How happy are you with Cal's Job?
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38-1 and we have to question ourselves if we think Cal is doing a good job as our coach.
Only at Kentucky.
Unbelievable...
Only at Kentucky.
Unbelievable...
He is doing a great job....if nothing else we can listen to pre and postgames to learn something...Tubby and Clyde deprived us of that 10 plus years
I just have a hard time believing that if someone told you before Cal came here that you'd have 4 final four appearances and a title in his first six years here, that you would feel disappointed. Expecting much more than we've accomplished shows a complete lack of perspective.
I certainly love Coach Cal and hope that retires here. He's brought the swag back to the bluegrass and kept the Cats in the national spotlight. Go Big Blue!
I think many of us would be unable to answer this as a single question. I think the better inquiry would be split into three questions: How happy are you with Cal's performance (a) As a recruiter? (b) As an ambassador for U.K. basketball? (c) In actually coaching the individual players and the team in playing the game -- generally, and in game-by-game preparation, and in in-game bench coaching?
When you put a poster on ignore it should cover all of their handles . For instance you have Havoc79 in here under yet another dumbass handle , maybe I should be notified every time he creates one via alerts . Knowing how others voted is a nice feature , more or less an I.Q. test .
^^^^^THIS^^^^^I certainly love Coach Cal and hope that retires here. He's brought the swag back to the bluegrass and kept the Cats in the national spotlight. Go Big Blue!
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It's kind of a loaded question, but there's a good way out of it. If you're a UK fan you are either a 4 or 5. Pretty simple really.
I voted 4, but actually prefer some kind of 4.5 or something.
LOL. Jamal Mercer a 2
Knowsalltellsall a 1.
Graves a 1.
Ramhard a 2.
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I think it is a real display of ignorance not to understand what Cal has done in reaching the Final Four four years in five -- with essentially a different team dominated by freshmen every year. It is one of the great coaching performances in modern college basketball history.
The "he's only 3-3 in Final Four games in that span" is particularly illogical, considering the challenges he's faced in replacing 70-90 percent of his scoring and rebounding every year. He got to the Final Four with a jump shooting team in 2011, with a dominant center in 2012, with an all-freshmen starting five that played lock-down defense in 2014 and with a bunch of talented players who he had to convince to sacrifice and be a team in 2015.
And not every dominant team even makes it to the Final Four -- #1 overall seed Kansas lost to Northern Iowa in 2010, #1 overall Ohio State lost to Kentucky in 2011. In 2012, North Carolina was given a great shot to go 40-0, but crumbled under an injury, something Cal has dealt with the past two years.
It's a great era of Kentucky basketball and Cal is the main reason.
The "he's only 3-3 in Final Four games in that span" is particularly illogical, considering the challenges he's faced in replacing 70-90 percent of his scoring and rebounding every year. He got to the Final Four with a jump shooting team in 2011, with a dominant center in 2012, with an all-freshmen starting five that played lock-down defense in 2014 and with a bunch of talented players who he had to convince to sacrifice and be a team in 2015.
And not every dominant team even makes it to the Final Four -- #1 overall seed Kansas lost to Northern Iowa in 2010, #1 overall Ohio State lost to Kentucky in 2011. In 2012, North Carolina was given a great shot to go 40-0, but crumbled under an injury, something Cal has dealt with the past two years.
It's a great era of Kentucky basketball and Cal is the main reason.
And neither of them had to coach a final four starting fives mainly dominated by true freshmen. Don't tell me that coaching juniors and seniors is not an easier job.
5!
2 Final Fours, a Runner-Up, and a National Championship in 6 years is incredible. We know we aren't going to win the title every year but we do expect to have a team that can compete for it on a regular basis. Cal has brought back those glory years from the 90s that I so fondly remember from my childhood and I wouldn't have it any other way.
2 Final Fours, a Runner-Up, and a National Championship in 6 years is incredible. We know we aren't going to win the title every year but we do expect to have a team that can compete for it on a regular basis. Cal has brought back those glory years from the 90s that I so fondly remember from my childhood and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Last few years of Tubby and pretty much all of Billy if I missed a game I was ok with it. Since Cal has been here I have watched every game and don't plan on missing one.
This pretty much sums it up! People get greedy. You would think they would enjoy this but yet they look,at the bad. In our glorious history Calipari has taken UK to 1/3 of our final fours
Anybody that would conduct and or vote in a poll of this nature, do not deserve coach Cal and what he has done for this university on and off the court.
Whoever the 7 voters are that didn't pick a 4 or 5 are either trolls or UK fans that need a good beating or are mentally slow!!!!!
"How happy are you with Cal's job?"
I think I would be very happy. BBN might not be but even if I got fired the next year, they'd have to buy me out (I'd work my tail off not to violate anything in the contract) and I could retire and live much better than I will on my own retirement.
I think I would be very happy. BBN might not be but even if I got fired the next year, they'd have to buy me out (I'd work my tail off not to violate anything in the contract) and I could retire and live much better than I will on my own retirement.
I think you had a good post until the last 3 words. To say that you can help, somebody who has never even laid 1 eye on a practice with any of these players, is just absurd. We can all have good insight and debate but at the end of the day, I would always trust what our coach wanted to do with his team. He is the one at practice everyday and who knows these player inside and out. Hindsight is 20/20 and we can all look back and be armchair QBs but that's always after the fact. I'm always going to trust the coach over a fan any day. All day and everyday!
This is why I said this is a stupid and loaded poll. I was thinking 9 out of 10 or 4.5 out of 5. Now we have people running through the thread condemning all who thought of the poll a bit differently.
ridiculous.
AF cat, catsfan70, jamal mercer, Graves51, Iamavolsfan, Ramhard, KnowsAllTellsAll.....
All voted 3, 2, or 1.
I am here to say that I would never vote that I wanted Cal gone. You can look back through some of my post history and see that.
My 12 yr old son who also gets on RR voted a 2.
Cal is great for UK and the last 6 years have been fantastic. I hope he never leaves.
And I have taken the Xbox away from my son as punishment.
My 12 yr old son who also gets on RR voted a 2.
Cal is great for UK and the last 6 years have been fantastic. I hope he never leaves.
And I have taken the Xbox away from my son as punishment.
What's amazing is the way he's done it. He's had almost an entirely different team from year to year. That's extremely difficult & I don't think there is a coach anywhere, including Coach K, that can do that.
I voted a 4 and completely agree. The questions are crazy misleading but whatever. I'll let everyone who voted 5 over 4 feel like a super fan.
I'm more interested in people not realizing their votes show. lol.
