and so, it begins ......
Arkansas fans
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I mean……all that dude has to do is look at Cals record in the Champions Classic, SEC tournament, and NCAA tournament the last five years. It will show him if “we’re right “ .
Yeah, one fanbase followed the dude and our program religiously for 15 years, and the other didn't. I really wonder who would be right. Good lord.
Oh yes I’m sure in the history of all these guys careers they have never played a zone before. I didn’t know Davis, Thiero, Aidoo, Wagner, and Z have never played college ball before. That’s just a shitty excuse for his poor coaching.
The most hardcore fans in the world to boot.
am I color blind and stuck in a Time loop , is that impostor wearing blue ? LMAO
It's payback for Arkansas giving us Eddie Sutton all those years ago.
Wait till he tells the Hog people how Hard it is for these players. How he likes his team and that they will be fine come March. Already complaining about injuries.
I think I see Oakland on the schedule. I'm sure Cal won't lose to a team that has less talent though.
And a cheerleader halfway out on the court yelling like a lunatic
With cal it possible, but I don't think Oakland is a tournament team this year! The schedule is so weak that IMO they will be overrated to start conference play. It's so weak it will hurt there development, you don't improve much when you just overwhelm team athletically. So I see the scenario where the expectations are high starting conference play, and suddenly hits a wall!
Only thing I don't like about there conference schedule is they get 7 days to prepare for us!
I'm a little confused by the portion in your post I highlighted. Unless I'm mistaken, I heard Cal NUMEROUS times over the years claim, "we don't worry about other teams, we just focus on us".
Hopefully, that continues as he returns to Lexington b/c we all know how that lack of preparation often turns out.
That's what he says! But i can promise you he will
Scout us! This game means more to him then any other game he plays this year. I hope we win, but can see a scenario where they play out of there mind in this one.
I still don't know how good we will be! But by then we will be seriously battle tested! And hope we can continue improving and make a tournament run in March. Regardless win loss record, I give coach Pope a pass due to not having time to fill his roster needs to be elite.
I think we very well will have a better conference record. But overall? Have you looked at there schedule? They don't play a top 25 team til conference play!
I agree with you…
I’m just really sarcastic and absolutely hated Cal’s lack of coaching and condescending arrogant demeanor toward the fanbase…hence my response
Reminds me of the hope we had when we "stole" Bill Curry from 'bama...I suspect it's going to work out about the same for arky basketball as it did UK football
In a few years Arkansas fans will be singing Happy Trails to Cal. some of their fans act like they stole him from Kentucky, you can't steal something if someone wants to give it to you. Their fans might not admit it but some are already talking about it amongst themselves as to whether what Kentucky fans have been saying is true, it's true.
I live in Arkansas, and have a buddy that was over the moon to get Cal. We’ve been going back and forth all summer. He told me after the Lipscomb game that he thinks everything I was saying to him appeared to be true. He said they played like everybody is just trying out for the NBA, and that Cal’s press conferences are nonsensical. He thinks now this is Cal’s only season at Arkansas.
Ask him to count the amount of charges the team takes……they don’t play hard for him. So glad he’s somewhere else. GBB!
IDK about his only season in Arkansas, but you can tell from the first moment he arrived at Arkansas, literally walking in to the presser etc, he doesn't want to be there and was blindsided at how the events unfolded.
This clip would apply to almost any Cal coached game over the past 10 years.
Don’t forget handling a very high ranked UNC team and Miami as well very early in the season. Cal’s winning percentage speaks for itself. You don’t get there recruiting athletes alone.
I think he got bored and lost some passion the last few years and if we had won in 2015, I think the last 8-9 years would have been very different as it puts him within striking distance of UCLA.
You just nailed the perfect description of a Cal coached team. They are just a bunch of individual players treating the game like a pro-day. The only winning these kids worry about is their own individual draft projections.
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What's sad for me personally is that I used to fall for that same line pretty often from Calipari. Now I can clearly see it for what it is- BS. There is no excuse not to prepare for a zone, especially when you're playing against a coach like Scott Drew who is well known for using zone often. As for the injuries, why are Calipari teams always struggling with injuries? It's become a staple of Cal's teams. I think it's about how soft Cal has become toward his players. That players first mantra leads a coach to not demand his players prepare themselves, which includes work outs, stretching, lifting, and even hydrating. And when they have an injury, it seems he's not demanding that guys work as hard as possible to get back. Cal covers for them and their handlers instead of holding feet to the fire. I'm so glad he's not at UK anymore.
He’ll be there at least 3 years if he doesn’t retire first and save face. The Ark donors better start bringing in the AJ Dybansta’s and Cooper Flaggs of the world, if they want to hide Calipari from himself 🤣
I think saying he got bored and lost some passion is over inflating Cals coaching. Almost like a genius kid that could get 100% in every class if he was more engaged. He had top 3 recruiting classes for almost 18 straight years and one championship and not even a number 1 seed in over 10 years. It’s an absurd amount of talent for a sport that is incredibly reliant on talent. I think a more accurate description is the game passed him by and he was unable to adapt to the new modern way the game is played and he’s essentially washed up. It happens more times then not.
Starting to think Arkansas will have record ratings due to our fans watching games more than Arkansas fans.
As of today Arkansas and Kentucky are tied +2500 to cut down the nets that’s good for 12th best odds to win the Natty.
Yeah Ron, I'd say you're on to something there. All that talent and nothing to show for it. 2 NBA lottery picks sitting on the bench to start every game last season. It's hard to understand. And your point about the game passing him by is legit also. He refused to change his approach, and even when he tried to say the right things, his teams usually defaulted to his old style.
I think the "Players First" approach was thrown into overdrive when Covid-19 hit. Calipari already was leaning that direction pretty heavily before covid, but when that happened, he became even more hyper-focused on not upsetting players and their handlers. He stopped pushing players to their limits. And he also became even more focused on getting guys to the NBA than on winning championships for the university. So, you end up with players who have one eye on the NBA and aren't being pushed to their limits. And when things get more tense (like in the SEC-T or the NCAA-T), those players wilt under pressure. That's what we saw over the last several years.
Pretty sure he was always going to Baylor. He committed to Baylor in January and Cal left in April.
