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Dude you just convinced me to quit crapping on Cal just before the SEC flop. Is it open season on Saggy Cal again? 🤣Of having a team good enough to compete and Cal blowing it every single year. We can’t win the SEC, we can’t even win a tournament game anymore. It’s a freaking joke. Best time of the year and I can’t even enjoy it. I don’t even wanna watch some great games today thinking about it. Every year I fill out a bracket and think we can get an elite 8, especially with recent draws. Not this year. First year I’ll have us out in the first weekend. I have 0 faith in Cal now.
Cal has took the fun and excitement out of the game. He hates Big Blue Madness, He hates preseason tournament's. He hates the SEC tournament. It’s just pathetic that our fan base is stuck with him as the coach.This wk and the next 2-3 should be the best time as a basketball fan, but when we lose out I just lose interest in the game. The hs sweet 16 happening as well, but us continuing to flame out with a talented roster just drags me down. I wish I didn’t care like cal but I can’t, I’d be willing to spend to travel and watch the team but I’m not dropping that $$$ for us to lose early in Nashville or the ncaa. It’s a sad state where most uk fans are nowadays, definitely feel the best days are behind us with Cal.
BingoThere's nothing left to say. I'm just hoping for a miralce resignation, Mitch growing some nuts and firing him, boosters coming up with the money, something.
Yep and Im grateful my dad didn't force me to be a Minnesota Gopher fan during that period. 90's UK basketball is a drug that has never left my system.Sad. It’s got to suck for kids right now. I’m lucky I grew up with the 96 and 98 titles. These kids can’t even see a SECT title.
I really wanted to be positive man but damn. I’m just being honest. I am pissed off. I’m still gonna watch and root for them but ugh. I figured we would win one game at least. Then it turns again into the same story.Dude you just convinced me to quit crapping on Cal just before the SEC flop. Is it open season on Saggy Cal again? 🤣
I stopped filling out brackets years ago. Too stressful and I couldn't enjoy any games because they each had a "weight" on them. Now I can' even enjoy the damn tourney because of how we've been. Sucks. I'm right there with you brother.Of having a team good enough to compete and Cal blowing it every single year. We can’t win the SEC, we can’t even win a tournament game anymore. It’s a freaking joke. Best time of the year and I can’t even enjoy it. I don’t even wanna watch some great games today thinking about it. Every year I fill out a bracket and think we can get an elite 8, especially with recent draws. Not this year. First year I’ll have us out in the first weekend. I have 0 faith in Cal now.
That’s my thinking, I’m still gonna support them but it feels like it’s inevitable. Jokes one me if I think any different. That’s what it feels like. Why would it change after 2018.Haven’t made it past the first weekend since 2019. 🤬 No reason to think we’re going any deeper this time with the defense we have and a coach unable or unwilling to make adjustments.
I think that's why some of the younger GenY and Gen Alpha fans are "ok" with where we are at. They have NO frame of reference how damn insulting this is.Sad. It’s got to suck for kids right now. I’m lucky I grew up with the 96 and 98 titles. These kids can’t even see a SECT title.
I just like trying to get as many teams right as I can. My homerism and Cal has made it to where they always ruin my bracket. So I’ll take the risk adverse route this year.I stopped filling out brackets years ago. Too stressful and I couldn't enjoy any games because they each had a "weight" on them. Now I can' even enjoy the damn tourney because of how we've been. Sucks. I'm right there with you brother.
Me too but I am on my last leg I am DONE!!I was so excited when Cal came to UK. Now the only thing that could get me excited about UK basketball would be him leaving.
I get it. I liked doing that too. It just got the point though I was sweating out every game to be perfect. I wasn't enjoying it anymore. so I stopped. I still fill out a bracket as it goes though, as it keeps me interested in the tourney I haven't finished filling one out in several years do to our crapfest of a postseason the past half-decade.I just like trying to get as many teams right as I can. My homerism and Cal has made it to where they always ruin my bracket. So I’ll take the risk adverse route this year.
That’s exactly how I feel man. I really enjoy this team overall. Just sucks to feel like they are handicapped but too much. Part their own fault because they don’t defend. Part coaching, and add the refs on top. It feels impossible.Incredibly disappointing. I was livid last night...probably moreso than I've been since EE in '17. Team was awful, Cal's decisions were awful, officials were awful.
It is a bit of whining on our part as this is just basketball...but it did totally sour my weekend too. I was ready for games all weekend, selection Sunday, opening weekend for all 3 of my boy's soccer leagues...pissed now. Wife is sick, daughter is sick and there is no basketball.
Now realizing we have potentially no more than 1-2 games with this group it is just depressing. This team has been fun but fun just isn't enough.
It will be an abject failure if Calipari has this group home and out by next weekend. Anything short of a serious run and someone needs to step up and push him out.
I feel you man, I’ve heard fans on here saying it cost them over 5K to fly and get tickets and stuff. I’d be livid. Cal saying he doesn’t care shows and it’s insulting to those who travel so well and want to support our team.I take my boys to a game or 2 at rupp for the last couple years but that’s it, they’re wanting to go to Nashville for the SEC but I just can’t bring myself to spend that kind of money when we can’t win 1 game is what I tell them. It’s just painful to see where we are as Uk fans, we finally got 10 loss tubby out of here cause he pretty much quit and wouldn’t make staff changes but now 10 losses are the norm with Cal. Not sure who the answer is, but I do know that I have no faith in Mitch making the next hire whenever that is.
Yeah I understand, I do a bracket with my wife for bragging rights and one with my friend for who’s buying lunch so it’s not bad even if I lose.I get it. I liked doing that too. It just got the point though I was sweating out every game to be perfect. I wasn't enjoying it anymore. so I stopped. I still fill out a bracket as it goes though, as it keeps me interested in the tourney I haven't finished filling one out in several years do to our crapfest of a postseason the past half-decade.
I'm not looking forward to this summer for real now. Gonna be hot in more ways than one.
I'm the exact opposite. Doesn't matter if UK loses, I'm still watching every single game of the tournament. It's the best sporting event in the country to me and there's nothing that can ruin it. Even after we lost to St. Peter's (and I live 20 minutes from their campus so I saw that Peacock logo a lot for the next week) I didn't stop watching. Once we're out I'll always just be rooting for chaos and hoping a new team can win it all.I'm always shocked that people can even watch other games. When we lose in the conference tournament, I'm out. Same for the NCAA.
I can the next weekend a little more but for a good week I’m just done.I'm the exact opposite. Doesn't matter if UK loses, I'm still watching every single game of the tournament. It's the best sporting event in the country to me and there's nothing that can ruin it. Even after we lost to St. Peter's (and I live 20 minutes from their campus so I saw that Peacock logo a lot for the next week) I didn't stop watching. Once we're out I'll always just be rooting for chaos and hoping a new team can win it all.
This will be the year we get to that elite eight and a lot of people will be happy. Cal has shown in recent years to win when unexpected. I wouldn’t be surprised if we made an elite eight run and lost to a lower seed for the final four tbh. It’s how cal does. His teams play to their competition.Of having a team good enough to compete and Cal blowing it every single year. We can’t win the SEC, we can’t even win a tournament game anymore. It’s a freaking joke. Best time of the year and I can’t even enjoy it. I don’t even wanna watch some great games today thinking about it. Every year I fill out a bracket and think we can get an elite 8, especially with recent draws. Not this year. First year I’ll have us out in the first weekend. I have 0 faith in Cal now.
Go back to bed baby, it’s early
Wait, where are we?
That’s exactly how I feel man. I really enjoy this team overall. Just sucks to feel like they are handicapped but too much. Part their own fault because they don’t defend. Part coaching, and add the refs on top. It feels impossible.
That’s awesome! My girl is 16, she is totally a different little Sh@thead than she used to be lol. I guess all teens can get that way sometimes though. I’m glad they did well and made the weekend better.Agree.
Out soccer went well today which really improved my mood.
Oldest son (11) is a center back and played awesome today. Team won 9-1 and he had two assists. He was in full shit down mode.
Middle kid had two goals in a 2-2 tie. Despite having to be carried off the field once and taking a soccer ball to the face another time.
Our 5 year old scored 3 goals in his game.
Loved when my daughter played soccer she was freaking awesome. She was 2nd in goal scoring in the state of Kentucky as freshman quite a few years ago until she broke her foot at Disney World Wide of Sports. Then her career kind of went down from there. On top of that I loved coaching soccer I freaking miss it!!! Glad to hear your kids had awesome games congratulations hope they stick with it and play it for years to come!Agree.
Out soccer went well today which really improved my mood.
Oldest son (11) is a center back and played awesome today. Team won 9-1 and he had two assists. He was in full shit down mode.
Middle kid had two goals in a 2-2 tie. Despite having to be carried off the field once and taking a soccer ball to the face another time.
Our 5 year old scored 3 goals in his game.
Loved when my daughter played soccer she was freaking awesome. She was 2nd in goal scoring in the state of Kentucky as freshman quite a few years ago until she broke her foot at Disney World Wide of Sports. Then her career kind of went down from there. On top of that I loved coaching soccer I freaking miss it!!! Glad to hear your kids had awesome games congratulations hope they stick with it and play it for years to come!
Bro the week of the SEC Tournament and selection Sunday are my favorite time of year and once again I feel absolutely gutted. 1 win in 5 years. Had at least a two day setup to watch the games and I knew better. This one literally checked me out of the season. We've got 1, maybe 2 games if we're extremely lucky. Should never feel this as a Kentucky fan. I thought my 82 year old father was gonna stroke out during the game and he's bed ridden for a couple years now. He has aphasia but I could clearly tell the cuss words coming out. I'm not even going to watch the tournament. It's taken me way to long but I want Cal gone yesterday. I'd been that way but I loved this team and cut him a little slack. WTF was I thinking? Good post @Fox2monk.Of having a team good enough to compete and Cal blowing it every single year. We can’t win the SEC, we can’t even win a tournament game anymore. It’s a freaking joke. Best time of the year and I can’t even enjoy it. I don’t even wanna watch some great games today thinking about it. Every year I fill out a bracket and think we can get an elite 8, especially with recent draws. Not this year. First year I’ll have us out in the first weekend. I have 0 faith in Cal now.
Same here, I absolutely dread it now. This month used to be my favorite of the year by far!!!!!! After being burned so many times and watching so much talent come thru, only to be mismanaged, I don't look forward to March anymore. 2015 broke me, and I lost most of my faith in Cal. If you can't win a title with that roster, then you're not winning another. That's when I knew he was a sham for a coach and simply a recruiter.
2017 came along, and I had hope that the talent would outweighCal's ineptness. Then the rooferie happened........ that's literally the last time I felt we had a chance at winning it all.
Then this year happened. And once again I felt we had more than enough talent and depth to win despite Cal. Early in the year he stayed out of the way and let them play, it was absolutely electric. Although not strong defensively there wasn't a team in the country that could keep up with them, hell even then they were more aggressive on defense by playing the passing lanes for steals. Once the 7 footers came back it all fell apart, we stopped playing the passing lane except Reed. It's like Cal told them to stay in front and rely on the bigs to block shots don't gamble now look at our defense it's just that. The offense bogged down a bit the bigs clogged the lane and the ball movement we once had stopped. We went to floppy action, throwing to the post and iso plays. We stopped sharing the ball and running the offense at a higher pace like earlier in the year. Go back and watch it's night and day despite still putting up good numbers. This team had an identity earlier this year and embraced it, not so much now.
With Cals totally f*cked up line ups, starting line ups that dig us holes nearly every game, and continuing to give minutes to guys struggling he's put his agenda over the betterment of the team. He's gonna play his guys no matter how it hurts the team, he's gonna run his style of play to detriment of the team. He's going to refuse to switch defenses despite watching teams get layup after layup, open 3 after open 3. His stubbornness and coaching killed 2015 and it'll kill 2024. I could go on but I won't......not that much more anyways.
I said in December if he stays out of the way we win it all, if we don't we'll struggle in conference then in the tournament. We've seen it happen too many times whether the pumpers want to admit it or not he's derailed some great rosters. Yet here we are again.... I've lost my short lived excitement, I've lost the rare moment of hope for the season we hardly get anymore. This team was fun, the season was fun. The man I despise, John Vincent Calipari decided to foul it all up. He burnt us again, he stole our joy, he stole our excitement, he stole our hope.....he stole our March.
It hurts man, hearing about your dad, he may not have that time to wait again. It’s year after year. That’s what Cal doesn’t understand. We as a state love this team. We don’t have pro teams. This is the commonwealths team. This is our pride. I was so excited hoping to watch the championship game and then selection Sunday. Now it’s gonna be a 4/5 seed in a really rough bracket. I already know it. I hated making this post, I wanted everyone to enjoy this ride. We love this team. Then it ends up the same exact way. It sucks.Bro the week of the SEC Tournament and selection Sunday are my favorite time of year and once again I feel absolutely gutted. 1 win in 5 years. Had at least a two day setup to watch the games and I knew better. This one literally checked me out of the season. We've got 1, maybe 2 games if we're extremely lucky. Should never feel this as a Kentucky fan. I thought my 82 year old father was gonna stroke out during the game and he's bed ridden for a couple years now. He has aphasia but I could clearly tell the cuss words coming out. I'm not even going to watch the tournament. It's taken me way to long but I want Cal gone yesterday. I'd been that way but I loved this team and cut him a little slack. WTF was I thinking? Good post @Fox2monk.
At least older teenagers got to see 2009-2019. Good years. But it's over now.Sad. It’s got to suck for kids right now. I’m lucky I grew up with the 96 and 98 titles. These kids can’t even see a SECT title.
I hear you but the roster isn’t really that talented imo. It’s overrated at their current stage of development. Other than Dilly I don’t see any NBA talent. Maybe way in the future.This wk and the next 2-3 should be the best time as a basketball fan, but when we lose out I just lose interest in the game. The hs sweet 16 happening as well, but us continuing to flame out with a talented roster just drags me down. I wish I didn’t care like cal but I can’t, I’d be willing to spend to travel and watch the team but I’m not dropping that $$$ for us to lose early in Nashville or the ncaa. It’s a sad state where most uk fans are nowadays, definitely feel the best days are behind us with Cal.
We didn't "happen" to lose to aTm. They beat us twice.This team will go on a run in the NCAA tournament. Some will laugh because they can’t see past whatever the most recent game is and we happened to lose to an A&M team that now doesn’t care as much. Just watch, we have a Kentucky leader on this team that will get them focused, we have shooting and we have star power, the run is coming.
I hope my family gets Cow as the pallbearer at my funeral so he can let me down one more time
I didn’t know A&M was the only team we’ll be playing next week. Good to know.We didn't "happen" to lose to aTm. They beat us twice.