It’s not based off this topic alone. It’s a pattern in certain posters thats very difficult to not see. And i’m not even on the board that much and sfill notice it.
The op even admitted they’re still hung up on Cal just a few posts up.
Arkansas looking scary
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It’s not based off this topic alone. It’s a pattern in certain posters thats very difficult to not see. And i’m not even on the board that much and sfill notice it.
The op even admitted they’re still hung up on Cal just a few posts up.
They have the players. They don’t have the coaching.
There's certainly people that do that, but on the flip side it's just as annoying when you're trying to just have an objective discussion as a general college basketball fan and if anything even remotely positive is said about Arkansas, it's "GO AWAY CAL LOVER". Like I can say Arkansas has a good team without it meaning "I love Cal" or "Arkansas is winning the championship"
There have been have been plenty of people to question Deans coaching. He was widely known as the less with more king prior to Cal.
I just want the “wish we had kept Cal” stuff to stop. It’s a terrible take. and from certain posters I suspect anything positive about Cal and Arkansas really just boils down to a defense of said terrible take.
The op wishes we still had Cal because they content with watching talented teams make highlight reel plays even if theyll never actually be a threat to win a title.
And i mean…i’d prefer that over what we have now because I do not believe Pope will ever win a title or get close.
But i don’t want either. I want to get a coach that can actually put a dominant team on the floor. Cal hasn’t done that in nearly 10 years now. And pope has never done that.
Okay i’m done. UK fans continueing to defend twilight era John Calipari as a viable option as a UK basketball coach is probably always going to set me off.
Carry on
Carry on
I don't disagree with that, and Cal would have gotten fired midseason if he stayed at UK and we had the start to the season that Arkansas did last year. I just personally feel I can give credit where it's due without it meaning "I want Cal back" because UK and Cal moving on was always the right decision no matter what happens
Yeah some games they’re looking really good and others not so much. I can’t wait to play them tho year to be honest.
He switched back to the outdated offense in the Oakland game & lost, which is totally baffling considering the offense Welch installed scored a lot of points, just goes to show you how stubborn Cal is. I remember the Oakland coach saying prior to that game that we didn't have much of an inside game, I think Cal was like "ok bud, we'll beat you with our inside game" lol. For whatever reason, he scrapped the Welch offense for that game?
Cal will find a way to get outcoached, he always does, he leaves it up to his talent to make plays more than he tries to coach to win the game, we've all seen the last second plays he draws up lol. Georgia took them to the woodshed last Saturday & smart coaches always find a way to beat him in the big games, they know he just keeps doing the same things with no adjustments.
Cal was washed here. You can't hang on to a coach that has mailed it in and is tired. Winning was no longer his top priority and it showed. I think the enormous weight of this job got to him.
He was also an 11 seed last year for a reason and ended up losing in the most Cal way.
Now though, with NIL and less pressure, he's adjusted his mindset. Now he has veteran players mixed in with some star freshmen.
So, while he's a HOF coach (thanks to UK), he needed a change of scenery and was just done putting in the effort to win here.
I'll never forget the 09-19 run, but I'll also never forget his last 4 years here. He hated the fans and decided to use certain players as the rope in his tug of war with us. I wish he just played the best players, but, here we are.
He was also an 11 seed last year for a reason and ended up losing in the most Cal way.
Now though, with NIL and less pressure, he's adjusted his mindset. Now he has veteran players mixed in with some star freshmen.
So, while he's a HOF coach (thanks to UK), he needed a change of scenery and was just done putting in the effort to win here.
I'll never forget the 09-19 run, but I'll also never forget his last 4 years here. He hated the fans and decided to use certain players as the rope in his tug of war with us. I wish he just played the best players, but, here we are.
Arkansas will go far in March as long as they get to play NCAAT games at BWA.
Losing on purpose to stick it up our behind. Take that Bennys. This is my program. I do things my way even if it hurts the program. Now he’s in Arky with his 2010 persona giving it his everything!
So while I don’t mind thanking Cal for the first ten. He can go screw himself for the way it ended. I still love him tho. But that love won’t be the same until he retires and comes back to UK and calls us Camelot like ol Rick.
Lost 2 of 3 while getting spanked by Auburn and Georgia
We didn’t run that fraud out. His non coaching did that. Geez.
I'm not ashamed to admit that we shouldn't have ran off Cal without an upgrade or big name coach lined up as a replacement. I know a lot won't admit it, but we definitely would be better off with continuing with Cal than our chances with Pope. Cal obviously had some frustrating, stubborn coaching tendencies, but he at least assembled a team with the talent to potentially win a championship consistently. Look at Duke, they have been consistently the most talented team in the country and haven't won a championship in 10 years. I know Cal was getting stale and frustrating, but he was still our best option.
Just keep it close against a Calipari team and you've got a good chance to win in the last 4 minutes.
I think Smith keeps the "doing less with more" crown (fair or not) because he had better CBB players. Calipari had draft picks.
You nailed it perfectly. And I’m guessing you would agree that there’s nothing wrong with how Anon…… enjoys the game best. He likes the excitement of high school recruiting rankings, the notoriety that comes with it, and dreaming on their potential. I’ve been there myself, and still enjoy that aspect. I suspect he’s young(er) and maybe he’s also a big NBA fan and likes following players associated with UK. Doesn’t matter why, right? If sports are for entertainment then why does anybody have a right to tell another fan how they should enjoy CBB? But that’s different from your point and what type of roster construction approach gives a program the best chance to compete for a championship year-in-and-year-out.
I like Cal but I wish that his name and Arkansas would stop appearing on this board. If they lose someone wants to gloat about the loss and if they win other people post that. He isn’t the coach at UK anymore I wish we all could move on.
He is pretty old to suddenly change his ways of coaching especially when you consider he was excused form the greatest University historically for not changing.
I mean to be fair, at some level there is merit there. I don't why UK boards always has some sort of Arkansas/Cal thread going. I haven't watched a single second of Arkansas or read a single box score, I get what you are saying- you can watch a game and feel how you feel, but I absolutely think its largely a topic here because people either want to - A: Troll B: Say I told you so look at Arkansas C: plays devils advocate.
I hate it when KSR puts up stories about "former" UK players doing things at other schools, who cares. Now that is probably my UK bias talking cause I read sports stories all the time- long story short, I don't think any of these type threads are innocent fanhood convos lol
It’s only a few and I imagine they do it just to gaslight the rest. The problem is if they try to troll now it’s abundantly clear that’s what they are doing.
i was 100% in the "Cal needs to go" camp at the end.
but i'd be lying if i said i had no regrets over how that all went down.
maybe in hindsight...Mitch should've gotten the axe at the time and not Cal?? idk. it's complicated.
but i'd be lying if i said i had no regrets over how that all went down.
maybe in hindsight...Mitch should've gotten the axe at the time and not Cal?? idk. it's complicated.