This is what we used to hear from the halls of UK basketball. Hell even Cal did it his early years.
This is the mindset of someone who want to win.
Why Hurley is winning
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This is what we used to hear from the halls of UK basketball. Hell even Cal did it his early years.
This is the mindset of someone who want to win.
Winning is Hurley’s number one goal, unlike CCC whose only goal is to get kids to the leafy and help families. Which is great but winning should be the top priority at Kentucky and Cal simply doesn’t understand that.
Agree with the first part, but Cal definitely understands winning is the top priority here. If he didn't, he would be one of stupidest people alive.
Watched a UConn game earlier in the year, they were up 25 and he was in the huddle saying no letting up.
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In case you didn’t know hurleys dad is one of the best high school coaches ever. So the will to win is in the blood
Meanwhile, Cal gets in the huddle and reminds his players how young they are.
Cal obviously wants to win, but I think he uses the "it's about these kids" as a cop-out for losses and his current lack of coaching ability.
I hope Cal is out of Lexington before Tuesday
These people saying he’s the man are nuts
These people saying he’s the man are nuts
I honestly don't know anymore, what Cals intentions are. Maybe he did want to just help kids to the NBA and he was able to win while he did it. Maybe it was both equally.
I think that's going to be a mystery forever at this point: what drove Cal, and how and when did that change over time.
Because if his intention was to be a good coach and win games for his employer, then he would have played the right lineups this year.
He doesn’t because all he ever wants to talk about is the $4 billion in contracts from the former UK players in the league, all the former UK all stars in the NBA. You cannot convince me he cares about winning because he doesn’t.
He understands it’s everyone else’s top priority here but it isn’t his and he has openly stated such. He would like to win as a byproduct of his main priorities which is building his nba production and contract numbers under the veil of “changing kids lives”.
Reality is after falling short in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017 with stacked rosters; he realized he’d never be considered the GOAT college coach (or pass rupp) and we weren’t passing UCLA under his tenure…..he shifted all in on the thing he knew he could be “the best at” but ultimately it’s a meaningless stat bc it isn’t his accomplishment, it’s the players and it’s gotten so bad that now what he thought was an accomplishment he could hang his hat on (“I want over half the all star game to be my guys”), is now being used against him in the media as evidence to his underperforming and lack of coaching ability.
All coaches want to win or at least don’t want to lose. And yes, there’s a difference.
The problem is Cal is willing to settle. Winners don’t settle. They might rest. They might take a break. But they never quit. Cal has quit or at least appears to.
Even if he does they just won a title last year. When’s the last time that happened here?
Cal has never had the "keep the throttle down" mentality.
The next coach has to have that mindset.
He did for the most part until 2015. I mean this is the man who said “you hate us because we come to your gym and beat you.” Man I miss that Cal, but I’ve grieved. That Cal is long dead and gone. Time to move on.
This is WHY Dan Hurley should be the #1 call. He wants to beat the SHIT out of everyone and cares about winning.
I don't recall him wanting to beat someone down.
In the 2012 title game the players said he let up on Kansas. I think in part because he's friends with Self. But we've seen Cal get a lead and try to hang on. It's cost UK a number of games.
The platooning wa the best example. But he did do it a few times.
I don’t. Care for stall ball either except in a few specific situations.
Nonetheless. This crap has got to come to an end.
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