What Cal said this evening in his radio show is simply too little and too late.
"Nobody is hurting more than me" - Good lord are you kidding me? The nerve of making 9 million dollars a year and letting those words leave your mouth is really something else.
Cal may have said some of the right things, but the egregious nature and years of substandard results has taken Kentucky basketball to new depths...all while collecting massive sums of money...this "come to Jesus" moment should have happened after losing to Bruce FREAKING Weber or 9-16 or any number of disgusting failures, like Evansville etc etc.
Bilking the fans out of the SECT, destroying Kentucky traditions, embarrassing and dismal performance in the Champion's Classic every single year, falling far behind the other Blue Bloods, double digit losses every single year, losses in Rupp Arena and pathetic flame-outs to St. Peters and Oakland (Oakland!!). The exhausting roster turnovers every damn year and pushing players out the door have created a 0ne-and-done culture where Kentucky basketball is pushed far down the list of priorities.
His pathetic roster management (it doesn't matter who starts) and lack of coaching basic fundamentals (Analytic breakdowns have been exposed online in hilarious fashion)...
Sadly - it seems Barnhart is going to fall for it...but nothing will really change and we will sit through the same failures and same excuses we get every single year. Cal never recovered from the Covid year. He got fat and lazy and rich having no accountablility and being on the recieveing end of one of the worst if not the worst contract given to any coach in college basketball history.
Having him back next year will be ruinous for the program.
"Nobody is hurting more than me" - Good lord are you kidding me? The nerve of making 9 million dollars a year and letting those words leave your mouth is really something else.
Cal may have said some of the right things, but the egregious nature and years of substandard results has taken Kentucky basketball to new depths...all while collecting massive sums of money...this "come to Jesus" moment should have happened after losing to Bruce FREAKING Weber or 9-16 or any number of disgusting failures, like Evansville etc etc.
Bilking the fans out of the SECT, destroying Kentucky traditions, embarrassing and dismal performance in the Champion's Classic every single year, falling far behind the other Blue Bloods, double digit losses every single year, losses in Rupp Arena and pathetic flame-outs to St. Peters and Oakland (Oakland!!). The exhausting roster turnovers every damn year and pushing players out the door have created a 0ne-and-done culture where Kentucky basketball is pushed far down the list of priorities.
His pathetic roster management (it doesn't matter who starts) and lack of coaching basic fundamentals (Analytic breakdowns have been exposed online in hilarious fashion)...
Sadly - it seems Barnhart is going to fall for it...but nothing will really change and we will sit through the same failures and same excuses we get every single year. Cal never recovered from the Covid year. He got fat and lazy and rich having no accountablility and being on the recieveing end of one of the worst if not the worst contract given to any coach in college basketball history.
Having him back next year will be ruinous for the program.