If Cal left for UCLA and won a title, would that be worse than Pitino going to the Celtics first and then UofL?
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If Cal left for UCLA
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It would not be worse, but it still makes me want to puke in my mouth.
Cal would never take that big of a demotion in pay to move his east coast family across the country.
Could easily see it happening. If Cal can get the best players in the country to spend a year in Lexington, then convincing them to spend a year in Los Angeles would be child’s play. Not to mention he would blow open the only region he hasn’t recruited effectively at Kentucky. It was smart of UCLA to offer him when they did, but dumb of us to counter with a “lifetime contract.”
I don’t care where he goes as long as he goes somewhere.
It wouldn't bother me much, the difference in that is, we weren't ready for Rick to leave and Cal could go now it it wouldn't bother a lot of people. The rules are different and his coaching is too, with the G-league and all of the distractions out there I don't think he would do as well as he has here.
If he left for another college job I could see him at a decent power 5 or high major school with not as much pressure. I think that is wearing on him so much you can just see it.
You may regret those words if he goes then busts out some national titles there. It is entirely possible.
The way these things usually go, I'd say it's likely that Cal would win a title at his next destination. And that'd be coupled with 100% probability that UK fans claim say he did it by cheating and paying players.
Not me. Then we will know for sure that he laid down on UK. So it will be a good thing he is gone.
Well he hasn’t been getting the best players in the country the last few years and that’s a fact. Which is why you see the results you see. He’s still getting a bunch of 5 starts but they’re 2nd tier and not the elite of the elite like he was getting the first several years.
He lacks significant skill at actual X’s and O’s Coaching which is why you’re seeing awful basketball especially in the beginning months of the season “just wait till March!”
So UCLA would also be getting a bunch of 10-60 rated freshman all on the same team with zero sure fire elites (Cade, Zion, Wall, AD, Simmons, RJ etc)
I'd chip in a couple of bucks on his plane ticket
RP did not bother me... He was a lying scum while here. That did not suddenly happen at UL
You guys (some) think Cal is condensing to fans...RP was at least 10x worse, at UK
Granted his is not the top X and O coach...but as you said HE is not getting the elite of the elite...then no matter who the coach is; it is tough to win with such a large turnover
The great coach K could not even make the FF with the best recruiting class ever!!! is he a bad XandO coach also?
It's quite amazing. Cal can't get the best players anymore at UK. But, he will leave UK and go elsewhere and suddenly he will get the elite talent again.
It makes one wonder why he won't do that for his current employer paying him 9 mil a year.
It makes one wonder why he won't do that for his current employer paying him 9 mil a year.
I liked Pitino until he went to Boston, he may have lied while he was here but so has Cal, also Rick liked Kentucky boys more than Cal, I will give him that.
RP liked winning and all the attention he got... zero to do with ky boys.
Their view of UK fans and the program in general is not different at all
My friend ... if you think for a moment that John Calipari will ever again be the head coach of a team that wins an NCAA Title - anywhere - then I have a piece of ocean-front property down the street from my house here in Scottsdale, AZ that I'd like to sell to you, really cheap !
Then their ego will be their downfall, already happened to one of them.
too busy calling them rednecks and hilljacks with the rest of the ohioans.
no, I was around him occasionally and know plenty of guys that worked with him daily...
so, you may think what you want
I don't believe UCLA wants that losing strategy on their campus.
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If Cal won the title at UCLA....it means UCLA made him get top notch assistants and they are luring john wall talent........ or he is an a hole and changed his style back to traditional basketball at UCLA but wont do it here.
The one and done can not win titles anymore .. not the way we or Duke does it. one and done is about to be 0-10 in making final fours since the rule changes after the 2015 season. the only way 1 and done can work is by 2 or 3 one and dones and the rest multi year guys staying until they are ready and using a traditional style. because one on one and iso ball does not work without elite nba talent so if we arent getting that, it makes our offense complete garbage.
thus in conclusion. Cal will never win another title no matter where he's at unless he changes and modernizes. But Cal is a narcissist ....... he wont change unless its his idea on his terms and right now he wants to die on the one and one positionless basketball hill.
The one and done can not win titles anymore .. not the way we or Duke does it. one and done is about to be 0-10 in making final fours since the rule changes after the 2015 season. the only way 1 and done can work is by 2 or 3 one and dones and the rest multi year guys staying until they are ready and using a traditional style. because one on one and iso ball does not work without elite nba talent so if we arent getting that, it makes our offense complete garbage.
thus in conclusion. Cal will never win another title no matter where he's at unless he changes and modernizes. But Cal is a narcissist ....... he wont change unless its his idea on his terms and right now he wants to die on the one and one positionless basketball hill.
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As with most people, talk is cheap until it actually happens and then they are talking out of the other side of their mouths.
See above, and no you don't have any such said property.
UCLA is a little fish in a big ocean. Cal couldn’t take being the little fish he needs spotlight
i can picture the tears rolling down his cheeks right now.
If Cal left for UCLA, would that mean Johnny Juzang would transfer back?
IMO losing so early with that Zion team shows that the OAD model does not work.
$100 says he’s single. Like BIG single. Lonely/ lacking physical intimacy.
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