It’s totally a no no to talk negative about the coach but former players are open season. Gotcha.
Jay Shidler was just on KSR and said this about Cal……..
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We should be talked about every year being in the running but this is definitely not what UK signed up for when they got Cal I guarantee it.
We have been to the NIT, We have lost to the likes of Evansville , Robert Morris , and Richmond, We had the worst losing season in the history of the school 9-16, We had the worst tournament loss in the history of the school, we lost our all time wins lead, we lost our all time tournament wins lead, and we have a losing record against ranked opponents the last 6 years!
If you can’t see with your own 2 eyes that he’s slowly tearing down the UK tradition I don’t know what to tell you! There are coaches out there that can do a helluva a lot better job than what we have seen the last 7 years I guarantee you because they are still HUNGRY!
I absolutely despise the way one and done has gone under Calipari. It started awesome and is now ridiculously stupid. The Shaedon Sharpe situation is simply idiotic. We lost our two starting guards and placed that kid's NBA draft potential above winning college basketball games.
It made me sick when Calipari said the 2010 draft was the greatest day in UK basketball history. Things have only gotten worse. Why exactly are we bringing in kids like Wenyen Gabriel, Maxey, etc who are better prospects than college basketball players?
Calipari needs to recruit UK fans and focus on what he's paid to do -- which is absolutely not running a G League team.
Looking at his fat face pisses me off at this point.
It made me sick when Calipari said the 2010 draft was the greatest day in UK basketball history. Things have only gotten worse. Why exactly are we bringing in kids like Wenyen Gabriel, Maxey, etc who are better prospects than college basketball players?
Calipari needs to recruit UK fans and focus on what he's paid to do -- which is absolutely not running a G League team.
Looking at his fat face pisses me off at this point.
.The offense died when Cal decided he was going back to 1985 and forcing the ball into the post every position instead of letting them play free flowing basketball.
Darius Miller...if my memory serves me correctly , MB had to talk him into holding on till the new coach arrived.
I don’t drink. I’m afraid I might get stupid like you. And you didn’t even stay on topic. Triple C don’t even have support from ex players. Just the ones that admit he don’t give a damn about winning college games. All about the NBA with CCC … and you.
Indeed. I honestly wish that our fat, pompous, and overpaid coach would change and stop being an *** to UK fans and start focusing exclusively on winning games for UK and not the rest of the noise but I don't see it happening.
I might take a dump in a UPS box and ship it to Barnhart for that stupid lifetime contract. He already took a dump on UK fans so turn about is fair play, imo.
Cal should care more about the winning than hoping the winning will just come by getting the players here. And it did take care of itself when he was getting the best players. It won't take care of with players like Brooks, Wheeler, Grady, Mints, Boston, Sarr, etc if you expect them to be your stars.
But Cal shouldn't change. This is who he says he is. He's never hidden it, he's never backed down from it. He did it with Sharpe this season. He absolutely did the best thing for Sharpe. Sharpe could have only lowered his draft stock.
So, I disagree with him that Cal needs to change. No, Cal needs to keep to his firmly held beliefs. He just needs to do it somewhere else. And good luck to him.
We need a program first coach even if he's not as good as Cal. We need a coach that would have cared more about winning with Sharpe than Sharpe's draft position. Now, most likely that coach never gets Sharpe. So what? We didn't get him either.
I'm a Cal fan but I'm ready for him to move on too.
But Cal shouldn't change. This is who he says he is. He's never hidden it, he's never backed down from it. He did it with Sharpe this season. He absolutely did the best thing for Sharpe. Sharpe could have only lowered his draft stock.
So, I disagree with him that Cal needs to change. No, Cal needs to keep to his firmly held beliefs. He just needs to do it somewhere else. And good luck to him.
We need a program first coach even if he's not as good as Cal. We need a coach that would have cared more about winning with Sharpe than Sharpe's draft position. Now, most likely that coach never gets Sharpe. So what? We didn't get him either.
I'm a Cal fan but I'm ready for him to move on too.
I don't think this issue is nearly as black and white as many would like to make it out to be, and something i am kind of torn on personally. On one hand at a basic level any college university coach or teacher should be trying to teach and help the students reach their goals in life and grow as a person, on the other hand college athletics have become such a lucrative business that coaches are paid to win games. You have to remember everyone involved from the players to Cal are all human nothing is ever going to go perfectly. It's ok to say the results have not been up to par lately and not hate everything about Cal.
It is a matter of priorities. Both are important but winning college basketball games is Cal's job -- not developing NBA draft picks. While they can go hand in hand sometimes, we have gotten those priorities so screwed up it is ridiculous.
Cal openly said that the 2010 NBA draft was the greatest day in UK history. I will take him at his word and believe that his priority is players' pro careers and not winning at UK.
I hope he goes to the Lakers and he and Lebron can be whiny, washed up brats together.
The reason it matters is because it goes against his religion of cal . So he looks for an excuse, ANY excuse, legitimate or not , to try and get people to ignore it .
You had me up until your last sentence. I haven't seen anyone here say they hate everything about the man. He's done a good job up to a certain point and he clearly cares about the players. But his time is past and much of the hostility is a result of the nastiness being dumped on those concerned by his vociferous defenders. If people could have a rational, calm discussion without trolls and yapping monkeys crapping in every thread, things wouldn't be as tense as they are.
You never have played ball have you?
NOPE, If your blaming noise is messing up your shot. CAL is not yelling when his own players are shooting. You sit down and shut up. You don't have a clue on what you are talking about
Welcome to Rafters my friend, lol
it’s not just the fans here, though
Calipari has gone out of his way to dismiss and demean the fan base.
That’s MY biggest issue with him…well outside of the obvious
Because nobody cares about your opinion. If you’re still on the Triple C bandwagon your opinion is wrong anyway.
I’m quite sure he was invited to do so and you weren’t. Maybe there’s a reason for that.
However it happens, our shooters get worse as the season draws near. The only guys who didn't are the ones who seemed to have tuned Cal out -- Lamb and Young being the best example.
If I had to bet, it is probably that we rely so heavily on freshman who get scouted and don't have the conditioning of veterans and therefore wilt down the stretch.
If I had to bet, it is probably that we rely so heavily on freshman who get scouted and don't have the conditioning of veterans and therefore wilt down the stretch.
Honestly I don’t care about his opinion. I never watched him play. Just because you like his nickname doesn’t make him right
You need thicker skin. I get so sick of the cal hurt my feelings. Billy Joe Wildcat need to grow up.
People have figured you out.The mental gymnastics you all put yourselves through for self-rationlization is something to behold.
This thread's not going well for you. Maybe you should start a new account...
Honestly I don’t care about Cal’s coaching the last 2 years. I haven’t watched him coach. Just because you hate his nickname doesn’t make you right.
Athleticcat is the one who posted all the gay porn a while back.
If there was a superlative for the message board, he'd be "most likely to have a restraining order in real life."
Just not the players. I see. Especially the ones who helped hang a banner. Makes perfect sense.
Dude. Take the L. You bashed a former PLAYER in your blind zeal to defend a has-been coach. You're making it worse with every post.
How long has there been an NCAA tournament? I believe it is like 82 years. So it is once every 5 years. Also many of those years the NCAA only allowed 1 team per conference. Plus the tournament was not seeded for the majority of the years. The tournament was done by geography a lot in the earlier years. This meant when the west was not that good, great teams met earlier in the tournament.
I agree that 3/5 years is not a realistic expectation but UKs history is not nearly as light as so many suggest in an effort to make Cal’s trend not look as concerning.
Hey Shides ... welcome to BBN, you just punched your membership card making you a target of Calipari scorn and ridicule. He literally hates you now Shides, like he does the rest of us who happen to agree with you. Well except for KyBassFan ... he doesn't agree with you at all.
Do you remember Coach Hall putting Shidler back in along with most starters after Duke closed the gap? And you’re shitting on Shidler? Of course you don’t. You don’t know anything about UK’s history. Go look it up. Players first my ***. Those guys were UK first. And so was their coach. You, and your sock accounts, are nothing but internet halfbreeds. Worthless as a ***** dog running with a pack of mangy coyotes.