If UConn wins # 6 this year, and Cal stayed do Huskey’s get 8 before we get 9?

2024 Jack Gohlke a D2 scrub who is a douchebag cock
2023 Jerome Tang a mid level coach who is a douchebag cock
2022 St. Peters whose mascot is a douchebag peacock

Let that sink in, our own douchebag cock cal has been owned by even bigger docuhebags, EMBARRASSING!!!

Kentucky Basketball under John Calipari .

I hate to start a thread with similar threads all having similar topics

but this needs to be said

Whether Mitch wanted Cal or not, whether Mitch had a hand in giving Cal the lifetime contract or not, he is still the Athletic Director for the University.

Not to dive into the hyperbole, but he is way past due on both addressing this publicly by stating that what has happened at Kentucky is not to UK standards and *HE* is taking steps to correct it
and secondly to actually do something to prevent this current slide in the program. We aren't Indiana by any stretch but the program invests heavily on winning, and if the program can't win the games it needs to win to be relevant in College Basketball, then as AD he has an obligation to the program to step in.

So far, IMO, he has hid in his office and refuses to address this, again, I'm guessing but I would say its because if he says the wrong thing, he just committed the university to a $33m buyout and there may be some heavy hitters including his boss , key donors and people on the BOT who will throw him out with the $33m, so the safe play is to say nothing and take the heat.

But that is his job - to address a poor performing sport , just like he did with women's basketball a few days ago.

At this point UK isn't keeping Calipari on merit, its keeping Calipari on due to their fiduciary responsibility as caretakers for the University. That isn't what is supposed to happen. Whoever structured that contract has to go. They guessed wrong, and if the AD is unwilling to step up and address it, he needs to go, especially if UK ends up paying it to Calipari or retains him for yet another failed season.

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This shit has to stop.

We are lower than whale shit at this point and it is no longer the Kentucky Basketball that I once knew.

Damn, what a pathetic night.

KB

I woke up thinking that Cal picked an extraordinarily poor moment in time to launch this little project. Am I right?

The last 3 years have been brutal. I sat at our local sports bar for both opening round upsets and had to hear it from friends, patrons, people rooting for UK to lose or see the upset, etc. I sat there with UK gear on, with 0 other UK fans, with the whole place cheering for the Oakland upset.

If I was anywhere near Cal last night, I probably would have charged him like Cheney did way back then. I was that mad, and frankly, that embarrassed. Thankfully my friends are good sports and didn't ride me TOO hard.. but how silly to put this much time into a team, only to have them be a laughing stock of the night.. again.

I'm waking up today, on my favorite sports event of the year (by far) and I dont even want to go out for the 2nd day. I'd be fine if everyone canceled and I just stayed home.

Brutal. I expect my Jets to **** me.. not my Wildcats.

Oh, and eat shit Cal. I'd still probably throw a left, right now, if I saw him. My favorite week of the year has been totally ruined by this chump.

Saw this last night and it’s so true. What was our plan to attack the matchup zone? Our defense seems to be hope they miss. This was all season. Where was the plan to play your best players and play them together. This was glaring all season. Play your best. What coach doesn’t. I can only think of one.

I think this season was derailed by these two things. Lack of planning and not playing your best lineup together. When Cal had less decisions to make regarding who to play we were a better team.

It’s dark times. Time for a change. Yes the buyout is large but it would be money well spent.

What an absolute trash of an excuse for this and a reason not to change his strategy.

98% of those kids were getting drafted with or without JVC. For every John Wall there is a player that didn’t get his name called. Did he help them? What about kids that actually came here bc they love KY (if we get any of those anymore, minus Shep)? Does he care about them?

Just changing lives. The OAD mother freakin Theresa Mr John Calipari. Can’t use it as an excuse and a way to sell yourself at the sametime. Total fraud.

WKU lasted longer in tournament than UK
Let’s go bowling!!!!!!

When you look at Oakland’s season and all who they lost to, it’s mind boggling. Calipari is the most overrated CBB coach in my lifetime, he’s essentially robbing the state of Kentucky at this juncture.

That's now the outlier.

Never takes responsibility for a loss, always the kids didn’t do this or that. The young excuse he thinks is his out has worn thin. Now thankfully the majority of UK fans are tired of the excuses.

He is the ultimate con man and a narcissist.
The sooner we move on the sooner we get back to something close to UK basketball. What are we afraid of ? Losing to mid majors? Not winning the SEC? Getting upset in the tournament? lol

It’s here!

I’ve put the link below. Let’s support our Cats as much as possible!

And hopefully we keep this thread alive to keep donating!

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Former Villanova coach Jay Wright:

"The era of taking these young freshmen and trying to play against older players is over. I think he did a phenomenal job with these guys all year. You can see, they're playing against grown men. The guys on Kentucky will be far better pros than any of these guys on Oakland or any of these guys in the tournament. But they're not as good college basketball players. At this point in their careers, they're not as disciplined yet as the guys for Oakland. It's not Cal's fault. It's they're 18 years old and they're in this era where everyone is telling them how great they are. Just show up in college and you're going to win. It doesn't happen that way. And the more guys stay in college because of NIL, it's going to be tougher for young teams like this to be successful."

Damn…

Who is the replacement I know some of you say can't be any worse, I get it but on the real who can we get?

Kentucky head coaches' records in their last 126 games at the school. I don’t even know what to say anymore..

- Rick Pitino: 110-16 (.873)
- Adolph Rupp: 104-22 (.825)
- Joe B. Hall: 92-34 (.730)
- Tubby Smith: 91-35 (.722)
- Eddie Sutton: 87-39 (.690)
- John Calipari: 80-46 (.635)

Gillespie only coached 67 games and was 40-27 (.597). Think about this, my how far we have fallen!

Not interested in discussions about "I've been telling you" etc.
Let's just focus on what is true right now.

I have been a Cal supporter.
It's been difficult lately, but I'm loyal. And I had hopes.
But he lost me last night in the first 5 minutes

Oakland was expecting to get thumped. Intimidated.
By the first TV timeout, we should have had a 10 point lead.

But Nero fiddled while Rome burned
...Cal adjusted our offense to counter their zone (making Tre the answer).
...Instead of speeding up the tempo, he turned our kids into a puddle of half court confusion.
...Let's "beat them in the Paint" (with Tre as quarterback)
...And he left our 3 point shooting Zone Killers on the bench

In my 8 decades as a basketball junkie, I have never witnessed a Coach screw his own team like Cal did.
Time to go Cal. Step off the stage.

Is his coaching tree. Most all great coaches have a legacy of coaches they produce.
Cal’s tree is more like a shrub !!

10 points and below.

GO CATS!!!
WOOOO!!!!

A top recruiting class does nothing to guarantee victory in the NCAAT. In fact if you look back to 2016 you will see that the annual kings of the recruiting wars, UK and Duke, have combined for exactly ONE final four and no titles. This year you will only find Texas inside the 2022 top 20 recruiting classes in the E8. And they are doing it with Seniors and a "temporary" coach. Their top Frosh is avg just 11 minutes per game. And lets not even bring up K-ST.

Winning the recruiting wars simply builds Cal's ego and importance to the NBA who will actually develop the players later. It does nothing for our program.

We all know that Cal's system is flawed and broken. He also is a horrible coach. Keeping him because we don't want to lose this class is just going to bring more agony when we are eliminated by a more experienced team with a better coach. Yank off the bandage. End the suffering now.

Am I wrong?

It's time to step down and you know it. Use the retirement of Saban, Belichick, K and Pete Carrol as your chance to blame the system for this day. Just say, "I talked to Nick and Bill and Pete this week and we all agree that the system is broken...its time to step away."

Include your name in the conversation with those legends in coaching when the talking heads discus your stepping down. Blame NIL. Blame the portal. Blame the society. Blame the game. Anything to distract from your actual incompetence. You are trying to save your legacy. Tie your name in with those coaches and not tie it to Kenny Paine (the other program you ironically destroyed) or Gillispie or the failures out there.

You know its time to go, so spin this as a win. You are full of crap and perfectly capable of selling it. Negotiate a good deal and GO.

The biggest farce out there, most of these kids have vastly more resources than the typical kid growing up in Kentucky.