If Cal had stayed...

[Bowfreak.]

I am so glad Cal is gone.

Pope is a short timer.

We will kill it on the next coach. Mark it down.

 

[MegaBlue05]

These leftover Cal fans are something else.

I appreciate Cal immensely for his first 10 seasons. Great times mostly. I don’t mind Cal the person. I was ready for Cal the coach to leave and wouldn’t be super excited if he returned today.

But, if us UK fans are guilty of one thing, it’s constantly living in the past and thinking whatever worked decades ago will work now exactly as it did then.

This is not a defense of Pope in anyway. This is me laughing at those of you acting like jilted ex lovers still hung up on your ex who’s obviously moved on from you.

 

[BlueSince92]

Higher chance monkeys fly out of your butt than that Cal would have done here what he’s doing at Arkansas. Much less that he would have done more here.

Cal was done working here by 2021. After that it was only a question of how much longer he was going to get paid here.

 

[CarbonLib]

y'all shoulda nabbed Scheyer before K appointed him......

 

[The_Answer1313_rivals]

Cal had to change because he burned the bridges with all of the major donors. Who was going to fund the NIL deals of all of his NBA superstars?

He got the fresh start he needed with Arky and a fresh group of donors he hadn't burned bridges with...including the chicken people. He was done succeeding here.

Not saying this isn't accurate but we had some extremely good basketball players even at the end of his tenure here. I'm not sure I am buying this.

 

[bigblueinsanity (the real)]

He started the same players that he did all season long............that earned those seeds to begin with.

People get hung up over Reed not starting but he had played the second most % of mins on the team. Only Reeves played more.

I mean these were the mins Reed was playing at the end of the season

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You just cant have your two best players on the bench while the other team builds a big lead. Especially in the post season.

Its almost inconceivable anyone would try to justify this but here we are

 

[oakhillcatman]

Can you imagine if Cal had a 22 million budget even if he can't coach we would be a top ten team.

 

[The_Answer1313_rivals]

You just cant have your two best players on the bench while the other team builds a big lead. Especially in the post season.

Its almost inconceivable anyone would try to justify this but here we are

This didn't happen.

At all.

Reed played nearly 75% of the mins available lol.
What team was building massive leads with Reed sitting on the bench.

Oakland's largest lead in that game was only 61-54 and that didn't happen until 8 mins left in the second half.

In the SEC tournament at the 10 min mark in the first half, Texas A&M had a lead........of a whole 2 points. They only had a six point lead at the half.
Again in that one they didn't jump out to their largest lead until the second half (6:21 left they had a 16 point lead).

That wasn't a Pope like team where we camped Reed and Rob on the bench while teams jumped out to huge 1st half leads.

That never happened.

 

[UKAlum84]

Oakland had one guy, almost break a 3 point record.

UK looked kinda clueless.