After the 17-point humiliation at the hands of Michigan State, Mark Pope delivered a postgame press conference that will rattle the fanbase more than the loss itself.
Pope did not mince words about whose shoulders the failure rests on. His constant self-blame, however, quickly turned from a sign of strong leadership to a terrifying admission of organizational failure.
“We won't fail this season. We just have failed up till today. And we will build an organization where we won't it won't be disrupted every time someone steps in and steps out because it'll actually we'll have a team identity, not an individual identity.