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[bigbluefattycat]

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Almost seems like that pic is a photo shopped meme of L's down. Crazy

-Pope will get at least one championship as a coach. Par for course all you have to do is stay sober and we will give you one.

- Is Rick really that great of a bench coach? Cal and Rick both had the unquestionable best teams in the nation when they won. Rick winning one at another school raises him above Cal.

-Can Pope win without having to have the hands down best team in the Nation? Tubby did it but that team was built on winning before him.

-Pope can be on another level if he can win 2 titles.

-With Pope we won't have to worry about humility, work ethic, or sobriety.

 

[m080470]

Kudos to Matt. That was a solid interview, respectful with some hard questions thrown in there.

 

[krazykats]

Pitino taking Providence to a F4, some of those early UK teams to the records and/or as far as he did, and most of his UL teams as far as he did would suggest that yes he is a fantastic bench coach.

Has he made mistakes? Yes several actually, but so have all the greats!

 

[jayroon]

Kudos to Matt. That was a solid interview, respectful with some hard questions thrown in there.

Interesting that he said he had signed with Michigan initially but ultimately took the Louisville job because his wife said he should because he knew the state and people here better.

I think Pitino thought all the UK fans were Pitino fans and would support him wherever he went. He severely misread what our fans thought about uofl.

 

[jayroon]

Pitino taking Providence to a F4, some of those early UK teams to the records and/or as far as he did, and most of his UL teams as far as he did would suggest that yes he is a fantastic bench coach.

Has he made mistakes? Yes several actually, but so have all the greats!

The job he did with his first team/year here was a good indication of how good of a bench coach he was.

 

[bigbluefattycat]

The job he did with his first team/year here was a good indication of how good of a bench coach he was.

Yeah he had some games he had no business winning that's for sure. I just hope that Mark can get multiple championships and surpass them all excluding Rupp. He passes Rupp you can go ahead name the whole damn city after him.

 

[legalbeagle123]

Rick Pitino would have gone 40-0 in 2015 with that roster and none of the games would have been close.

 

[Hank Camacho]

Is Rick really that great of a bench coach?

Yes. Yes, he is.

Had he stayed at Kentucky, he beats Wooden -- especially if he lasted long enough to legally pay players, which is certain since that cockroach (and I mean that affectionately) will *NEVER* stop coaching as long as there is breath left in his body.

 

[bigbluefattycat]

Rick Pitino would have gone 40-0 in 2015 with that roster and none of the games would have been close.

It's safe to say had he stayed at UK he would have had another loaded roster close to the 96 & 15 teams. He could have been in the conversation for a 40-0 team.

 

[m080470]

I always felt his bench coaching was was where he was weakest. Game preparation and molding his team physically and mentally into an instrument of fear and dominance, there has never been anyone better but if he didn't overwhelm you early on and the opposing team could absorb those runs, that's when we struggled. He was 1-6 in overtime games when he was here.

 

[krazykats]

I can think of 4 major overtime games where our best player was fouled out, and two of those games we also had other starters fouled out too.

The 1 win was Brassow? That can’t be his only OT win here.

 

[jayroon]

Cal’s injury report already lol

 

[m080470]

The Brassow game wasn't an overtime game. Three big ones in the tournament, Duke, Michigan, and Arizona. We had the one win against Arkansas in the '95 SEC. I don't remember the other three.

 

[barbourfor3]

We can go .500 this year and it will be a better season than having to hear and read shit like that every week. What the hell are they beat up from? What a slapdick - truly blessed Arkansas took that clown off our hands

 

[jayroon]

Huge crowd for university of cal madness. Both fans are excited.

 

[legalbeagle123]

The Brassow game wasn't an overtime game. Three big ones in the tournament, Duke, Michigan, and Arizona. We had the one win against Arkansas in the '95 SEC. I don't remember the other three.

We shouldn't have been within 10 points of that Duke team. Mash "fouled" out on a BS call and we didn't have him for OT. And the coaching job he did to get us to the title game in 1997 after DA (who was a POY candidate) went down was amazing.

 

[jayroon]

Hairston and Nichols out tonight

 

[CSC81]

Lurked for years and incessantly have read every single word of every post for well over 10 years (partly due to OCD I’d venture to guess) so have always been a big fan of this thread.

Trilly is a good source but there are some other newer UK sports ventures I’ve found really useful recently too (and IMO are better than HOB and KSR+).

Have some friends who have worked in local sports media and have a booster that’s a good friend. They helped me find out stuff before the general public knew like Cal leaving/Kanter news, etc.

I chose to post that stuff here out of respect/admiration for/of you guys and I think this is a great medium for intelligent UK sports discussion (which is hard to find). I don’t regularly post anywhere.

We welcome it, keep rolling. 😎👊

 

[jayroon]

 

[Irish Beck]

Hairston and Nichols out tonight

Will we ever get to see Trayanum?

 

[IB4UK]

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Huge crowd for university of cal madness. Both fans are excited.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

 

[Kennedy_UK]

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Huge crowd for university of cal madness. Both fans are excited.

First and foremost, f*ck Cal.

But damn, this is just sad.

 

[cut_itloosedoubledeuce]

You know he’s had some “what in the hell am I doing here” moments already.

 

[ukwizard]

It was probably because I was in my naive youth, but post 91, I never believed a Pitino coached UK team was going to lose.

 

[Hank Camacho]

And I thought Vandy was supposed to be smart.

LOL.

 

[cut_itloosedoubledeuce]

It was probably because I was in my naive youth, but post 91, I never believed a Pitino coached UK team was going to lose.

We hardly did btwn 92-98

 

[cut_itloosedoubledeuce]

What the hell makes our WR talk after every single f’n play?!?!

 

[august-west]

What the hell makes our WR talk after every single f’n play?!?!

An unhealthy sense of accomplishment

 

[gobigbluebell]

Yapping ass WRs that have never accomplished jack shit. Burns me up.

 

[Irish Beck]

What the hell makes our WR talk after every single f’n play?!?!

Barion does that shit constantly. Dane has been much better about keeping it within himself. That's a pretty weak flag on him considering he was headbutt by the defender getting in his grill, but I suppose you have to call it.

 

[BernieSadori]

Key is an asshole.

That is all.

 

[jayroon]

 

[Teriecat]

Why is it that the coaching staff can’t put a stop to this shoot ourselves in the foot BS? Totally avoidable. Just keep your fricken mouth shut and show what you have with your play.

 

[Kooky Kats]

Undisciplined punks

 

[gobigbluebell]

Undisciplined clowns. F this team.

 

[cut_itloosedoubledeuce]

That’s why you can’t let stupid penalties on O be drive killers. Their qb is a problem and we left pts on the board bc Key got a stupid ass penalty.

 

[Kennedy_UK]

Stoops is a f*cking clown.

 

[Hank Camacho]

Key is an asshole.

That is all.

Every time he does something stupid I want to hit Ryan Lemond with a sock full of tennis balls.

EDIT: That kid's antics can be annoying (and he gets blowback from Barion Brown and Ryan Lemond that isn't his fault) but he's tough and talented.

 

[krazykats]

Id guess Key and Brown are 2 of the top 5 NIL players we have and that plays its role.

Like Saban said you better pay the right ones!

 

[Irish Beck]

There's been a ton of bullshit targeting calls against us and you get a layup of a call and miss it somehow.

WTF?