[Old School Hound]

Yeah, either Valentine is a decent coach, or everybody else in the 13th is horrible.

Well he’s won several regional titles, and more than Davis.  Guess he’s doing something right.  Won’t change my mind that Valentine and Messer are two d heads

Not to many nice guys end up as great coaches just saying

Are you saying the odds are against Coach Pope being great?  I do think that most great coaches are narcissists, at the very least.

I’m not a Uk fan but the jury is still out on the pope debate, he lost some very questionable games at times. It was his first season but in the transfer portal era you can have some good teams in your first season. I see pope as a guy thar will do enough to keep uk fans hopeful in March but never getting it done

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Valentine is John Calapari at a HS level. He wins cause he had the most talent and it wasn’t close but could never pull it off when it mattered at Rupp. This year he changed the narrative and won with less. Kudos.

I’m going to have to disagree with this statement. Since he won everyone says he was the best players all season no said he has the best players, Corbin south and Harlan was all 3 of pretty much equal talent then north, bell co as well just not a good game plan against south, valentine out coached coach P really bad then done the same to jones and Davis

I thought Coach P had a tough year. Maybe needs some time away from the game. Has he gotten fat and lazy , like Cal??? Not saying he has, just asking.