Jeez Louise. A new theory every minute. A new pundit’s opinion posted (omg Coach blank is interested/ not interested… or both a the same time.) It’s impossible to keep up with everything. Lol
Was it this insane before the Cal hire?
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I assume you weren’t a part of watching a door.
Yes if I remember a couple coaches turned the job down before Cal accepted the job.
It's always like this when UK is looking for a bball coach.
I thought it was just Donovan. I think Cal was clearly the fans top choice
The Door
The Gate
In a word.........yes LOL.
The Gate
In a word.........yes LOL.
The Tubby exit was crazy too.
Donovan “Done Deal” will live in infamy.
Donovan “Done Deal” will live in infamy.
Pretty much, yeah. We were watching a web cam of a door at the Memphis athletic department. We were tracking planes. Billy D was supposedly entering his kid in Lex Cath and buying a horse farm.
This is tame compared to cal this place had like 6000 people on at once
Yes it was crazy. Remember being on pins and needles watching TV and computer screens for the latest update. Cal was the right man at the time. It will always be crazy times when the Kentucky seat is open. Remember being in a frenzy back in '07 too hoping Billy Donovan would take the job.
Yeah, I think that was the one where posters had their real estate and airport spies reporting for a fact that Billy D and his family had already arrived and were shopping for their new Lexington home. Fun times.
From pop tarts and bathroom stalls and BCG running from a maniacal Alan Cutler to being glued to a Livestream of a door in Memphis. It was perhaps even more ridiculous.
Just like the old roller coaster at Kings Island.
Tracking Billy Donovan planes, farm buying etc…. It was crazy then too.
Yes it was. A lot of fans didn't want him, others wanted to go that route. A little like pearl!
I think he would be a great fit from understanding the Passion, energy, enthusiasm of the fans!
But there also are 5-6 other candidates that are sound coaches. Now someone smarter then me needs to figure out which is the right one!
A little blast from the past:
March 20, 2009: Monday Morning: The Search Goes On for the Next Great Kentucky Men's Basketball Coach
March 28. 2009: The Coach's Response and Looking Forward
March 20, 2009: Monday Morning: The Search Goes On for the Next Great Kentucky Men's Basketball Coach
March 28. 2009: The Coach's Response and Looking Forward
Glenn Logan said:
Pitino to Tubby was not real bad. Social medial was just starting, as AOL message boards where the main form of fans talking.
Tubby to BCG It had started to ramp up. Social media was established, but the amount of "insiders" where small. While Tubby declined in the later years, I don't think the hate was as bad as it is now.
BCG to Cal. Social media is well established. Ton more online journalism, Twitter and other forms of communication. We had the door watch, plane tracking and so forth. Also people where pissed at BCG as it was our first taste of being really really bad in a long time, but it was only a couple years and administration took quick action. Think the fan base was 95% or more on moving on.
Cal to.... Social media is out of control. The monster that Cal made ate not only him, but the sanity of most of our fans. Expectations and inflated egos, and revisionist memories cloud the vocal minoritys veiws. We have never had the homerun hire, it's always been a solid/good coach with potential, that you hope with Kentuckys resources and history, can propel a coach to the next level. Some dumb administration mistakes made this ride worse, fear of losing Cal when he still had some shine left, led to an over reaction from our AD that placed all the leverage in our coach's hand.
Hopefully, Kentucky can learn from this, and not make the same dumb administration mistakes, and to always leave the program a out. I don't think we will make the Homerun hire. Hopfully we can find the good basketball coach, that has the personality and moxie that the job demands, and then surround him with people that compliment his defeciances.
Tubby to BCG It had started to ramp up. Social media was established, but the amount of "insiders" where small. While Tubby declined in the later years, I don't think the hate was as bad as it is now.
BCG to Cal. Social media is well established. Ton more online journalism, Twitter and other forms of communication. We had the door watch, plane tracking and so forth. Also people where pissed at BCG as it was our first taste of being really really bad in a long time, but it was only a couple years and administration took quick action. Think the fan base was 95% or more on moving on.
Cal to.... Social media is out of control. The monster that Cal made ate not only him, but the sanity of most of our fans. Expectations and inflated egos, and revisionist memories cloud the vocal minoritys veiws. We have never had the homerun hire, it's always been a solid/good coach with potential, that you hope with Kentuckys resources and history, can propel a coach to the next level. Some dumb administration mistakes made this ride worse, fear of losing Cal when he still had some shine left, led to an over reaction from our AD that placed all the leverage in our coach's hand.
Hopefully, Kentucky can learn from this, and not make the same dumb administration mistakes, and to always leave the program a out. I don't think we will make the Homerun hire. Hopfully we can find the good basketball coach, that has the personality and moxie that the job demands, and then surround him with people that compliment his defeciances.
I haven't been here in so long, but the Tubby exit, the BCG hiring/firing(still remember Patrick Patterson being the first recruit I watched very closely), the Cal hiring(his recruiting was easy to follow, pretty much got anyone he wanted) and the epic battles between Matt Jones and this other guy call Marc Maggard. This board was a hot mess and we loved it. To say UK fans like drama would be an understatement. This place was like the Jerry Springer Show. Good times.
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.basketball.college/search?q=pitino
^ If anyone's as bored as I am right now and wants to go digging through old newsgroup posts, there's the results for "Pitino" in rec.sports.basketball.college. The discussion about his departure from Kentucky begins at around 751-780.
edit: This one in particular's funny:
May 2, 1997: Pitino says "NBA is Nothing But Adolescents"
^ If anyone's as bored as I am right now and wants to go digging through old newsgroup posts, there's the results for "Pitino" in rec.sports.basketball.college. The discussion about his departure from Kentucky begins at around 751-780.
edit: This one in particular's funny:
May 2, 1997: Pitino says "NBA is Nothing But Adolescents"
