Hope We CRUSH MSU and LSU This Year

[BigBlueCatNation]

Because of the 2 guys we wanted going there. Those teams are just horrible. Do others feel the same way? Is that bad?

 

[rodgerblue]

I don't see us crushing anyone the rest of the year.

 

[NCukcat62]

I hope we crush them too but not for that reason. Kids are allowed to go other schools, no big deal.

 

[anon_q409idbs5m40a]

We may win both, however, we won't crush either. I'd be willing to bet that these teams will have their best games of the season against us.

 

[ukfan79]

I don't see us crushing anyone the rest of the year.\\

BS. There are some awful teams still left on our schedule. And we play some at home. We will get some large wins going forward.

Mississippi State
Missouri
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia

Those 5 at home have the potential to be BIG wins.

Then roads games like:

Auburn
Alabama
Tennessee
Arkansas

These will be pretty easy road wins. Maybe not 'crush' worthy, but we'll win these.

There's 9 wins. The other 9 will be tough but we'll get over half of those to finish 14-4 at least.

 

[anon_q409idbs5m40a]

BS. There are some awful teams still left on our schedule. And we play some at home. We will get some large wins going forward.

Mississippi State
Missouri
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia

Those 5 at home have the potential to be BIG wins.

Then roads games like:

Auburn
Alabama
Tennessee
Arkansas

These will be pretty easy road wins. Maybe not 'crush' worthy, but we'll win these.

There's 9 wins. The other 9 will be tough but we'll get over half of those to finish 14-4 at least.

No such thing as easy road wins. No matter how bad the other team is UK will get their best game.

 

[ukfan79]

No such thing as easy road wins. No matter how bad the other team is UK will get their best game.

There are such things as easy road wins. It's all relative. By easy, I don't mean we're going to blow those teams away on the road by 20. But I think those will all be very comfortable wins where its not close the last 10 minutes or so and we win by 8-12 or so. Those teams are pretty damn bad.

 

[anon_q409idbs5m40a]

Would love to see it but after watching UK basketball for close to 50 years we'll always get the home team's best game, no matter how bad they are. With this team, no one really knows what to expect. My guess is that they'll struggle with teams they're supposed to beat easily and play better at places like Vandy and South Carolina, for example.

 

[ukfan79]

Would love to see it but after watching UK basketball for close to 50 years we'll always get the home team's best game, no matter how bad they are. With this team, no one really knows what to expect. My guess is that they'll struggle with teams they're supposed to beat easily and play better at places like Vandy and South Carolina, for example.

Maybe so, but we usually win fairly comfortably on the road against bad SEC teams. Just look at the history. We've won many SEC road games this way in past.

Since Cal has been here -
2014-15:
22 pt win at Bama
15 pt win at SCjr
16 pt win at Mizzou
18 pt win at Tennessee
18 pt win at Miss State

2013-14:
10 pt win at Miss State
14 pt win at Ole Miss

2012-13:
22 pt win at Auburn
13 pt win at Ole Miss

2011-12:
15 pt win at Auburn
13 pt win at Georgia
24 pt win at LSU
34 pt win at SCjr
15 pt win at Florida

2009-10:
12 pt win at Florida
26 pt win at LSU
12 pt win at Georgia

I just listed the double digit wins. That's 17 of the 51 road games since Cal has been coach. So 1/3 of our road games.

To say there's no such thing, is just incorrect. I think we'll add a few to this list this year out those that I mentioned above.

 

[ukfan79]

And we won a lot of others by 8 or 9 points that I didn't even list. Now where all those easy? No.

But my point is they aren't always barn burners down the stretch and are very often comfortable wins.