Cal will still be the coach. Get over it. He will find a way to choke
DJ Wagner visiting Arkansas this weekend
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I like the breakdown. +1. Also, to add to that one of these coaches is very technical and deliberate with play calling and defense and utilize players strengths. The other I won’t character bash.
Spot on. He is recruiting over his recruits. Wagner will start and someone will sit. Ask Shep and Dillingham how be treats his best players
He’s one that you can’t really tell anything.
He’s convinced that Cal is still a great basketball coach and that UK is screwed without him. You know….one of those people that thinks Kentuckys basketball program started around 2008, 2009.
A tough pill for you to swallow. Your hero is gone from UK. Accept it.
There is. Kampe went on radio and said UK couldn't beat them in the post. Lol, he fooled Calipari, bad.
DJ Wagner turned 19 on Derby Day.
He was the youngest player on the team this past season.
My guess is he is still maturing as a player and feels like he has a lot to prove.
He was the youngest player on the team this past season.
My guess is he is still maturing as a player and feels like he has a lot to prove.
They might be very good. Then again, we thought UK would be very good the last 3 seasons. And at times they looked pretty good. But when crunch time came every season, Calipari's teams choked. Calipari's teams have won 1 total post-season game since 2020. There is no way around it. Bottom line, if Arkansas has a great season and doesn't choke in the post-season, it will be a surprise. The toughest pill should be for Calipari. What the heck happened to end his time at UK? How did he let a team with 2 NBA lottery picks not win a single post-season game? And how did he manage to take a team as talented as UK was in 2023-24 to a 10-loss season? He should be doing some serious self-reflection. But what about UK fans? Should they be second guessing themselves right now? If Calipari turns things around and has a good season at Arkansas, should UK fans blame themselves? No and no. UK fans are right to want Cal gone. They are right to call the results from 2021-24 completely unacceptable. If Cal gets back his mojo at Arkansas, does that mean he would have found it at UK, ever again? Not necessarily.
I have no idea what actually happened behind the scenes, but that is mind numbingly stupid enough for it to have actually been the case. Our team was completely unprepared despite having plenty of time to review tape and come up with something.
I don't know about shooting, but he will be improved for sure. People forget he was very young for his class. Of course that should've been considered when ranking him, etc but that's old news now.
On paper, they look competitive. Cal is their coach though. So expect 15 losses, and no postseason wins.
No Welch and No Antigua either…… They replaced both of them with 2 yes men….. Brad and Kenny Payne.
So by your logic these kids that just committed to Arkansas will be his best class because they were players recruited to Kentucky ? The same kids that asked for the release of their NLI and or hit the transfer Portal from Kentucky and are now going to Arkansas . You may want to also take a look at who Cal has visiting from the 25 class already . Cal was and is the brand . The difference is Arkansas understands this .
Big time reach. They have horrible shooting and only 2 proven college players. They might end up good but they need several more legit players before that is a given. Our roster would grind them into a pulp 10 out of 10 times as is.
If Vonger goes through with it who does not start between Davis, Fland and Wagner? Wonder why all those former AR players did not want to play for a hall of fame coach? Would think a couple would have jumped at a chance. Did their star ranking effect them?
This best class ever at Arkansas is one of Cal’s weakest at Kentucky. A coach whose results were not up to Kentucky standards becomes the greatest coach ever hired at Arkansas.
Players that were part of a team that had 4 NBA draftees and lost 10 games are the greatest portal adds in Arkansas history.
Kentucky is the winningest and most important program in college basketball and Arkansas’s brand is John Calipari.
Your right and by March what are they thinking about,a title or the pay day around the corner.Im guess the pay day.
Then why didn't those players that were committed to and or that were on the roster at Kentucky stay ? The amount of delusion that comes from some on here is truly astonishing . World Wide Wes is who set up the Machine with Cal and he just took it to Kentucky . Now the Machine is Cal and he has moved to Arkansas . Doesn't mean he is the best coach but when it comes rosters .... Get used Arkansas having the top talent !
What good is top talent it you don't win with it? Preseason championships will be coming to Arkansas that is for sure. And top talent? Lol, Cal hasn't landed a single composite top 5 or top 3 player in years. His only one since 2017 has been Shaedon Sharpe. Who never played a game. Talk about delusional takes. Saying Wes made Cal. But all of a sudden Cal is the machine himself? But I thought it was WWW?
We fell into the top talent trap for years and thought we couldn't give that part up. It's two fold. You have all this young talent that is too young and too weak to do anything once they play older and better coached teams. And second, the coach is a terrible strategy coach. Can never adjust, plays the same way all the time. And third, his number 1 focus is getting his 5 stars to the pro's in one year if possible. All that just totally overwhelms any advantage of having top ranked classes.
I clearly said it doesn't mean he is the best coach (even though he is much better than Cat fans think) . I was replying to a thread that said the only reason Arkansas was going to have a good roster is because the kids were recruited originally to Kentucky . That doesn't hold water if those same kids are now on their way to Arkansas . They very easily could have stayed at the "Kentucky" brand but they didn't .
Which is it Arkansas will get pre season championships or are they not getting top talent ? And yes WWW started the Cal train all the way back at Memphis and even though WWW is not involved anymore the machine is built . Keep and eye on Acuff and Dybantsa .
Kentucky is Kentucky and will always get talent but what came through the last 15 years was on another level and that level was Cal whether cat fans want to recognize that or not . The rest of the country has always know that .
Cal is a HOF and national championship winning coach. He will be 66 before the next NCAA tournament and his best days are well behind him. He has the same group of tired yes men assistants. I can’t see him lasting any more than 3 seasons at Arkansas
I think it’s more political for you after looking at some of your old posts. Can you even say Pope’s last name without turning green? Imagine Cal sitting down to dinner with Governer Sarah Huckabee. LOL! What a hoot.
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Cal doesn't get elite top 5 composite players. He gets fringe top 20 25 guys. Like Knox and Richmond and Fland. I said you'll be preseason Champs because the polls will rank you high preseason and you'll hype all these middling freshmen up as John Wall and Anthony Davis. Then reality will hit.
Hey dipshit nobody cares about recruiting rankings or bringing in players when the coach has no idea what to do with them. Kentucky is one of only 3 schools in the last five years to be ranked in the top 10 every year, and that’s because we’re always ranked in the top ten in the beginning of the year because we always have an obscenely stacked roster. Half the NBA All Star team and hasnt even been a one seed in 10 years. Musselman has 4 times as many SEC conference and NCAA wins in the last 3 years with half the talent. We won 1 game in the NCAA in the last FIVE years. That’s bad even for Arkansas. Enjoy the talent, he’s a shit coach.
I don't have grand illusions of him being there more than 5 years tops . Nor am i expecting him to make deep tournament runs every year . I do expect him to have top classes every year , get to the tournament and whatever happens from there happens .
Seems he was a much better coach when Kenny Payne was on his staff …. Guess we will find out
Dipshit … that was funny
Are Arkansas fans secretly based. And turning into Kenny Payne won those games UL fans?
Political in what way?
what old posts? Please put them here.
I politically don't align with Cal AT ALL.
Based on shared religious beliefs I bet I am a lot more politically aligned with Pope.
I love Pope, he was on my favorite UK teams. My avatar is Cameron Mills from those teams.
As for politics. I think both parties are complete garbage and will never come help you out when in need. They don't care about me, I don't care about them.
Here's the thing you can't wrap your mind around. I don't care AT ALL about political affiliation. I can like people who are democrats and republicans and then vote for neither.
I don't think the coach or players of the University of Kentucky or any publically funded university should do fundraisers for democrats or republicans as official representatives of the school (in uniform, etc.). They can support whoever they want on their own time.
