I'm glad you're okay with the Heels standing right over your shoulder in National Titles then. 7-8 would be getting awfully close. Doesn't 6-8 look better for you?There was a time when UK never had to worry about anyone other than UCLA when it came to the title count.
Strange. Tennessee is not a thread to UK basketball. You could put all of their basketball fans in one room. I wish Tennessee was in the Final Four and not Duke or North Carolina or Kansas or Villanova.
Fisher was the interim head coach when Michigan won. It was his first time as head coach.
Plus, Cal is pals with Self. Self getting his second might light a fire under Calipari, whereas K winning will probably be blown off by Cal as "favoritism."
ole Jeep, there's a name from the past. You still post at IC or TDD? I'm not impressed with either, I think many at both sites have retreated to the premium forums. I don't even give more than a glance at either site. (Got your Xanax for Sat?
True enough but those HC's will be nowhere to be found on the most important day on the CBB calendar....the NBA draft. UK HC will take his seat on his throne at the preferred table at the draft, and he will be all big hugs and kisses as he bids farewell to his departing, short-tenured wildcats/newest NBA rookies.
I splurged last year for premium so I could follow the riveting coaching search. I imagined I’d be tracking planes and parsing interviews, only to find out Hubert had the job a month before I knew Roy was gone. I don’t venture much to the free boards now. I do miss the old TDD board and posters. Not the same now.ole Jeep, there's a name from the past. You still post at IC or TDD? I'm not impressed with either, I think many at both sites have retreated to the premium forums. I don't even give more than a glance at either site. (Got your Xanax for Sat?
Interesting take, certainly worthy of a good discussion. I don't necessarily disagree with you but Duke is relying on freshmen to get that job done, albeit a good trio of them...it'll at least be interesting to see how it plays out. Don't know why I care to put myself through further misery by watching or caring, but I do.
Is he the only one? Guess that kinda counts. Be interested to see if anyone was true HC and did it.
Kevin Ollie at UConn won it his first year, and then was fired shortly thereafter.
12 years of cal and 2/3 of the time 1 of 3 teams win it other than UK. And the idiots tell us the tournament is random? By what I see there is nothing random about it. If it were random there would be 12 different schools not the same ones. Cal had us duped to believe he was a serious coach when all he was doing was waiting to secure his job and cruise control it.
You’re about the only cbb fan of a blue blood to not give a shit about titles. That’s the first thing that’s looked at when deciding the tradition. Titles, final fours then wins. We are slipping and the so called list will need to be amended. We may not be the historic all time greatest program anymore.
I hope Nova wins the whole thing. Then the next week the Jailhawks get hit with their penalties!! The rat faced bastard then fades into oblivion never to be seen again and UNCheat suffers mass transfers
This is one of the worst KU teams in the past ten years. Nova, while it’s not ideal to lose arguably best player WILL be in the game till the end. Hopefully refs let them play.
Yes, Tubby had been a head coach before. As I said, Ed Jucker comes the closest to never having been a head coach before while winning the championship in his first year. He was head coach of the Merchant Marine Academy in the 2nd year of its 2-year attempt at basketball. I'm not sure it could even be considered Division 1; I'm certain they didn't have scholarship players. So Jucker had never been a Div. 1 head coach before.
wkycatfan,
Well, again, Steve Fisher comes closest since he was an assistant coach at the beginning of March 1989, and won the title as head coach a month later.
Yes, but he was only interim head coach with no expectation originally that he would be permanently hired as head coach. And he only coached the NCAA tournament games. I'm not convinced he really qualifies as a true head coach.
Eh, they weren’t coachless. Frieder didn’t win the tournament. “Interim” in this sense is more a contract thing, than anything else. From a practical standpoint, Fisher was the head coach of a team that won the title. He didn’t build it, he wasn’t in charge of it throughout the season, but there were 6 games that Michigan won to win the title, and Fisher was the head coach on the sidelines.
Tubby led two Div1 programs before coming to KY.
Jeep,
Cheering for them to beat Duke, but don't want them to win it all. That means they would have 7, one less than us.
