I agree. Tubby was a good coach. He was just unfortunate enough to follow the Pitino years here...its hard to measure up to that
Cal's honeymoon at Arkansas is already over
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I think all of us on this board has said he’d change next year for the past 10. He’ll keep doing the same thing, freshman, few portal guys and 1-2 will return. Then he’ll roll the balls out for 8 scholarship players
One absolute noticeable change I've seen in Cal, which speaks to his awareness of the importance of winning games at his new stop, is his willingness to put pressure on the Tn big to hurry up and return from injury. That never happened at UK
To each their own. He’s gone, I’m among those thrilled he’s gone, and I personally don’t see the purpose of following CBP or his exploits at his new gig. 🤷🏻♂️ Reasonable minds obviously can differ.
That did not surprise me at all. I had followed Cal at Memphis and watched many of their games, and it was painfully obvious that Cal was a very poor X and O coach.
I was just hoping he could out-talent the other top schools to overcome his coaching weakness. He couldn't.
Great recruiter, mediocre (being generous) bench coach.
The only reason Cal is pushing the TN. Adou to get back on the floor is so he can run his offense through the post and get away from shooting 3s by Z, Boogie and Davis. (Cal is OK with DJ firing them up).
Cal can't run his low post offense with Z in the post because Z isn't a 5.
Cal also needs Adou to guard the rim as he still doesn't have a guard that can stay in front of the ball, and still doesn't know how to defend pick and roll.
Same old same old.
No he hasn’t. At least when it comes to winning games. Check out this line from a recent article about the team. He’s already got the writers spewing his nonsense.
“Point is, don't get hung up on the Razorbacks' record as the season progresses. Yes, it matters greatly, especially for seeding at the SEC and NCAA tournaments. Still, as Coach Cal can attest, a high seed doesn't always lead to a deep run in March.”
The guy knows no shame.
He brags about all his NBA draft picks, but it's like he never thinks he has underachieved with all that talent. I would he embarrassed.
He would rather lose games than bench one of his pre season on paper draft picks. He would rather his reputation take another hit, than try to win games.
All the losses to bad teams and underdogs with far superior talent, some at home, some in the NCAAT, then he acts like it's no big deal. What?
Begging for fans to attend games, knowing everyone watches his every move. He's supposed to be a HOF coach. Wtf are you doing?
The one that takes the cake for me though, is the one where he knew the news media was outside his house and this guy decides to take a stroller and his dog for a walk. That's some old man unawareness right there.
Well yeah, but Aidou isn't going to hurt his draft stock, because he doesn't have any.
If that was Fland, he wouldn't do that.
My have the mighty have crumbled, go from giving away TV’s to get people to come to games in Memphis to 23,000 for a practice session and outnumber everyone on neutral courts at UK. Now back to begging fans to come to the games, they are drawing around 8-9000 a game. Wonder what Big Z and Adiou think about the difference?
Cal WAS a great coach n did GREAT at UK.
Then covid 9-16 season hit an it shook him to his core an destroyed his confidence. He's been forcing it since more he tries to cope worse he gets.
Then covid 9-16 season hit an it shook him to his core an destroyed his confidence. He's been forcing it since more he tries to cope worse he gets.
I hope big z regrets it everyday. Screw him. This fanbase spent their own money to put up billboards for him, pleaded daily to get him eligible, had his back, etc. He can rot with cal in seriously the ugliest state I’ve ever laid eyes on, well tied with Mississippi
True! Pitino went to UL when he left the pros for a number of reasons. He knew he could win there, obviously he and his family still had a lot of friends and business interests in the state. But, I always thought that maybe one of the reasons he chose UL, however small that reason may have been, was to get UK fans to totally embrace Tubby as their coach. Tubby being a former Pitino assistant and friend. There's no better way to get BBN to completely despise you and rally around their coach than that. I'm sure that wasn't really a reason, but I like to think it factored in there somewhere.
Adou should have some draft stock now. He’s gotten very good and he’s athletic enough for sure. He reminds me of Oladipo and he’s developing at the same rate he did.
That is another way to look at it, Pitino didn’t burn bridges on the way out. He had to take the Celtics, he was on top of the world in college basketball and wasn’t satisfied. I often wondered why Louisville but never thought about your explanation. 🤔
He will lose 12 games and do nothing in the tournament and get Adou drafted 31st and it will be the greatest day in Arkansas basketball history.
Nope greatest day in Arkansas history will be a shirtless Cal calling the pigs with all the adoring chicken legs at Bud Walmart Arena
I bet he had written into his contract that he never had to do that ever lmfao. I was so hoping he would at his announcement conference but he let me down there too.
Yeah, but he's not one of Cal's blue ribbon prized stallions that he can brag about later on.
It's odd, because he picks some players out each year to be on his favorites list and 2 years in a row, Wheeler made the list. I think it was to keep him from pouting, but he was on the list.
Antonio Reeves wasn't on the list, but Cal had to play him. Somehow Rob and Reed weren't on the list.
Then he has a shit-list. Dontaie Allen and Bryce Hopkins were on it and Cal tried to convince us that they loved him and the split was nothing.
Cal is a weird dude.
Another classic Cal performance last night against a no-name OOC team. Where have we seen that before? Dude is a recurring script. If they didn't have Thiero and Fland, they wouldn't win 10 games total. There's no way Arkansas can be happy thus far. They paid a premium price for the Big Lots version of Cal.
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Tubby also cared more about UK than the NBA. He had some really good teams/players and probably would have won another title if not for Bogan's ankle and D Wade.
I think Cal will be viewed more favorably as time passes but he can never quite wash off the used car salesman smell.
We are lucky to have won a title with each man.
See - I missed ALL the circumstances around his being fired
I came into work one day and POW dude was at ARK
Hadn't looked at this board or any other outside feed in weeks .... had to settle with ppl at work telling me what happened
So he basically flirted with arkansas but the AD nailed him for it
im not sure what the UCLA situation was - will / duck duck
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Don’t understand the chest beating. Wow, look at me about the hiring of Pope. You had nothing to do with it and have nothing to do with what he’s doing as coach of UK. You had nothing to do with pearl, oats, or anyone else not coming here either.
Nope. 2015 took any resemblance he had as a good coach and sent him down a hole he could no longer dig himself out of. We should have AT LEAST two more Titles, maybe even three with a competent coach with that talent. What do you think K or Self or Calhoun or Izzo could've done with that kind of talent? It's maddening when you think about it.
Show me where I said I played a role in the hiring. Talk about bending a post to make yourself nice and comfy. You funny !
Pope, baby. My number 1 choice. Makes it so much sweeter knowing I wanted him. Bang !!! Enjoy your life the rest of the way since I wont see you !
Idk if he's spiteful, I think his priorities are screwed up. Always have been, but something came loose in his melon and it all went sideways.
He thinks he's doing a great job, at best that's a huge lack of awareness.
How he can experience what he experienced from 09-17 and think what he's doing now is acceptable, is nuts to me. That guy still thinks he's a mob boss. Crazy.
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He's spiteful. It's well known how he felt about UK fans, and how he treated certain players in response to the fans. His idea of "great job" is getting his precious recruits drafted. Far above winning any sort of title.
