Did you mean “Petty sure RUPP” or are you just getting excited someone paid attention to you? Enjoy it. It’s the last one ever from me. Imagine being a moron correcting someone else in grammar only to misspell words in the very same post, pathetic.
Duke article on battle for Rippey
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Well, for starters I am a UK fan. Secondly. it's a public website anyone can join. Third, why are you bothered by what others say to the point you want them gone?
Grammer and spelling are different, bud. Not knowing the difference in you're and your is a problem.
9-16 worst record ever at UK, NIT Season , Richmond , Evansville, Kansas State (2), St Peters, UNC Wilmington, Oakland, and Robert Morris. I'm just so glad that the condescending ******* is coaching at Arkansas now!
Nike is the best recruiter in the game. Scheyer is the Coach of their flagship school. Whoever is coaching Duke is getting their top kids.
Just like Tay Kinney was never going anywhere but an Addias school. Kansas is their Flagship.
I swear he was point shaving.
I really love that kids game. I hope we somehow snag him.
Cal was a good coach who recruited out of this world. Now he’s a mediocre or worse in game coach who can’t recruit like he once did. That’s the difference. Everyone knows that Robic was the assistant who brought it all together. He hasn’t sniffed any of his old success without him.Worst coach in D1, yet he recruits really well and wins revenge games. Not to mention the NC, 6 F4s and 2x Runner up.
Cal is still a good coach. You don't come into UK and do what he did to us this past season without being a good coach. Otherwise, that's not saying much of last years team or our current coaching staff.
Is he as hungry and as driven as he was once was? No! Has the recruiting edge leveled off? Sure!
Even without Robic, we were still having quite a bit of success. We were literally a #2 seed in two of Cal's last 3 seasons. You don't get a seed that high without being pretty good. We obviously went to **** in the post season, but that alone doesn’t make him a **** coach, noor "the worst" as the other poster put it.
Cal's biggest problem the last few years was failing to adapt to older players and moving away from the HS players unless they are ELITE. Experience had become invaluable and Cal prefers athleticism and raw but natural talent over experience.
Cal is washed. Just last year he had a losing sec record while having the best talent, and barely made the tournament. Contrast that with pope who was left with literally 0 players, and was tasked with slapping a roster together last minute, took that ragtag roster and turned them into a title contender when healthy. The difference is obvious.
He's only won like 110-115 games total in D1 without Robic..
Arkansas last year was more Kentucky than Arkansas. The entire staff-Kentucky, the HC-Kentucky, Half the players-Kentucky, Half the HS recruits-Kentucky. They went into a building they were EXTREMELY comfortable and familiar with AND a chip on their shoulder, showm by the fact they had by far the best game of their year. And they played a Kentucky team with 0 returning players and 0 returning staff who had no personal grudge or connection to the situation. “Arkansas” was always going to win that game and it had nothing to with Cal’s “coaching.”
Everything I said was an objective fact. You’re wrong. We’re right. Get over it.
Weren't they like a 7 pt underdog?
I love the attempt at excuses, but if Cal sucks as bas as people claim and if last years team broke records for wins against ranked teams, why would it be so hard for UK to win a home game they were favored by 7 pts in against a coach many claims is the worst in CBB?
And your rationale is because Cal had some players who formerly played at UK and the fans claimed were overrated anyway?
Saying facts are “an attempt at an excuse”… is an excuse. You’re coping by saying others are coping. Combine the total games played/coached by that Kentucky team vs Calipari, his staff and the former players who literally said “we’re gonna get them” to Cal. All of that is objective. If Cal was a good coach he wouldn’t have started 0-5, he would have won more than 1 tournament game in the last 5 years, he would still be here but he’s not.
If I tell someone I was late because I overslept, and I actually overslept...is it a fact, excuse or both?
Lol, what am I coping about?
Did our team last year not have far more games played among them than Arky?
Didn't Cal just win two tournament games last year? Otherwise, how was he coaching in the sw 16? Pretty sure he has more tournament wins in the last 5 than Pope does.
He's bad because he started 0-5 but finished a game behind UK?
Logic isn't your forte, is it.
1. Cal has had to OVER-AQUIRE talent to make up for coaching. Any point you bring up about Cal doing “this” or “that” is irrelevant. HE HAS HAD TEAMS STACKED WITH NBA STARS. Do you not know how that works? Mr. “logic?” He has had more talent than anyone, yet a sweet 16 once in like 6 years is proof of good coaching????
2. You are the EXTREME minority. You are DRAMATICALLY outnumbered. The vast overwhelming majority of people who follow cbb, understand Cal to be a mediocre coach, especially given the talent he has had access to. You have lost the argument. Crawl back to your mudpit piggy.
And you don’t understand the difference between an excuse and a reason. Your example isn’t correct. An excuse, in the context we’re talking about, is a meaningless justification that doesn’t properly account for the result. A reason, which is what I gave, is a logical justification for the result-hence why I correctly predicted Arkansas would win.
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I mean, I think I understand it pretty well which is why refuting you was so easy.
What's incorrect about it? In any context a fact amd excuse are the same thing, so long as the excuse is true. Just saying it isn't doesn't logically make it so.
Pretty sure Duke, KU and others have had a great deal of talent in that time as well. Duke has had far more talent the last 5 - 6 years. Most teams that contend have NBA talent contributing. In fact, Pope just made his first ever tournament win because he had NBA talent on his roster for the first time ever. That's such a stupid argument.
Care to show us these stats that support your claims of being dramatically outnumbered or extreme minority?
Also, why the need for caps? You mad?
Mudpit? Piggy? Why so triggered?
You’re the one making excuses, bending over backwards to defend Cal who literally coached half the NBA and hasn’t made a Final Four in 10 years, an Elite Eight in 7 years, and has only one Sweet 16 in 6 years. Mark Pope didn’t have a roster full of 5-stars. Mark Pope didn’t have De’Aaron Fox, Bam, Reed, Dillingham, Malik Monk, etc. Mark Pope had Richie Saunders and Jaxson Robinson. Comparing the two and their contexts is absurd. You’re living in denial. Also, you haven’t once refuted a single thing I’ve said. Just because you say “I refuted it” doesn’t mean you actually did, lmao. You suffer from mid IQ and high arrogance.
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And may I again point out, I correctly predicted Arkansas would win. Because I used…. DUN DUN DUN! Logic! They DID have all of Kentucky’s staff, they DID have Kentucky’s former HC, they DID have half a team of former Kentucky players and Kentucky commits, they DID have a chip on their shoulder, emotional ties, and Kentucky had NONE of those going into the game. You are the only one of us making an excuse for a coach who multiple times missed the tournament and multiple times lost in the first round. You are the one making excuses for Calipari, you.
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What excuses? You daid he had the most NBA talent. I just pointed out that was false. Not sure how you consider than an excuse.
Coached half the NBA? Interesting. How many players do you think are in the NBA?
Cal has more talent because he has an elite reputation as getting players to the league. NBA teams draft Cal players because they tend to be productive players. That’s usually due to good coaching. Kind of hard to be a bad coach and produce that many good players and teams over the years.
Mark Pope has never had great players or great success. Hell, only 1 player even came with him, plus 1 recruit. However, many coaches have hard far more success with even less talent.
What am I allegedly denying.
I mean, if you just think claiming I haven't refuted it makes that the reality, then okay. That's your prerogative.
The fact you have to resort to petty attacks tells me you're frustrated by your own lack of arguments.
Where did you predict this?
Also, a broken clock is right twice a day. Wouldn't say that proves anything about logic. You could have simply chosen to play the pessimistic choice in favor of being surprised by the optimistic choice.
Pretty sure UK had UKs staff. So just being former coach and players makes them the winner? Why didn't that same outcome occur with the first 5 SEC teams they lost to or the ones after? Didn't Cal also beat Self and Pitino in the tournament?
Are you describing Pope?
Please go to your Arkansas forum to talk
Thank you
There are always "anonymous" users disguising as Kentucky fans to trash the Kentucky program, the coach, the player
Bro, you have literally lost EVERY single “argument.” Stop it. You have an extremely low IQ. I proved you wrong. Every single one of your “counter-arguments” were swiftly and objectively shut down. You just refuse to accept that. I am right and you are wrong. I am in the majority and you are the minority. And again, you are wrong and have been proven wrong. Your inability to see that is not my problem. You will be discarded as someone to discuss further things with, as I believe you are an Arkansas troll and not a reasonable person.
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Yeah, with Kentucky players he took and a new Kentucky coach who had to scramble together a teams in weeks? Point?
The longer K is gone, the more that shine is going to wear off the Duke name.
Yes ,he recruits well. Great salesman. Not a good coach. We watched him over 13 years. Not sure what's so humorous. He will never be able to replicate his success at Kentucky.Worst coach in D1, yet he recruits really well and wins revenge games. Not to mention the NC, 6 F4s and 2x Runner up.
Cal had several non KY players. He and Pope had roughly the same time to build teams. Pope honestly had the deeper, experienced and possibly more talented team. He did set a record for most top ranked wins in a season after all.
So that excuse is pretty moot.
Also, those same UK players are guys many of you claimed sucked anyways and you didn't want.
People who aren’t good coaches don't go to 6 F4s in their careers and 3 championship games. They also don't make the HOF.
You guys are adorable with your CDS.
Look dude, it’s common knowledge around coaching circles that Cal is a lousy floor coach and can’t with without enormous talent on his teams.