A couple of guys I work with are not UK fans, but they have both stated "he's a good recruiter but can't coach"
Cal bragging about his NBA all star records
- Thread starter ukjenning44
- Start date
The more the players success is placed above the teams success the less I care about the players. I’m a fan of the team first and the players second. If a player is put ahead of the team or puts himself ahead of the team, I have no use for them.
Well I think I that’s the whole point, isn’t it? The recruiting is great, but where are the results to follow? Isn’t that what the whole clip is about? Him telling us why we should be happy about the recruiting, even though in his words “we haven’t been to a final four in 9 years”? Why then should we care about top recruits? It’s like he was trying to convince us that we, as Kentucky fans, should be happy about past players being good in the NBA. It should be obvious to all of us. If you have to explain to people why a joke is funny, it’s probably not that funny. A truly funny joke would make people laugh without explanation.
Yeah that Sharpe guy really made an impact. Thanks for pointing that out. Genius.
This! Without the corresponding results, the recruiting doesn't really matter at all. Or it shouldn't.
I'm starting to think all the NBA spam posts on the board are the result when you brainwash people into thinking the point of college basketball is to have the best recruiting class.
Color me confused. Can't they have success at UK first? Or is it coaching? Hummm.
It's no secret Cal has PR staff that peruse message boards and social media. It's their job to gauge the pulse of the fans.
His problem is that he tends to passively mock the fans in responses. Or at least it regularly appears that's what he's doing.
Being proud is not what he's exhibiting in these messages. He's trying to take credit for it, and then slaps a few mentions of "Kentucky" in attempts to get the fans to jump on board.
Bottom line:
1. Cal had nothing to do with where they are today. Zero.
2. Kentucky had nothing to do with where they are today, or that they are in the NBA.
3. Kentucky fans had no impact on these kids making it in the NBA or succeeding in the NBA.
and the biggest one:
4. Kentucky fans (most) don't give a rats ass about how many past UK one and dones are in the NBA.
Cal is totally out of touch with UK fans!!
That sounds great too. I was responding to someone who said they didn’t care if ONE single player ever made the nba….
Sounds pretty selfish and against the main reason 99% of people would ever go to college (to get a job) which is what most of the players and their parents choose for, whether you like it or not…
after todays game, anytime Cal just has one of his glib statements he makes, I want someone in the crowd to yell "STFU CAL"
and I want it to happen like 5 times a day
and I want it to happen like 5 times a day
In what way were our NBA All Stars success placed before the team? They are no longer on the team and their NBA success has nothing to do with our team success. It’s just something crybabies use to cry about. None of you give a single damn about these kids then cry that they’re not loyal. You’re not loyal, they’re just entertainment for middle aged weirdos with no life.
Imagine being so dumb that you think have 7 NBA All Stars cost us the Gonzaga game.
Last edited:
Cal is looking more like a DMV worker that takes credit for the great drivers he's taken pictures of than a coach with anything about which to brag.
The more talent he's got on a roster, the more he chokes on it. The only thing I was surprised about after this loss was that he didn't send his wife out to handle the post game press conference.
Don't get me wrong tho. She'd be a better interview and probably knows more about the game. In fact, it would be the first time since Cal arrived that a Calipari actually answered the questions the press asked. Plus there might be brownies
If Cal went to the grocery store to buy eggs and bread for 10 years, and got home each time to find the bagger completely smashed all the great eggs he paid 9 million dollars for and stomped on the bread he loved for years he'd have you believe he wouldn't be bothered by it. Is it dementia, deceit, or delusion that's gotten hold of him at this point? It's clearly not coaching or reason and it's never been compassion for the fans that help pay his way
You have missed the whole point. ALL UK fans are happy for our former players success at the next level.
BUT, when our head coach, that is making $8 million/ year to win games, LOSES in Rupp 3 times in a row for the FIRST time in the HISTORY of that Arena, then our fans have EVERY RIGHT in the world to call out a coach that has PUBLICLY proclaimed that getting kids into the NBA is his TOP priority!!!!
Then you add to that the fact that this SAME coach has ALLOWED the "Gold Standard of college basketball" to slide to a point LOWER THAN what has gotten former coaches FIRED, to take another job or to retire, then YOU are the one that is "DUMB" if you think fans aren't JUSTIFIED in their feelings toward this NON-PRODUCTIVE coach!!!
Cal has tried to SHOVE the NBA success of our former players down our throats for years!!! It was GREAT when he ACTUALLY won the SEC, SEC Tournament and was getting UK to Final 4's!!! But when he started LOSING to not just the Bigtime schools but Evansville, St. Peter's and UNC WIlmington on top of first year HC's in the SEC and Vandy TWICE last year, fans don't want to hear about the success of former players in the NBA when UK is LOSING WAAAAAAAYYYYY TOO OFTEN!!!!!
The criticism is 1000% toward Cal, NOT our former players!!!!
But you knew that.
Last edited:
How does he explain the home loss to Evansville (ranked #298 out of 354 with a 9-23 record) with Maxey and that team?
and “how’s that been work’in for ya?”. 😂
He's never been in touch.
Too bad the NCAA doesn’t award a trophy for most former players in the NBA all star game. We could place it in the trophy case beside the award for most points given up on baseline inbounds plays.
I have not watched an NBA game in years, they could shut that league down as far as I care. I "do" care about Kentucky ....
You have the right to call out the coach but our NBA All Stars have nothing to do with us losing 3 games in a row. Why is that so hard to get? You can’t explain the correlation between having NBA All Stars and the kids on this team losing. The criticism about All Stars is absolutely moronic. Complaining about a coach shoving the success of former players down your throat is moronic too. There are 1000 things to complain about but you unhinged weirdos want to complain about everything, even our successes. That’s how I can tell you’re not real fans. Our successes make you miserable because hating the coach comes first.
How does he explain a season where he goes 9-16? There is absolutely no excuse for it…
Cal is touting putting players in the NBA and the number of players from UK in the All Star game. That is really nice.
I noticed he isn't talking up his win loss record at UK since 2017. Do you think UK fans buy UK gear because SGA is doing well in the NBA? Do you think UK fans pay a premium to go to UK games to watch poorly coached basketball teams because of 7 NBA all Stars?
Mitch and Cal treat UK basketball as a business. Guess what happens when you are an expensive restaurant and the food goes from high quality to awful?
Cal is a salesman
Salesman have quotas
Cal hasn't met his quota in at least 4 years
You don't keep Salesmen who don't meet their quota
Salesman have quotas
Cal hasn't met his quota in at least 4 years
You don't keep Salesmen who don't meet their quota
Cal is more like Dean Smith. For years, Kentucky fans said Smith was the biggest underachieving coach ever given the talent he had. Plus, it really took two of the biggest flukes in title game history to seal his wins
Why the hell when he talk about his win loss record when the subject a record number of UK players making the NBA All Star game? He didn’t talk about what he had for breakfast either. Again, 1000 real things to complain about, you unhinged weirdos choose a great accomplishment to cry about.
Good luck in your defense of a guy who continues to spiral.
No dumbazz...having that idiot of a coach that you like to prop up cost us the Gonzaga game. The theory being that his preoccupation w/ the number of nba players w/ which he can associate himself has supplanted the desire to win games for the University of Kentucky (who still pays the assclown's salary), and in turn is costing the program wins and prestige at an unacceptable rate
Last edited:
He conveniently didnt say anything about the 9-16 team . Just spent a lot of breath about how he put together the Maxey team that was destined for a final four or more until covid hit
LOL at someone as stupid as you calling someone dumbass. Yeah, I’m fully aware of what cost us the Gonzaga game dumb boy and that why I know it wasn’t NBA All Stars. You’re too dumb to get that, you’re a loser with mob mentality who will reach for any negativity no matter how stupid like be mad that we have NBA All Stars. You’re a complete joke.
You couldn’t show once instance of me propping up Cal. More ignorance from you. You don’t have a lick of common sense, just a weirdo loser incessantly crying and making up lies about people propping up Cal.
Maybe I missed something in your previous idiotic ramblings....I'm sure you missed the point of my post: people aren't mad at the kids making the all-stars--we're disgusted that Cal would use the occassion to prop up his own crumbling reign of mismanagement of our program
Yeah, you either missed something or you’re dumb af, likely both. The point is having NBA players having success has nothing to do with us losing. You can be disgusted with Cal without making moronic comments and acting like having successful former players is a bad thing. There is no correlation between losing with the current team and Tyrese Maxey and others making an all star game. Again, y’all are so toxic you will reach for anything to be negative no matter how stupid.
It just happened and it was relevant, he didn’t randomly just bring it up to prop up anything. The jokes in this fanbase are the only fans on the planet that get mad when former players have success. You have legitimate stuff to complain about but you pick this. You’re all a joke.
OK spanky. I'm done...you're one thick middle schooler
stop trying to reason with leadbelly. He's beyond imbecilic.
You were done before you started because you were making a moronic argument.
Always message board BS from these frauds who can’t defend their moronic takes. Every single time. We know you can’t defend the moronic take that having 7 NBA all stars is a bad thing so you deflect every single time.
7 NBA all stars is a bad thing when you have 1 that’s right only 1 NCAA championship to show for it. The last time I checked he coaches for the Wildcats which is in the NCAA where it’s his job to win NCAA titles not worry about how many damn NBA all stars he has. I guess we are the stupid ones though because he said as much when he took the job in 2009……..
