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What would Calipari have done with the Arkansas roster (plus Quaintance) at UK?

No, after going 38-1 there isn't another coach who would say " we'll never do that again" regarding the platoon. We went right back to the short bench and the rock fights.
šŸ„ is the šŸ¤”!
I was replying to the dumb he should have been gone after 2015 post. Thatā€™s not a rational thought, itā€™s complete ignorance.
 
You guys think Jaxon Robinson is going to be your best player. I dont know much about your transfers but if any SEC team has Jaxon Robinson as their best player they are screwed bigly.
What do you know? You have last yearā€™s Kentucky roster minus the talent and UKā€™s recruiting class minus the best player.
Arkansas fans believing they are relevant again reminds everyone that youā€™re the worst program in the SEC.
 
Didnā€™t read all the posts but the answers areā€¦ā€¦..screw it up , choke , and disappoint . When we beat North Carolina last year I creeped over on some other boards (Duke, North Carolina, Kansas etc .) to see what they were thinking about our team . The consensus on every board was , ā€œGreat team but Cal will screw it upā€ . Of course they were right.
 
What do you know? You have last yearā€™s Kentucky roster minus the talent and UKā€™s recruiting class minus the best player.
Arkansas fans believing they are relevant again reminds everyone that youā€™re the worst program in the SEC.
Well they ā€œshould ā€œ be better than last year butā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦they just lost a better coach for this day and age than their current one .
 
Well they ā€œshould ā€œ be better than last year butā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦they just lost a better coach for this day and age than their current one .
How? They donā€™t have talent, shooters, an awful coach, awful assistants, and the coach doesnā€™t even care about winning according to this board. They should win maybe 10 games.
 
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Overall talent ranking of the two rosters:
#1. Davis - Arkansas
#2. Fland - Arkansas
#3. Robinson - Kentucky
#4. Big Z - Arkansas
#5. Oweh - Kentucky
#6. Carr - Kentucky
#7. Brea - Kentucky
#8. Wagner - Arkansas
#9. Garrison - Kentucky (high potential to move up)
#10. Williams - Kentucky
#11. Aidoo - Arkansas
#12. Kriisa - Kentucky
#13. Knox - Arkansas
#14. Thiero- Arkansas (high potential to move up)
#15. Butler - Kentucky
#16. Brazile - Arkansas (high potential to move up)
#17. Chandler - Kentucky (high potential to move up)
#18. Richmond - Arkansas (high potential to move up)
#19. Almonor - Kentucky
#20. Perry - Kentucky (high potential to move up)
#21. Noah - Kentucky (high potential to move up)
Aidoo was All SEC and is way better than a mid major big (Williams) and the 5th leading scorer on the 13th place team in the Big 12 (Garrison). I also think Carr is better than Big Z and Oweh and has the potential to be our bewt player.
 
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How? They donā€™t have talent, shooters, an awful coach, awful assistants, and the coach doesnā€™t even care about winning according to this board. They should win maybe 10 games.
Mainly because they were so bad last year. They should always have enough talent to win over 20 games though. But Cals lineup choices and lack of in game coaching ability will limit their tournament success.
 
What do you know? You have last yearā€™s Kentucky roster minus the talent and UKā€™s recruiting class minus the best player.
Arkansas fans believing they are relevant again reminds everyone that youā€™re the worst program in the SEC.
Just really hope J Robinson is not your best player. I like the basketball talk here and definitly not trying to compare schools.
I have probably seen 10x more J Rob games than you fellas have.
 
I don't think Arkansas will shoot it as well as we did last year, however I have no doubt that they will be physically tougher than we have been the last few years. Cal's best teams were defensive minded and physical and average shooting teams. However that garbage we rolled out the last few years defensively is what has gotten us beat. I expect Cal to go back to what made him a HOF coach.
 
You guys are the ones who wanted Cal gone and now that he's gone you can't shut up about him but you expect people not to suspect that's because somewhere within you you know you were better off with him in Lexington than you are now with him in Fayetteville.
Thatā€™s one hell of a run on sentence. And there isnā€™t a UK fan with functioning brain who thinks UK would be better off if that fat tub of lard was still in Lexington.
 
I don't think Arkansas will shoot it as well as we did last year, however I have no doubt that they will be physically tougher than we have been the last few years. Cal's best teams were defensive minded and physical and average shooting teams. However that garbage we rolled out the last few years defensively is what has gotten us beat. I expect Cal to go back to what made him a HOF coach.
So is WWW returning as a ā€œfriend ā€œ of the program?
 
I don't think Arkansas will shoot it as well as we did last year, however I have no doubt that they will be physically tougher than we have been the last few years. Cal's best teams were defensive minded and physical and average shooting teams. However that garbage we rolled out the last few years defensively is what has gotten us beat. I expect Cal to go back to what made him a HOF coach.
I donā€™t see the defensive prowess in that roster. Ivisic is horrible defensively and there will definitely be a logjam of Arkansas backcourt players trying to get their points.
 
So is WWW returning as a ā€œfriend ā€œ of the program?
Nah, he got caught up in the FBI sting. Oh wait, that was Bill Self, Bruce Pearl, Rick Pitino, and few other favorites on here. Worldwide Wes tho.

I guess the haters were right since this fanbase are the haters now, we had the dirtiest program around for the last 15 years. šŸ¤”
 
Nah, he got caught up in the FBI sting. Oh wait, that was Bill Self, Bruce Pearl, Rick Pitino, and few other favorites on here. Worldwide Wes tho.

I guess the haters were right since this fanbase are the haters now, we had the dirtiest program around for the last 15 years. šŸ¤”
No one said we were dirty . But thereā€™s a reason Cal stopped getting the truly elite players as soon as WWW decided to focus on the nba .
 
No one said we were dirty . But thereā€™s a reason Cal stopped getting the truly elite players as soon as WWW decided to focus on the nba .
Everyone said we were dirty and used the same talking points you did, Worldwide Wes. i substance is ever given, just Worldwide Wes.
 
You guys think Jaxon Robinson is going to be your best player. I dont know much about your transfers but if any SEC team has Jaxon Robinson as their best player they are screwed bigly.

You do know this is not the Jaxson Robinson that only played 16 games at Ark as a Soph right? Um since then he's played 2 years at BYU under this same system our new coach is putting in. Won the big 12 6th man of the year and was basically the best player at BYU last year. He was right on the borderline of getting drafted in the NBA this year but did come back to school. Most recently he scored around 40 points with around 10 3's made against a team made up of a bunch of NBA veterans just last week. He has improved vastly since he played at ARK imo and I wouldn't be surprised one bit if he leads us in scoring this year and get drafted. Also might wanna consider we have 8 other really good xfers and 3 frosh that came with Robinson this year. All of them have had success at the D1 level and HS. Pope has never had a team that relied on one player scoring a bunch of points to be successful. It's a team built on playing 10 plus players with lots of x and o work being involved. Pope now has the personal to go with his coaching plans. So no we are not in trouble if Robinson is our best player in the least bit.
 
I can tell you havenā€™t seen him play since he was a freshman.

Arkansas is a shit program why are you here? We threw cals garbage ass out the door and he landed at ark by mistake not choice. Get ready for middle school coaching, if that. Canā€™t wait to see him burn you up on the way out either. Youā€™re desperate,
Come back when Robinson drops 25 in Calipari.
Agree with this, couldn't have worked out better. Hogs saved us a ton of money and cal got his hand caught in the cookie jar.
 
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You do know this is not the Jaxson Robinson that only played 16 games at Ark as a Soph right? Um since then he's played 2 years at BYU under this same system our new coach is putting in. Won the big 12 6th man of the year and was basically the best player at BYU last year. He was right on the borderline of getting drafted in the NBA this year but did come back to school. Most recently he scored around 40 points with around 10 3's made against a team made up of a bunch of NBA veterans just last week. He has improved vastly since he played at ARK imo and I wouldn't be surprised one bit if he leads us in scoring this year and get drafted. Also might wanna consider we have 8 other really good xfers and 3 frosh that came with Robinson this year. All of them have had success at the D1 level and HS. Pope has never had a team that relied on one player scoring a bunch of points to be successful. It's a team built on playing 10 plus players with lots of x and o work being involved. Pope now has the personal to go with his coaching plans. So no we are not in trouble if Robinson is our best player in the least bit.
I am well aware this is an older J Rob. But stand by what i said, if he is your best player you are in trouble and I dont believe he is or will be.
 
Being real that's a level above our roster. It just is. I appreciate Pope an I'm gaining faith in him an I he got together a crazy roster from scratch an worked hard.


The roster listed above is just is just loaded everywhere with A level talent. I still wouldn't want 20- 24 Cal to return tho
 
22-12 like the experienced 2022-23 team, 1st weekend flameout. That was an experienced team with the Seniors Oscar, Wheeler, Fredrick, Toppin and Reeves who was the only decent shooter for UK while coming off the bench for all but 14 games. Cal can assemble a roster full of talent but can't coach them up worth a damn.
 
I am well aware this is an older J Rob. But stand by what i said, if he is your best player you are in trouble and I dont believe he is or will be.

Ok I tried. Jaxson like you said might not be the best player on the team but I'd almost bet he leads us in scoring and that's what coach brought him here to do shoot the ball and slash. He's got the green light to shoot anytime anywhere if the scrimmage is any indication. Garrison, Carr or Oweh could very well get more rebounds, assists, blocks and steals but I'd say Robinson scores more points than them most nights. The thing is I don't really care who does what or who's better at what as long as the team is good and I'm sure they will be. Make no mistake about Robinson is going to have a lot of 20 plus point game's and probably a few in the 30s. Just remember you heard it here first.

It is ok if ya wanna come over here and talk to us when your current coach let's Wagner jack up 3's and pulls Davis for something stupid. Loses to a directional state school this year. Has a player or 2 not playing and you have no idea why and your rotation goes down to 7 for a few weeks during the season. He plays a few players out of position rendering them ineffective. We've seen it for years and just remember what we all said it will happen he's not suddenly gonna change just because he changed his address.
 
Calipari would have done the exact same thing he always does. That team is still young and lacks outside shooting. He is still one of the worst floor coaches in the SEC. He has a terrible coaching staff and that wouldnā€™t have changed either. Chin is terrible, Payne is terrible, and Orlando is nothing but a recruiter because recruiting is all Calipari cares about.

Youā€™d be looking at a 4-8 seed and a 1st or second round exit more then likely.
Orlando is at Illinois.
 
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