Good afternoon, my brothers and sisters in Big Blue Nation. I come to you this Friday afternoon with a message some of you need to read, many for a second time. It’s word-for-word the same message I wrote last April : Take a deep breath .
We had this conversation last April when panic swept BBN . Remember? Mark Pope missed out on early targets in the transfer portal, drawing criticism from many Kentucky fans for being unable to get it done. Pope was new to the job, living in an apartment and working around the clock with a new staff, having never coached at Kentucky. Still, the most impatient of the Kentucky fan base demanded immediate commitments, relying only on transfer portal rankings to fuel the overreactions, without any idea of how Pope was operating behind the scenes.
Here, I’ll even copy and paste my advice from April 26, 2024. We’re three weeks shy of the first anniversary…