Let's see. I did point out that his"coaching ability" helped but we all know (except you) that players win or lose games by their performance, skills and abilities or lack thereof That is what I was referring to, who actually plays the game. Coaches can teach, drill and practice a team to death but players win or lose the game
No, you're flogging a technicality in order to be reductive about Rick pitino's contribution to all his wins and the 96 championship, a ploy I highly doubt would be so readily administered in any context when speaking of Coach Cal because naturally your acrimony is too consumed by the immediate "Sore" of a former UK coach helming the flagship athletic team of its historical and perennial antithesis.
Rick Pitino recruited those players, he coached those players instilling within them fundamental principles that served as the foundation for their future careers. He conditioned those players into cardio stressing, full court pressing behemoths who brought the unrelenting hammer down on teams at times. He championed the three point shot better than most during the first year it was implemented at the college level thereby forging a legacy(that admittedly is somewhat diminished with the way his teams play now) of high scoring dynamic offense.
Even attempting to perpetrate the notion that his coaching only played a minor part in his illustrious career at the University of Kentucky is illogical diatribe at its finest.
bluescat92 said:
Now as far as all the "intangibles that go into fostering young players". As a human being he sucks. Even when he was at UK it was rumored that he knocked up a dance team girl, he and his wife socially disassociated their selfs from the fans and he was aragant and condensating. Now that is sad and asinine
A rumor, my simpleminded friend is not tantamount to guilt.
But I digress, it might be true considering his real documented history with infidelity.
You can call him a philandering slimeball till the cows come home, (you may not be far off) but that has no bearing on his ability to teach the game of basketball and what he has accomplished in his career.
The haters in Louisville and outside the commonwealth regularly use the same inflammatory language and rebukes when describing UK and It's head coach, and we as Kentucky fans simply dismiss them as bitter and jealous.
I just find it funny how that dynamic when flipped, doesn't apply to "certain" UK fans when they are being admonished for doing the exact same thing they deplore the rest of the college basketball community for doing.
Pompous, intractable, and thoroughly beyond reproach.
I love my cats, but I refuse to be a blind fanatic barking at every interpreted slight or insult leveled at the University and more specifically its players and athletic program.