Edit: I'll open this up for any contrarians. What is your view on the Jai stuff? How do we make sense of this situation in the most positive light?
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Edit: Open question about the Jai stuff.
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Why are you like this? Lol. You like to puff your chest eh?
I'm not defending one way or the other, but what does it say about Duke that they lost Nolan Smith, who won a national title at Duke (vs. Lucas who really had no affinity to Kentucky), to Louisville.
Same situation- Nolan Smith was going to be asst #3 at Duke (same with Lucas here), and he got a pay raise and a bump up in standing to go to a different school.
Very similar situations. Not defending, just saying it happens sometimes if the assistant realizes he's probably going to remain third fiddle on his current staff. Happens every year at pretty much every school.
Kansas lost one of their top assistants, Jerrence Howard, last year to Texas for the same reason. He had been at KU, and went to a lesser-school (Texas), for a pay increase and a title bump.
It just happens, the sky isn't falling.
Just one man's opinion.
Same situation- Nolan Smith was going to be asst #3 at Duke (same with Lucas here), and he got a pay raise and a bump up in standing to go to a different school.
Very similar situations. Not defending, just saying it happens sometimes if the assistant realizes he's probably going to remain third fiddle on his current staff. Happens every year at pretty much every school.
Kansas lost one of their top assistants, Jerrence Howard, last year to Texas for the same reason. He had been at KU, and went to a lesser-school (Texas), for a pay increase and a title bump.
It just happens, the sky isn't falling.
Just one man's opinion.
Chicken Little's sky is falling, gotta pile on the angst at every opportunity.
The problem with this line of thinking is you frame your position in such a way that makes it look like losing Jai is an isolated incident. It is but another sign of Cal’s decline.
Nolan Smith’s dad won a title at Louisville. At least there was some connection. Lucas clearly saw the writing on the wall with Cal
And how about the Kansas assistant leaving KU to go to Texas, right on the heels of a 40 point drumming in the NCAA Tournament and Self not having won a title in 13 years.
What is the excuse there?
It's easy to act like it's nothing but if you think this is just about one coach and that UK doesn't have some problems right now you are living in a fantasy world.Even slurper insiders are concerned.
Are you serious?
We didn't sit Sharpe, Cal did.
We didn't go 9-16, Cal did.
We didn't lose to a 15 seed, Cal did.
We didn't lose 17 of the last 20 head-to-heads against Duke for RSCI top 10 recruits, Cal did.
We didn't just lose our most efficient recruiter to a rival program, Cal did.
You should apply for Calipari's Minister of Propaganda. You still don't seem to understand that no one is "piling on" anything. We're simply studying the situation for what it actually is.
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Kansas fans didn’t even really like Jerrence Howard, they’ve been wanting to run that guy out of town for years.
Like the pumpers did last season? Drudging up years worth of comments and mass replying to them to make a fool out of posters, who were correct by the way?
The takes on here are just bad. People that have really no understanding of how this works.
Howard was ran out of Kansas
Jai Lucas left UK and there’s nothing we could have done to keep him. That’s bad news. We wouldn’t have said “oh well we can’t promote you in any way, let Duke have the best recruiting assistant and up and comer.
To actually think this….stop posting and start watching / reading. It’s not how it works.
Nolan Smith was an ENTIRELY different situation.
There’s no way to slice this, read the headlines people. This isn’t good.
Howard was ran out of Kansas
Jai Lucas left UK and there’s nothing we could have done to keep him. That’s bad news. We wouldn’t have said “oh well we can’t promote you in any way, let Duke have the best recruiting assistant and up and comer.
To actually think this….stop posting and start watching / reading. It’s not how it works.
Nolan Smith was an ENTIRELY different situation.
There’s no way to slice this, read the headlines people. This isn’t good.
You know a football guy when the use the term “chicken little”. The fact that term has made it to the basketball forum tells you all you need to know about where this program is headed
Jai hasn’t stuck anywhere for a long time. He jumped around in college and he has jumped around in coaching. I will be shocked if he stays at Duke for long.
Joel justus was our Terrance Howard moment. Lucas was the only non recycled cal guy on the staff and he gives the appearance now that duke is a step up.
CJ gonna stub his toe and you gonna call out a poster and ask them to explain how this isn't Cal's fault.
I'm not a football guy, and chicken little is a very old folk tale from Europe, not something invented by football fans.
You make a good point. Cal has two coaches to replace now. A SnC guy and Lucas who was an up and comer. Not to mention there are still massive holes in the roster
Nothing is ever Cal's fault to people like you.
It’s just what our football fan base pumpers said for 40 years while there were ziltch for expectations. 2-9 the naysayers are chicken littles. Friggin common term to call out people with high expectations. Now that mentality has edged into our basketball tradition. It shows how far our bb program has fallen under cal.
Gotta keep Joker. I mean who the hell would want to coach Kentucky football!
I thought Kybassfan was Cal's biggest defender?
“You bunch of chicken littles bitching about joker. What do you want?”
“look at all the chicken littles who whine because we lost to Ohio “
I have to say asking an individual poster like that is definitely a sign of respect. It’s like over on the football board everyone waiting for what Rock Cat has to say about recruiting.
The bigger font is there to remind us all how smart and important they are.
handlers did.
Covid
Final 8 team, 3 injuries
Nike was playing a huge role..
Assistant coaches change teams all the time. Cry!!!!!!
Standard seething hater response when you hit’em in the mouth with facts. U6 or KY hater fan? Nobody knows.
And there’s Cal’s mistress to the rescue. Been waiting for you to show up and defend. Now get back in bed with him.
This little baby boy is so out of arguments he has to bring coaches families into it. Weak.
^^^ LOL.. And who would ever want to coach at Kentucky and make 9 Mil a year? We'll never find anyone, we're doomed.
No point in arguing with wankers like you at this point. You just have that keyboard set to ‘auto-defend.’ Every argument you make is one I’d be embarrassed about and my elementary aged children can see the flaws and weaknesses.
You’re a troll.
I think their is more to the story than Lucas going to Duke. He was the coach that recruited Sharpe and for all we know Lucas may have lied to Cal about Sharpe. Eventually it will come out.
This is a kick in the balls to Cal and UK.
HELL YES TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!! YES I’M SCREAMING!
Are you a Cal defender too? My goodness. There’s not more to this story.
Outside of BBN, Duke > UK. It’s that simple. Don’t know why there was prior hesitation, but you’re really reaching here, and this particular reach seems like an attempt to lesson the blow and relieve Cal of responsibility.
Never seen anything like it. Dude needs to get a pet. I guess the bright side is that he's no more than the class clown here and can't be taken seriously.
This from a guy with over 100 usernames.