re: UK Showing Out For Pope:

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I’m really not trying to talk shite, but Mark Pope didn’t go to UK until he was an upperclassmen. He is from the state of Washington and played his first 2 years at UW.

It’s not like he’s a local Kentucky kid that walked on at Kentucky and then made the team and then blah blah blah.

I wish him well but…

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Jeff Shepherd, another beloved player from the 1990's was from Georgia, UK fans see him as one of their own. Pope was seen as a hard working big guy and a valuable piece of probably one of UK's best teams in history. So, I get the love.