Cal is too preoccupied slaying the imaginary, evil windmills of generational poverty that he should now be remembered as Coach John Quixote ... not to disparage poor Don, but it works.
In fairness, there's also several variables at play comparing Pitino's last 96 games to Calipari's last 96 games. So if we're going to say apples to oranges, let's apply it to all parties involved, not just the one that goes against the OP narrative.
If we have a GOOD regular season--1 seed or 2 seed and make the Elite 8, I'll think things are back on track.
Tell me how Cal left UMass and Memphis. I believe two vacated final 4s there. Nobody is legitimately asking for Pitino back.
Not even closed to what the poster was saying, and unfortunately you even probably knew that
That’s an embarrassment for any blue blood school.
The poster asked what is Pitino’s record vs Cal. What is the point of Pitino’s record vs Cal? The comparison is simply UK coaches records over their last 5 years as UK coach.
Pretty sure he was referring to the previous posters that were saying Pitino's record was better because "he can actually coach" and "he knows Xs and Os) and so on, so forth. Poster was raising the obivous point that head to head, doesn't seem like Pitino has outcoached Cal very often
That quote used to really upset me but as I wrote in another post, I believe Cal has to use that in his mind to rationalize his record over the past 5-6 years. Cal was patently obvious when he came to UK that it was to recruit the best of the best and to help them attain their goals. But he said if UK did that the wins and championships would follow. He definitely has lived up to getting the NBA contracts-although the overwhelming majority of those recruits were already on draft boards-but the wins and championships (not meaning only NCAA) have not kept pace.
Couldn't agree more. I happened to mention your sig b/c mine is identical. LOL.
Don’t know who you are referring me to or why but you do you. I don’t sit on a message board and memorize who posts what. If the implication was I loved Tubby, I did at first. Who wouldn’t. But when it became painfully obvious he was a lazy recruiter who seemed to be more about setting up GG and Saul, I was on board with time for him to go.
I'm just clarifying the time frame. And it's important because there are people who here who might now think Cal is some 62% winning coach over the last 5 years.
It's not, but I always find the Pitino vs Cal comments amusing. Different eras. Current era Cal has owned Pitino. Home, away, neutral. Dominance.
That’s fine but give each the same resources and compare head to head. When Pitino was at UK he absolutely owned Cal’s ass. And the one time Cal exposed UK, Pitino pulled Delk from PG and put in Epps and we know how that ended up.
Fan base hasn’t gone anywhere. Only the miserable CHC
I said it was a toss up between Cal and Sutton for 5th best uk coach looks like Eddie beat him out by a little bit looking at those %.
I’m just saying bottom line is winning and losing. People can talk about all this other stuff all they want but it all comes down to winning and losing.
Wouldn't be a bit surprised if we were paired in a bracket with St. Johns...NCAA loves that kind of shit...
The fan base never left. If it means the gruntled haters leave for good, not getting to the FF won’t be all bad. Nobody needs those sad sack bashers. Self or Pearl more their speed.
Maybe I’ve missed it but , I didn’t see the post asking for Pitino back.
