serving as an assistant?  Seems pretty limited, a year at Stanford after being promoted from director of basketball operations, a year at an NAIA school, then hooked up with Trent Johnson again at LSU as the executive assistant to the head coach (whatever that was), then director of basketball operations before becoming an assistant for one year.  He must have impressed some people because he then jumped from his one year as assistant at LSU to becoming head coach at Southern Utah.  And it looks like he's been an assistant at Seattle U for a year.  Really hard to know until we see him in action and at this point it mostly comes down to trusting in Pope's judgement and vision/plans for the program.