Forrest Gump was extremely intelligent. Leave Forrest out of this!
Fair point about Stoops blowing 2 winnable games that would have pushed us to 11-1. And you know what? He gets away with it because we are a basketball school.
He has choked once . I mean I GUESS u could say 2015 was a minor choke job as well but twice in 14 years aint bad when u average a elite 8 every time u make the tourney. No one with a brain can consider Cal NOT a top 5-10 coach in the game and he was , is and always will be the best recruiter in the game especially now that K is gone.
2015 is quite possibly the biggest choke in the history of college basketball and that’s not hyperbole. We were up 6 and had three straight shot clock violations in the last 5 minutes with the best team ever assembled. So, the best team ever with a lead went 3 minutes without getting a shot off. That’s the worst choke ever.
If you haven’t seen the growth and development in Toppin and Collins then I don’t know what to tell you.
Right Changes ?? Like what -- getting the group of recruits he wanted instead of missing so many times ? He's got far better players , but he's still Cal . And it should be unarguable -Cal doesnt change . So we shall see , I hope high , but I know he's so very capable of blowing it .. KSU , Auburn , St Pet , just too many times we get out prepared and out coached . And it just takes one game for Wheeler to go 2-10 and 0-4 from 3, with 5 TO's to get us bounced .. Cal wont reign him in .
I have been somewhat on the anti Cal train the last couple of years as evident by my comments, but I though what Cal said this past weekend was as close to a perfect take as he could have made. He didn't murder anyone so no need for him to get on his knees.
It was an upset, and yes when they were up 6, sure you can call it a choke. But Wisconsin was a top 3 team, Kentucky clearly hadn’t been the same since Poythress went down, and Wisconsin also had a shot clock violation that was just casually ignored; calling it “the biggest choke in the history of college basketball” is asinine.
Never should have lost to Wisconsin. We had that damn game won.
Exactly and I would like to add that Wisconsin was the only team that could have beat UK that yr based on how good they were and also the revenge factor they had from the previous year’s FF when UK defeated them in the semis.
He’s also had a longer leash than Tubby had. It’s been stated here many times that Tubby had a better record his last five years than Cal has had and we pretty much ran Tubby outta town. Tubby didn’t have time to turn it around.
Believe what you want. They freaking choked. When’s the last time you’ve seen a team with 3 straight shot clock violations? I’ve never seen it happen any other time in my life. That happened to the most talented team ever, in the final four. There literally can not be a bigger choke than losing because you wouldn’t even shoot the ball.
That's where I'm at. See what he does with this Oscar-led team, and then see what he does with the Edwards/Dillingham class.
I'm giving him two years to get back to the Final Four. If he can't do it with the Oscar team or the Dillingham class, I don't think he'll ever do it here again.
That's fair. Anything short of a Final Four this year will be pretty disappointing but let's at minimum make the Elite Eight. The Sheppard/Dillingham/Edwards class is exciting too but he's always going to have exciting recruiting classes. We'd probably be able to do the "but look who we have coming in next year!" pretty much every year.
Not for sure he changed, more like NIL money is buying rosters now and not for sure its Cal. We got a nice team top to bottom but it bought and it's fine still got to earn it.
You already know the answer to that...he's basically skip Bayless of the sec. Just say some wild stuff for clicks/views
If he adds Wagner, that will be the first elite of the elite haul he's had since the Fox class, so that's why I'm looking at it as a "wait and see" with the Wagner class. He hasn't recruited like this in a long, long time.
The last two years were major screw ups. 9-16 and losing to a #15 seed in back to back years are both terrible. Not worthy of his salary in any way. There is much more to running a elite program than simply recruiting. How many #1 or #2 classes has Calipari had at UK?
Nope. I'm saying there are some UK fans who would never be done with Calipari no matter how badly his teams performed. They're the 'wait till next year' crowd. We saw it for decades in football. It's about finally embracing reality.
KyBassfan is probably protesting on his front lawn already.
