I want Tubby Smith back!

[jguynn]

Are you kidding me? Tubby was awful, we were getting worse every year. Vandy even humiliated us. If Tubby were here we would probably finish last in the conference. Definatly not a top 25 coach! Cal is definitely the best coach of this era. Would not trade him for any other coach out there. We'll be fine when the tournaments starts. Neutral referees will make a lot of difference come tournament time!

As long as he can keep getting the best black players in the country that is no uncle bubba is your daddy boys never ever for get that is why UK is on top bubba!!

 

[PhattyJ4UK]

Cal is taking completely new teams every year and molding them into contenders. ITs basically like he's a first year coach every year.

The fact that he's more successful than not makes me pretty damn sure he knows what he is doing in regards to Xs and Os

 

[MakinMusic]

He's the same coach he's always been....one of the best in the business. All this whining when we lose games is so predictable.

 

[dave5164]

Tubby Smith recruiting in his last 4-5 years at UK was terribe. We had big men Shagari Alleyne & Orbzut at Center and forwards we had Sheray Thomas and Bobby Perry. They were all 2 and 3* players and Rupp Rafters was going crazy about this low talent being at UK compared to the talent at Duke, Kansas, UNC, etc. In Tubby Smith's last 2 years he brought in Jared Carter at Center, Rekain Sims, which was in trouble it seemed all the time at UK, and Adam Williams. Then his last season he did bring in Jodie Meeks, to go with Dwight Perry, Michael Porter, and Perry Stevenson. He did bring in Derrick Jasper but he had Knee Surgery and then transferred to UNLV! In his last 2 seasons with the not so good Recruiting Classes both times we were #8 seeds and lost to UCONN and KANSAS in the 2nd Round then we brought in Billy Gillispie and it went downhill real fast in his 2 seasons before bring Coach Cal in 2009-2010 season and we went to the ELITE 8 in his first season and Coach Cal's next 5 seasons we went to the Final Four 4 out of 5 times, won the National Championship and was Runner-up and we were 38-0 last year before falling to Wisc. in the Final Four. There is no way I want to go back before Coach Cal arriving in Lexington and have to go through what we went through in those last 5-6 years before Coach Cal was hired in 2009-2010!