BYU’s newest men’s basketball coach, Mark Pope, was introduced to the media and everyone else Wednesday afternoon at a made-for-BYUtv event at the BYU Broadcasting Building, and the former Utah Valley coach made a lot of lofty promises and received a lot of applause.
Whether the exuberant and ever-enthusiastic 6-foot-10 Pope can deliver more than what retired coach Dave Rose was able to accomplish remains to be seen. Anything less will be viewed as a disappointment, but Pope takes the job knowing it is a more difficult job than the one Rose accepted 14 years ago.