I think most everyone agrees that officiating is bad overall. I would also say Cal is pretty poor at working them. IIRC There was an anonymous articles by CBS that he is the least favorite of some of them. I do think it has contributed to our very mediocre road SEC record under Cal (taking out the 2 super teams).
He could literally have a pro team and it would take him all season to figure things out and chance that will not get figured out like last year.I hope he isn’t still here to get the chance.
Can UK fans count on a national title from an ultra talented team next season?
John Calipari will have a top recruiting class next year to pursue another national championship. (Vicky Graff Photo)There’s a lot of negativity around this current UK basketball team. Many fans have written off the current Wildcats evenwww.yoursportsedge.com
I just don't think Cal's model will work at all in today’s college basketball.
My post had nothing to do with supporting Cal.
Arkansas claim to fame is that they have the unwanted ex Kentucky coach. They get one drop of severely diluted and tainted Kentucky juice, and they are intoxicated. It’s hilarious. They are irrelevant. Always have been, always will be.
But he can't prove us wrong if he changes to go after the best college players (i.e., the top transfer portal guys). That would be proving us right, right?
Needle? They are a thorn in their own ass with Cal. Lets see, Cal has 5000 at his anouncement, Pope has 30,000 for a news conference. Never think that Arkansas is anything but a SEC football program and any needles are getting put into vodo dolls.
It was the Great Pumpkin coming every year.
... or Lucy holding the football.
His engagement will be short lived. Once the season gets underway he will be right back to his lazy non coaching methods. Just don’t think there is a roster he can coach to another championship or even close. Getting out of the first weekend is now a monumental task for him as we have seen the past 5 years.
“Outside of a handful of years” yet Arkansas has a higher all-time winning percentage than Illinois, Indiana, UConn and Purdue. Not saying they’re the better program than those but it’s a very good job historically.
I'm confused sometimes when people use the term "talent" here. So, I often don't know whether I agree or not. I've seen folks on this board use the word talent to mean at least two different things. Is talent God-given ability or is it meant to describe the player(s) currently performing the best? To me, it means the former. So, for example, to me an 8th grade version of Michael Jordan today would be the best available talent, but he sure wouldn't be the best college basketball player. At UK I felt Calipari focused too much on getting the best perceived talent (from high school), which probably would have been a better plan if much of that talent would have stayed long enough to develop into more productive college players with the biggest impact on winning games.
In retrospect it's kind of shocking how overly ambitious even this was. So glad we got out from under that guy.
Sorry about your baseball team. It was almost as if Cal took DVH place for the weekend.
You had me at "can Cal".I hope he isn’t still here to get the chance.
Can UK fans count on a national title from an ultra talented team next season?
John Calipari will have a top recruiting class next year to pursue another national championship. (Vicky Graff Photo)There’s a lot of negativity around this current UK basketball team. Many fans have written off the current Wildcats even
There is not a doubt in my mind that Arkansas just lost a better coach than the the one they just hired . I would have traded Cal for Muss in a heartbeat.
They do have some similarities though other than Muss having more recent NCAAT success. The Muss offense was excruciating at times and he coached a team with 4 projected first round picks to an 8-10 SEC record in 2022-23.
