Selling point for what? Get to the NBA/ Pros without playing defense, winning SECT/ regular season titles, or FF’s and Championships?
Kentucky is always here. Those players are a a revolving door. In and out in a handful of months. Does he have the same pride in his failures? The ones he let down? There have been more of them. They all have parents.
Yeah, he got them to where they are, but he didn't do it in a way that was conducive to the team winning. He's always worried about his draft picks, and EVERY DODGAMNED SEASON other guys don't get developed.
Don’t care. I’m about the name on the front of the jersey
How dare fans expect him to more than ONE TITLE in FOURTEEN YEARS. How dare the fans expect Cow to put team before the draft picks, or win the sec conference on occasion. The nerve of some fans.
Cow blows
You can't lump all of the criticism into that category, though.
Well, he signed on with the understanding that he was going to run a Players Fist program. He'd written a book about it. He screamed it during his first Midnight Madness. In case people weren't aware. He got his famous extension after Barnhart had time to absorb the implications. So, actually, he is exactly doing his job. A Players First program.
What's weird is assuming people are "haters" if they aren't happy with something. And it's laughable that people should be happy having the coach of a college basketball program whose primary goal isn't college basketball success.
Can't assume people are "hating"? You wouldn't kid a kid, would ya, kid?
I could care less about the NBA and no offense really don't care a whole lot when it is a one and done that I only saw one year at UK. I think Cal should have jumped to the NBA but I am not sure any GM wanted him as their coach, his time with the Nets kind of sucked.
But he doesn't listen to the noise, yea right!? He's so full of bullSugarHoneyIce Tea it's not funny. HE is the one that coined the we don't play college bb, WE ARE CBB, we are going to catch ucla, we are the GOLD STANDARD retetortic! He let his mouth write a check his coaching ability couldn't cash. Remember CCC, earned not promised. He is a pathetic narcissist.
Just to update…… we’ve won one title in the past 25 years
The ole Bobby Knight defense. Making future leaders. What a crock is BS. There are PLENTY of coaches that instill leadership, maturity, and life skills into players. Some of those coaches even win meaningful basketball games. Anyone that's ever been around actual strong leaders can spot them. I don't know Cal personally, but how whiny, deflecting, dissmissve, arrogant etc as he comes off makes be believe he is far from an actual leader. Cal is phoney leadership. Never takes any accountability. All talk. As they say, he's all hat and no cattle.
That's not Rick's fault lol. Had he stayed you can take it to the bank that he would have had more titles. Billy was too busy stuffing players into stalls and hiding whiskey flasks in his jacket. Tubby was too busy looking for ways to "play tuffer". 15 out of the past 25 years Cow has been here.
No, they play for my school and I’m fans of them. I wish them success. You keep crying, I’ll keep enjoying them being wildly successful.
Darius Miller is the most under-appreciated player in modern UK history. Stayed thru BCG, was Cal's whipping boy for two years, was a huge key to the turnaround in 2011, and was content being 6th man on the title team when he deserved to start.
Recruit elite 5 star guards. Go get the best grown man 4-5s from the portal. No more stickmen getting blown over by the wind unless they are a generational talent HS big man
No. Players First was the understanding of what Calipari intended to do. There very well may be excellent examples of coaches trying to make their players decent men. Calipari narrowed that: he was training players to make a living at playing basketball. That and their physical-well being were the focus of the program.
Cal trumpeting the 2020 team and saying "THEY COULD HAVE WON A NATIONAL TITLE" but he STILL, to THIS DAY, will not explain why he sat Hagans against FL in the final game of the season.
Wow. JUST WOOOOOOW. You REALLY believe Cal singlehandedly took these players like urchins off the street and taught them how to play basketball and landed them in the NBA all by himself? LOL what a SMALL mind.
His performance - you know in college basketball which is his job after all - hasn't been incompetent. But it's arguably not been up to UK's standards - or his salary - for awhile now.
Calipari said we were going to catch UCLA. Still waiting.
You (and others) keep ignoring that he and Barnhart (Calipari's boss) agreed that his job is teaching young men at UK how to play professional basketball. You can insist it's something else.
He couldn’t win it with the 2010 and 2015 teams. No way he was winning it with 2020. That’s before the Hagan’s meltdown. We let TN come back from 14 down after Hagan’s refusal to go back in the game, then beat a lowly Fla team on the road.
