BLOWOUT: Iowa State SLAMS Kentucky In March Madness Win, BYU-Ex Mark Pope FIRED Is LIKELY Coming

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The big 12 does the big 12 grade at winning games in March Madness with our best teams.

Iowa State just did that again there in the sweet 16 you Iowa State fans like this

is real.

Touch yourself.

You're sentient.

When Iowa State is going once again to the sweet 16 under TJ Oetzelberger.

Ha.

If you hit subscribe, I get to keep my job.

This game sucked to watch for the first nine minutes.

Kentucky was steam rolling Iowa State.

They're up 20 to six at one point, nothing was falling and the continual conversation

from Spiro D.D.

It's John Rothstein, the entire crew on CBS TNT TPS, whatever we just watched it on.

The entire crew kept talking about how well.

Joshua Jefferson's out so well, the other best players out well, they yeah, okay.

Iowa State rattles off a 25 to 10 run and it goes from man, this, this Kentucky team

star studded five star guys from Chandler to O8 Aberdeen.

How good they look against an Iowa's a hapless Iowa State team, this is the best player.

This Kentucky team is a team of destiny now, man.

This Kentucky, it's a shell of what Kentucky teams should be and now the former BYU coach

Mark Pope who went to Kentucky who's been there two years is likely out like fans Kentucky

are done with with his performance.

I'll touch more on that later, but this is about Iowa State.

The Iowa State cyclones that played in essence six players.

The statement coming off of the bench, he had eight guys in total that played, but only

one bench player over 10 minutes.

Iowa State said we're rocking with our with our five, starting five, come and beat us.

Taman Lipsy, man, I, there's something about that name that gives me chills.

Like, he's just, he's one of my favorite players in college basketball and a piece of that

is longevity.

How long he's been in the big 12, how long he's been dominating at Iowa State and

how he steps into roles where, hey, if you need him to be big six foot one 200 pound

local kid, you need him to go be a hero.

He can play hero.

Oh, if you need him to take a step back because he's been the name at Iowa State.

Okay.

Here's what he's been the name at Iowa State, but this year way more people are talking

about Jefferson way more people are talking about mom chief of itch and way fewer people

are talking about Taman Lipsy on the national scale and his numbers aren't as good this

season as they were last season in a couple of key categories, but you know what's gotten

better, rebounding, assists, defense, his, his turnovers are at an all time low.

And then when you ask him to score because Joshua Jefferson's not there, he goes from scoring

three points against Tennessee State, didn't really need to play hero, needed him to facilitate,

do his job, play good defense to 26 points against Kentucky.

Oh, you know, the only shoots 31% you leave open.

That was one of the things the announcer said about his three point shooting.

Yeah, fine.

Go leave him open.

That's fine.

It was three for six in this game, eight for 15 shooting overall, 26 points, oh, and

seven for eight from the free throw line.

Milan mom chief of itch did what he does, 20 points, six for 12, four for nine from deep.

This, but Josh, which Jefferson or not, this Iowa State team is so unbelievably deadly.

And the biggest pieces, their defense, their ability to turn you over at a frustrating

rate and incredibly frustrating rate.

So they shoot 21, 28 for 61, 46%.

That's good.

Nine for 28 from three is fine, five, 32% from three is not great.

It's, it's, I don't want to say bad, it's just fine.

So what do they do?

I don't know how many about it, Kentucky by one, all right, Laura said, yeah, 20 turnovers

for the wild cats, seven for Iowa State, 20 turnovers for the wild cats, 25 points

off turnovers for the cyclones.

That defense is what's going to make them a national championship contender, no matter

what.

And the loss of Josh with Jefferson, the hope is that he's back for the next round, looks

like the world's worst ankle spread, the world's worst rolled ankle.

You can't walk on that for if you anybody who's played junior high basketballs rolled

their ankle at least one good time and couldn't walk for three days.

That's, if that's the case, the hope is that a week from now, you know, six days from

now, he's been shot up with every legal medication you can find to give an athlete and

ready to go to help send Iowa State to the elite eight.

Is Mark Pope fired a Kentucky?

And how is the big 12 related to that?

I got a little more on that locked on big 12.

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Oh, the old BYU guy, huh, Mark Pope, the guy who I've talked to people inside the program

at BYU and around the big 12 who say, Hey, when Mark Pope was here, the prospect of him

leaving wasn't the worst thing in the world.

Like for a personality standpoint, everyone's stress levels, losing Mark Pope made a lot

of people take a deep breath of relief, a sigh of relief for the fact that he was no

longer going to be able to wreak havoc on the in the ways that he wreaks havoc.

And a lot of those ways, just being really anal about stuff, like like just such a rigid

kind of confusing oftentimes off putting in and sometimes void of emotion, like not the

kind of guy you rally your fan base around your people around, not the kind of guy that

you like showing up to work for every day, intense and a leader, good leaders, a leader,

hope at BYU was he won, you know, like he won, but it was never this fun thing for everybody

involved.

Now Kentucky, he's not winning and it's not a fun thing for the fans.

It's not a fun thing for the administration.

The players aren't about it and they just got their ass handed to them by Iowa State.

They barely beat Santa Clara.

That's not the Kentucky.

I know they should have lost a Santa Clara.

That's not the Kentucky that I know.

That's not what the Wildcats big blue nation does.

This is a regime, albeit short, that has to end firing Mark Pope is the best, you know,

in who wins the deal, the big 12, or is it really about BYU?

It's more about the big 12 the whole who wins the deal Kentucky gets Mark Pope and the

big 12 gets the NBA's best assistant coach.

I'm going to take us on that one.

And by the way, the big 12 had the number one player in college basketball this year,

the number one overall NBA draft pick at and, you know, Darren Peterson could fill that

role if it if the monster falls through and down the second pick or the third pick.

But no matter what, we had the number one overall pick and all intense purposes that guy

was playing for the new coach of the team that lost Mark Pope, Mark Pope that I'm leaving

oh, you'll remember me as the guy who won the last guy who gave you relevancy in March

madness.

You lost Duquesne and dipped.

You lost Duquesne said goodbye and now you're a Kentucky and the fan base doesn't like

you.

You're not personable.

You're not someone they're rallying around.

And overall, you're probably going to lose your job because they just they don't play

like that at Kentucky.

There's got to be some sort of oh, we can see the clear path of how we're going to start

a winning and you don't have that in the last 50 years Kentucky had had has been below

500 in the SEC once twice.

Like you you're doing historically bad at a place that is historically easy to win at

a place where everybody wins where you should win.

Mark Pope is not winning the way that Kentucky needs him to or wants him to.

Therefore, I think his job is seriously online and I'm not so sure he'll be on the sidelines

for the big blue next season.

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