I stayed but I don’t think I saw any of the last 4 min until the last play. Great defensive play by WCS.
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The ideal NIT Final Four this year:
UCLA
Indiana
Pubert U
Arkansucka
UCLA
Indiana
Pubert U
Arkansucka
Here’s why I hate this conference:
The #1 team in the country - and probably the future overall #1 in the tourney - is on the road in Baton Rouge tonight. You would think the Maravich Center would be raucous and foaming at the mouth. Nope. Just another ho hum, sit-on-our-hands midweek game to pass the time until the spring game.
If it was UK rolling into town, it would be free t-shirt/first 500 students get unlimited titty beads for Mardi Gras. Place would be be unhinged.
It’s the price to pay for greatness, but f that. And f this conference.
The #1 team in the country - and probably the future overall #1 in the tourney - is on the road in Baton Rouge tonight. You would think the Maravich Center would be raucous and foaming at the mouth. Nope. Just another ho hum, sit-on-our-hands midweek game to pass the time until the spring game.
If it was UK rolling into town, it would be free t-shirt/first 500 students get unlimited titty beads for Mardi Gras. Place would be be unhinged.
It’s the price to pay for greatness, but f that. And f this conference.
There have been many years where UK football was a way to pass the time until Midnight Madnesss, so I am extending some grace to LSU.
Possibly. The whole Duke team likely has Norovirus now.
...and we handed that shitshow off to Arkansas to experience. And it didn't cost us one red cent.
The schadenfreude brings me happiness. But our immediate success without him? That brings me euphoria.
That may be true but I’m guessing that Arkansas was way down on his list of places he thought he would go. Serves the corksoaker right if you ask me.
Epps’s free throws were cold blooded. I remember being impressed how good he was under pressure.
I liked how ESPN 2 tried to be the edgy little brother by adopting the X-Games and using lower case letters.
They did give us the bottom line.
Kids today have no idea how ground breaking that was.
The struggle was real. Prior to the bottom line you had to wait on the newspaper the next day, if it was an early enough game. Or I remember in 94ish there was a # in Lex that you could call and it would go through all the scores, they prob updated it every couple hrs.
That bottom scroll was a game changer in the GAMBOL world. Did a little book my SR year and I had to watch that thing all night. And if you missed it, dont worry, that score will be back around again in 20.
That bottom scroll was a game changer in the GAMBOL world. Did a little book my SR year and I had to watch that thing all night. And if you missed it, dont worry, that score will be back around again in 20.
Well now ESPN sends me BREAKING NEWS updates about Brittney Griner signing and apparently the largest WNBA trade in it's history. Nothing on the signing of a new coach by my designated favorite football team, hot stove baseball updates (there have been several) or even updates about the thing I lookup the most on ESPN (Kentucky Basketball).
As Bill Burr said, target the women, I have no interest.
As Bill Burr said, target the women, I have no interest.
I don't think the man was plotting "exit strategies" at all. I think he was a delusional narcissist
who was convinced he was doing a great job and at some point he could hand it off to Brad like it was a family business. He was never really looking for a way out but at what else he could squeeze out of UK. The only leverage he had was that god awful contract.
The more I look at his behavior and words over the years, the more I see someone mentally ill. It went way beyond tone deaf. I think he wrapped himself up in a messianic complex of "helping families" at "Cal U" because he was failing at other parts of the job and that anyone who disagreed with him weren't critics but enemies and convinced himself they were a fringe and not the majority. It never occurred to him that UK would call him on breach of contract dealing with Arkansas.
who was convinced he was doing a great job and at some point he could hand it off to Brad like it was a family business. He was never really looking for a way out but at what else he could squeeze out of UK. The only leverage he had was that god awful contract.
The more I look at his behavior and words over the years, the more I see someone mentally ill. It went way beyond tone deaf. I think he wrapped himself up in a messianic complex of "helping families" at "Cal U" because he was failing at other parts of the job and that anyone who disagreed with him weren't critics but enemies and convinced himself they were a fringe and not the majority. It never occurred to him that UK would call him on breach of contract dealing with Arkansas.
100%, been saying this to my friends forever. He redefined what is success (putting players in pros, helping families, etc). Instead of winning games it was that nonsense.
The inevitable image burn-in also acted as an alarm to tell you it’s time for a new TV.
Yeah I have noticed that Pope often misuses analytical terms when he talks about them - this is probably aPM or maybe BPM, not leverage. I think earlier in the season he was talking about plus/minus or rebounding rate or something and it seemed like he didn’t really know what it meant.
But who cares - just keep running good stuff and win basketball games. At least he’s aware this stuff exists and can be helpful.
I'm sure the guy running a top 5 offense who loves analytics doesn't know what they mean.
It really seems to me they are indeed targeting women. I actually noticed the other day how many headlines on the chyron where women's sports and I am sitting here saying, WGAn Actual F?
Let's see what it looks like 5 years from now.
Or perhaps all the non poors in GYERO can start a new sports channel.
GESPN?
Can’t help but flash back to March 22, 2024. We had just lost to Oakland. With each recent season, rock bottom kept getting lower, but this was a depth we thought we’d never see. Even worse, it looked like there was no way out of it anytime soon.
If you had told me then that:
a) Come February 1, 2025, Cal would be coaching in Rupp, but with another team;
b) Every single player from that team’s roster would be gone and we’d have to build from absolute scratch;
I'd still have been happy and excited for our long-term prospects. We got our program back, let's start the rebuild . . .
AND YET
c) As of February 1, we have a team that has stayed in or near the top 10 since December, with 7 Quad 1 victories, including wins over Duke, Gonzaga, U of L, Florida and a top-5 UT team on the road, while missing 2 starters; and
d) As a bonus (sprinkles!) we play an exciting style, boast a top-5 offense, and have a roster of guys who appreciate what it means to play at KENTUCKY;
That would have been beyond my wildest dreams. At least not to happen in YEAR 1.
Just mind-boggling. We did kind of earn this through 10 years of misery, but still, we are beyond blessed.
GBB! 💥
If you had told me then that:
a) Come February 1, 2025, Cal would be coaching in Rupp, but with another team;
b) Every single player from that team’s roster would be gone and we’d have to build from absolute scratch;
I'd still have been happy and excited for our long-term prospects. We got our program back, let's start the rebuild . . .
AND YET
c) As of February 1, we have a team that has stayed in or near the top 10 since December, with 7 Quad 1 victories, including wins over Duke, Gonzaga, U of L, Florida and a top-5 UT team on the road, while missing 2 starters; and
d) As a bonus (sprinkles!) we play an exciting style, boast a top-5 offense, and have a roster of guys who appreciate what it means to play at KENTUCKY;
That would have been beyond my wildest dreams. At least not to happen in YEAR 1.
Just mind-boggling. We did kind of earn this through 10 years of misery, but still, we are beyond blessed.
GBB! 💥
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