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Cal weighs in on the roster…

it sounds like you want 7 guys to play the 1, 2 and 3 spots and 3 guys to play the 4 and 5 spots
that is very unbalanced

Guards- Wagner, Dillingham, Reeves, Shep
SF- Edwards
PF- Bradshaw
C- Onyenso

Hybrid- Thiero (can play 3 or 4 in small ball)

Add another big and a shooter

We would have 3 bigs, 1 hybrid for small ball and shooter could be any size

I don't want a bunch of the same type of player at one spot. We've had too much of that the past few years at 4 spot. It has been a major issue.
 
I’ve said it on here before, but I feel Cal was the bad guy and outsider of college bball for the majority of his career. The media and other coaches didn’t like him. After the 12 title and HOF induction, he got the recognition he craved, and wanted to create this good guy image to end his career. So he went the opposite direction of what made him successful to try and be liked by everyone. It hasn’t worked out, and it is costing him his on court legacy.

The Cal from 10-17 would absolutely laugh and kick the sh*t out of this current version of Cal.
Hard to argue with this. I'd say it's probably pretty accurate. People tend to soften as they age as well.
 
But the bottom line is that the Portal talent is pretty bare now. Cal is going to be left with getting a few role players to back up his freshmen class. In the end UK will be trying to compete with 18/19 yr olds against 22/23 year olds that have tons of college experience.
He has a plan..........
 
Well we won't see it now, but if he came back and went for 16/9 or something, and our replacement went 9/6 or something, people would definitely complain.
The Kluch bunch made it EXTREMELY CLEAR that they were none to pleased with the way Livingston was used here under Cal. Even after Cal bent over backwards to try and please them and Chris by playing him at the 3. Cal KNEW from the moment the season ended that he was NOT coming back for a Soph season.


Cal is now blaming the fact that he couldn’t attract a decent group of transfers to come here on holding onto players he KNEW were either NOT returning or shopping themself around.

He has become a LAUGHING STOCK and we are left having to deal with it. Thanks to Mitch.

SAD
 
Oh, my bad. I totally missed that in your post. But yes, I'd totally agree with that. Basically got caught with little Cal in his hands.

You know what totally baffles me about all of this? Cal used to have a shady rep and lean on his relationship with WWW. Was he cheating? Was he turning a blind eye? Was he bending as much as he could? I think you could honestly answer yes to any of those and have a valid argument. Now that you can actually pay, in a way, players...he's decided that's not how he wants to do it? GTFO, you lazy fat POS. Nothing but an excuse for why he's now getting his a$$ kicked.
Well, his millions are coming regardless of his efforts. I believe that is how he sees it. He feels semi-retired. JMO
 
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It's a tough spot, since the players have all the power now. If we brought in guys immediately and then Oscar/Reeves/Livingston all returned and xfered, people would want Cal's head over that too. Especially if they went on to have AA level seasons at a rival or elsewhere.
apparently at other schools, the players don't have all of the power......Arkansas, Arizona, IU, UT, UNC, Kansas just to name a few have all added players to improve their team. And they did this without asking for players permission.
 
Planned for every scenario? Lol, we will see about that, because UK is in next to worse case scenario as of today, and we know every player available that Cal does, and it’s not much as far as building depth.

And no high school junior reclassing to college is going to trump high quality portal transfers.

Calipari must think we are idiots! Or is that Bennies😂
 
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Well, his millions are coming regardless of his efforts. I believe that is how he sees it. He feels semi-retired. JMO
Correct. No hunger. He reached the mountain top. Title in 12. HoF induction. But he's sitting on $9M+ annually and has no internal desire to do anything that requires getting dirty. Sad.
 
I am eager for UK to return to basketball dominance, with or without Cal, but I actually like parts of that statement. Cal would be doing himself a big favor to communicate more frankly with the fan base, even when it means saying there are things happening that can’t be discussed publicly.

I disagree though that the team can’t move until it knows what the roster is gonna be. If NIL and the portal are gonna continue to work this way, it will be essential to put contingency plans in place. Multiple layers.
Don't you have comprehension skills..............read the tweet again........
 
Gary Parrish said last night on a podcast that in speaking with UK that they were doing so well with NIL that they were well ahead of other teams. Guess not so much!
 
"We want players who want this culture, who care about winning, understand what it means to play at Kentucky - both how hard and how rewarding it is - and have the ultimate drive to win and succeed on the biggest stage, which helps everyone. "
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This should read : We want a coach who wants this culture, who cares about winning, understand what it means to
coach at Kentucky - both how hard and how rewarding it is - and have the ultimate drive to win and succeed on the biggest stage, which helps everyone.
 
So basically Cal will get a couple of scrubs that is all that's left in the portal and pretend that was his plan all along.
Portal scraps, yep. And some on here will say "told you so! Cal is on top of this, he filled the roster!!" Yeah, he filled it with the cheese stuck to the side of the dip container and some broccoli from the veggie tray. The Lil Smokies and meatballs are long gone.
 
Guards- Wagner, Dillingham, Reeves, Shep
SF- Edwards
PF- Bradshaw
C- Onyenso

Hybrid- Thiero (can play 3 or 4 in small ball)

Add another big and a shooter

We would have 3 bigs, 1 hybrid for small ball and shooter could be any size

I don't want a bunch of the same type of player at one spot. We've had too much of that the past few years at 4 spot. It has been a major issue.
Cal is the issue! This is spinning 💩 like he does!
 
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Cal is the issue! This is spinning 💩 like he does!

At what point did I spin 💩 again? I don't want 3 of the same player at the same position. It doesn't work because Cal forces on of them out of position. He did it with Hopkins and Livingston.
 
At what point did I spin 💩 again? I don't want 3 of the same player at the same position. It doesn't work because Cal forces on of them out of position. He did it with Hopkins and Livingston.
Doesn’t matter if we had 13 different type players. Dumbo can’t coach.
 
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