Former University of Kentucky Player Mark Pope Picked to Replace John Calipari
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Former University of Kentucky player Mark Pope picked to replace John Calipari.
The University of Kentucky announced Friday it's hiring Mark Pope to become the new men's basketball coach. He will replace John Calipari, who just left for Arkansas, after 15 years in Lexington. Pope is the current coach at Brigham Young University.
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Former University of Kentucky Player Mark Pope Picked to Replace John Calipari
Clip: Season 2 Episode 227 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
The University of Kentucky announced Friday it's hiring Mark Pope to become the new men's basketball coach. He will replace John Calipari, who just left for Arkansas, after 15 years in Lexington. Pope is the current coach at Brigham Young University.
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The University of Kentucky announced today it's hiring Mark Pope to become the new men's basketball coach.
He'll replace John Calipari, who just left for Arkansas after 15 years in Lexington.
Pope is the current coach at Brigham Young University.
He was a player for the Wildcats under Rick Pitino in the mid 1990s.
He was on the 1996 team that won the national championship.
UK athletics director Mitch Barnhart was a guest today on Kentucky Sports Radio.
He's a positive guy.
You can't be around for very long if you don't hear the positivity in his voice.
He uses words like crush and crush that we're going to get to get after it and, you know, is positive energy for anybody that comes into contact with him is is contagious.
Barnhart said donors have already agreed to give $4 million to UC's name Image Likeness Fund to help recruit and retain athletes.
He also said Pope will be introduced to the big blue nation during an open news conference at Rupp Arena as early as Sunday.
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