It's not looking great at UMass under Frank Martin right now. Once Arkansas realizes that he's dried up, I can seriously see Calipari ending his career at the university that would feed his ego. He literally has a statue there.
Arkansas fans coming around
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Your Cal fanboy status is impairing your logic. Rupp Rafters is the spot for Kentucky hoops chat, and Calipari's coaching past at Kentucky makes him relevant. Do you honestly think Cal isn't watching our games? He's glued to the screen. Nobody's fixated on Cal, he's not a top-notch coach. Why would we be?
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03 team went undefeated in the SEC and lost to Marquette. It was the 04 team (also overall #1 seed) that lost to UAB.
04 really overachieved considering their personnel and talent levels. Like you said - a true team.
Remember him going like 9-9 on fgs his first couple games his freshman year.. Wonder what the record is on that?
I think the fires were started by people..
I bet Cal is watching also.
I don’t think Cal wants UK to fail but I also bet he doesn’t want Pope this year and next record to be better than his last few seasons.
I really think Cal wants to one day come back to be honored. As he should.
It’s just not the time anytime soon for me for that to happen.
My buddy and I used to call him "Old School".
He made lots of old man church basketball moves but with his body and athleticism.
Funny... He's one of my under the radar favorites as well.
I was just kidding on the wildfire thing, but still, this might be the most popular sports message board out there, thousands of people come here daily, given that fact, I think it's pretty tame when you think about what's happened at UK the last 4 years.
What I don't get is, guys like you are out here policing this board like we should just shut up about a guy that was the face of UKBB for 15 years and left to go coach a soft rival and took our players and recruits to boot.
Also, plenty of Arkansas fans have trolled us. This is a very meaty conversation topic and honestly, it's a bit weird to me that some of you act like nothing happened.
10 Cal threads on the first page??? You see 10? Are you sure? Even if there was, nobody should be surprised, our former players, coach and recruits are at another school and that coach left us with zero players.
Also, take a look at the thread title, is anyone not staying on topic? What's the issue?
81 2nd round game. Looking at the box score, I'd say it wasn't a good thing Verderber lead us in scoring. Bowie had only 5. Oof!
You know, I've seen dudes exaggerate to make a point, but you took it to another level.
You lied. You said there were 10 Cal threads on the first page. Are you really bad at math?
There are 2 and one is at the very bottom of the page WITH ZERO REPLIES.
There is one other one, but it is about Cal trying to get Matt Jones fired, which doesn't fit your criteria. So the reality is, this is the only one. Nice try.
So basically you came in here and trolled the thread. Are you a Cal guy that is just struggling to read the truth? What's your deal?
Daniels and Hayes had a connection the likes of which I haven't seen since. Man, I love both those dudes. Daniels was so underrated.
Talking about underrated....how about Fitch too? He was a killer.
I loved those teams. Every single one of those guys that played significant minutes were ballers. Other than 14-15, that is the best team we've had that didn't cut down the nets. I simply loved every contributor on that team.
They should have known when there was an amazon order on the tyson chicken account for DVDs of the Waltons and Little House.
It just occurred to me that I never liked or watched either of those shows, after all these years I understand why. UK fandom works in strange ways
You would think but Davis awful there. He’s almost unplayable on offense right now. DJ has been worlds better than him honestly.
"and, now. Introducing the coach who allowed a player to ride the bench on full scholarship and never have to play, despite the fact that he would go onto to be drafted when he specifically stated that he wanted to come back for another season......."
And collect a ton of NIL money.
Do we get anymore NIL contributions from that Louisville Porsche dealer?
True but it seems Cal.needs to let Davis be the Lamb to Flands Knight.
DJ is more the swiss army knife type who can fill in both guard slots.
If I were Cal I would try the formula of the '11 team with Fland/ Davis at guard with Adu at the three, Brazille at the 4 and Z at the five.
Aidoo and DJ off the bench with Knox and Richmond only with foul trouble
They definitely need the win Sat but Clayton and Martin are as consistent as they come and Richard who actually played better last year is capable of 20 on any given night.
Arkansas needs the game to be a rock fight but I don't think that's the DNA of the roster.
Everyone of those guys loves to play hero ball and I don't think they can win a shootout with Florida the way UK did.
I personally don’t think they will win at all but I’ve seen our teams win games like Arkansas where reeves had 37 that one year. We had like 6 players.
Cal is in a tough spot, he was in the same spot last year, 20/21, 21/22 and 22/23, in order to win games, he has to come off the promises he has mafe to players and he's going to have to play his best lineup, insyead of the.lineup tge NBA wants to see on the floor.
He chose option B the last 4 years at UK, I bet he also chooses option B this time too.
He chose option B the last 4 years at UK, I bet he also chooses option B this time too.
Not DJ, he is family and Cal will always support him like he promised his father. Cal still thinks he can develop DJ into a NBA draft pick.
Hahaha - he DID play like that & I remember SOMEONE on here making those type comparisons - maybe you?
Didn't he grow from like 6'4" to 6'7" and put on a lot of weight too? Seems like he started as a Guard? Or am i crazy?
Really enjoyed those type of Tubby teams - Estill was another personal favorite in that bunch
I mean even Brad Calipari didn’t stay more than 2 years
Oh wow - yeah, that was a bad stretch
I THINK UK went :
NiT - early exit '80
NCAA - first round exit '81
NCAA - first round exit '82
Anywho - that second round loss Tubby had to them came after a VERY close first round game against Florida A&M I think
Hate UAB to this day
That won't happen, the last 5 or 6 years Cal has lost games because he played favorites over playing the one who could win the game.
Oh I agree Cal at the end was a total clown show on so many levels…. And I was totally glad to see that crap show leave….
But I do one day think he will be honored for his achievements and good he did at UK one day.
I also think in time fans will come around and get behind.
Just no time soon…..
I’ve not been a Cal fan for several years…
Oh wow - yeah, that was a bad stretch
I THINK UK went :
NiT - early exit '80
NCAA - first round exit '81
NCAA - first round exit '82
Anywho - that second round loss Tubby had to them came after a VERY close first round game against Florida A&M I think
Hate UAB to this day
Squeaky Johnson may or may not amount to anything in life, but he will always have that game.
I have no sympathy for them. They made a deal with the devil. CCC is a joke and the laughingstock of College Basketball for some time now. Had a better coach in Musselman and did not appreciate him. Arkansas bought into the snake oil pitch and now must live with the results for what a fraud he is.
Check this new post out, this guy gets it.
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Agreed we're putrid in 1/2 court offense. But that's on Cal.. We called 2 TOs back to back damn near (Nelly.. then Cal). We turned it over immediately on the 1st which lead to a break way lay up. We damn near dribbled the air out next one, bad shot, no balance, easy score for OM.
Our screen setting looks like we're afraid to get an offensive foul instead of setting an actual screen. And the ball handler doesn't utilize it when it is set, nor does the screen setter roll to the basket or away from the basket depending on who the screener is.Aidoo made a half-ass screen and drifted out to the three-point line... what sense does that make? there's no offensive identity absent turnovers and fast break layups or dunks, and we don't cause turnovers because we don't play well enough on defense.
And I've heard enough of this we only have nine players BS. every team we play plays seven to eight generally maybe nine for 5 minutes. cal isn't appropriating the minutes correctly, nor in a sensible manner. either he hasn't figured it out, but he has assistants.. what are they doing? telling these guys to keep jacking up shots that are coming up short consistently over and over again... I just don't see much coaching. That's a problem for a $5 million man
Didn't even take an entire season for the real ones to catch on to the incompetence and what a gimmick the SHOOT, RUN, GO!!! offense is. Also, that the players only giving a damn about building their brand, cash in on NIL, drive around in brand new whips while using the school as a pit stop before jetting off to the league.
And they'll be lucky to go .500 in the league. At 0-2 now, I think they could even finish in the bottom 5 of the league and risk missing the NCAA Tourney. While you say their schedule is "easy" it's not. Cal proved at UK that home court meant little to nothing. We didn't fare a whole lot better at home than on the road under him in the last few years. Arkansas fans have also become apathetic as well. They aren't exactly selling out Bud Walton like they used to. To think that could have very easily been us this year is crazy. We may still take some lumps this year, but we also know we are far better off now that we would have been if Cal had stayed.
LOL, they think he's overpaid at $5 million, we were paying him 9 and he was doing this crap.
He's going to finish below 500 and his SEC schedule is one of the weakest out of all the teams in the league.
Arkansas only has to play the best 5 teams 1 time, most of them are at home.
Cal better find a way to beat Florida tomorrow. Good luck with that.
I know you was joking about the wildfires, my response was as well. While there may not be 10 threads about Cal / Arkansas on the first page, EVERY discussion turns into a Cal discussion at one point or another. It is not discussing him and Arkansas I have a problem with, it is the AMOUNT of discussion. I am not policing anything, I just get tired of reading "Cal this", "Cal that", "Arkansas this", "Arkansas that".
