New Kentucky head coach Mark Pope is expected to bring his top assistant from BYU with him to Lexington.
BYU assistant Cody Fueger is set to join Pope’s debut staff at Kentucky as one of his five assistant coaches and one of three recruiters.
KSR’s Matt Jones was the first to report Fueger will join the staff and the Cats’ Pause can confirm his report.
A University of Utah alum, Fueger got his coaching start while a student working as a video coordinator and student assistant with the Utes under both Rick Majerus, who took Utah to the 1998 National Championship Game losing to Kentucky and Ray Giacoletti.
In 2007, Fueger was hired as Louisiana Tech’s director of basketball operations and spent four seasons in Ruston working under head coach Kerry Rupp.
Fueger spent the 2011-12 season as director of baseball operations at UC Davis under head coach Jim Les, but after just one season and served as Utah State’s director of basketball operations under head coach Stew Morrill during the 2012-13 season.
Ahead of the 2013-14 season, he joined Pope and then head coach Dave Rose at BYU spending two seasons as the Cougars director of basketball operations.
When Pope was named head coach at Utah Valley ahead of the 2015-16 season, Fueger followed him, joining as an assistant coach. He stayed in Orem during Pope’s entire four-year tenure leading the Wolverines and then once again followed Pope to BYU to serve as an assistant coach for the Cougars the last five seasons.
Known for being a top young offensive mind in the sport, he was named one of the most impactful mid major assistant coaches in Division I men’s basketball by Silver Waves Media in 2022 and 2023. In 2023 he was one of 50 assistant coaches from across the country to attend TopConnect Basketball Symposium.
From 2014-17, Fueger worked for the Utah Jazz during the summers to help run the organization’s pre-draft workouts and free agent mini-camps.
He graduated from Utah with a Bachelor’s in economics and earned his Master’s at Utah in parks, recreation and tourism-sports management.
Fueger will be the first piece of Pope’s debut coaching staff at Kentucky, which can include up to five full-time assistants, with three able to recruit along with the head coach.
Pope is not expected to retain any members of John Calipari’s coaching staff from last season as CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander reports Calipari’s staff of Orlando Antigua, Chin Coleman, Bruiser Flint and Chuck Martin are all expected to follow him to Arkansas while Fresno