Im just saying I hope any true UK fan is thankful for the memories several of our coaches have brought us. No other school has that coaching tree except for us.
You mean like ccc
I mean if you want to twist it that way, be my guest. You show know what “spots” mean & it’s not coaching ability. & if you don’t know that, then I can’t help you.
Exactly. A selfish liar now trying to get back in good graces. Fck that.
I think what attracted Pitino to UK was the challenge of raising the program from the dead, and to see how quickly he could do it. I think he thought he could rebuild Boston.
Hard to blame rp going to Boston as coach and gm.
I hope that the BBM gives coach Pitino a rousing standing ovation. He's had nothing but positive things to say about UK since the hiring of Mark Pope. I can't imagine that any coach in the history of athletics is living with the regrets that Pitino is living with. Him knowing that if he would have stayed here that he would have 5/6/ maybe 7 national championships & over 1,200 wins. He would be to college basketball what Nick Saban is to college football. I've forgiven him for taking the Louisville job. I hope everyone else can as well.
Not sure what to tell you if you don’t think they are UKs main rival. Maybe it’s Baylor….
Maybe General Manager someday? Who knows, but he has a great basketball mind for Coach Pope to talk with for advice occasionally.
Right? What with the way college salaries have blown up he may well have made more. And on the other point, I would think you’d have to be practically blind not see he had no reason to be at Louisville other than trying to recreate what he had here. Truth is, bad as we hated him for going there, in a tragic way it was probably the biggest compliment he could have paid us.
I don’t think Pope would willingly step in a steaming pile of drama having never coached his first game here. He has been pretty clear he loves RP. I would assume his intentions are true and sincere, if it is the case he invited him.
The middle finger thing is so overblown. God forbid someone in the state of Kentucky give a middle finger. If you don’t know what was yelled at him first you might wanna investigate. I’m not fully supporting RP back but geez dude the middle finger thing from a New Yorker seems a bit overblown. I’m a UK fan through and through but you say something about my family for example you’ll get more than a finger. He definitely wasn’t professional but crying over a middle finger this many years later seems a bit 3rd grader.
Just because that's common in NY doesn't mean that's how you act down here, and towards "family" no less. It was bad enough he took the UofL job over the Michigan job seemingly just to spite us. That finger was personal and it was uncalled for.
"Morals be damned" is why we are where we are at in today's society.
The middle finger is overblown. Those that it bother say it was towards the entire fan base. Let’s not act like he stood at mid court with double fingers extended as he spun around to the entire crowd. He was walking out and appeared to have the finger directed at most a small group of fans. We don’t know what was said to get the finger response but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was warranted. Like I said in an earlier post, Rick deserves blame for the animosity between he and BBN but we are not blameless.
Exactly...he didn't flip off BBN, he flipped off one loud mouth fan who was yelling Lord only knows what at him IMMEDIATELY following a tough emotional loss. Big freakin' whoop...if that was the worst thing he ever did he's a first ballot HOF saint
It’s amazing what hiring strippers to visit the dorms will do to motivate young men.
Bwhahaha. No one cares Grandpa.
I expect to see all these fans saying this and other similar statements say the same about Cal. Cal is like
Revisionist history at its finest in this post. He didn’t give an FU to the entire crowd. He did that the a particular group as he walked out. He never received any punishment from the NCAA for the UL stuff. We used to use that same point to defend Cal. He banged a chick in a restaurant and paid for her abortion. Do you think he’s the only coach to ever cheat on his wife? If those things happened while he was here, they would hold a lot more weight. Everyone deserves a chance to make amends. He donates to UK NIL, he has openly supported Pope, and he’s said he wishes he never left. If reconciliation was not possibly for any of us when we wronged others, then we would all be alone. It’s time to reconcile and accept leave that past in the past.
Practice has been going on for weeks. UL, Duke, and many others have already had their BBM equivalent.
When Cal has been gone as long as Rick has, we will. It didn’t happen overnight with Rick and it won’t with Cal either.
lol, except we KNOW that's not the worst thing he ever did, by a long shot. It's just another crappy thing in a long list of crappy things.
