I was at a UK vs Arkansas baseball game and when Arkansas took the lead their fans started chanting “We Got Cal !” . We just started laughing. Some fans yelled back “ You can have him “ .It’s freaking amazing.
Arkansas fans have conveniently forgotten all the posts/messages/tweets they made after the Cal hire, the Johnell Davis signing, Aidoo signing, etc…
“Cope with Pope”
Everything UK fans said in replies to all those posts…..all coming true. And it’s glorious.
Awesome post, I feal exactly the same
I was there too. Arkansas fans were obnoxious. Only to lose the series lol
I was surprised at how many came to Lexington for a baseball game.
When you know more than the teacher, it is time to move on.
It is obvious that at least one of Cal's fans still doesn't get it. He can't seem to defend Cal enough. I can assure you that sorry bleep, bleep and bleep was trying to hurt UK. After having Z for one season, Cal was certainly no fan of his. The same could be said about a couple of other players. He took them to hurt UK. You are free to believe whatever you choose.
Hope he coaches for his full contract. Let all of the hog fans see how bad of a coach he is. In fact how bad the entire staff is.
Have to agree
I don’t see many coaches being able to out think or scheme him. Really cool having someone with his intellect and drive running the program.
If he doesn't retire, he has no choice but to keep coaching there because no one else will want him after seeing that it is him and not UK.
It is good seeing a coach who understands why he was hired. It wasn't to make generational changes in the lives of young men.
Calipari was never here to be a wildcat. Most people know this by now, but I see a few still can't see it.
You certainly make good points, but what Arkansas doesn't have, is 3 wins over top 10 teams and after watching Arkansas play, we know how it's going to end. I mean c'mon, you know how it's going to end, right?
This is a very good point. Cal got the guys he wanted. He took most of the recruits he had at UK, he added accomplished veterans in Aidoo, Brazille and Davis and he got Wagner, Z and Ado Thierro (who is a stud 4).
He was never a Wildcat. He was all about Cal university. I think he actually despised what UK represented, so after he got here, he was all about making UK a players' first university. He basically hijacked the program and turned it into a players' first NBA farm team.
He feels the way he did last year about Z. He hates the fact that he isn't a back to the basket lost post player. It means very little to Cal that Z's skillset is more of a faceup 3-point shooting 7-footer.
I've said since last year I think Z was incredibly overrated. He had an incredible debut last year, but that was like a 15 minute stretch. Remove that stretch and he wasn't even average, he was downright bad.
He would kill it in this system! Dude can pass and shoot the 3. He doesn’t fit in Cals system cause he wants his bigs in the paint. And he would have stolen minutes from Garrison and probably Carr cause he could play that spot as well in Popes system.
Everyone on this team can already pass and shoot the 3, Z would just be redundant. Do we really need a charmin soft post player who can't play defense or rebound? Z also has zero post moves and Carr can be silky smooth down in the post to get layups when we need him to.
