You say that as if it’s bad. Calipari made it to 1 Final Four in his last 12 years. Plus 1 losing season, 1 NIT first round loss, and 2 NCAA first round losses.
And three Elite Eights, five SEC Championships, five SEC Tournament Championships, and multiple #1 seeds. Came up a bit short a couple of times (2003 & 2005), but up until the final two years was always competitive.
I wasn't criticizing Tubby. I was just explaining why the fans were wanting him gone.
Tubby made the NCAA's every year, unlike Cal he actually won some SEC tourney's as well. Was 23-9 in the NCAA. And he never blamed anyone else for his failures or dumped on any of his players like Cal.
Call won more SEC tourneys than Tubby did. And more tournament games than Tubby did. I get that the last 4 years haven't been good, and agree that the change was probably needed, but there is no sense in revisionist history. Tubby was ran out just like Cal was, but Cal was incredibly more successful here than Tubby was.
At this point I hope you know he didn't actually have a lifetime contract.
Everything you say about Tubby is true will Cal. Cal had a down period, but overall won more SEC titles, tournaments and NCAA tournament games than Tubby, but everyone hates Cal. Again, I think it was time, but the revisionist history is crazy here.
Except the part where Tubby had to follow a very popular (at the time) Pitino and Cal got to follow BCG.
Calipari made it to 1 Final Four in his last 10 seasons (one of which the tournament was canceled). We didn’t even make it into the NIT in 2021.
Not really.
I’ve said, “Forgive me, Tubby!” numerous times the last couple years. That drought of Final Fours was something the fan base couldn’t handle after Pitino’s 3 in 5 seasons. And we couldn’t handle the 9 (8) season drought under Cal after he set the bar so high with 4 Final Fours in 5 years.
Yeah Drew will be left with nothing. That roster Billy got lost like 14 games and had probably some of the worst losses in history.
Well I would hope so, you realize he coached UK 5 more years than Tubby. And you are full of it nobody ran Cal off, he had Mitch's backing for next season but ran to Arkansas then hoped to force UK into matching. I say good riddance to roll the ball out Cal.
Meeks was hurt most all of BCG's first year.
His recruiting went down because he didn't adjust with the changing game: getting in with the AAU scene. Cal didn't adapt to using a zone. The thing that really hurt Tubby was playing his son Saul. 5 star guards wouldn't come to Kentucky because they believed that Tubby would play Saul over them. Saul wasn't "starting point guard at Kentucky material" , he would have been a good back up but never a starter. That was the beginning of Tubby's downfall. If not for that I believe he could have finished his career at Kentucky and if he'd adapted to the AAU scene possibly won another championship.
