We Should Have Hired Pitino

[BarefootBeach]

No to the cryptkeeper and no to barbecue pearl. Yes to who we have now 100 percent.

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

Good lord

The guy that has a losing record to calipari?

Pope is in his first year, with a team he put together in a month and had like 7 top 15 wins.

There's a reason not many ppl want this job, op gave a prime example why.

We wanted to get ti the tournament and win a game this hear, and you lunatics have convinced yourselves it's title or bust in yr 1

 

[Larry Skaggs]

Mitch will never hire a miscreant

 

[Eagles_Ball]

Man...as cautiously optimistic as I am about Pope, hiring Rick wasn't the answer. It's hard to put the band back together, especially when the band is like 75 yrs old. Rick is where he belongs, honestly. That St Johns job is the perfect place for him to end his career.

 

[Wildcats1st]

Rick is in his 70's right he is to old to coach here.

Lol

 

[canebreak]

I reckon you missed the part where CMP came in here hamstrung in the portal from the jump due to our former "coach" leaving us in a bind. This whole season has been us playing with house money. Anyone with any sense can see that. We need some athletes. We're a finesse team this year and it's hard to manufacture something that we aren't. The incoming class so far should be a sign of things to come. Folks crapping on this team this year have zero perspective on what it takes to be competitive.

For me it has nothing to do with the talent level. You are correct he had to scramble. And he did a good job putting together a team. I can wait for better players. What I cannot wait for is preparation, desire and confidence. I am concerned about how our team fairs in a lot of circumstances. I am concerned that the same issues never get corrected.

 

[BC_Wader]

For me it has nothing to do with the talent level. You are correct he had to scramble. And he did a good job putting together a team. I can wait for better players. What I cannot wait for is preparation, desire and confidence. I am concerned about how our team fairs in a lot of circumstances. I am concerned that the same issues never get corrected.

Fair point but you can have talent and not be athletic enough. We have two athletes on the team in Oweh and Chandler. We get beat off the dribble so much and have opponents in our faces enough that leads me to believe that. We also hesistate on a lot of open looks which allows the defense to make up some ground. Those issues may not get corrected this season but I have no doubt that we will get those kind of ball players in the future. With all that being said, given our limitations I'm of the mind that had we stayed healthy that we would be a very good team.

 

[MegaBlue05]

Only because Ky could get the best talent here because Cal only cared about getting guys to the nba. So the best kids came here and Pitino could not overcome the talent levels. Pay attention.

Sounds like an excuse to me. Shouldn’t the greatest coach in the history of earth, according to this board, be able to scheme a way to beat a rival coach with better talent who “just rolls the balls out there.”

In actuality, Cal owning Rick is what led Rick to cheat at UofL. Cal at UK was 8-2 against Pitino’s Cards.

 

[IFerg1969]

Technically he didn’t. According to the record books that game didn’t happen.

But the games still happened, they were still played and Pitino still won them, whether the record books acknowledge it or not. It pains me to say that because I hate UL so much.

 

[bbncal02]

But the games still happened, they were still played and Pitino still won them, whether the record books acknowledge it or not. It pains me to say that because I hate UL so much.

I cannot and will not acknowledged that due to cheating. Nor should anyone else in my opinion. Getting real sick of this “win at all cost” society.