Greg McDermott is an amazing coach

[CatPhight]

What’s so weird about @JFCats22 is I vividly remember him bashing the hell out of Calipari and calling for him to resign/ be fired before Cal even fell off. He would come into game threads and bash him. Bash him in threads all over the board. Then around 2020 (so he must like him for other reasons now) he completely flipped his stance and began chastising people for even being critical of Calipari.

Or maybe he’s just the ultimate troll but he doesn’t post like your average troll so I’m befuddled to be honest.

He flipped to player bashing while copulating Calipari...particularly odd hated of Reed Sheppard...

 

[MakinMusic]

You mean 3 times in the last 4 years. They’ll make back to back elite 8s after they beat Tennessee

I hope they beat Tennessee.

 

[bnewt]

He's got TWO super seniors due to the COVID stuff. I chalk this performance up to a team that was able to use the COVID eligibility to gain a few players back, who would have otherwise been gone.

What would Creighton look like this year, in a normal season? They would be without their best player in Scheierman, and a role player in Farabello. Maybe, McDermott is able to get a transfer or a 3-star recruit to replace them, but that's still a big gap. Remove these two guys from the team.. is Creigton missing the tournament just like a few other good-but-not-great Big East teams? I think so.

One thing I want to be careful of, is avoiging hiring a coach who benefited too much from the COVID nonsense that effectively allowed some coaches to have a big advantage. Count McDermott on that list for me. He'd need to win the title.

Seems like ccc took a transfer from Creighton. Ccc also had some pretty good seniors last year and this year andstill couldn't win a sec tourney game or ncaa game. So based on your criteria, McDermott still is a better coach.

 

[CatPatrick13]

Or maybe he’s just the ultimate troll but he doesn’t post like your average troll so I’m befuddled to be honest.

Ultimate troll…. I like that… I may start using that term.

 

[CatPatrick13]

McDermott is a much better floor coach than cal, and it’s not even close. But there are other factors that come into play at Kentucky.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Seems like ccc took a transfer from Creighton. Ccc also had some pretty good seniors last year and this year andstill couldn't win a sec tourney game or ncaa game. So based on your criteria, McDermott still is a better coach.

Better X's and O's coach? Sure. But better overall for what we need at UK? IDK, I'm not willing to test that experiment with a 60 year old, quite unproven coach. McDermotts best player of all time: His kid. A lot of Creightons' success was built on that nice in-house talent.

Someone said it better, McDermot is a good coach, but just not made for Kentucky's level of coaching needs right now.