This offseason, without question, has not gone well for Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats, and Big Blue Nation is frustrated. Kentucky has missed on many of its top targets in the transfer portal, and even now, the Wildcats are missing a star player. This frustration with how the offseason has gone for Kentucky has been parlayed with how good some of Kentucky’s rivals, like Louisville and Tennessee, have done.
These two programs could be top ten teams to start the season, and the Wildcats might not even be in the top 25. Knowing how much history Kentucky basketball has over the years, results like this are unacceptable for Kentucky fans, and many are starting to become frustrated.
David Cobb of CBS Sports wrote an article talking about the offseasons Kentucky’s rivals have had and how Pope’s hot seat is intensifying.
Here is what Cobb had to say about this offseason for Kentucky: “As Pope struggles to field a roster capable of competing at the highest levels of the SEC, let alone all of college basketball, Kentucky’s angst is only exacerbated by the improvement of those in its neighborhood. Perhaps Pope’s clunky offseason would be more tolerable if its rivals and neighbors weren’t tearing it up.”…