I am in the camp--recently converted--that I don't care if he stays or goes/gets fired at the end of the season. Here is what gets me to feeling that way:
- Cal is not providing any indication that he will change. With the Ryan Harrow situation, Cal swore he never would be held hostage again and that led somewhat to the 2015 team. Cal complained about that team regarding keeping players happy and too many players who needed to play. So he has gone back to his beloved short rotation which leads to lack of depth, lack of competition for minutes etc.
- He was a pioneer of the 1 and done. Everyone has caught on and the the super talents know they can go anywhere to get drafted. So a lot are choosing the easier path. Cal is not adjusting.
- Cal continues to play favorites and value athleticism over basketball ability.
- Cal is just borderline dishonest and is very condescending to the fan base. Last night on his show was the tipping point for me. The whole B/S of look we are over-reacting as we are not going hungry, we are not talking about not being able to make our rent payments etc. WTF does that have to do with his job? Fans can be very upset about UK basketball with one perspective and be concerned about humankind from another perspective. UK losing basketball games does not impact my empathy for others, does not impact my charity etc. What it does mean is that everything below starving to death does not automatically gets a free pass. He needs to knock it off with his pseudo intellectual bullshit. After all to use his thought process he is just a basketball coach.
- Regardless of when Cal leaves, with his current recruiting style of starting from scratch every year, what does that leave for the next coach coming in? This constant turnover is a very poor foundation for the Program.
I could go on and on but the post is already too long. If Cal would own it without coach speak and commit to changes I would 100% want him here. I get Cal does not "owe" that to the fans but neither do the fans "owe" unconditional support when they feel nothing is changing.
Glad I stopped listening to him years ago. 4 would have pissed me off to the point of going off on a radio show.
It was always condescending from early on. Most just didn't see it up close. People didn't mind at first because he was better than what we had. Now they're seeing it.
I'm tired of the let them eat cake attitude from people who get paid from the sacrifices of people that get paid 10 to 200 times less than they do. No, it's not life or death, askhole, so why the fk are you sucking so bad at your cushy job? What an arrogant fkstain to say something about people starving!
He doesnt know fk about how people are really struggling in this or any other state. He'll do a marathon for Haiti and send other people's money there, but won't do sht for the people starving in the poorer parts of KY. He's a child in a man's body, and this recent bullsht is letting people see it.
I don't care about UK basketball anymore. Just don't give a sht, while he treats it like it's his sand box, and he's some kind of deity ruling over it and "those crazy fans." If the program is really bigger than him and about more than just his bs dribble drive, then he should take his foot off of the neck of our program and coach. You know, bring in players that just need coaching and win basketball games.
It isn't building a fkn time machine, or trying to find a cure for ALS, and it's not even coaching at the NBA level. You have the best facilites, rabid fan support, the greatest tradition in college basketball, and you play in the SEC.
Do your cakezass job, sir! Quit whining about how young your players are. Quit whining about fans. Quit whining about not having enough players.
All of that is ON YOU, as$hole! You could have 5-7 good players from KY on the bench giving you meaningful heart, leadership, effort, and talent every year, if you'd just fkn play your bench players some decent minutes! You know, COACHING, where you integrate individuals into a TEAM, instead of picking the best guys and ignoring in games the ones you need to even practice.
Been waiting for 4 years for him to change. If he does, great. But as of now he's too spoiled and stubborn, and dug in like a tick sucking the blood out of a neglected dog.
Tired of the politicians, especially the ones that are hired to coach my teams.
