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Mark Pope recruit A Big huge commitment Kentucky call for help…
How does getting 2 huge recruits affect your opinion on coach pope as a recruiter now?
And now Mark Fox has come from Georgetown to join your staff as an associate coach …
And he’s brilliant. He’s everything that I’m not as a coach. He’s got so much experience and he’s an incredible friend. And I think he sees this as his opportunity to give back to the game of basketball. The fact he’s doing this for us means a lot, and we’re blessed to have him. I think our staff is ridiculous.
Let’s turn to how you built your roster. What’s the balance of knowing how badly somebody wants to play at Kentucky versus getting the right people in your organization, not just somebody with stars?
That’s really interesting, and it’s a mixed bag of everything. We had to go from 0 to 12 just in the portal season, and so it’s not the way we’re going to build this year in and year out. But for this year, it was the way we had to go. We weren’t left with a lot of other options.
