There is not a basketball coach alive who doesn’t have outrageous stories to tell of the battle scars earned while moving up the ranks of the profession.

Cody Fueger, however, may top them all.

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Fueger has been with Mark Pope at all of his head coaching stops – Utah Valley, Brigham Young and now Kentucky – but he got his introduction to the game from the late Rick Majerus, one of college basketball’s truly unique characters.

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New Kentucky coach Mark Pope may have filled 12 of his 13 scholarships, but the fun is just beginning.

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