Listening to Aaron Torres talk about what Cal said like it's a revelation. Saying he doesn't think Cal is speaking BS...boy, he doesn't know Cal.
Cal is so full of crap
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He is also generationally stupid.
One thing is for certain, you love you some John Calipari. You are certainly one of his biggest apologists. He would still be here if he could win more than one tournament game or if could have avoid an increasing number of embarrassing losses. The guy simply can't coach and it amazes me that you can't see that. He has wasted more talent than anyone else who has ever coached basketball.
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Can’t express how glad I am that he is not our coach anymore
Cal said this last year if you remember.This new article just came out here.
Calipari to apply new 'formula' to Arkansas roster
New Arkansas coach John Calipari acknowledged Wednesday that it will take a new "formula" to win in the NCAA tournament after a string of recent postseason failures at Kentucky, explaining, "The lesson was you can't do this now with seven freshmen."www.espn.com
Here is a quote about needing a new formula to win. I guess the Bennies were right Cal.
"The lesson was you can't do this now with seven freshmen," he said. "You just can't. You're going to hit a team that's 25 years old on average, one was 26, and that team is physically going to get you, and so now we have a couple transfers that are older, some kids that transferred from Kentucky that went through it, and they're a year older, and some freshmen."
He couldn't continue his program destroying efforts here at UK, and knew all eyes were on him come tournament time. Now he's free to do his job, whatever the hell that means, at Arkansas. Calipari is a clown.
Pigapari ... what a forkin' fraud. Ron White says Arkansas can't be fixed.This new article just came out here.
Calipari to apply new 'formula' to Arkansas roster
New Arkansas coach John Calipari acknowledged Wednesday that it will take a new "formula" to win in the NCAA tournament after a string of recent postseason failures at Kentucky, explaining, "The lesson was you can't do this now with seven freshmen."
Here is a quote about needing a new formula to win. I guess the Bennies were right Cal.
"The lesson was you can't do this now with seven freshmen," he said. "You just can't. You're going to hit a team that's 25 years old on average, one was 26, and that team is physically going to get you, and so now we have a couple transfers that are older, some kids that transferred from Kentucky that went through it, and they're a year older, and some freshmen."
Wait...I thought I was the only one who supposedly posted threads about Cal. What is this phenomenon?
I find it strange that so many still to this day miss it with Calipari.
Oh well, the issue with the “dead spots” on our court should suddenly correct itself now. I’d imagine Nike will suddenly pimp the brand again, and our coach will suddenly remember to play his best lineups. If people notice he was already recruiting older players in the portal….but oh well. I’ll leave it be.
Calipari’s downfall in the end, even though he’ll suddenly fix those problems too🙄, will be his coaching bench. He’s simply not a good floor guy and cannot resist the temptation to feel power and control.
At one of Calipari’s old stops he had an issue with the private plane he used for recruiting. The strong arming was heavy then too.
Formula is nothing more but another 'tweak' and a new 'Cal-ism' for Hog fans to wise up to soon what a blowhard CCC really is.
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Our uniforms got absymal after 2016. We wore those checkerboard uniforms for 6-7 years in a row. Beforehand we got new uniforms every year or two. With a slew of alternates every year.
I’m sure I’ve heard it before, he just continually repeats the same things.
Yea it’s just a wtf. Like a brand new beautiful floor getting trashed for the old faded square floor, hated uniforms sticking around, happens at every blue blood…..Hopefully that’s going to be corrected now.
Playing your best players too, that one slips…. Hopefully corrected now.
Don’t worry about the haters. He’s a championship winning coach here who many thought would retire a legend. He just got lazy and now coaches a rival. What he does will be news regardless if some don’t like it.
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Doubt we ever hear Cal and dominating on any espn show the rest of our life. He may win 20 games because of schedule manipulations that can cupcake your way through a season. For the most part we should have a 30 win season before he does. Go Cats!!
Yea for real, it’s interesting to talk about. Ya know it’s kind of influential news when a guy as influential as Calipari is gone to a rival (lower case r) and ends his tenure the way he did. In what world is that not going to be talked about? I’ll tell you which…
A sports message board where the ones who relentlessly defended the pos want it forgotten and dropped.
I didn’t say that last part out loud, it was strictly between me and you. In all seriousness thinking it should just be dropped is super weird and their post get super annoying when they complain about it. Is what it is move on to another thread.
Like it or not he’s probably gonna be in a lot of news the next 4-5 years at least. I mean we had Tubby news years after he left even Minnesota.
If he knew the formula he would have used it. He’s just talking out his butt.
This makes absolutely zero sense. He has 3 players who played at UK last year, 3 others who were committed to join and he has added 2 players to the same roster he was going to have at UK.
Not a lack of talent, resources, or even as mostly cited experience but rather insufficient attention to detail, disdain for focused preperation, failure to have eyes on the prizes of wins and banners as the prime directive, but most costly was the butthole puckering in the face of adversity and the teams reflecting that from their coach.
He had his job back.
He didn't believe he could get it done.
He got himself canned.
Freshman promises aint gettin it done.
If he takes 8 or 9 he has no shot.
He won 38 straight and said " I'll never do that again."
He's a stooge.
Pope is not a stooge. He's a very smart man.
$hit is looking up.
GBB
He didn't believe he could get it done.
He got himself canned.
Freshman promises aint gettin it done.
If he takes 8 or 9 he has no shot.
He won 38 straight and said " I'll never do that again."
He's a stooge.
Pope is not a stooge. He's a very smart man.
$hit is looking up.
GBB
A) its nice to not have articles about your coach every off season. At the time when cal was our coach it felt good bc “we were always in the spotlight” but really its just cal boosting his ego bc he cant stand not being in the limelight. He needs to be center of attention and he will say anything to be that but he wont follow through 90% of the time.
B) it doesnt matter unless he literally gets an nba all star team but even then he might blow it a la 2015. His in game coaching is like he doesnt understand basketball which is weird bc i know he does. It got so bad at the end here that ppl wanted to hire an “offensive coordinator” thats how bad pf a coach he is, he needed someone else to coach/call offense for him. It would be good for him wnd he semi did it with welch but of course cal couldnt even keep him around for more than 1 season so he went back to cal ball late in the year and tanked the season, again. Good luck arkansas brad is the new OC
B) it doesnt matter unless he literally gets an nba all star team but even then he might blow it a la 2015. His in game coaching is like he doesnt understand basketball which is weird bc i know he does. It got so bad at the end here that ppl wanted to hire an “offensive coordinator” thats how bad pf a coach he is, he needed someone else to coach/call offense for him. It would be good for him wnd he semi did it with welch but of course cal couldnt even keep him around for more than 1 season so he went back to cal ball late in the year and tanked the season, again. Good luck arkansas brad is the new OC
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He clearly promises minutes and defines roles. Only having 9 allows him to keep his commitments to the players. Same old Cal just the turd is packaged differently.
I think that everyone is missing that it takes older, more experienced players to run the magnificent RRRRUUUUUNNNNN and GGGGGOOOOO offense. 
Now he will have what he needs to make it work.
Now he will have what he needs to make it work.
That Aaron Torres guy is nothing more than a Sesame Street Muppet. I love his enthusiasm, but my God he rarely ever says earthshaking or controversial. He reads or "hears" something and it's off to YouTube.
Translation: “I failed at UK and ran away and only now can I admit that failure. I need to convince the older transfers that I care about them.”
Not to be confused with the very recent:
“This team is built for March.”
Not to be confused with the very recent:
“This team is built for March.”
Calipari defended the idea of not filling out all 13 scholarships with recruited players, as he said they are likely to finish at nine.
"The ninth? It depends on who it is," he said. "That's what we're looking for. Is it a shooter? Is it a 4-man that could shoot? Is it a strong physical [presence]? Is it a defensive guy? Or just right now I can breathe because we got eight and I'm hoping there'll be nine. But what if there's not? Somebody said, 'Well, what if you have injuries?' If the wrong guy gets injured on any team in this country, you're done."
Looking like the same old situation to me.
"The ninth? It depends on who it is," he said. "That's what we're looking for. Is it a shooter? Is it a 4-man that could shoot? Is it a strong physical [presence]? Is it a defensive guy? Or just right now I can breathe because we got eight and I'm hoping there'll be nine. But what if there's not? Somebody said, 'Well, what if you have injuries?' If the wrong guy gets injured on any team in this country, you're done."
Looking like the same old situation to me.
His "formula" comment cracks me up. The formula that really worked was convincing Calipari to fire himself.
Another thing that always irritated me about Cal—the wild exaggerations. No team out there is AVERAGING 25 years old. Ridiculous
It's going to be fun when arkanfat realizes they bought the Family Truckster
And he still can't coach. So glad he didn't get the support, assuming your opinion is correct .
To be fair. This NIL and Portal stuff is fairly new. They (the players) couldn't transfer like that before. I think his points are valid and he is trying to adjust to a new norm. Some coaches (like the Clemson Head Coach) would not admit that times have changed and it's time to adapt.
I think we had non freshman playing significant minutes so Cal like always is a spin meister.This new article just came out here.
Calipari to apply new 'formula' to Arkansas roster
New Arkansas coach John Calipari acknowledged Wednesday that it will take a new "formula" to win in the NCAA tournament after a string of recent postseason failures at Kentucky, explaining, "The lesson was you can't do this now with seven freshmen."
Here is a quote about needing a new formula to win. I guess the Bennies were right Cal.
"The lesson was you can't do this now with seven freshmen," he said. "You just can't. You're going to hit a team that's 25 years old on average, one was 26, and that team is physically going to get you, and so now we have a couple transfers that are older, some kids that transferred from Kentucky that went through it, and they're a year older, and some freshmen."
Yeah, the 23 team had seniors in: Oscar, Fredrick, Toppin, and Reeves. They pulled out a 6 seed.
All the "formulas, slogans, and "tweaks" in the world won't help horrible coaching. His yearly spin will continue in every direction but the mirror.
He has had the older teams in the past few years as well. He has gone back and forth and had teams that had both but still couldn't win in a big way. People act like Cal hasn't said this same thing before when he has!!
