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Mitch addresses Cal situation
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Nothing new they are joined at the hip same old season next yr we will be watching other teams play in march madness.
This. 12 seeds play 5. So there is the one tournament game with no guaranteed upset.
Warned people yesterday Mitch had zero leverage.
A change would've cost a fortune and I don't believe the money was as free as Jones said. With two buyouts it would've been nearly 50 mil before salary. Mitch painted himself in this corner with this contract.
A change would've cost a fortune and I don't believe the money was as free as Jones said. With two buyouts it would've been nearly 50 mil before salary. Mitch painted himself in this corner with this contract.
Two buyouts? Besides Cal -33M where is the other buyout and 50M coming from?
Whomever we would've hired. All our potential targets had pretty massive buyouts. Pearl I think was cheapest and iirc was 8 mil.
Was way too much money. I know Jones has info but I just can't imagine there was that much readiness amongst donors to get rid of cal. Maybe they didn't like him but that's a ton of dough.
Then you have the optics. In this current climate, those optics would be awful. Mitch is definitely sensitive to that as we can see in his moves of recent years.
Financially it just had very little chance to happen. All because of the God awful contract.
Mitch is 64. His UK contract is up in 2028. If he gets canned he gets to retire early. He really doesn't have to care.
The better move is flooding with actual letters. You can back up the mailroom with volume and it is much harder to ignore physical media en masse.
I'm normally pretty reserved, but that tweet is an embarrassment. It doesn't imply any change nor does it even convey an ounce of hope for the program. When the results come in underwhelming, I expect the fan base and boosters to not only pressure UK for a change at head coach but at AD as well.
I saw this mentioned yesterday. If you aren't going to buy out Cal for 33 million after the last 4 years, why buy out Cal for 27 million if things continue to go sideways next year? Cal is here to stay more than likely, and Kentucky basketball is headed toward mediocrity with Cal and Mitch driving the boat.
Tickets sold you are correct. Butts in seats, yeah it was less than half or close.
I realize we aren't going to empty Rupp, but attendance being 15k average is a statement.
I see the CBs (calipari buttlickers) are alive and well in the thread. Mitch is the president of thst fan club and William Buttlicker is his VP.
Bringing Cal back is for the best. We'll have a new Coach, and AD after next season. A new football coach likely the year after that. One more year of Cal misery to save UK Athletics!
Excellent post . It's so brazen that Cal tell's everyone to F off . I'm not changing , I don't answer to anyone . Huge Huge middle finger to BBN from Mitch . Well news to you guys. I dont have to take it . I can vote with my support , and May be only 1 person , but I'm out .No money , no support . Sad times
I sent mine .
You are very correct . Great post .
Post more often Frank
As far as the FB groups . It's amazing , 1000s are literally celebrating . Mostly old goobers that are not exactly forward thinkers . But people who still support this loser asshole for our coach . It's sad that the masses are soooo stupid , just like society these days . I. got pizza rolls to eat and a roof over my head , an iPhone in my hand .. Life is GREAT .. Very Sad indeed .Barnhart should have been fired the day he gave this crazy contract to ccc.! Just a bad business model when you can’t fire someone for doing a BAD JOB !
I think you have some good points.
Its not about getting rid of Cal at this point, its about the cost of bringing in Cal's replacement and it appears that most of them with the exception of Donovan, Stevens and Wright come with a heft up front cost.
A forward thinking AD however would address this for the following year by either locking someone down or preparing financial levers to support the move.
You're probably right ... imagine the mail truck backing up to off-load pallets of pissed-off hardcopy. A bit harder to ignore.
I have been a Mitch supporter for years, but with this decision, it is time for his head to be on the chopping block. If, and we all know it is coming, UK baseketball looses a few games they should have won, Mitch needs to retire so his replacement can be in place to fire Cal at the end of the one and done tournament season and hire our next basketball coach.
They would. But if we had a forward thinking ad we wouldn't have an albatross of a contract that we can't get out of.
Duh, I thought this last year was the make or break year. Result spectacular failure ... status quo continues.
in a normal world situation, the AD would understand that he just tied his job to that twitter statement
even if that statement had zero enthusiasm on his part. Its was the least inspiring statement you could make, and it was 100% intentional
What a mess. I didn't trust him at all to do anything.
Either Barnhart doesn't have the power or doesn't know how. Two blind mules pulling the wagon
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