I don’t know how he could been doubted. Highly recruited high schooler, played

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May 21, 2020
11:05:59am

PortlandBlue All-American

I don’t know how he could been doubted. Highly recruited high schooler, played

at UW and Kentucky, won a national championship, years in NBA. 2 years into med school, successful and popular as a Rose asst, success at UVU. He was the obvious and only real choice. We are so fortunate that he believes in BYU and its mission. We are also fortunate that he brought along devoted, energetic staff

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Mark Pope putting in some work

Saxa

5/21/20 10:58am

Now don't you feel better? BTW, you have some feathers stuck between your teeth.

CougarThug

5/21/20 11:01am

Pope preaches and practices being 'relentless'. I love that idea.

BlackBart

5/21/20 11:05am

I don’t know how he could been doubted. Highly recruited high schooler, played

5/21/20 11:05am

His staff is one aspect that isn't discussed enough. You can tell each assistant

BlackBart

5/21/20 11:08am

This is spot on. Compare this staff's collective resume to the previous staff.

JJCoug

5/21/20 11:11am

Pope is going to lose some assistants here soon. Good sign. Rose's recent

mudpupper

5/21/20 11:22am

And that is what you want. You want a coach who is populating

Archaea

5/21/20 11:34am

I doubted him because when he was at BYU I felt like our big guys never progressed and we recruited guys that just

5/21/20 11:21am

My lone doubt was his commitment to defense. At UVU, he seemed more like a run

BYUheaven

5/21/20 12:23pm

Agreed...hard to see how anyone could not have considered him a great hire right

BlooCoog

5/21/20 6:27pm

He might be Tom Holmoe's best hire.... EVER.

DazeofBlue

5/21/20 11:07am

Agreed, but Volleyball, baseball and other hires are really excellent coaches.

5/21/20 1:41pm

Watching Pope makes me dislike Kalani more and more.

mudpupper

5/21/20 11:08am

I didn't want to raise this point and I don't dislike Kalani at all

BlackBart

5/21/20 11:10am

Yep, it will be interesting how things shake out, but the Pope hire

Shinshin

5/21/20 11:13am

If Holmoe isn't happy why the extension?

mudpupper

5/21/20 11:21am

Time?

Shinshin

5/21/20 9:36pm

The problem is, Holmoe just extended Kalani at the end of last season.

JJCoug

5/21/20 11:23am

If I had to guess, I would say that in Holmoe's mind, Kalani did just enough

Shinshin

5/21/20 9:34pm

To Kalanis credit he has beaten some good teams. It seems salvageable to me.

buckeyecougarguy

5/21/20 2:47pm

If we would have beat Teledo, South Florida, Hawaii he would be a hero.

5/21/20 8:08pm

Eating crow as well, and gladly!

5/21/20 11:21am

Not me - A highly recruited basketball player with no ties to Utah told me

newbie

5/21/20 11:21am

When he was first hired on as Dave's assistant

5thNephi

5/21/20 11:35am

"managed a short-handed team early on" ...there's a little more to that

icecougar

5/21/20 12:11pm

That's great but you have some crazy insane expectations as a BYU fan.

5/21/20 12:16pm

I won’t apologize for having high expectations. I’m glad Pope exceeded them and

Saxa

5/21/20 2:00pm

I’m very impressed too but it’s been one season. Great start and potential? Yes.

Traveshamockery

5/21/20 4:27pm

True to my boardname, I'm also here to eat crow

Croweater

5/21/20 9:11pm

Happily, I can say that i was sold on Mark Pope

BlueFever

5/22/20 7:21am

Can we get a timeline on Pope?

Zoobieman

5/22/20 7:52am

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