Coaching is a teaching position. He should be there to celebrate the success of his students. I wouldn't expect you poor jealous babies to understand. Bragging rights to future recruits is a good thing.
Cal can’t help himself
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I didn't take it as a jab, but if you want to just stay pissed after a good win, you be you. Some people actually smile sometimes.
Recruiting and talking about it is fine….its the direct comments and divisive attitude he has with fans who have voiced displeasure with the over emphasis on the nba while the team he coaches is struggling. Time and place…time and place.
Drop the pompous attitude and “I showed you” mentality towards the ppl who support the program and live and breath this university……just say “I’m excited to go support the 7 Kentucky guys as they represent in the allstar game” and leave the divisiveness out of it. It isn’t difficult.
He does this after every win regardless of how bad or good they had looked the week prior. It “steals joy” and what could otherwise be a rallying around win turns into exactly what this thread is and keeps everyone divided about Cal….not about Kentucky and hopes for how the season ends….but abo it Cal. He makes it about himself instead of about the success of the team
Look.. started a whiny, bitchy mronic thread after an outstanding win necause you are miserable.
The problem is Cal doesn’t know how to read the room!
Then don’t watch. It’s really simple.
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I guarantee he doesn't think about you as much as you think about him
I’ve been a diehard fan my entire life. I’ll continue to watch. If you don’t like message board conversation then don’t read.
Reading comprehension is a critical skill. Nothing was negative. It’s about why ppl find it frustrating. Tactful Delivery matters in all walks of life and if he wants everyone on board then he should attempt to not rile up the natives and have a me vs them attitude.
There shouldn’t be any negatives after a win like tonight but he created one intentionally. He could have said he was going to go support our guys and the majority wouldn’t have seen fault in that….its when you intentionally make the tone and delivery as tho you’re trying tk rub ppls face in it that was upset when you dropped 3 straight home games at Rupp for the first time in our history. Both realities can be true you can support the guys while also taking accountability and working as a singular unit (fans, team, administration, university) to right the ship. Thats why there is so much animosity in the fanbase. Winning cures all of you win and get out of your own way.
Essentially, don’t stir the pot and then be mad everything is mixed up and swirling. You want calm seas…don’t rock the boat
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No kiddin. Gets a huge win and walks in the presser with some random weird rabbit ear thing about keep hating me but leave MY players out of it thing. Yeah their your players Cal not ours.
The guy is one of a kind. Things go bad and he’s quiet as a mouse, then gets one whiff of success and puffs up like a puffer fish everytime,, like the bad things never happened or will again.
Wish I had one half of that lack of self awareness. Life would be a lot easiest.
You say don’t read when you don’t want to read my opinion. Convenient. You seem mad that we won? Have a good one. HUGE win! I couldn’t be happier.
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THANK YOU.
Keep winning games like tonight and he can go to every game for all I care.
Yup. Insane. And we won. Are some people on this board actually mad we won…?
Cal is no longer needed on the earth. NIL has ended generational poverty.
We just beat a top 15 team that never loses at home on the road by double digits and people are like "Cal hurt my feelings in the post game".
And you have no clue why he does it, Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting. There I helped you out.
just taking jabs at the loudmouth asshole element of the fanbase....if his comments stings a bit they were aimed at you
Results, results, results or it is wasted effort and just a ego trip.
Did you see the press conference? Very concerning he needs readers and still won’t carry a pair with him. He’s hard-headed!
When he was winning big it was easier to let things slide. When you're not winning as much as you used to but you’re still blabbing away about All-Star weekend instead of telling the BBN what you're going to do to fix things, people have less patience for that.
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Instead of putting down any criticism, he should be worrying about winning games the rest of the season.
A million times this. People love arrogant if you can back it up.
When you lose three at home and act arrogant, it just comes across as delusional.
He doesn’t take criticism well. He takes it personal.
No issue with that but did find it ridiculous he broke out the old line of stop criticizing his players. Literally no one is criticizing the players
Didn't hear it, so no context as far as tone and conversation in general. However, that is his brand.
He's the NBA guy. He goes to all-star games, he has combines, he likes playing in MSG, he likes taking on projects just like the league likes to do, he likes to reference all the players who are tearing up the league, etc...
Every time I start to get a little frustrated, I remember that he told us what he wanted to do and never misses an opportunity to remind us. So, at the very least he's been transparent and honest.
He is doing what he set out to do. I suppose that is kind of respectable. He's called his shots all along the way like a pool player.
"2 ball Corner pocket...this ball center pocket...that ball over there..."
"Players first to the league...Draft night gonna be great...max contracts to a billion and beyond...all-star weekend hear we come look at all these alumn..."
He's the NBA guy. He goes to all-star games, he has combines, he likes playing in MSG, he likes taking on projects just like the league likes to do, he likes to reference all the players who are tearing up the league, etc...
Every time I start to get a little frustrated, I remember that he told us what he wanted to do and never misses an opportunity to remind us. So, at the very least he's been transparent and honest.
He is doing what he set out to do. I suppose that is kind of respectable. He's called his shots all along the way like a pool player.
"2 ball Corner pocket...this ball center pocket...that ball over there..."
"Players first to the league...Draft night gonna be great...max contracts to a billion and beyond...all-star weekend hear we come look at all these alumn..."
I think every team in America can say “ if we win our games, we are champs”
I don’t criticize players I criticize the guy that’s making 10 million a year to run the ship. Yesterday was a great win but along the way we’ve had some devastating losses one loss or one win does not a season make let’s see where we are the first weekend of April
the guys on SEC now were bagging on him big time for that
he is a bit of a joke among those guys at this point, and most of the media world has been rolling their eyes at his faux outrage and narrative control for years.
coming out pumping his chest like this was the plan all along. His team gets bounced early in the tournament and he'll never be able to talk trash again...well, he will , because he is an arrogant jackass, but people will laugh at him to his face
Everything he has done this year is setting himself up to where he has to succeed in March. He better be able to pull it off.
The truth:
- Cal isn't a BAD coach when he tries, although he's always been more of a salesman, recruiter and pop psychologist than an in-game strategist.
- Since 2015, he hasn't gotten the job done. And as I've said, the job is increasingly insane at this level...and others have gradually bailed on it (including other HOFers like K, Roy, Wright) and there isn't any inherent shame in falling behind the times.
- What DOES make it shameful is continually not meeting expectations but acting like an arrogant idiot (in denial) about it every chance you get, in spite of making ridiculous money in a poor state that can't really afford it.
- And oh by the way, Mitch is the real moron/villain in all of this.
Final comment: as always, I cheer for UK always and forever and would rather be wrong if it means we win.
- Cal isn't a BAD coach when he tries, although he's always been more of a salesman, recruiter and pop psychologist than an in-game strategist.
- Since 2015, he hasn't gotten the job done. And as I've said, the job is increasingly insane at this level...and others have gradually bailed on it (including other HOFers like K, Roy, Wright) and there isn't any inherent shame in falling behind the times.
- What DOES make it shameful is continually not meeting expectations but acting like an arrogant idiot (in denial) about it every chance you get, in spite of making ridiculous money in a poor state that can't really afford it.
- And oh by the way, Mitch is the real moron/villain in all of this.
Final comment: as always, I cheer for UK always and forever and would rather be wrong if it means we win.
I don’t care what he does after we win. I don’t see it as a jab to fans either but it’s all a matter of how you receive it. Simply saying what he’s doing tomorrow.
And we'll all fondly remember those absolute abortions of NCAA tournament efforts won't we? But I'm the loon. Screw off.
Win a big game and he diminishes it with his smart assery
He is a thin skinned man
He is a thin skinned man
