ESPN’s Seth Greenberg calls Mark Pope ‘perfect fit’ for Kentucky
ESPN analyst and College GameDay co-host Seth Greenberg has been one of John Calipari‘s closest friends for nearly five decades.
Not that Coach Cal was immune from criticism — he said the Hall of Famer had been “behind the curve” his last five years at Kentucky following the loss to Oakland — but if there was one person you could count on to go to bat for Calipari, it was and always will be Greenberg. There’s unwavering loyalty there.
So if there is one person you can trust to share his honest take on the current state of Kentucky basketball following Coach Cal’s departure and Mark Pope’s move to Lexington, it’s undoubtedly the 22-year head coach with stops at Virginia Tech, South Florida and Long Beach State.
John Calipari’s move to Arkansas
We’ll start with the first part of that equation with the breakup.
“He’s happy. He did incredible things here. I think some of the things he was able to accomplish were maybe taken for granted, but he had a heck of a run,” Greenberg told KSR. “Joe B. Hall said to him it was a ten-year job.
He did amazing things, won a national championship, multiple Final Fours, impacted an incredible number of lives. At the end, for whatever reason, they weren’t on the same page.”
