make his wish come true. In hindsight, we should have hired a guy who just wanted to win here (Pope actually said he was that guy—but it was clearly a disingenuous remark). I don’t know if Madsen would have been more loyal or not. But I doubt he would have bailed this early.

I wish BYU would have offered Pope more money when he went looking for better employment. No, we couldn’t have matched Kentucky, but I wonder if we could have offered him three million. As has been said, he’ll have no qualms about taking a couple of our guys with him. This is going to be a very costly setback.