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Afternoon, D, well my brackets are busted, had to get that out there early!!! I sure hope we win today, I like this team! I have a question for the D, Kyle Macy wasn't he drafted at the end of his junior year or am I wrong? Seems like I remember him being drafted in hopes of signing him when he graduated. I may be wrong, Mrs. M says I usually am!!! Getting ready to kick back, hopefully don't go to sleep and watch the game in a little while with some popcorn!!!
Somebody should guard #3.
Good thing Oakland didn't take advantage of their offensive rebounding edge or this could have been ugly. Come on damn it!
It IS ugly... No doubt about it....Fugly!
Alright Cats come on. This is it. Don’t want this to be the last game of the year.
Getting a little nervous. Can't stop the Matthew Perry lookalike.
Complain about D all you want, but this is on lack of O execution between terrible passing & missed EASY shots.
😡😡😡Another disappointing end to such a promising season.
Cal should probably stay in Pittsburgh, his hometown because he won't be welcomed back in Lexington.
- 2nd longest Final 4 drought since 1942
- longest Elite 8 drought since 1942
They say UK fans have "too high" expectations. Well maybe so BUT, since the last Final 4 in 2015 the Cats have been ranked preseason Top 10, 8 of those 9 years, 6 were Top 5. Only this year's team (and Cal's lowest) was outside at 16. High expectations? Yeah! Why shouldn't we. Results? Squat. Pay the millions and get him out of here. Tired of making excuses. St. Peters? Oakland? Is Jay Wright available?
- 2nd longest Final 4 drought since 1942
- longest Elite 8 drought since 1942
They say UK fans have "too high" expectations. Well maybe so BUT, since the last Final 4 in 2015 the Cats have been ranked preseason Top 10, 8 of those 9 years, 6 were Top 5. Only this year's team (and Cal's lowest) was outside at 16. High expectations? Yeah! Why shouldn't we. Results? Squat. Pay the millions and get him out of here. Tired of making excuses. St. Peters? Oakland? Is Jay Wright available?
May not post for a few days. A man has GOT to know his limitations.... God Bless you all in the D-League....
"And then, depression set in" Bill Murray. Stripes.
All humor aside, I am totally done with Calipari. It is time for him to go.
Agree. Time to part ways. His first 6 years were a lot of fun. I'll give him credit BUT he should have at least won another title. 2010 and 2015 especially. Last 4 years? Abysmal given the talent.
Last comment before I enter into a restless sleep. UK has a hell of a recruiting class coming in next year. Does anybody think it's going to be any different? This happens every year and the result is the same. Growing pains early, high expectations at mid-season, early tournament exit. Cal CAN'T keep blaming the problems on a young team. That's about all he's ever had.
Good morning from Burbach, Germany. Currently 47°F and cloudy. Expecting 58°F for our high.
Gohlke burned the nets. It appears some Wildcats picked a bad time to go cold. Awful end to the season.
Constant turnover with players getting old. Need some continuity. Has the game passed Cal by?
Wishing y'all a good day.
Gohlke burned the nets. It appears some Wildcats picked a bad time to go cold. Awful end to the season.
Constant turnover with players getting old. Need some continuity. Has the game passed Cal by?
Wishing y'all a good day.
"And then, depression set in" Bill Murray. Stripes.
This sucks. We deserve better my friends.
No. Calipari will not change. Many are saying older teams and so did he in the post-game interview. But how do you account for his first 6 seasons or so? His decline seems to have really happened after given the lifetime contract. No need to perform to keep his job. Yes, older players and experience go a long way, but having the best recruits panned out well in the beginning.
Don't hold back D-league if you think I am wrong, fire away. I would like to hear other thoughts on this. It is the only thing that makes sense to me other than perhaps everyone now has the blueprints to beat UK because Calipari does not change especially in game adjustments. Just continues to keep his game plan regardless.
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Read where someone referred to UK as the Dallas Cowboys of College Basketball. Ouch! Time for a change.
This board was so lit up after the game last night that I couldn't get on. So went to bed. Slept well.
Good morning everyone
Yeah, I couldn't get on here either last night. I "posted" my first thread ever. RR..."We Can't Hide You". No comments, 2K views so I don't know what happened. I think that should be this year's team nickname. lol
I gave Cal 2 seasons after the St. Peter's loss. Those 2 years are over and I'm firmly in the "I'm gone til Cal is gone" camp now. Combine Cal's failure with the change in college basketball has done me in.
Hope to check in here plenty, but we'll see.
I hope everyone has a great day.
Yeah, I couldn't get on here either last night. I "posted" my first thread ever. RR..."We Can't Hide You". No comments, 2K views so I don't know what happened. I think that should be this year's team nickname. lol
I gave Cal 2 seasons after the St. Peter's loss. Those 2 years are over and I'm firmly in the "I'm gone til Cal is gone" camp now. Combine Cal's failure with the change in college basketball has done me in.
Hope to check in here plenty, but we'll see.
I hope everyone has a great day.
You're not wrong. The decline since the contract has been obvious. We'll never know what would have happened during the Covid year but there was turmoil on that team towards the end of the season. Combine that with the worst season and the 2 worst tourney losses.
Next season will be a carbon copy of the past 3. Massive departures, several talented freshmen to go along with a few experienced portal players. A mostly new team that slowly gets better throughout the year but has several head scratching losses. Same outcome in the SEC and NCAA tournaments.
When he first came to UK, I was happy. I only knew him by the reputation the press gave him. He has been\is a great recruiter and that is an important part of coaching. He seems to lack at most other parts of coaching, which is ok if he hired the right assistants AND listened to them. Vince Lombardi said guys who can draw up plays are a dime a dozen (of course that was before bidenomics). When Adolph Rupp made his pitch to the hiring committee at UK, he described his new faster pace of basketball as a way to get the most talented players more and better opportunities to let their talent prevail. Cal doesn't do that well.
No one likes coach K or Bobby Knight, but K told a story about when he first started coaching. K had played the point for Knight at Army. They ran the same set of drills at every practice, so when he started coaching high school ball, he ran the same drills. Later K got a job as an assistant under Knight at IU. K was surprised at the first day of practice when Knight ran different drills. After a week or so, K worked up the nerve to ask about it. Knight said, "Michael, you were no Quinn Buckner.", meaning you must adapt to the situation. I'm afraid that is something Cal still has not learned.
Good post.
If you do the same things the same way over and over and expect different results is the definition of stupid.
Cal needs to consider retirement and let UK get a better coach.
I have not watched the CATS play for the last few years......this is not the game I used to watch.......I decided to tune in last night for the first time this year........the first th I see is some kid hit a 30 foot bank shot......I turned it right back off.......what is it about UK that always makes some kid on the other team a super star? Almost every game some kid goes off on UK.............it used to be back in the day that it was a UK player that took over a game......I thought that maybe that Shepard kid would be the one..........I will get off of my stump now........
Because we are KENTUCKY. A Blue Blood, The Gold Standard, the most wins in history, arguably the greatest program of all time.........and we're ripe for the picking.
But now Cal is removing UK from the Blue Blood and Gold Standard ratings. I have never seen such a decline in status since Wooden left UCLA.
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Exactly! We are "ripe for the picking" and many teams are taking advantage.
Man can it get any worst than having Kshitchye and SC coach in a commercial together
Hello all, I cannot stay away from the D-League but will refrain a lot from posting. Just ridiculous what has happened...
Need a TON of no-shows at Rupp if it gets to that point next season... Just criminal what is going on....
I will stop, I will stop.. Take Care all...
Need a TON of no-shows at Rupp if it gets to that point next season... Just criminal what is going on....
I will stop, I will stop.. Take Care all...
The SEC sucks. All year they ahave been telling us how good the SEC is. Now Tennessee has won and the other 5 that played have lost.
Alabama and Texas A&M will probably do not better.
Alabama and Texas A&M will probably do not better.
Screw it
Watch real athletes who aren prima donnas
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Evening D, not going to say anything about the game, everybody knows how everybody else feels!!!! What I do want to say is an extra thank you for all of you VETERANS!!! I saw something happen today, that I have just heard about, PTSD! Mrs. M, me and my best friend a NAVY Vet were walking today and had just passed another friend of ours loading lumber in the back of his truck, the boards were sticking out of his truck about 6'. We made another pass later and noticed the truck parked the boards touching the ground and I am thinking, he's going to drive out from under the boards and let them hit the ground, just about that time he did and before I could tell Rick to get ready for it, they hit the ground. When I turned again I saw him hunkered down, heading for a ditch! All I could do is ask him if he was ok. We've talked alot about this before but this is the first time I've seen it happen. I guess I just want to let you VETERANS know that I am praying for you!!! THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!!
Spent the day helping my BIL and MIL pack and move most of their stuff to a storage building. Carrying a lot of stuff (MIL is a hoarder) down some steep stairs. BIL has a bad back so, my wife and my daughter helped out a lot too. Wife and her mother got in a bigger argument than normal and for the first time ever (that I have seen) my wife lost it and told her mother "Screw you, I am trying to help you!" Her mother just blew it off and said, "I will help myself". My wife has been helping and financing a lot of her stuff for years and it seems as if her mother does not appreciate what she does. Sad thing is, we have to finish tomorrow and then they stay with us tomorrow night and start driving to Florida Sunday morning.
Sad part of all of this is that on our way home as we were just about to turn into our driveway my wife noticed a dead grey cat in our ditch. It was her cat which sleeps with her most nights and lays with her on the couch when she sits down to relax. Looks like she had been hit by a car and knocked into the ditch.
Rough day.
Sad part of all of this is that on our way home as we were just about to turn into our driveway my wife noticed a dead grey cat in our ditch. It was her cat which sleeps with her most nights and lays with her on the couch when she sits down to relax. Looks like she had been hit by a car and knocked into the ditch.
Rough day.
What I considered at the time to be a grizzled old marine said, "They say life is a bitch and war is hell, but combat is a real mother f@@ker." Lots of guys had it worse than me, but I have seen it do strange things to people. Survivors guilt is what rides me hard sometimes.
There's nothing that I can do but listen to him, I've heard him break more than once!
I have a big respect for Vietnam vets because you guys were treated worse than any of our military vets throughout history bar none for doing your job and serving the country. All of my Drill Sergeants were Vietnam Vets (Basic Training August 76-November 76) and were all hardcore and loyal to the USA. All very good men. Most of my commanders and NCO's early in my career were Vietnam vets so, I got to know a lot of them and was proud to work with them.
