Cal squanderd all that talent and now Reeds 1 year at UK

[Elliott Tim]

Not complaining about Reed.

Complaining about Cal.

Getting off this subject, I would like to ask your opinion on a matter.
I am 72 years old and I never started getting serious about Kentucky basketball till the 66 championship game. We've had Rupp, Hall, Sutton, Pitino, BCG, Calapari and Pope.
In my years I have never seen a coach at UK that had the ability to put together a team like Pitino. Not here to talk about his moral failures, but him as coach.
When he left at the end of 97 I thought we are witnessing the departure of one of the greatest basketball minds ever .
Except for Cal's decent run and Tubby's c'ship with leftover's from the 97 runner up team, we've witnessed nothing comparable to the Pitino era.
In my mind I hoped we would bring him back, but in my heart I know how hard it is to catch lightning in a bottle.
Your thoughts? both now and then?

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Getting off this subject, I would like to ask your opinion on a matter.
I am 72 years old and I never started getting serious about Kentucky basketball till the 66 championship game. We've had Rupp, Hall, Sutton, Pitino, BCG, Calapari and Pope.
In my years I have never seen a coach at UK that had the ability to put together a team like Pitino. Not here to talk about his moral failures, but him as coach.
When he left at the end of 97 I thought we are witnessing the departure of one of the greatest basketball minds ever .
Except for Cal's decent run and Tubby's c'ship with leftover's from the 97 runner up team, we've witnessed nothing comparable to the Pitino era.
In my mind I hoped we would bring him back, but in my heart I know how hard it is to catch lightning in a bottle.
Your thoughts? both now and then?

I agree on how great he was. I didn't see Rupp. I do think Hall had a run with Givens almost as good as Pitino and Cal. I don't think bringing him back was going to happen.

 

[Elliott Tim]

Getting off this subject, I would like to ask your opinion on a matter.
I am 72 years old and I never started getting serious about Kentucky basketball till the 66 championship game. We've had Rupp, Hall, Sutton, Pitino, BCG, Calapari and Pope.
In my years I have never seen a coach at UK that had the ability to put together a team like Pitino. Not here to talk about his moral failures, but him as coach.
When he left at the end of 97 I thought we are witnessing the departure of one of the greatest basketball minds ever .
Except for Cal's decent run and Tubby's c'ship with leftover's from the 97 runner up team, we've witnessed nothing comparable to the Pitino era.
In my mind I hoped we would bring him back, but in my heart I know how hard it is to catch lightning in a bottle.
Your thoughts? both now and then?

I agree on how great he was. I didn't see Rupp. I do think Hall had a run with Givens almost as good as Pitino and Cal. I don't think bringing him back was going to happen.

Hall was better than he got credit for.
3 final fours, National And NIT champs.. Not bad for 13 years.
Tubby could coach, but didn't like the politics of recruiting.
BCG was downright weird. I felt like we were in the Twilight Zone.
Cal started out to be humbled and honored to be here.
His true demise? We can only speculate.
I hope Pope does well.
The odds say no, but time will tell.
I hope his transparency is real.
God bless you Nailman.

 

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Awful

Hi Leadbelly

 

[MrHotDice]

Getting off this subject, I would like to ask your opinion on a matter.
I am 72 years old and I never started getting serious about Kentucky basketball till the 66 championship game. We've had Rupp, Hall, Sutton, Pitino, BCG, Calapari and Pope.
In my years I have never seen a coach at UK that had the ability to put together a team like Pitino. Not here to talk about his moral failures, but him as coach.
When he left at the end of 97 I thought we are witnessing the departure of one of the greatest basketball minds ever .
Except for Cal's decent run and Tubby's c'ship with leftover's from the 97 runner up team, we've witnessed nothing comparable to the Pitino era.
In my mind I hoped we would bring him back, but in my heart I know how hard it is to catch lightning in a bottle.
Your thoughts? both now and then?

Pitinos teams won games by pressure defense for 40 minutes. The press uses a lot of players which everyone had a role. Most of his teams had no one play over 20-25 minutes and teams getting the ball past midcourt was hard and the traps were on the sidelines. Double teams became an offense. Other teams who only had one or two guards worked not to get open but to just get the ball in a position that if they made one mistake they lost it or fired up a bad shot.

 

[MO_Blue]

What does Reeds decision have to do with failure.?

Has he ever shown up for a playoff game either in in HS or college? Just curious.

 

[Elliott Tim]

Has he ever shown up for a playoff game either in in HS or college? Just curious.

?

 

[Hoskins91]

Think Reed holds some responsibility for that, basically no showing. Doesn’t matter who the coach was, that team wasn’t winning anything. As someone who is happy to move on at this point.

 

[blubo]

Cal surpasses Dean as the biggest waster of talent ever.

he achieved that a few years ago