You want the coach that hadn’t been to a FF in over 10 years?? The coach with multiple upsets in the 1st round?? Kentucky’s about championships and he’s no longer the guy.
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It was a joke! Get over it. I do not get on this site to make personal attacks like a 4th grader, that is a loser mentality. Oh, someone said something about my team and it hurt my feelings...
I would rather have a coach that has been to final fours and won a Championshio that has been beaten in the first round than a coach that has nver been to a final four or won a championship that has been beaten in the first round.
Where did I say Pope should be the coach? But to want a sometimes good team that can’t make a tourney run because of a terrible Xs and 0s coach is not UK basketball. Never thought I would see anyone on this board that wants that type of basketball and that coach back. Wow
Why do some of you only think there are 2 coaches you can pick from. Neither should be coaching at UK right now.
Ark fans got their “they aren‘t robots”, “maybe somebody’s girlfriend…I don’t know”, “not my team” lecture last night.Well Arkansas is young.
Cal hasn’t changed. Rev sharing/NIL changed where Cal can have some level of consistency as his marginal NBA players aren’t forced out don’t bail first chance because they make more in college.
Not with the mindset of I am in the Hall of Fame, my job is to get these guys to NBA not win basketball for the University of Kentucky. That set in about 2016 and by 2021 was in full Little House on the Prairie mode.
I never said you said Pope should be the coach. I stated I would rather have a coach that had been to the Final Four and won a Championship that lost in the first round than a coach that hasn't been there and lost in the first round. You can look at about any coach that has coached the game and there is a time in their career where they have missed the tournament and they have first round losses. So, by that standard, no one would be qualified for this job. Wow! Wow! Wow!
It would be 28 years since our last final four and national title if not for John Calipari. Pretty crazy our fans are just going to bash him until the end of time because the last 4-5 years were disappointing. We were on the brink of being Indiana if not for him. I get he’s coaching at Arkansas and we’ve moved on, but let’s not act like nothing good happened for our program with him coaching
I’ll always have love for Calipari. I do think I regret how I treated Cal at the end. I don’t wish him back here, but I respect what he did and I hope we return to prominence again soon whether it’s under Pope or someone else. I was unfair to Cal at the end. If I’m honest.
I dont deny his success here. To me the Pitino and the pre Covid Cal eras were just about as much fun as one can expect to have as a fan. Post COVID Cal was becoming insufferable to me. Whatever the reasons, justified or not, he was different. I’m glad he is gone for both parties. No need to deny the success or deny the decline.
I agree. I feel the same way about how I felt about him and treated him at the end too. This has been an eye opener for me so far this season with the lack of recruits and just how bad the team has looked at times.
Hysterically funny on so many levels that some on here are missing Cal lol
Maybe it was the Basketball Bennies Bull, As far as I'm concerned Cal crapped on any goodwill . He's gone, good.
To each his own but I have higher expectations for UK. 10 years without a FF and to have talent is not acceptable to me. Obviously you don’t have those standards.
Obviously, I had a better understanding of where we were and what we were going to get. Some can not see the forest for the trees.
That is true. But it is not the ones you speak of. It is the ones that get so defensive and quick to put Cal down because they are so jealous and unhappy of were the Kentucky program is and the success Cal is having. Just like I appreciate Kenny Sky Walker, Jamal Mashburn, Joe B Hall, etc.. for what they have done for this program, I appreciate Cal for what he did for the program and the state. I am not going to disregard his greatness because of a 3 tournament games.
I wasn’t. Sorry not sorry. You can’t go nearly 5 years with two tourney wins. Not here. We were getting manhandled by VANDY. And not this years Vandy.
The Vandy under the peacock. Who wasn’t bad but let’s get real, wasn’t great.
Cal HAD to go. Was it sad? Yes. Did I tear up watching his goodbye video. Yes. Do I miss him? Only the younger him. That really wanted to win and shove it in your face. That Cal I’ll always miss and still do. That Cal was fun.
Every Uk coach needs a little snark. Even nice ones like Tubby and Pope. Tubby saved his for the court. You know were toast when you got the bug eyes from Tubby.
This. He changed after that 2015 loss. He got it back a bit in 2017 when we got roofereed. I think that kinda broke him for good tbh. Got deep with that 2018 run and that was pretty much all she wrote. He was never the same after that E8 loss.
Your dissatisfaction should be aimed at those constantly saying they want him back or making post about him to gaslight everyone else. They are obvious if you watch closely.
I’m terrible at following that kind of stuff but if someone wants to say they want Cal back I generally think they are just arguing to rile people up. Pre-covid Cal was great but he had no interest in being that guy at UK anymore.