Barney will have to be fired first. Then the new AD can clean it up. At this point let’s cross our fingers and hope it ends well. We all have one common bond. We love our UK sports.

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Hey Cal, this is a fishbowl. You are now under the spotlight and quite honestly not wanted back. BBN has had enough, come back with your car salesman coach speak, lazy half ass approach next year in your one last ride and prove all of us “basketball Bennys” wrong. You’ve been coasting for 5 years. You are not Kentucky basketball. We were greatness before you, a short time with you and ready to be back after you. I WAS one of your biggest advocates. Then you stopped caring about Kentucky wins and started caring about everything else. You coach UK basketball. There was a day when 5 star lottery picks took care of the rest. That is not today, not with transfer portal, not with NIL. BBN couldn’t care less about the NBA draft. Let me say that one more time. BBN does not care about the NBA. Your job until you leave, hopefully sooner than later is to win college basketball games for the University of Kentucky. We all know that’s not your priority so do us all a favor. While you are still monopolizing the head coaching spot here at UK turn your narcissistic behavior towards actually succeeding at your primary job function and focus on UK men’s basketball wins at all costs. I may not speak for em all but I’m pretty sure I speak for a lot.

Despite the last 4 seasons Calipari has taken UK to the Elite 8 in 50% of the seasons he has coached here.

I didn’t want him to go out like that. I’m happy to give it one more go.

Now that’s it’s confirmed he’s coming back, it’s obvious Cal is calling the shots. Season can’t be much worse than this past season. So at the end of next season, they can easily say things improved, new methods are working, etc, and again it will be up to Cal to come back for another year… or at that point feel like he has fixed his image and they can say he brought uk back, and he retires. Cal will be here until he says he’s done.

Since our voices were not heard the next step is to make them as uncomfortable as possible to get our hi-jacked program back from this counterfeit piece of crap!!

Cal only cares about helping 18 year olds become wealthy and helping their families but acts like he cannot do the same for some of these transfer players who are older?

What Barney should have told Cal.


What Cal actually told Barney.

Really strong hire!

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Getting it done today against marshall hopefully he will be on our sidelines next year killing marshall 83 to 37

TPTB want Mitch on the rope for this season too. He can’t be allowed to make the next hire after creating this mess with the contract, giving cal 1 more year also puts Mitch’s job on the line if things fail. Since that is what’s likely to happen, this will allow us to hit reset next year with a real AD making the decision.

Probably just deluding myself, but it’s the only thought I’ve had that’s even close to positive about this.

How can anyone retain their job in any profession with the performance Cal has given UK? Unbelievable!

If anyone wanted to change their mind and make a new start, that would be a new job opening to look at

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I am fine with that because I do not see any suitable replacement. Changing coaches for the sake of change is not a sound strategy. It never has.

Hear me out on this , Cals back is against the wall. We know this and he knows this. It’s obvious with the teams advancing thru the tourney that you can basically buy a Sr. Led team every year now. Imo Cal is going to take the gloves off and scour the portal and put together the best team he can. Next season Ky will be loaded for bear. I suspect We will be top 5 most of the season. If Ky comes back next year and makes a final four or for heavens sake wins a title then and only then will the 2 A take steps to prohibit buying players year end and out. Ky,s brand will draw enough attention for them to act. I know this is a wild prediction but I can clearly see this happening !

A very real possibility is that you don’t hear a word from anyone. Summer comes and goes you hear news about the transfer portal and recruiting etc. and then comes midnight madness. not a word ever said I think that’s what actually happens.

They’re not gonna come out and say Calipari is on probation. That would be a stupid thing to do. What you might see at the most is certain assistant’s let go and new assistant’s hired, but with no conversation about it.

What a sad day for this fanbase. Barnhart has told a big portion of this fanbase....deal with it.

I just don't understand. What else has to happen? More 1st round losses? More losses at home?

Will be who decides if Cal stays or goes IMHO

I used to not have a lot of free time in March early April. The last five years I have had plenty of free time to get stuff done around the house and yard work thanks to not having any basketball to watch. Thanks coach!

Would Kentucky fans take a Matt Painter?

How about Mike Woodson?

Steve Alford?

Cal needs to be humbled and that is Mitch is for. He needed to let Cal know that UK is the brand not him. Quit reading 10 year old press clippings and start doing what your here for putting UK bball 1st!!! Hopefully that was relayed and we get back to it, if not then he has to go next year no questions!

I keep hearing about staff changes but no names. What do we know?

Per Jack, Calipari is highly interested in him