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Hmm. Aaron Bradshaw

Maybe that means he’s better than he shows.
Bound to be better than he has shown so far but my point, which was part serious at least, is that only good players can point shave or throw games. Bradshaw shooting poorly and turning the ball over is baked into the line. Now he could help beat the line if he could play good when he wanted but having watched him an entire year I just don't think he has any feel for the game or much skill, just a tall guy that can run and jump.

I am being serious when I say that Bradshaw is not a good enough player to throw games or point shave. When he is having one of his poor games he will go to the bench. This point shaving allegation will turn out to not be true. I can't even figure out why a gambler or fixer would even approach a bad player for this purpose.
 
Yeah, my point really isn't about Bradshaw at all, it's about what hapoens to programs at the end of Calipari's rein.
I’m glad the guy is gone, but it’s entirely for his inability to win and nothing else. I still don’t believe he has any responsibility in the Camby and Rose situations, and I won’t change tune on that just to heap more shit on the dude. He’s sucked as a coach for the last 4 years and was never able to turn the corner back to his best years at UK. Thats enough to want him gone without needing to change how I viewed those situations.
 
I’m glad the guy is gone, but it’s entirely for his inability to win and nothing else. I still don’t believe he has any responsibility in the Camby and Rose situations, and I won’t change tune on that just to heap more shit on the dude. He’s sucked as a coach for the last 4 years and was never able to turn the corner back to his best years at UK. Thats enough to want him gone without needing to change how I viewed those situations.
Yep, I defended him over the Camby and Rose situations before he became UK's coach. I was happy when Cal got hired and now I'm even happier he's gone but I'll never believe he is a devil; he's just not a great coach.
 
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I’m glad the guy is gone, but it’s entirely for his inability to win and nothing else. I still don’t believe he has any responsibility in the Camby and Rose situations, and I won’t change tune on that just to heap more shit on the dude. He’s sucked as a coach for the last 4 years and was never able to turn the corner back to his best years at UK. Thats enough to want him gone without needing to change how I viewed those situations.
I'm not saying Cal knew anything, but when you swim in the waters he swims in, shit happens. He puts the players over the program, he puts already entitled players on a pedestal and that can get out of control and it did at UMass and Memphis.

Now, I defended Cal for years on both situations, because it is true, he didn't do anything wrong, but in both situations, he should have known.
 
I'm not saying Cal knew anything, but when you swim in the waters he swims in, shit happens. He puts the players over the program, he puts already entitled players on a pedestal and that can get out of control and it did at UMass and Memphis.

Now, I defended Cal for years on both situations, because it is true, he didn't do anything wrong, but in both situations, he should have known.
Can’t keep an eye on these guys 24/7. Neither situations happened on campus.
 
I'm not saying Cal knew anything, but when you swim in the waters he swims in, shit happens. He puts the players over the program, he puts already entitled players on a pedestal and that can get out of control and it did at UMass and Memphis.

Now, I defended Cal for years on both situations, because it is true, he didn't do anything wrong, but in both situations, he should have known.
Those two situations are so different I am not going to treat them as a duo so right not I'll just address the Camby situation. That was a player doing something behind the coach and university's back and the coach and school were the victims in that particular situation. There was no way Cal or UMASS could have known in advance about that situation and they could not have stopped it and even if it had never came to light they gained nothing from Camby taking that agent's money(he was playing his last year at UMASS; it's not like cheating to get a player). The NCAA has said that and Camby has apologized to Cal and UMASS. If Camby can admit it then everybody should be able to admit the truth about that one. You can lump the UMASS thing with any other thing and try to claim a pattern but it's an imaginary pattern. I did not like Cal's coaching but he was here a long time and he did not commit NCAA violations and it doesn't appear that he did before he got here either.
 
Really, your eagle eye hindsight gonna take you there. I watched UK as much as anyone last year and he seemed a good kid, he was injured early but he was showing up at those charity games and kid games with big positive smile and vibe.
I never got a bad vibe from Bradshaw. Seems like a good kid. However, WCS in 2015 during the Wisconsin game made me feel uneasy. All of a sudden (it seemed like) he seemed to be bad at almost every aspect of his game. I don't just feel that way now, because of this pt shaving talk. I have thought that since that night. Something was off.
 
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