UK’s current record with a good coach

[ukjenning44]

I believe 22-2. With a good coach we would have zero losses at home and would’ve won at Texas A&M.
I believe a good coach could’ve won the Kansas game as well which would’ve put us at 23-1.

 

[BigRedMachineBigBlueNation]

Yeah I’d say 22-2 Probably still lose at KU with no Theiro and @ Tennessee is a toss up

 

[BlueBomb]

Good coach? Hell, we'd be 20-4 with a half-ass JUCO coach.

We have eight players on this team that will get a hard look from NBA GMs, almost all of which will get at least one contract. There's probably not one other team in the country that can say that. Not one.

So yeah, give me a Rupp Rafters Bennie coaching from the bench with a 12-pack and cigarette in his mouth (ala, John Daly or King Kelly Coleman), and I say 20-4.

 

[WeWant9]

I said 20-4. If we protected home court, and didn’t lose to three unranked teams at Rupp, the outlook would look much different right now. This team is still young and raw, so the road losses are not unexpected- no matter the coach. It’s the home losses that are head scratching.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

We would still have these injuries to deal with, still have young freshman that are proving to be overrated (and it's not like there aren't other 5-stars in 2023 that arent struggling), still have the officiating mess, still have teams making UK into a superbowl.. It's hard to imagine we don't have 4 losses already. This isn't really some better roster than what Hurley or Pearl has.. only on paper.

But because this isn't the anti-Cal answer that this thread is fishing for.. I'll say this.. do this exercise with a 3-star experienced team. That's where you see the coaching differences. Cal can't make a team like that work, but plenty of other coaches can, and do.

 

[DreadLox]

I imagine a lot of Farkers imagine themselves, Walter Mitty-style, finding a way to coach UK themselves.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

We have the best coach in college basketball. So the record is what the record is.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

If cal woke up and made even minor adjustments a high school coach would of made, they beat Florida, they beat Gonzaga, and they beat A&M

 

[ukjenning44]

If cal woke up and made even minor adjustments a high school coach would of made, they beat Florida, they beat Gonzaga, and they beat A&M

And UNCW. Cal loses so many that he has no business losing its hard to keep up with them all.
We just barely escaped St. Joe’s in OT.

 

[Mike-D]

We have the best coach in college basketball. So the record is what the record is.

 

[Mike-D]

If cal woke up and made even minor adjustments a high school coach would of made, they beat Florida, they beat Gonzaga, and they beat A&M

A good coach rarely loses home games. Protect your house, and we have 4 less losses. That puts us at 21-3.

 

[JonathanW]

So the OP thinks we have the best team in the country, even with all of the injuries and delays.
Just look around at every team. When Top 10 teams are below .500 in conference road games vs non-ranked teams. When just a week ago it was shown on this board that only 2 top 18 teams had won their last 4 in a row, and just 9 of those 18 had even won their last 2 games. Two nights ago watching UNC play, the announcers both talked about how they were one of 3-4 teams in the running for the last 2 #1 seeds, and minutes later about how they had lost 2 of last 4 games. Now they have lost 3 of last 5, all 3 to unranked teams, 1 at home, and 1 to a team tied with UL for last place in a very mediocre ACC. It would not shock me if on Selection Sunday there are only 2-4 non-mid-major teams with less than 8 losses (currently just 5 with <5 losses, and I'm still not buying on 2 of those USC & Dayton)

That said, I don't think anyone would disagree that Cal has underachieved with this team. But not to the point we would be 23-1. You are talking 96/10/12/15 level good, which this team isn't.

 

[CatPhight]

I imagine a lot of Farkers imagine themselves, Walter Mitty-style, finding a way to coach UK themselves.

9-16

 

[DreadLox]

Bitter isn’t as funny as some

 

[Boyd94]

23-1.

 

[mcnicKY91]

Well considering this team is made up of mostly freshmen (Cal's choice), and endured a myriad of injuries, and are playing against a lot of older teams, don't really see many other coaches who could have done better...

I always say there is a reason 99.9% coaches don't build their team with freshmen...it is freakin' hard to win that way. Especially in this Covid era with 23-24 year olds comprising the lineups of a lot of teams.

I don't care how good an 18 yr old is, or what type of NBA career they are projected to have. Playing college ball for the first time in your life, and having to play against players consistently 4-6 yrs older than you is very challenging.

But, Cal chose to build his team this way. Has to produce better results, which he has not been doing lately.

 

[Roe07]

Had we just won every home game up to this point we'd be 21-3 (9-2) and likely ranked in the top 5.

 

[Mike-McD]

I believe 22-2. With a good coach we would have zero losses at home and would’ve won at Texas A&M.
I believe a good coach could’ve won the Kansas game as well which would’ve put us at 23-1.

I said 21-3 to be safe.