On his radio show, Mark Pope didn’t hide from how broken Kentucky looks right now.
"“We’re having a major overhaul, reconstruction. It’s been super emotional and really taxing at times, and at times really ugly and violent...We’re reconsidering everything.”"
That’s the kind of language you usually hear in March after a season ends, not in early December with four non-conference games still to play.
The problem isn’t that Pope is overreacting, and it all starts with effort. It’s that it took this long to admit what everyone could see two weeks ago.