Man, even after Tuesday you are ALL IN on your hero Cal. Incredible. What would it take?
I didn't take any of that as full support. He was respectful, that's about it.
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I didn't take any of that as full support. He was respectful, that's about it.
I thought he handled the questions well. Mitch is a professional and expressed himself in that matter being supportive of his coaches and BBN.
Those thinking that Cal is gonna be gone at midseason are gonna be disappointed. We've got at least one more year of this unless he flat out walks away.
Honestly, anyone with beyond a middle school understanding of how enormous projects like this are funded and executed should have known the way it was positioned was hogwash. Oversimplified propaganda.
I mean obviously he wasn’t just gonna come out publicly and trash him in the middle of the season
Jones said he didn't ask about NIL and Alcohol at games cause he felt the team/Cal/facility/relationship issues were more important for the time frame he had to ask questions today. Basically all the Tucker article stuff.
I think Mitch did a fantastic job in this interview, he answered all the questions and gave pretty good explanations for all the things brought up in the article.
Yes, he said they would do another interview in a month to discuss those things.
Also said Mitch has agreed to come on in about a month to address the nil/alcohol stuff. Just didn't have time today.
My biggest takeaway was Mitch said, much more nicely, that Kyle Tucker is full of shit.
I agree with Jones there. They had 20 minutes, I wanted them to spend every second on it discussing exactly what they discussed.
I’m all in until I feel comfortable Mitch wouldn’t hire someone like Holtman.
I’m all in as long as Cal has Edwards, Dillingham, Wagner, Bradshaw and Sheppard locked up for next year. You guys can blast me all you want with the “Cal nut hugger” stuff and “the class won’t matter as long as Cal is the coach” stuff all you want. I want to see that class next year.
You called it, now about Saturday's lottery #'s.............
Well as long as you keep showing your posterior by taunting fellow fans, you’ll keep getting blasted every time we experience yet another embarrassing loss.
And I'm done with the "just wait until next recruiting class!" jargon. It's not working.
Agree to disagree I guess, just glad you are in the minority at this point.
Would have a lot more respect for Jones if the questions were:
Do you agree with wheeler playing 40mpg?
Do you agree with at least 2, most times 3 big men on the floor at all times?
Do you agree with stall ball?
Do you agree with never playing zone and never pressing?
Do you agree with dribbling for 27 seconds with no movement and throwing up a prayer?
This bozo ain’t fixing shit. He gone.
Do you agree with wheeler playing 40mpg?
Do you agree with at least 2, most times 3 big men on the floor at all times?
Do you agree with stall ball?
Do you agree with never playing zone and never pressing?
Do you agree with dribbling for 27 seconds with no movement and throwing up a prayer?
This bozo ain’t fixing shit. He gone.
I literally just said I don’t care what you call me or if you blast me. My stance stands. Even if I am in the minority (on this board)
What I liked about the interview is I could tell from Mitch’s tone of voice and the fact that he mentioned emails that he’s feeling some serious fire from this situation as well.
That some of the people disappointed in Calipari’s performance have began to pass blame up to the man that made him unfireable and began to call for his head as well.
That some of the people disappointed in Calipari’s performance have began to pass blame up to the man that made him unfireable and began to call for his head as well.
He did, just much more tactfully.
Mitch's answer was he doesn't micromanage. He lets the coaches run their programs as a CEO of sorts because they know more about it than he does.
This, from Tucker, was clearly an attempted distraction by Cal. Tucker was either deceived by Cal or is voluntarily being nothing but a voice for Cal. Either way, this is a black eye for Tucker.
Power move by Mitch - go on the show Cal won’t go on to dispute the hit piece. Ball is back in Cal’s court, what’ll he do next?
He answered these questions when he said he doesn't micro manage his coaches. A good athletic director doesn't get involved in the day to day, and no coach wants that either.
Yep If a $9 million coach needs additional help on offense or defense he doest need to be there
If you have to bring him in more guys for X's and O's aside from the fully capable staff he has already selected himself, now you're literally just paying the man $9 million dollars a year to recruit. Ridiculous.
no AD is going to go public with a no confidence statement in the middle of the season unless he is prepared to fire the guy tomorrow.
Exactly. He said exactly what he should say. He's seen Calipari turn teams around and finish strong before and he has confidence that he can do it again this year. There's no reason for him to say it any other way at this point.
That was the only one he KIND of danced around, but I don't blame him. Because it is pretty silly for a HC that you're already paying $9 million a year to need MORE X's and Os help. He said he always gives his full support to all programs, basketball and football alike, to have the support staff they need.
Bkocats and I are trying to re-define the nature of our relationshipHow lewd....
Doc's not wearing a bustle..... (Someone told me....)😬
Cal always wants something. He has a half a dozen coaches sitting over there. Doesn’t matter what any of them think. He still won’t play a zone if it helps us win, and he still won’t give all players the same opportunities. Thus, we are where we are.
Yep Cal stirring drama and deflecting blame for his current coaching performance. Cal needs to cut the drama and crybaby antics and get to work.
I don’t have any problems with Mitch’s general approach to what he said today.
My problem is in the specifics:
He said he is supporting his guys to get through the tough times because that what he has always done and they have always gotten through it.
“Always” is a big problem here.
In reality we have “Never” hit a patch this long and this rough, in terns of tournament win droughts combined with poor performance against Top 25 teams. “Never,” not under Billy Clyde and not under Tubby and not under Pitino and not under Eddie Sutton and not under Joe B. Hall even when he was green.
Rupp himself was before my time and he is in a separate category from everyone else whether he struggled or not, for two reasons:
1—The man won four freaking titles all by himself. If any other of our coaches had done that then we’d be tied with UCLA or even ahead of them depending on who did it, and our current situation simply would not be precipitous because we could suck for another six years and no one besides Mick Cronin would have a possibility of catching us even then.
2—Rupp built us himself and no one impressive came before him. He didn’t have the option every coach after Hall has had, telling recruits “they had it before me and they’ll have it after me: play for Kentucky and you’ll forever be part of an unstoppable tradition past and future.”
Mitch’s “Always” really bothers me when it’s coming in a place where the truth is not really “Always” but “Never.”
I’d like to be able to get behind Mitch. I don’t quit when things get rough in my own life and I’ve never felt like I wanted to stop supporting someone just because they face adversity. I’m a freaking conservative white male anglo-saxon Christian who believes Noah’s flood was global and Adam was a real person. I know all about adversity.
But facing adversity is different than being the adversity, as it’s getting hard not to say Cal is in terms of some critical particulars like not breaking down tape and playing all-eggs-one-basket defense *after those things have blocked our path to greatness for years at a time.
And I could get behind Mitch if he’d say something like “I’ve always supported my guys through the tough times and they’ve always gotten through it, so I’m supporting them now even though they’ve never come through anything this tough before.”
Honesty goes a long way. I don’t mind supporting an underdog. Everyone loves an underdog, in fact. But being an underdog is all about having the internal fortitude to do the real gut checks, and about facing desperate odds with desperate dedication to do everything in your power to overcome them. That I can support through a 1—32 season. Try me. But it’s gotta be a real underdog I’m supporting. To put someone in that place who hasn’t earned it with their resolve to try whatever it takes that is noble (in contrast to stubbornness not to do anything differently)—that’s when I become dishonest myself.
My problem is in the specifics:
He said he is supporting his guys to get through the tough times because that what he has always done and they have always gotten through it.
“Always” is a big problem here.
In reality we have “Never” hit a patch this long and this rough, in terns of tournament win droughts combined with poor performance against Top 25 teams. “Never,” not under Billy Clyde and not under Tubby and not under Pitino and not under Eddie Sutton and not under Joe B. Hall even when he was green.
Rupp himself was before my time and he is in a separate category from everyone else whether he struggled or not, for two reasons:
1—The man won four freaking titles all by himself. If any other of our coaches had done that then we’d be tied with UCLA or even ahead of them depending on who did it, and our current situation simply would not be precipitous because we could suck for another six years and no one besides Mick Cronin would have a possibility of catching us even then.
2—Rupp built us himself and no one impressive came before him. He didn’t have the option every coach after Hall has had, telling recruits “they had it before me and they’ll have it after me: play for Kentucky and you’ll forever be part of an unstoppable tradition past and future.”
Mitch’s “Always” really bothers me when it’s coming in a place where the truth is not really “Always” but “Never.”
I’d like to be able to get behind Mitch. I don’t quit when things get rough in my own life and I’ve never felt like I wanted to stop supporting someone just because they face adversity. I’m a freaking conservative white male anglo-saxon Christian who believes Noah’s flood was global and Adam was a real person. I know all about adversity.
But facing adversity is different than being the adversity, as it’s getting hard not to say Cal is in terms of some critical particulars like not breaking down tape and playing all-eggs-one-basket defense *after those things have blocked our path to greatness for years at a time.
And I could get behind Mitch if he’d say something like “I’ve always supported my guys through the tough times and they’ve always gotten through it, so I’m supporting them now even though they’ve never come through anything this tough before.”
Honesty goes a long way. I don’t mind supporting an underdog. Everyone loves an underdog, in fact. But being an underdog is all about having the internal fortitude to do the real gut checks, and about facing desperate odds with desperate dedication to do everything in your power to overcome them. That I can support through a 1—32 season. Try me. But it’s gotta be a real underdog I’m supporting. To put someone in that place who hasn’t earned it with their resolve to try whatever it takes that is noble (in contrast to stubbornness not to do anything differently)—that’s when I become dishonest myself.
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