Oh look once it's announced I will fall in line. Cheer and hope for the best. I'm just voicing my opinion that I think it's a bad fit. I hope I'm wrong. Would love to be wrong. My dad has had major health issues and we watch most games together. I just want to see him enjoy it again as do I.
Exactly, we will field a competitive team . If he can win a title at Baylor he can win here. I remember back in 2020-2021 everyone was like wow he plays a modern style, I’d love that here.
But the portal has made fans less patient.Some new coaches have done well early because of it so if Drew fails early it could get ugly.
I get it. I just hope no one expects him to be Cal 2009. Hell Cal can’t even Cal 2009 anymore.
I’ll root like hell for him to succeed. But i hate that Barnhart was seemingly left to make this choice on his own and was laser focused on one guy. This was too important a hire to half ass.
Then what? Start cycling coaches? Guess what that road leads to? Indiana.
About # 4-5 on my list. Hurley was supposed to be #1. Now we find out Oats was called first, Drew was fully offered the job, and Hurley, while interested, has to wait until Drew says yes or no.
But there is a guy whose doing even better than 2009 Kal and yet our dumbass AD won’t even wait a few days to let him make a decision.
Oats we should have know Barnhart wasn’t paying that buyout. Hurley is the only coach I can say is significantly better than Drew. All the others have clear issues and clear benefits like Drew does. If Drew wants to be here than we should all welcome him and give him a chance
Well said and completely agree. So many negative comments about Drew’s faith. I wonder if the same would be said if he were of another religion. After the complaints from BBN regarding the former coach’s ego, one would think a little humility would be appreciated.
And his first two years at UConn sucked. I’d like to have him too but he would also need time to get rolling.
I don't think people care about his faith.It's all the early round losses that concern me.Just like Cal.
Hurley is a stone cold killer, and exactly what we needed. Drew will be another 3 or 4 years of what we had with Saggy Cal. Minus all the one and done nonsense.
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Looking back, Cal was just great at recruiting, and out-talenting everyone. When the playing field leveled, Cal didn't have two legs to stand on because of the inability to actually coach and teach these guys.
Just look at the traffic on the forum. There’s no excitement. And the fact Barney didn’t go after Hurley or oats. Went straight to Drew is massively disrespectful to our tradition. UK always goes after the best not afraid to hear no. This AD needs to go he’s a clown.
Prove he didn’t go after Hurley man. There are several sources that say Hurley was contacted.
It’s been over the course of a couple days. Go look. I think Pilgrim has mentioned it too
To be clear I think there is a 5% chance Hurley would accept….he needs us to extract every possible dollar from cash strapped UCONN….but it’s a fireable offense to not give Hurley until Saturday night to make a final decision.
I doubt Hurley was ever serious about coming here tbh. He’s mentioned the three peat several times now. And shockingly, money isn’t everything to some problem. Wild I know.
And I’d be perfectly fine giving him that time because he’s more than proven he can produce titles. Drew on the other hand feels like Kal who just got lucky once.
Well tbf Drew did something Cal couldn’t do. Beat Gonzaga. And a better Zaga than we ever played.
Cal is the best recruiter of all time. And his teams until about 2019 always played extremely hard. That was usually enough even though he could have had 2 or 3 other championships. Then he decided he’d rather be Mother Theresa and his teams lost that edge of playing hard nosed basketball.
Yeah, but Drew is 8-28 against Kansas.
Exactly….would I be over the moon for a deep run? Absolutely! but I’d be happy with watching a team being built and a coach that has a heart for Kentucky..then at the end of season seeing players returning for another year..while we add a few good ones…signs that point to us being a consistent threat each year…
I would take him as my first choice among the three apparent options, but I'm kind of inclined to agree with you. When you look at his resume before these last two years, it's really unimpressive, frankly. Did he hit on the perfect mix of guys and maximize it? I know there was a lot of turnover between year one and two, but there was a core that existed for both. I will be curious to see how UConn does next year once he really has a fresh group of players. Closer to his previous seasons, or closer to these last two years?
Who knows if Drew will do well here by UK standards, assuming he's the guy, but I think the odds of him doing so badly in the first three years to warrant being fired are slim to none. He's well established as a good coach, the question is whether he can be great. And that's partly my fear with him is do we find ourselves in a middling position where we're good enough each season to have hope without ever really getting to the promised land...
I’d rather make Drew wait until Hurley decides, only to have both tell me know and end up with Chris Beard than to take Drew without even waiting for Hurley.
Don’t know if I buy that but Greg Byrne is the Bama AD and it was Mitch who gave Greg his first job in athletics at UK
Now THAT is the most Kentucky shit EVER!!!
