Ep. 182 - Mark Pope - BYU Basketball Head Coach

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

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4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Our guest this week is BYU basketball head coach Mark Pope. We talk about his love of basketball at a young age, getting recruited for college ball, winning a national NCAA title, playing pro ball overseas, returning to the U.S., playing in the NBA, meeting his wife, almost becoming a doctor, how he became a coach and so much more. Mark is an amazing and inspiring man. You will love his story!

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
0:12.0	Day Saints.
0:13.0	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests
0:17.3	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:26.4	Hello, friends. Welcome to episode 182 of the Latter Day Lives podcast. I'm your host, Sean Rupier.
0:32.8	Thank you so much for checking in with us again this week. We really appreciate it.
0:37.4	Before we get into this
0:38.6	awesome, awesome episode, there are two people I just want to thank right up front. And the first one
0:45.6	is Skyler Fleming. Skyler is our social media manager. We did an episode with him a few weeks back.
0:53.5	But if you follow us on Instagram and
0:55.5	Facebook, and if you don't, why not? Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. But if you do, you've noticed
1:01.5	our social media game is just a hundred times better than it's ever been. And Skyler puts up a lot
1:08.4	of fun stuff. He puts up flashbacks to older episodes and questions for our fans to answer. And just does such a great job. It's such a pleasure to work with Skyler. He is such a good man. Thank you, Skyler. And the second is Gene Chittister, who produces this show. Gene is tireless and fearless in reaching out and getting us just the
1:29.4	best guests. He does such a good job so that I can just show up and do the interviews,
1:34.7	and he has just lined up some amazing people. I'm so excited, and it is such a pleasure to work
1:40.4	with Gene, who's become a dear friend. And I just appreciate these two brothers of
1:44.6	mine so much in all the work that they do. And speaking of Gene lining up guests, today, when he
1:51.7	told me who we were having on the show, I don't know how to do a cartwheel, but I'm pretty sure
1:56.3	that if I did, I would have done a cartwheel right there on the spot. Mark Pope is the head coach for
2:02.3	BYU basketball. And if you're a longtime listener to the show, you know how much I love my
2:08.2	basketball. He is a former NCAA star, a former NBA star. And we just had the best time talking to Mark. He's an amazing guy. And this episode is a
2:21.3	little bit longer than most episodes. It's 15 or 20 minutes longer in the conversation.
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