I concede that Cal begins the season talking about the talent he has. Its Kentucky we always have talent, its coach speak. It's to help build confidence thats normal. This time Cal is calling the practices some of the best ever since arriving. He talked like that in 2015 not at all last year. The OP was in my opinion pandering to the negative Nancy's with a false statement.Say whatever you like. It wasn’t completely wrong. Cal openly lobbied for the NCAA to have a season because he said he had a really good team. He did this at least twice that I know of. I’m pretty sure it was after they had started practicing. According to this KSR article, he had been working with the team for a month.
This. While I can’t remember which team, I clearly remember him telling some team in the past 3/4 years they were the fastest team—as a team—that he’d had here. He said it very early and man it didn’t pan out. Made some growing pains harder.
These days I pay zero attention to the bs that comes out of his mouth.
Rupp hasn't been full in years. This year won't change that.
He should be. Changing the culture is a dangerous game.
Same. I'm not getting fooled again..last year really cut deep.
@chroix @Cal-4-Three , perhaps I didn't write that clearly enough for you two. Cal is changing fan culture. You'll see when you look around at empty seats in Rupp every game. Its more than tv's, its apathy. Perhaps you find that funny, I dont.
You blame culture change. I’ll blame nice ass TVs. And more entertainment options. And NCAA corruption. Trend started well before “culture change”.
I'm thinking 1000k means 1 million. Add three zeroes to the 1000, right? Damn, that's a lot of shots.
Well it's subtle ... but the OP says Cal said the team had "one of the best practices since I've been here", when the tweet said "some of the best practices since I've been here."
It wasn’t wrong at all, Cal talked his team up this time last year, it wasn’t until immediately before the season where he started talking about expect growing pains and be patient and such.Say whatever you like. It wasn’t completely wrong. Cal openly lobbied for the NCAA to have a season because he said he had a really good team. He did this at least twice that I know of. I’m pretty sure it was after they had started practicing. According to this KSR article, he had been working with the team for a month.
There is a big difference between saying I have a really good team, and we had a really good practice. One is about overall talent, and the other is about hard work and listening.
True, but read the article I posted. Cal talked last year’s team up like it was a top 3 or 4 team since he’s been at UK. Said repeatedly that the only thing that could stop them was Covid and not having a tournament. He talked them up mightily.
Not really. Some like single strands, others like splitting them.
That’s how rough riders roll.
Two disastrous years out of 12 has me thinking more positively than negatively. If it was five bad years or seven bad years, then my faith would be with this mentality.
To each his own, last year was a historically bad year. Epically bad. It took that for Cal to change. All these other moves were what fans called for and what were needed.
