Mark Pope's daughters roast departed Wildcats in hilarious behind the scenes video

The new nature of college sports, bound to big checks and NIL deals, guarantees change on a yearly basis, and on a massive scale. You are lucky if you retain five of your current players, evidenced by Kentucky barely keeping a handful around this offseason. Just this week, Mark Pope's daughters took a little time to make fun of that phenomenon, and Cats fans are eating it up.

In the behind the scenes video (per Tristan Pharis on X), it appears the bunch is in the Joe Craft Center where all the team memorabilia is. After stumbling onto a photo of last year's team, Pope's daughters immediately started roasting players that left in the transfer portal.

Funny faces on sticky notes and quips were plastered across the image. The best may be "KY TIL I QUACK" stuck to Jasper Johnson, who transferred to the Oregon Ducks following a season in which his Kentucky-loving slogan defined the guard's NIL merchandise.

It's a little light-hearted fun with the head coach's daughters, who were probably around a lot of these players at team functions and games. To the folks upset about this: are we really going to cause a problem over Post-its?

College Hoops' Ever-Changing Landscape

Still, the Pope gang's funny gag is a sort of sobering reminder of the malleable state of college basketball.

There was once a time when finishing your career as a college athlete, with the team you joined out of high school was the norm. As you well know, that's no longer the case. Last season, only 22 high-major basketball players played all four years at the school they attended as a freshman (per brobible). The only SEC player to do so was Mississippi State's Shawn Jones, Jr.

As far as Kentucky goes, Trent Noah announced he would be returning to Lexington for a third season; if he also comes back for his final year, I shudder to think of just how few will join him.

And look, I'm all for athletes being able to move and get paid... but it's hard to justify, say, five moves in five years. Although, with the The Protect College Sports Act making its way through Congress, we may finally see a little sanity restored to the whole of college athletics. We can only cross our fingers and hope.

In the meantime, we can enjoy our head coach's family poking fun at this process in the name of the blue and white. And, in the long run, maybe that same head coach can convince some of the younger guys to break the cycle and stick around a little while longer in Lexington.

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