Mark Pope's philosopher routine on radio show irritates BBN

Mark Pope is one of the most intelligent men in college basketball right now. He was in med school, and he coached a style that was innovative and fun. Then he changed his vision, he bent to the sound of others that said Kentucky would never win a title playing the way he coaches.

Last year, when he spoke on life lessons and using the brain to help stay positive, everyone was loving it. Now that the team is fully healthy and playing as badly as they have all season, BBN is starting to grow tired of the poetic Pope.

BBN shares frustration over Mark Pope's performance

Monday night on his call-in show, Mark Pope had some long quotes that were kind of interesting:

"The biggest failure in communication is assuming that you've done it... We tell ourselves a story. The stories can all be different. The way we experience something can be very different. What's really important for us as coaches and as teammates is understanding the story that each of our guys and each member of our staff is telling themselves about what we're going through right now and then bringing it back to two things, one, a point of truth, and two, a point of common understanding about what you're experiencing, where the shortcoming is, where the pitfalls are...That was actually a theme of our film today. It's really instructive, and it's really powerful when you can bring a bunch of guys who are hearing so much noise from all different directions, whether it's their inner circle or their agent or their friends or family or social media, hearing everybody's take on things that is everything under the sun, and then bringing them together to kind of find a common understanding, help our guys understand how they should be telling themselves their story. And so that's an important process.""

TLDR Mark Pope wants everyone on the same page, and sometimes we lie to ourselves about what the real issues are. If we want to get better, we have to be honest about who we are and then change it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that message, but it is a week into January.

It is a week into January, how you still finding yourself?

"We have not consistently struck the right chord in big games yet, though our last three we did in the second half. We really found the right space in the second half, and we almost did it against Alabama. We just got stuck in the road to a comeback with a couple real, just unfortunate, indescribable miscues on both ends of the ball late"

I'm not sure what game he was watching. Yes, they got the lead down under 10 in the second half, but at no point did they really look like they were about to make a run to the lead. And BBN is getting tired of the philosophical approach:

Are you ready to run Pope off? Or do you think he should get some more time in Lexington?