Roster mix as opposed to coaching……

[gojvc]

I’m not defending the coaching or making excuses for it. But today we played:

7 freshman
2 sophomores
1 senior

That is not a roster mix that’s going to work in 2024 college basketball. In 2014 it could. That world doesn’t exist now. Unfortunately, I don’t see how that changes much moving forward.

 

[sluggercatfan]

I’m not defending the coaching or making excuses for it. But today we played:

7 freshman
2 sophomores
1 senior

That is not a roster mix that’s going to work in 2024 college basketball. In 2014 it could. That world doesn’t exist now. Unfortunately, I don’t see how that changes much moving forward.

That's the way the used car salesman has built his rosters. It's on him, hook,line and sinker.

 

[gojvc]

That the way the used car salesman has built his rosters. It's on him, hook,line and sinker.

He owns it. No doubt about that.

 

[fisherscatfan]

Defend the entry pass and UK wins. Zero adjustments to letting them just get the ball 5 feet from the basket.

 

[CincyUKFan]

“I’m not defending the coaching or making excuses for it. But…”

Dude. Your name is “gojvc” 🤣🤣🤣

 

[Kyhoward]

I’m not defending the coaching or making excuses for it. But today we played:

7 freshman
2 sophomores
1 senior

That is not a roster mix that’s going to work in 2024 college basketball. In 2014 it could. That world doesn’t exist now. Unfortunately, I don’t see how that changes much moving forward.

CCC does not build a roster, he tries to accumulate the most talent. I stated in another post that he would, as a baseball GM, acquire 9 designated hitters were they deemed 5*. We always have a roster imbalance regarding the freshmen through senior classes. We could lose 4-5 freshmen and, of course, the 2 seniors off this years team. So next year you may have 5-6 freshmen, 2 sophs, 2 juniors, and 0 seniors.

Experience trumps inexperience, in most cases, in the college game. Purdue, UConn,, N Carolina and many others have experienced players And we don’t. Our guys just have not played enough games together. Even the great COW cannot teach experience

 

[know1]

It's lack of coaching. It always has been.

 

[seccats04]

Well, CCC tried the transfer portal roster the last couple of years and failed miserably with that too. So he's out of options. The game has passed him by.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

COACHING MALPRACTICE

 

[LineSkiCat14]

He'd fix a lot of issues if he'd just play the right players.

 

[Imafan4evr_]

Roster mix is the responsibility of the coach. If it happened one time, I’d give him the benefit of the doubt.

It’s happened how many seasons in a row now? What roster mix would he have needed to beat St. F’ing Peters? To have done better than 9-16 the C19 season? To make it to the second weekend of the tournament period at this point?

We have a problem with our bench, for sure. It sits at the head of it, makes $9 mil a year and is really good at shouting “GOOOOOOO!” and looking like a sweaty, befuddled mess down the stretch of any game.

 

[ManitouDan]

Does anyone recall about 60 days ago when many many posters here were declaring " WE GOT DOGS" which is the dumbest , most sophomoric , immature , dumb ass talk ever . Dogs .. pure stupidity .

 

[chroix]

He needs to get Mitchell healthy and roll with the original lineup from the beginning of the season when we actually looked like we were worth a damn.

 

[Smashcat]

I’m not defending the coaching or making excuses for it. But today we played:

7 freshman
2 sophomores
1 senior

That is not a roster mix that’s going to work in 2024 college basketball. In 2014 it could. That world doesn’t exist now. Unfortunately, I don’t see how that changes much moving forward.

That’s all on Calipari. And he’s being paid $9 mil or so a year for it.🤦‍♀️

 

[TNCatfanforever]

The one and done era was a good gimmick but if not for veterans Miller and Jones combined with a generational player in Davis then we dont win in 2012. Otherwise it has failed except only to boost Cals ego. Teams winning today are playing veterans 22-24 year old grown men.

 

[TriCountyCat]

Roster construction is probably where Cal has gotten the laziest. We just got lucky and had Tre and Z fall in our lap. Imagine if we didn’t have them.