kyjeff1, I could not agree more. My personal thoughts about Calipari and Barbee have been known here for years that I have never believed that Calipari is a good developer of talent or a good in game coach, and I have been the minority and blasted often about it. Calipari has a record of generally only reaching top success with the very best players such as Camby, Rose, Davis, etc.
He keeps telling everyone that it's about the kids and their dreams, but 95% of the kids the have gone on to the NBA from UK the last 10 years, were already on the draft boards before they came here. Some of them actually slipped and some were lottery picks before they came here, but Cal likes to take the credit for getting them there.
How about Cal actually make some changes for the good of the program?
I'll just say a couple of things. In your example you are equating UK basketball to Tennessee and Auburn football in terms of the level they are at. I don't agree with that comparison. I would suggest you look at Indiana for what can potentially happen to a program when they think they have a coach that is not replaceable. Let me be clear. I'm not suggesting we fire Cal tomorrow. I'm suggesting that the idea that someone else can't do as well or better than he has done is a dangerous idea because it eliminates all coaching options for the program except the one we already have.
No no. Not on rafters. The posters on here wield some power ya know. They are gonna swap out the coach. There are so many top flight candidates that we can choose whoever we want too. Just you see.
Ok then I’ll ask you what I ask everyone else. Who ya got? We all know we have a problem. That’s the easy part. But do you have a solution? So far I’ve heard beard, Altman, and Drew. Uh, no thanks. They are more billy-esqe than Pitino-esqe.
When has Cal ever been known for recruiting his guys to return?You really think it will start like magic this season?
Such a lame question.
I'm sorry you don't realize that this is UK and this is not acceptable, especially when this man makes 10 million a year to win games for UK. That is 3 million more than UK and 4 million more than RW.
I’m not comparing us to tenn football. I just used them as an example of a botched coaching search. My whole point is there are no replacement options that are an upgrade in my opinion. I’m pretty confident in that opinion and I think it’s shared by the people in charge. So at this point we all just need to chill on the faaar Cal talk because it’s all being yelled out of pure emotion
What did Cal used to do that he isn’t doing now? I’m pretty sure the formula is the same as it was. It’s high risk and high reward. Eventually we would get burned by a bad batch. That’s what we are seeing.
At one point did I say it’s acceptable? Your last paragraph about the guys who should have retuned is spot on. I feel the exact same way. I’d like to see him change that and I’ve posted as such. We need him to recruit sophomores as much as we need him to recruit blue chip players.
Pitino hadn't done anything great before coming to UK. His recrd at Boston U and Providence was pedestrian at best. He did catch lightning in a bottle at Providence one year. Joe B was a coach at some small school before getting the UK job. Was an assistant at UK also.
Is saying that people don’t know basketball the best you can do? You can’t even defend this. Quit resorting to personal attacks and actually talk basketball. By the way, the numbers he was referring to are still important. 34% shooting is still not good. 29% from 3 is still terrible. 1-6 with 6 straight losses is still bad.
Exactly.. go back and watch the replay. Sarr was the best available option..
You seem to forget we went to the final 4 the following year. I guess it’s a good thing we didn’t fire the coach huh?
Once again, people rattling their traps when they can't follow the most basic of trends. There are dozens of coaches who can recruit better at UK than they can at their current school who have had as much or more success than Cal over the past 5 years. Get off his nuts and take your first deep breath in a decade.
This. Also, the lane is clogged and there’s no shooters to space the floor for guys like Clarke. Now, Boston, he’s a different deal altogether. He just can’t hit shots and has terrible shot selection. Couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat!
Cal did good things for Umass and Memphis but he completely went away from building rosters like he did at both of those school’s. That’s his problem right there, IMO. Way to much emphasis on the NBA and this one and done system. The environment he has created has completely went away from what he did the majority of his career and that matters. No excuse for going 1-6 at the University of Kentucky with the resources and budget he has to work with.
I thot the defense looked a little better as well. But let’s be honest, U6 is not exactly an offensive juggernaut. So it’s not clear if there was REAL improvement.
I'm not here to defend Cal. in fact I think he is a poor coach. Mintz probably should have been the choice, that in itself say's a lot about this team. nobody on this team is worthy of taking a game winning shot.
For 1, Cal can't be fired. 2, it's a 60 million dollar buyout, that ain't gonna happen and 3, Cal ain't changing squat. No way, no how. So all we can do, is hate the guy.
