perhaps TSPP will try to get Mark Madsen. But pulling him from Cal may be tough.

[MDUte]

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

[highlandute7]

Mad Dog has already stated he is staying at Cal. I think Burgess will be the pick, which doesn’t help us.

[Central Coast Ute]

Madsen said he isn’t going anywhere. Seems like the TDS has their sights on Burgess