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Are you as stupid in person as you are on the internet? I'm going to go with yes. You clearly need some perspective about some of those "choke" jobs you posted. There's not a Coach in UK's storied history who hasn't had bad losses in the Tournament, Rupp, Hall, Sutton, Rick, Tubby and Cal.

1992: It took a perfect game from arguably the greatest college player to beat UK. Try and remember where the program was just a few short years before that game.

1993: Tough game to lose for sure, perhaps a healthy Dale Brown changes the outcome?
1994: Again, UK has had bad losses in tournaments before, also the loss of Dent has some play on that season.
1995: UK has been UNC's bitch for several UK coaches. Fortunately, Cal has had the upper hand.
1997: Lose your 2nd best player midway in the season and still make the Finals and probably repeat if Nazr hits one FT. But yeah, he choked,lol.

His teams were much more fun to watch than Cal's. Switch coaches yesterday and UK wins in a romp.
UH Cal 9-1 against that slim ball......you're correct it was fun watching Pitino lose to Cal again though.
 
I thought he needed the ball more before today. Not anymore. Everything he did good happened when he got the ball from Ulis. If he and Ulis get on the same page as to who's the 1 and who's the 2, watch out. Murray is a 2 guard, period.
Green light..... Maybe he thought, he was channeling Curry
 
I say leave it up there. We are bigger people than Rick. We shouldn't respond in the same juvenile way he responded today. Let him be a petty and classless idiot, not us.

I'll tell you what SHOULD happen though... that banner he won at UL while using hookers to recruit should he taken down. The NCAA should make them take it down. It was won by players who received impermissible benefits and were, therefore, ineligible, so take it down. Boom!
Agree, it should come down right after a couple come down at UNC. The NCAA should never try to punish anyone until they deal with the UNC mess and any school that the NCAA tries to sanction should file suit or seek an injunction to delay action till UNC is resolved.
 
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I am old enough as well. But he doesn't care what he accomplished at UK. He never embraced the fans like Calipari does. Never. It was always about him. He hasn't just become like this. He was always like this.

The SI article about him years ago was spot on. "A Man Possessed" is right. All that matters to him is him.

No he didn't. He loved the Kentucky program, another reason why he always publicly admits it's was the biggest mistake of his life. Not his career, but his life
 
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You can't rewrite history, leave it be. It was a historical era when he was here and we're in the middle of one now. Enjoy the ride because you never know how long it will last.
 
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By bringing in these one-n-done player So!

But I must admit Lewis and Lee are dynamic players and will cause other teams fits all year long.

Glad the game ended when it did ....
 
I think someone should just sneak in and cut down that banner. Maybe during a concert or truck pull?

I would volunteer but I'm afraid of heights. :eek:
 
Everyone makes mistakes. Leave it up. " Let him without sin cast the first stone" We have no right to judge other people.
We have the right to stand up for what we believe in. Rick Pitino has worked to undermine the university ever since he took the UL job. Any accomplishments he had here are not worth the stigma of associating with that piece of excrement. The banner needs to come down.
 
He has 1 amazing player in lee and 2 other very good players in Onuaku and Lewis . That is it though Mitchell will be a good one like Matthews eventually. Snider is just not a good player and don't make me mention any of the other UL bigs as they suck.
 
I'll never forget watching Woody Hayes as a coach ,tackle a player on the opposing team running for a TD,LMAO,he liked to punch newsmen too
 
Switch coaches? Lol. You clearly are the moron. Cal has won 8 of 9 against your precious Pimptino including two games in the NCAA tournament. Rick can't hold Cal's jock when it comes to coaching and the results prove it. Rick choked year after year at UK and your revisionist history doesn't change that. Three Stacks is a terrible close game coach and that has been proven over and over. Throw in that he is total scum bucket who bangs bimbos on restaurant tables, pays for abortions and oversees whores banging recruits at the basketball dorm makes him one of lowest forms of human trash on earth. So you keep on slurping him- as they say birds of a feather.

And Cal hasn't choked while at UK? WVU? UConn x2? Wisc? Rick never led UK to the NIT, at least Cal has that over him.
 
UL's fans and administration have such low self esteem they are just like the Wayne's World skit. When Ramsey Jurich Petrino and Pitino walk in a room they drop to their knees and start chanting " we're not worthy... We're not worthy". Please don't leave us.
 
People like to bash Cal and his accomplishments here. How about applying that same microscope to Pimptino's time at UK:
1992- bone headed coaching on last play of game against Duke cost UK a trip to final four.
1993- had best team in nation and chokes against fab five in final four in OT.
1994- loses in second round to Marquette
1995- once again can argue he had best team in nation and chokes against UNC in final eight. He has always been UNC's bitch just like he is UK's bitch.
1997- chokes away NCAA title game to Arizona in OT.
How anyone can say they enjoyed his time here more than Cal's is beyond me.

Maybe the single dumbest thing I've read on the internet today....ignorance at its finest.
 
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I have read this forum for a long time and rather I agree with what I read, I enjoy reading what fellow UK fans think.
I never thought I would ever post on here, but after my granddaughter taught me some computer skills, here I am. Just never thought my first post would be about Rick Pitino.
I have a business that has me on or around the UL campus everyday. I wear my UK hats/shirts with pride.
I know and have seen many things that could bring scrutiny I guess if I told all. At my age, I bleed blue but enjoy the color gr$$n too. It business, but I have to hear all kinds of crap from these people and to know the lies they spread and misguidedness of the facts they tell is BS.
I am torn on the banner issue. I see Rick Pitino as the man, coach who was run out of town, New York, and landed in Lexington at a program who was having issues as was Rick.
I have always looked at it like two people coming out of a bad marriage and meet up and both are good for one another. UK did as much for Rick Pitino as Rick Pitino did for UK.
As a old timer I have seen the good and bad at UK; but I can name no school who doesn't go through tough times. Its life.
The thing about UK I truly love is, even in the tough times, they handle it with class.
Rick Pitino did great things while at UK. Cant take that from him. He earned it.
Going to our arch rival was a kick in the balls to me. He could have went to Michigan or UCLA then, but he chose to UL. By doing so, he knew many UK fans would not ever except this.
Coach K would never go to UNC; Bob Knight would never go to Purdue; Dean Smith never to NCST or Duke; Joe B never to UL; the list goes on and on. Anywhere but UL Rick.
For that, he can rot in the hell hole he is in.
45 years ago my then wife gave birth to my son. We divorced a few years later and she turned into a monster. For the sake of my son, I give her the respect she earned being the mother of my son, but if she dropped dead today, I could care less.
Moral is, Rick can drop dead and life will go on. He is no longer in the family.
If something happened to say, Joe B., I would be saddened.
Sorry for the long post. You guys are the best. Right or wrong, your family.
Go Big Blue
 
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I agree with most of what he said except for Kentucky being better by only a thin margin. I think Kentucky is alot better and it showed by how we controlled the whole game and he's forgetting that we were missing one of our best players.
 
Rose hated losing but gambling let to his demise and those questioning his integrity. Nothing else. The biggest difference between the 3 was his legacy was built playing the game, not coaching it.
 
I l will not fire pitino. Syracuse didn't fire boeheim and smu did not fire Larry Brown . we're in a non accountability society, unfortunately
 
Maybe the single dumbest thing I've read on the internet today....ignorance at its finest.
Every time you type something on this site is the dumbest thing I've ever read on the Internet tard fan. I don't know who is worse- your moronic musings or Petjurino. You can't stand the fact- and it is a fact- that Pimptino can't hold Cal's jock when it comes to coaching. It isn't even close.
 
This thread is a microcosm of the recent cultural shift towards intolerance of conflicting ideas and inability to cope. Don't like something? Better write letters and try to incite anger against it until it is removed from history...
 
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wow. 7 to's.
Actually it was worse than that. I can recall off the top of my head at least 3 times when Murray tried what will show up in the box score as a "shot attempt" but had absolutely zer chance of going in. Those were closer to turnovers than missed field goals - each led to a break going the other way....
 
One has to wonder how much longer the fans will back Pitino, he can't beat the schools biggest rival, the smooth talk can only take you so far, plus all of the other stuff going on. He is starting to crack, his appearance along with his antics say he can't stand it anymore, the end is near.
 
It's December 27th and they are 0-2 against P5 programs. We had them down 16 in the second half without Briscoe. I'm going to reserve judgement on how good they are until I see them win some games against real competition.
 
Pitino's personality has even changed, since he went to louisville he has been seen with a line beard and even gotten a tattoo and now the program has been involved with hookers, wow, talk about culture shock, this man is losing it. People yelling things or not you don't do what he did yesterday, are you telling me UK fans get to him more than Bostons fans did, it wouldn't bother me if they took it down, he let the fans know where he stands.
 
Forde hinted that Pitino is mad at UK fans for not appreciating the way he "saved us from the ravages of probation".
 
Yet if it was Cal, the same UofL circle jerkers would be saying it's definite cause to lifetime ban Cal from college basketball.
 
Do any of you realize that if the posters had had the power to hire coaches, Pitino would have been our coach the past 15 (?) years........Tubby would have been released when RP left Boston and wanted to return.

On a side note, the same would have hired Petrino (sp) 3 years ago.

Really shows the wisdom of random posters, doesn't it?
Are we ever so lucky?:flushed:
 
This thread wasn't to bash anything UofL. There is enough hate in the other threads.

It was intended to show had Pitino not got those two graduate students just how bad they'd be!

And don't bash graduate students, UK has one in Alex Poythress and I'm glad he didn't opt to go somewhere else to play his final year!
 
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.

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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.
 
Rick is a "Louisville Man" and has the tattoo and actions to prove it. TAKE IT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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