You can't take this for granted any longer. Times have changed, there is absolutely no guarantee that ANY program will remain great because of past greatness. UCLA hasn't won a title in 28 years. Indiana has fallen from blueblood status just in the past few years. Duke and UNC are in flux right now and could easily fall from the college basketball elite.
Pretty similar to this year's Duke class. Are they dominant? Pls tell us how you think that UK class would be a contender.
Who is a "good hire"? Who can we get to come here? Those may be two different things. Who is willing and able to re-build what Cal has caused this program to become? The harm he has done will live after he is gone, the good is already gone.
You are in the minority on this board. As am I. But we are not in the minority among the UK fanbase. Just within the past year I've been to Tampa, The Bahamas, London and was at the St Peters game. You don't hear anything like you hear on the internet when you attend those functions. Maybe after the St Peters game some fans sounded like they came from here?
Don't see how there is any other outcome that makes sense.
He isn’t winning another natty at KY.….. If he were to leave and take his class with him, I’m still not sure he wins at Texas either unless he takes a serious look in the mirror and changes his priorities.
Stability? You call what we have stability? Just having the same guy keep doing what he's doing over and over again(that isn't working) isn't stability.
Doubtful Texas calls, hopeful COW leaves if they do, only crippling if he stays.
What"greatness"? You been living in a cave the last few years lol?
Ron: I agree with you 100% but I think back several years on how a situation like this happened and the coach of a really good team flirted with another team and their AD had a set of balls on him and fired the coach right then.
No it wouldn't. As long as he leaves Kentucky I don't care what Cal does after. But if you think he wins a title at another school I would say you're crazy
IMO Cal will never win another title no matter where he coaches- the game has passed him by and he refuses to adapt- great ambassador, great recruiter but not a good coach
Musslemann who is almost 60 years old and has never been to a Final Four....sounds awesome.
Regardless of how good the class is, Cal will still have to "coach" them
How many has he won with a T5 class every season? This year's class , except for Sheppard, I'm sure all have aspirations of being oad. That means he's going to have to start 3 guys 6'3(giving benefit of doubt on sizes listeded) or under. Surely the other two are expecting to start as well and with CCC'S history they will be given preferential treatment. Can you win a championship with a team no bigger than a HS team? They're lots of questions even if they all are as good as their accolades say they are?
You got some of the story right, but the names and details wrong.
Thanks, I knew it was Michigan and just remembered their AD kicking that coach out ASAP
Agree to disagree. I stand by what I said.
Personally I’d look at Vogel Oats Hurley and Lloyd before Mussleman.
If we had a top notch coach at the moment you might actually make some sense.
We just got beat by a team that did not have any players till April with the money we could pay transfers I don’t think it would be a problem
He's not been doing anything at all differently to salvage his reputation, though. I think he might like to salvage it, but he doesn't seem to care enough to make any changes whatsoever to make that happen.
They may have been a few boo'ing in Rupp? But you could barely hear it if there was any. Rupp holds about 20K now. So how many boo'ed, 100?
I would expect it to be a 3 way negotiation, somewhere in the middle. So maybe Cal gets a $20M sign-on bonus with a 3 year payback (so he pays it back if he leaves in less than 2 years), and then he gets a $9M/yr contract, and UK pays his first year salary at Texas.
I agree. I consider myself a pretty level headed calmer fan these days. In my 20's and 30's not so much but now UK basketball isn't as life or death as it used to be, but I still get excited for our games(big games) and a little upset when we lose. Most of my friends back in Lex are the same as me. And I say this honestly, HE HAS LOST ALL OF US. some of us don't get excited for the games or stopped going. We are sick of the lack of coaching(no inbound plays, no FT practice, no zone defense, no screens to get shooter open etc), it's just become a joke at this point. He's almost a joke at this point with the things he says in press conferences. I mean the results with too 2 recruiting classes have not been there. That's coaching. My point to this is that you are dead wrong. He has lost a lot of the fan base. When you lose all the middle ground fans I know, you e lost.
