BallerCal scolds everyone for wanting UK to win. "Just watch the games and don't care," he says.
You sound just like Mitch with his "microwave fans" bull. You do realize that nobody here is "immediately" criticizing Cal? That it has, in fact, been FIVE YEARS since we made an Elite Eight?
It's also lazy AND off base to label people critical of Cal as haters and to say that we don't support the team. Never mind to say we're miserable.
There won’t be college basketball in 30 years. At least not as we know it. Football and basketball are becoming unrecognizable. I hate what it has become.
Respect has to be earned. Give it a rest.
lol, if you don't think fans, and especially posters on here, weren't criticizing Cal years ago, you haven't been paying much attention
I think what you're not recognizing is this: there are plenty of posters on here that are Cal-haters, and they're actually self-proclaimed Cal-haters. Furthermore, 99% of the time the post or start a thread, it's to bash Cal. You seem like a pretty intelligent and logical poster, so I'm sure you actually realize that this is true.
Sure - there are probably people who just hate Cal for some reason - like the kneeling thing or being disrespectful of the fans - but that doesn't mean ALL of them are haters. That was my point and I'm not one of those.
You're either making stuff up or you're not even reading what I'm posting, not sure which it is? But I literally said he deserves criticism - I even put "ABSOLUTELY" in all caps to draw attention to that. I even said that I am someone who criticizes him for things as well. I'm not going to go through the hassle, but just spend 10 minutes of your time reading the titles of some of these threads, or really just hop into any random thread and you'll find a handful of posters who are posting the most ridiculous "criticisms" of Cal (not even really criticisms because of how far-fetched some of them are)
I think it's you who isn't reading very closely. My first word was "Sure" - that's because I was agreeing with you. I'm just saying they all aren't haters. The rest of my post was saying that you can post, ask or whatever people to stop criticizing, but that doesn't mean they will. Just like they can ask/post that Cal be gone, but it doesn't mean it will happen.
This is another one of those times that I almost feel forced to defend Cal whether I want to or not. We can all agree that he has largely sucked since 2019. You will get no argument from me on that. But how much did you do for the flood victims in eastern Ky? Or the tornado victims over in western Ky? This is real life shit. Kentucky as a state is already behind the 8 ball when it comes to social and economic hardship, but this state has never had a public humanitarian that has done more for the people than Cal has. I will always respect that about him enough that I can muster the decency to call him by his actual name.
then why the hell are you listening
Again, #1 recruiting classes are great when they translate to post season success. They haven’t in 9 years now (assuming we don’t win a title this year). And if your bar is lower than that, 9 years since a FF. You act like getting 7 losses for a 1 seed is normal. It’s not. 3 out of the 4 one seeds this year have 4 or less losses. The overwhelming majority of 1 seeds, in recent and overall history, have had less than 7 losses. You’re using the exception to prove a rule and it’s very easily fact checked.
We literally are a 3 seed and playing on Thursday and here you are rehashing the same old tired crap. Damn, at least give it a rest until the season’s over.
I don’t interject myself into your debates with other posters, so I ask that you don’t do that to mine. This conversation has nothing to do with you and any rehashing is because we are having a debate and it has remained relatively focused.
Cal is definitely not at the apex of his career but he still recruits at the top of all CBB and he's still winning games at a level consistent with the programs historical winning percentages.
If Cal doesn’t win the championship this year than isn’t going to win another championship while here and he won’t make another FF. It’s time to move on. He is not winning consistent with the program’s history. That’s proven by him losing the all time win lead to KU. KU has played more games overall than us and we still caught and overtook them. Then they caught and overtook us under his watch.
Agree. His only move from here would be to a lessor school. No way he’s motivated to do that. He said this year that he’s staying until the whole NBA All Star game is UK players. Of course that will never happen but that’s a hint that he’s still motivated to recruit the top players. But I do think retirement has to be closer than he thought it would be with the lack of translating all that recruiting success to tournament success. The anti Cal clan is terrified of a big run in this tournament as they think they have him almost ready to say uncle and that a flameout this year might just get him to tap out. They are hoping for that, some even say it or might as well say it as it’s obvious what they want.
Whenever @BlueTick2 clicks the smiley face emoji, take it as a compliment. It simply means you are right, and he has no intelligent rebuttal to your argument. It's his way of saying how advanced your position is, and although he disagrees from an emotional level, on an intellectual level he's incapable of addressing your points with any type of coherent response.
We actually have 6 NCAA wins since 2018. 2 in 2018, 3 in 2019 and one last year. No doubt the 2020 team would've won a couple games. But I agree with your main thesis.
Gotta be honest, last few Billy Clyde games, I wanted losses and embarrassment. He had to go…
