WTF? Did you not watch Cal start Wheeler over TyTy one season and Cason the next?
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Look how much time Bruce Pearl spent in D2 purgatory for being a rat. It’s not the move for guys in that fraternity.
It is sad. That would be like me getting out my old tight clothes from 30 years ago when I was in incredible shape and strutting around like I still am at 50
It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you
- John Caliapri
Good to see you Westerncat. My family comes from Mayfield originally.
As to the rest of the posters not buying it, Calipari has done things the last few years that deny logic. Notice even the national media was confused. No, he didn’t suddenly decide starting your best players was a bad idea. He didn’t suddenly think roster lineups can be changed every other day. He don’t suddenly decide playing your best lineup together was a bad idea. He didn’t suddenly forget how to beat 15 seeds. Let’s get real for a second.
He didn’t suddenly go from dominant to crap awful. The guy signed that contract knowing he wanted to go out eventually. He’s been trying to be bought out and the brass doesn’t want to pay him they want him to finish his deal. It’s as clear as day. So he’s tanking it to force it.
It really couldn’t be more clear. When I was told what was happening with a few people, I knew it. Just look at how he coached in 2011 and look now. It’s intentional.
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I think it's pretty simple, Cal just trusts these kids too much. He truly believes if he just supports and trusts his players enough they'll figure it out and the team would win. It's why he continually tells guys like DJ and Mitchell to shoot open 3s even when they keep missing. Sometimes it works out, like when he continued to play Bradshaw against Florida and he hit the game winning three.
It worked out quite a bit the first half of his tenure. It hasn't worked out in the past few years. There's no grand conspiracy, it's just Cal thinking if he supports and trust his guys enough they'll make the right play when it counts.
It worked out quite a bit the first half of his tenure. It hasn't worked out in the past few years. There's no grand conspiracy, it's just Cal thinking if he supports and trust his guys enough they'll make the right play when it counts.
This is why it’s imperative that Calipari be fired. He sold his soul to the devil for Wagner, Bradshaw and Edwards thought they would be the key to the team and guaranteed multiple spots for two of them whereas Reeves Shepherd and Dillingham were the best players and two of them had to set the bench because of guarantees to others Time to get his butt out of Lexington
Exactly , and that’s why he should b dismissed for cause . He had a conflict of interest and did not give his employer his best efforts.
I never said I wanted pitino back here. I certainly did when he got fired from Boston. I would have moved on from tubby and got Rick back in here. Tubby was struggling mightily at that time and timing was perfect and had that happened no telling what things look like now for the past 20 plus years. Can almost guarantee we would have more than 1 championship and probably still have our streak in tact of making the NCAAT. Cal has missed twice in 15 seasons which is pretty unfathomable.
I disagree.
I think Cal is devious. Not stupid. That stupid spill of his is a big show.
Cal wants OUT OF HERE as bad as most of the UK fans want him out, IMO.
Cal hates this place.
He just wants Mitch to write him a big retirement buyout check for the total sum of the remaining contract so he can ride off on his terms, a very wealthy man, for doing nothing the last 6 years of his contract.
The moment Dook, started buying players to compete with Cal, for one and done .....
There fixed that for you.
I think the OP is over valuing the rationality of Calipari.
He has either lost all reason in the last several years or he is intentionally doing this because someone pissed him off and he knows his legacy is nba contracts and not college success.
Neither option is good for any party involved, but knowing a team’s offense and defense they will run the entire game and not game planning for it is absolutely intentional.
He has either lost all reason in the last several years or he is intentionally doing this because someone pissed him off and he knows his legacy is nba contracts and not college success.
Neither option is good for any party involved, but knowing a team’s offense and defense they will run the entire game and not game planning for it is absolutely intentional.
Could be right but when he says players first program, believe him! He has shown over and over that the goals of individual players supersede that of the team. Listen to his press conferences, he clearly sees UK as the stepping stone to success and as the means to assure kids reach their dreams. I honestly do not believe there is anything more or less to it than this..listen to what he is saying.. has nothing to do with basketball, UK, or winning. Even La Familia is about him and the players, not UK or the fans.
Afterwards yes.....but what I guess I was trying to say was a coach at Kentucky is/should dominate another program.
Kentucky makes the coach....not the other way around.
I can’t believe anyone is upset over Rick flipping off the fans. He was walking out of the arena and the fans were heckling him and he flipped them off. who wouldn’t?
They were a ball and chain, DJ had value if the other team ran with us and Edwards played well in a handful of games, otherwise they drug us down.
He is Stupid when it comes to his profession. He was given the keys to the palace! He could have cemented his coaching legacy as one of the all time greats and possibly put his face on the Mount Rushmore of coaches. All it took with his recruiting prowess was determination and desire to want to be in that discussion. He was wealthy beyond measure even before the ridiculous lifetime contract. He was always leaving here rich, but now he will leave here a hated/despised man (at least by Many). He will be hated more than a coach who flipped off the fanbase. All his goodwill from 2009-2015 will be forgotten, He will be remembered for 2021-2024 (and possibly beyond) more than he will the former. He overtakes dean smith in futility of coaches who failed with all the talent they had. He leaves a laughingstock with questions of did he ever know how to coach. He leaves as a fraud, a con man, a snakeoil salesman and any other derogatory term one can come up with. Whatever he leaves as he just needs to leave sooner rather than later as it’s only going to get worse from here.
So you think this is bigger than bringing in a player and then allow he and his posse to dictate whether he plays or not when others are obviously playing hurt?
He owned Patino because he had the highest rated five stars on his team and the portal and NIL were not relevant. If they had equal players. Pitino beats Cal every time as a coach, IMO.
That is some silly shit. I don't think Cal is that complicated and I don't think Barnhart is that stupid. Who are the Kentucky men that were pushed out that were in control of the program?
No inside info (and that's the way I like it and want it), but it would appear to have been part of his bedeviling strategy to prop up two kids who weren't adjusting/playing well, or at least to their perceived potential, so as to attract positive NBA exec attention. He can always say to both Edwards and Wagner that he gave them every edge mentally to excel and look good in front of the NBA masses. Given his program philosophy, that's a primary reason for never realistically considering inserting Reed and Rob into the starting lineup. Secondarily, he wasn't ever going to let a bunch of hayseed Basketball Bennies dictate how he ran the team. God forbid if that should happen... Anyone with a rational brain, even those not knowing much about basketball, would know to start your best players, but not someone as stubborn and egotistical as JC. "If it was your son..."
BBN is turning into a national shit show. Some of our fan base has lost their minds with the outrageous claims as to why Kentucky lost a basketball game.
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