We owe Tubby and apology
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This says it the best that you could possibly say it!
A miracle full court pass that was uncontested. Pitino's great coaching mind failed him there. If Tubby had been the coach, he would have had enough sense to have guarded a little better in that situation. Pitino isn't the beat all end all you have him out to be in your mind. People say 98 was Rick's team but as you said 92 had 4 kids from Eastern Kentucky and correct me if I am wrong, but weren't they Sutton's players?
I’m still not sure you get why so many people are laughing at that line. Nobody’s taking issue with what you meant to say, instead only the funny malapropism.
It’s granted, not granite. Granite means something totally different.
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I totally agree, except I now believe it is time for a change. Cal doesn't care about winning a Championship. He only cares about his players showcasing for the NBA. That is fine, but not at the expense of the program. Several alumni players, some great ones, see what's going on and have for the most part been non-vocal and just go with the flow. You take a look at what is happening this year with Sharpe. Why isn't he playing? I'll tell you why, he will be a top 10 pick, and Cal and his family do not want to risk that. So why take him? I guess so no other school can have him and he actually plays. If we have numerous players leave this year that should actually stay, everyone but TyTy, and the 2 seniors, we are in serious trouble. Better hope the portal is open with experienced (5) or (4) stars.
Yeah and Sutton didn't do jack with them. They sat on the bench and only played in practice. Pitinos the one that turned them in to studs. And the uncontested pass left 5 on 4. It didn't work but its not like the worst strategy in the world. The players were told NOT to foul so they weren't aggressive. I believe Pitino regretted that decision and admitted so later. However, my point was that that team shouldn't have even been in that tourney with the talent they had, yet they made to the EE and almost made to the final four. No way Sutton or Tubby could have done that.
You are just as bad as the op.
Caring about NBA died down 3 years ago. Anyone with half a brain can see that isn't the case.
There's not a coach alive that wouldn't have let Sharpe come to Lexington.
If u want mediocre than tubby was your guy. Never a thought of winning in March late in career.
Every year except last season we have a chance of winning now. If you take a covid year with no practice bonding that highly, than the joke is on you. It's like some of you have no idea what is going on and what it takes to put a good team on the floor.
It just depends on how ya look at it but I hear this all the time how the conference is so much better now. During Tubbys years here you had Florida playing in 3 National Champ games winning 2 of them, back to back and also a Runner up finish. LSU played in a Final Four and then those Lofton teams at UT were not bad. Georgia, Miss St. and Alabama all had a couple of decent years during different times around TubbyTime. We used to get 6 teams in the tournament every year. I’m not sayin whether the SEC is better now or back then. I don’t know. It did go to complete shit there for a few years though but it’s looking pretty good again for now. That’s Just my 2cents. This is not meant to start an argument lol.
Then why does Tubby suck at every stop post UK? Even at High point, where the talent is all terrible in that conference, he still sucked?
If all talent was equal, the best UK coaches are, in order excluding Rupp:
Pitino
Calipari
Sutton
Gillespie (obviously because he's won at more stop than Tubs)
Tubby
Well I’d put Tubby over BCG only because BCG inherited Tubbys guys and went downhill with them and took em to NIT. Also if I’m not mistaken Tubby ends up taking over Texas Tech and BCG’s team who won like 8 or 9 games and Tubby got them in the NCAA tournament within a couple of years. He was Big 12 coach of the year that year. This was post UK. I’m not a big fan of Tubby either but he wasn’t as bad as some ppl make him out to be, but he wasn’t as great as some try to make him to be either.
He has run High Point into the ground for sure! When he was younger and seemed more interested in wat was going on on the court he wasn’t that bad.
Not necessarily. He was no doubt thinking this way, he'd have (similar to a power play in hockey) all five of his guys at the front court versus only four of the Duke boys (let's just say Grant Hill was not The Flash and wasn't gotta get there in two seconds and change!). And let's face it throwing that forward pass on target that far away wasn't easy either. Obviously it didn't work out but I don't think the play/decision not to put a guy on the inbounds passer was nearly as unconscionable as some (maybe most?) here might think.
You can bet though Tubby in 1998 was gonna guard that inbounds passer come hell or high water! If he didn't and the Duke boys once again made that last second shot I think he'd have to go into the witness protection program!!
Yeah, but Tubby wasn't a staggering, pop tart eating, Dr Pepper chasing drunk.
Sutton. Another very good coach, who was oblivious to his surroundings, and a drunk. His downfall.
Again, Baylor’s players were all back from the previous year so OF COURSE they weren’t affected the way a team filled with newcomers was. Duh.
We’ve had two mediocre seasons since 2015. We’ve been a two seed three times since then, and likely would have been a fourth time if there was a tournament that year. We’ll see what happens this year, but acting like the last 7 years has been some miserable experience is dishonest or crazy.
We are either mediocre or very good, but after every season it's the same. Lose 90% of point production to draft or transfers, recruit a bunch of new players, start from scratch the next season. Would be nice to actually produce some experienced seniors every year to mix in with the elite talent.
And we never had a chance to win the tournament either. We were not really competitive. I can remember getting whipped by Kansas and Cals Memphis team. We couldn’t even really hang with UNC either. Indiana and Louisville was about the extent of our non conference major wins.
