I created a new account on their fan site. Been going back and forth with them for a few nights. Let me say this. I grew more and more excited everytime I talked to their fan forum posters. They hate to lose him. They thought and hoped he would be a Denny Crum like tenure. The things they say. He's a tireless worker. He's won everywhere he's been. He likes up tempo and his teams shoot a lot of 3s. Now his defense is a form of pac line but shooting gaps for steals to get them into transition. He will not be a Chris Mack offensively. He will not be a Tony Bennet offensively. He plays a lot of guys during a game somewhere close to a platoon. He has some sort of grapevine to Australia and especially shooters. He tries to get the student body involved in a big way. He's a devout Christian and family man. I told those guys over there we needed a 24/7 basketball guy and they said he can be that guy but he also needs the family balance so we'll see how it works out. I think he'll be a popular media guy. Guy is crystal clean as far as I can see. I'm stoked actually just by what those guys over their posted. Didn't hear a bad word about him. Take this for what it's worth. Many more facets I didn't get a take on.i.e.recruiting and portal use etc.
Pat Kelsey Appears To Be The Pick
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plan A, Drew was a dream and not very realistic but you had to take a shot. he's not from here so no reason to take the job and way more money in TX than in KY. so plan A was a smart move but one not expected to come to fruition, simply a long shot but you had to ask.
plan B, May, was imho, a flash in the pants, he did worse with returning players and once UM was looking, making a choice between an adidas school and a nike one is a tough choice and one probably 99% of the people would make, ie choose the nike school. so plan B had competition and thus two almsot equal schools nationally fighting for the same coach, well, we came in 2nd but doesn't mean there was failed leadership. maybe leadership didn't offer what UM did. nothing wrong with that.
Plan C, is where we are and Rock on!!!! I think Heird did a great job and even better one at being quiet with no leaks.
regretfully, zipp, you again are just trying to create sh$t because you're man Jr didn't get hired. thank god, he didn't even deserve consideration. I think we got the best man on the market and that you are 100% wrong, as per usually when it comes to responses where you don't provide facts, just your opinion.
You’re really good at mixing in with other boards. The information you add is greatly appreciated.
I’ve gotten to the point where I am numb with the process. I keep hearing Louisville to announce today that so and so is our next coach. Then something happens where it doesn’t happen. It is really embarrassing that this is happening. Right now everyone is saying Kelsey is our next coach, we’ll see I won’t be surprised if it isn’t him.
Good listen by Jeff Goodman and Rob Dauster about who we are getting with our new coach for anyone interested.
Great piece. The more I hear about PK, the more I like him.
My short answer is our basketball program has looked pretty bad for quite some time now. What's a few more days.
Longer answer- we aren't going to know for a few seasons whether smokescreens were put up as deflection,getting this guy for a bargain (which I'm betting we did) or whether the **** was just a cluster(which is what it looks like).
Idk Zipp. Not sure anybody really does. All I'm saying is it's possible. I'll have a better idea when I get to see this guy in action.
Love how animated he is. Between that last guy we fired who acted like a zombie from the walking dead and Mack who had the emotion of a rock Kelsey will be a breath of fresh air and fire. It also looks from his past history we won't have hookers in the dorms or assistants in hotel rooms mic'd by the fbi. Let alone indiscretions on table tops at the local restaurants.
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Each fan in their own way have to decide how they will support the hire. For me, guys like Drew, Cronin and Pitino Jr would have resulted in me buying season tickets next year. Guys like Kelsey, May, Schwarz don't reach that level of pulling out my wallet but rather a wait and see attitude. Yes, I am very interested in seeing who he brings in this season. As always, I'll watch every game I can, but for this season, at least for a few games it will be from my living room.
I always take a wait and see approach. Still there, but I like him. He seems to get the urgency of the job.
Probably best approach. Not getting carried away but also not gloom and doom.
My stance remains the same as above. Though I am more optimistic now after having seen his off season recruiting and the 2 early exhibition games.
I will say that CPK has NAILED the off court stuff in terms of fan interaction, transparency, energy, work ethic, and excitement for the program.
In another thread I think I picked 3 or 4 seed. Changing that to a 2 or better. 8 seniors, 1 junior, 1 sophomore and 1 freshman. And they all seem to be able to play together. 3 months more of practice. Those is not an accident. I think we have 7 guys who averaged at least 4 assists last year. Every one on this team pretty much makes a higher % of 3's than our best shooter last year. Undefeated? Not hardly, but going to be a tough out come tournament time.
Obviously it is early to be making a lot of predictions about next season, but from everything that I have seen this far; there is no limit to what Pat and this team are capable of achieving. Honestly, I think we just caught some serious magic that frankly I was beginning to doubt UL would ever see in Men’s BB again.
Judging by the Bahamas play…it would appear they are off to a strong start. Lots of room for improvement though so the ceiling is very high. You could see they were sometimes bored and got a little sloppy and out of the scheme of things but that’s gonna happen when you’re up by 40.
Definitely loved what I saw in the Bahamas. Probably won't commit to season tickets yet. I do have football and baseball season tickets but I live outside of Frankfort and wouldn't be able to make all the games. However, unlike the last 2 years I see myself back in the Yum Center for sure this year.
I think we are all super happy to have a real coach and this season will be such a celebration to just return to normal basketball. Big games we plan our weeks around. Bracketology updates. Just the fun of basketball in the 502 again. I'm so ready.
We have all said winning cures everything. At the end of the day doesn’t matter if we like or dislike a coach they have to win.
We can all rally around a winner.
We may finally have a head coach in football and basketball boosters/fans genuinely believe in from a personal and professional perspective. Been a long time since the athletic department and fans are aligned. Good things are possible when everyone is in the same page. That is hard to accomplish.
We can all rally around a winner.
We may finally have a head coach in football and basketball boosters/fans genuinely believe in from a personal and professional perspective. Been a long time since the athletic department and fans are aligned. Good things are possible when everyone is in the same page. That is hard to accomplish.
i'm interested to see Rhode Island against Calgary today and Bahamas Select on thursday.
I've missed looking forward to big games and just games in general. The last few seasons have been brutal to watch. It sucked going into every single game thinking the Cards would lose.
Yep…there’s gonna be an adjustment period. The previous…uhh…let’s say person in charge, left us with some trust issues. For me, it seems to be getting better each day.
That's why year 1 I'm just looking for competitive NCAA tournament level basketball to start out. I will hold him to a higher standard as years 2 & 3 come our way, but I'm not taking even a decent season for granted after our trials the last few years.
Rhode Island beat Calgary 93-66. so by 27 points. Rhode Island was 12-20 last year.
RI plays Bahamas Select on Thursday.
RI plays Bahamas Select on Thursday.
I was pretty sure we were gonna go cheap. The guy could turn out to be the best value-for-money on the planet.
And CPK needs to because that's apparently how we replace people in key positions, one football coach notwithstanding...
And CPK needs to because that's apparently how we replace people in key positions, one football coach notwithstanding...
I didn’t want Kelsey as I thought there were some red flags and I thought he was very hokey. To his credit, he has impressed me with his humility, his energy and his work ethic. The proof will be in the pudding but he has hit all the right notes so far.
You have to ask? You don't have to look much further than the Superman/Clark Kent glasses do you?
Some of the slogans and hype stuff he did at Winthrop and CoC seemed goofy and I didn’t think it would play at UofL. Then again, I was jaded from the last several years of UofL bs.
Now it appears that he was doing things there to create a fanbase. Here he realizes we have a huge, passionate fanbase that just needs to be re-energized.