I'm afraid Cal would fire Barnhart at this point..lol
KSR postgame
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It's not talked about. But you have to wonder.
2015: He loses a 38-0 team to the refs and his own choking
2017: He rebuilt a fresh team that looks national title bound. He gets jobbed by the refs
2019: He rebuilds a fresh team that is looking red hot coming into March. He gets jobbed by the refs.
Thats 3 painful losses in only 4-5 years. You have to wonder if Cal had a moment like so many of us did after all that. ''It's just not worth it to be so invested in titles''. And he shifted gears to helping ''these kids'' and achieve their dreams. If the titles come, cool, if not, he doesn't care. Idk, I'm just spitballing but it makes some sense in my head. Espcially after that Joel Justus article in the offseason.
KSR crew are a joke...
Matt's famous line "No other coach but Cal"....it's absurd to feel this way to after 9-16.
Rupp will be empty...and so will Matt's show. People are mad...but when the main UK radio is a butt kiss fest and acts like fans are nuts why they want him replaced.
Guys Cal lost to another BFF so it doesn't count. Gee wilikers those guys played a great game lol.
I laugh so I don't cry!
Can we please change our pick n roll defensive strategy?!?!? 7 footers DO NOT need to extend beyond one step past the free throw line. You can still close out to contest a shot and show yourself on penetration.
I laugh so I don't cry!
Can we please change our pick n roll defensive strategy?!?!? 7 footers DO NOT need to extend beyond one step past the free throw line. You can still close out to contest a shot and show yourself on penetration.
Can you link that? I don't know that I ever read it.
He definitely isn't the same and his edge is gone.
The best thing (don't laugh) that could happen is these players find lightning in a bottle and carry us to a FF. Cal feels a sense or relief and just decides it is time to stop.
If it doesn't go like this it will get so ugly here and it will be a ****** way to send him off eventually. That will be awful considering what he did here for the first 10 years.
THIS.. is what people aren't talking about enough.
Jobbed in 2016 on the Hump spike bll which cost us a seed.
Jobbed in 2021 or whatever on that awful LSU goaltend call.
The 2011 and 2014 Uconn games..
I could go on for a while.
We have been so absolutely screwed on officiating that it cant just be random. We didn't just flip 25 tails in a row...
It's funny, A lot of people here mention that the refs hate Cal.. but why is that Cal's problem? Go after the officiating. Call the games correctly.
I hate to bring this to politics.. but there's a lot of fellow repubs here who post on the Politics forum here. So I'll ask it this way.. Why do we blame the government for stealing the election from Trump (allegedly) because they hate him, but we blame Cal when the NCAA steals games from him, because they dislike Cal?
I hate to bring this to politics.. but there's a lot of fellow repubs here who post on the Politics forum here. So I'll ask it this way.. Why do we blame the government for stealing the election from Trump (allegedly) because they hate him, but we blame Cal when the NCAA steals games from him, because they dislike Cal?
Matt is actually more on point than I thought he'd be.
Saying bad March and it should be over.
Says fans don't deserve the last 4 years
Saying bad March and it should be over.
Says fans don't deserve the last 4 years
@HagginHall1999 paste that link into this https://12ft.io/ will remove that paywall.
Wow....Matt Jones now is saying if the season goes as it appears (6-8 seed...and out in first weekend)...you can't do another season of Cal as coach.
Amazing it only takes 4 years to come to the obvious (and acting like a know it all prick to so many fans)
Amazing it only takes 4 years to come to the obvious (and acting like a know it all prick to so many fans)
the point is - Cal's relationship with refs puts the program at a disadvantage. Its not Cal's problem. Its UK's problem
We have all been saying it.
Now the rich people have to pony up. Pay him his 33 million and get rid of him.
That’s about as close as we will hear “Fire Cal” from a media member until the end of this season.
Yeah we will lose some players when we make a change. But it’s time.
WTF are our boosters. Why are they letting this happen. Barney should be fired today. Bring in someone with some balls.
Listening to highlights of a loss just piss me off more.
Even our former players are starting to dissent.
You're right and you're not.
On one hand, it isn't Cal's fault. It's the refs fault. We should blame the refs.
On the flip side, it doesn't actually matter who we blame. If they're biased against him and try to hurt him in games with bad calls--that affect us negatively. And I used to think--you know what, we're gonna win in spite of that.
And if that was the ONLY issue, I'd say fu#k 'em. But it's not. He's not a very good in game coach. He's had a miserable 4 years.
I'd love to start over, and not have a coach that the refs hate and try to sabotage.
With the transfer portal. Not even sure losing players is that big of a deal. no way Cal deserves another game, much less another season.
I know. I’m just saying. That was the reason we didn’t really jump last year. This was supposed to be THE class.
Screw it.
But for my example, why is it not Trumps fault that people tried to hold him down?
This kind of goes back to poorly executed plays. Don't blame Cal because Shep tried for a lob (which Cal never would have called up), blame the player. Don't blame Cal because the NCAA has an axe to grind, blame people like Mark Emmert. There are forces that are actually COMMITTING the misstep.. we have to aim our sights at them as well.
And what IF this isn't just about Cal, but is also about the NCAA helping programs like Duke and UNC by keeping UK at bay? That's going to be a problem for the next coach.
Please stop blaming the refs for Cal's coaching failures.
I was as big a Cal fan as anyone... It's easy for me to see (as a high school baseball coach) that his drive and passion for the position is not what it once was.. Maybe it was the contract, Maybe its his age... Maybe he's just tired.
He has accomplished enough. Time to find someone with the energy and love for the program that it deserves.
He has accomplished enough. Time to find someone with the energy and love for the program that it deserves.
Yeah, I mean that may be. At some point, we DO need someone in there who I guess has a good rapport with the refs.
It's just sad that's what it has to come to.
And honestly, Hurley seems to be a guy who is going to wear out his welcome with refs. He's one of the bigger on-ref guys out there. That's going to be a problem at some point. Still want him though,
All of you whining about the refs do an absolute injustice to the coaching malpractice that has occurred over Cals tenure. To excise his coaching malpractice to officials is just ******** and a tired excuse. If it makes you feel better bout yourself go for it tho.
yes...I'm 100% with this guy who just called in
quote "Cal is the most arrogant stubborn man and someone needs to tell him that to his face"
quote "Cal is the most arrogant stubborn man and someone needs to tell him that to his face"
How do we know that 1. Ulis was even shaking his head at the play and 2. that the play was a lob?
I refuse to believe that the play drawn up was a lob.. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but I think the play was more to "Get it to a big for a high percentage shot".. coaches don't draw up "lobs" lol. Not even someone like Cal.
His buyout is paid over like 5-6 years. Financially UK can fire him.
I think there are people who try to be fair and measured in their criticism. But, with one exception, I don’t think anybody would say he’s doing a good job right now.
I've said it before but Cal gets more than 1 year salary to walk out the door and Barnhart needs to be with him
Probably because it's true. If it ever happens I'll eat crow but there aren't even the slightest signs of rumblings because he is untouchable with that contract.
Yep. That 2nd paragraph is what i've been thinking for a while. Titles, wins, final fours? That's all selfish blubber. The real goal is helping these kids.
Cal said it himself. It was gonna be a lob. If that wasn’t there a Reeves 3.
I agree. They’d negotiate with him and get some concession. But I’m just saying, even if UK had to pay it all, they can fire him.
He wanted to coach Wagner.