The Mark Pope experience hasn’t been kind to Kentucky fans and the second-year coach is feeling the pressure. With his team sitting at 0-2 in conference play earlier this month, the 53-year-old made a startling statement.
“There’s no time for indulging and feeling terrible,” Pope said on Jan. 9. “I spend a lot of time feeling like I’d like to curl up in bed and kill myself, but that’s actually not what we do.”
The quote is reminiscent of something another Kentucky star-turned-coach said about 15 years ago. A few days after the Razorbacks snapped a three-game losing streak with a resounding win over LSU, then-Arkansas coach John Pelphrey infamously said that “sometimes a warrior just has to lay down on the ground, just stay there for a second and have a good bleed.”…