Bruce Pearl
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Auburn to Indiana is not a lateral move....not even close in the basketball world. Indiana fans live and breathe IU, there is more history and Pearl would have a chance to make a positive mark for once.
I’ll just say this , I’ll hate the sweat hog wherever he is . He’s a cheat and disgusting.
Never been a fan of the sweat hog but Cal is grating on me worse than Pearl. He also plays a much more entertaining game. His teams attack on offense and defense, they don't lay back and let the other team set the pace.
IU is too stupid to hire Bruce...He would have them in the hunt quickly..(F4 in 3-5 years). I hope they continue to be stupid
Maybe so but still is no different then the issues Cal had prior to hiring him. Just saying.
It’s all just hypothetical. Bruce is too old to even be considered at Kentucky. He’s in his 60s.
They didn’t keep Cal from it. Whether he was guilty or not, just like Bruce the perception was there.
This is blatantly not true. Kentucky won the SEC over them last year. While they lost to them in NCAA in 2019, I'd say Kentucky still had better overall team that year. Kentucky was definitely better in 2016-17, and only year Auburn may have been better is 2017-18, where they won a share of SEC crown.
Exactly right. IMO, Oats would absolutely kill it at UK. I’m not sure to what level of recruiter he is, but anyone with a pulse should be able to bring good players here. Not sure what was wrong with Tubby. Everyone knows his recruiting was abysmal. BCG as well.
Should have specified I was counting this season. better than us this year. Better than us in 2019, better in 2018.
Meh. We got some pretty raw deal officiating in that game. Our bigs were man handled on the last couple plays of regulation. If Cal would’ve made an adjustment to stop the drives in the lane, that wouldn’t have mattered, though.
They weren't better in 2019. By the same token, Kentucky wasn't the better team in 2011 than Ohio St. despite beating them in the NCAA tournament.
I feel better about Kentucky being better than them at the end of this year too. Despite fans being in love with Bruce Pearl, bad defense for his teams often limit their postseason prospects.
Oats is definitely one to watch. The turnaround in two years at Alabama is amazing. If he continues on this upward trajectory he has to be on the short list. If he's not the greatest recruiter, then just pay for a big time assistant to help go get players for him. I couldn't imagine that many players wouldn't be extremely excited to play a style ball.
We lost because PJ couldn't hit free throws (again), Ashton turned it over 2,000 times and Auburn was more aggressive.
The refs jobbed us in 2017, we jobbed ourselves in '18 & '19.
Better than us in 2019? We beat them 2 out of 3, a 2 point win at Auburn and a 27 point win at home. They barely escaped in OT against us in the tourney when we played horrible and they played great. I don’t think they were better.
I totally agree. Still, if we could even buy a whistle in the last few possessions, we win. That’s never gonna happen with Cal here. One of the biggest reasons I’m ready for a change.
We will have to be 20 points better than the field to win another title. It’s been proven time and time again.
It looked to me like we lost our legs and started reaching in OT.
Make free throws in regulation and don’t turn the ball over and we win easily.
I can tell you some of what was wrong with Tubby's recruiting and even with Beard's recruiting today. Kids do not like to play their style of basketball. Slow, plodding offense, and hard, in your jock defense.
Those two things combined turn a lot of talented kids away from a program.
I actually think it is also affecting Cal's recruiting since 2015. There is a reason he no longer gets the top skills players. A slug can rebound and play defense. Not everyone can score the basketball. Those who can want to shoot and score the dang ball. They hate a 50-48 game coaching style.
