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Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-22T20:22:41-06:00

Pope lost his assistant to a lateral move and two returning starters. All is not well with Pope.

My current impression of Pope is that he’s a great, optimistic raw-raw guy, but not an X’s and O’s guy. The revolving door of talent, stagnant offense, and losses to poor teams indicates such.

Kolby Lee is a great example. First year under Pope, Lee is singing Pope’s praises and even has Pope at his wedding. Pope runs off and gets all googly-eyed for Haarms (extremely overrated) and Harward, leaving Lee, the guy that held the fort down at center for half a season till Childs returned, at the end of the bench. Haarms could do nothing against the Zags (too soft) but Lee hung 10+ on them. For a guy that supposedly love stats, Pope forgot the biggest one and left Lee out to dry. Lee leaves because…well…the coach that praised him and trusted him before ditched him. We sure could of used Lee this last season.

We would of gone dancing if we had Lee regardless of the Baxter and Harward injuries. Lohner could of played in position with Fous at the 4.

Pope is too fascinated with the shiny and new.

I agree. Pope should have worked hard to keep Lee. We'd have won more games and at least won the first NIT game.

Statistics: Posted by nuk13 — Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:22 pm

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-18T14:41:06-06:00

Pope lost his assistant to a lateral move and two returning starters. All is not well with Pope.

My current impression of Pope is that he’s a great, optimistic raw-raw guy, but not an X’s and O’s guy. The revolving door of talent, stagnant offense, and losses to poor teams indicates such.

Kolby Lee is a great example. First year under Pope, Lee is singing Pope’s praises and even has Pope at his wedding. Pope runs off and gets all googly-eyed for Haarms (extremely overrated) and Harward, leaving Lee, the guy that held the fort down at center for half a season till Childs returned, at the end of the bench. Haarms could do nothing against the Zags (too soft) but Lee hung 10+ on them. For a guy that supposedly love stats, Pope forgot the biggest one and left Lee out to dry. Lee leaves because…well…the coach that praised him and trusted him before ditched him. We sure could of used Lee this last season.

We would of gone dancing if we had Lee regardless of the Baxter and Harward injuries. Lohner could of played in position with Fous at the 4.

Pope is too fascinated with the shiny and new.

Statistics: Posted by Gunk — Mon Apr 18, 2022 2:41 pm

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-18T10:05:49-06:00

The media tweets have started. I guess my source was right.

Statistics: Posted by jadesroom — Mon Apr 18, 2022 10:05 am

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-17T18:30:21-06:00

I've heard that Lohner is now going to leave. The source is someone more Credible than Cougarboard

Statistics: Posted by jadesroom — Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:30 pm

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-15T19:03:36-06:00

Barret Peery or Eric Daniels are the most logical choices.

Madsen would be a super hire; but as mentioned, he's already a head coach.

Statistics: Posted by jadesroom — Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:03 pm

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-14T22:34:35-06:00

Dave Rice is available. Maybe he will come back I don't expect Madsen to take a step down.

Statistics: Posted by scott715 — Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:34 pm

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-14T09:21:49-06:00

Burgess is off to Utah. I hate to see him go.

Good riddance. He's never been a BYU guy - he used BYU to get to a better coaching job. I'm happy that he's gone

Statistics: Posted by ABYUFAN — Thu Apr 14, 2022 9:21 am

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-14T08:17:03-06:00

If Burgess leaves, I hope we get an assistant that can coach guards.

As others have said, we miss the tourney next year and Pope will start feeling the pressure. He’ll get a bi his first season in the Big 12. After that, if we aren’t dancing I suspect we’ll see a change. Course, one good season in the Big 12 and Pope likely moves to a bigger school.

I am skeptical of Pope and the next season. I’m not a fan of these patch work teams.

Agree. We gotta get someone who can coach guards. We know Pope can coach the bigs. I know Burgess has ties to the U, but he left for the same position he had here. Maybe he got more money. Hopefully the new coach here can infuse some new ideas because things really got stale midway through this season.

Statistics: Posted by byufan4ever — Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:17 am

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-13T21:16:36-06:00

Burgess is off to Utah. I hate to see him go.

Statistics: Posted by scott715 — Wed Apr 13, 2022 9:16 pm

Re: Unpopular Opinion

2022-04-13T00:33:48-06:00

If Burgess leaves, I hope we get an assistant that can coach guards.

As others have said, we miss the tourney next year and Pope will start feeling the pressure. He’ll get a bi his first season in the Big 12. After that, if we aren’t dancing I suspect we’ll see a change. Course, one good season in the Big 12 and Pope likely moves to a bigger school.

I am skeptical of Pope and the next season. I’m not a fan of these patch work teams.

Statistics: Posted by GAKunkel — Wed Apr 13, 2022 12:33 am