underachieve.....they finished 2nd in second best conference losing just 5 games. won the SECT. made it to a sweet 16 and got beat by a #1 seed.
Bro calipari left for Arkansas like
Do they suck at math in Fayetteville? Cal left 2 years ago.
I’m the kentucky fan making fun of the Arkansas fan, what you talking about?
and i'm an arkansas fan because.....checking notes.....stated actual facts about their season last year.
Brazile is averaging 19/9 and shooting 50% from three. Instead they basically gave the ball to Acuff and said go, and played zero defense.
brazile spent 4 years at ark, 2 with cal. in that time shot 115-328 from three for 35%. last year he shot the most threes in any one season but the worst percentage.
Sure, probably premature, but he also has a McD AA on his bench, Richmond. How many guys did Illinois get drafted?
It doesn’t matter cal not at Kentucky and cal will always be in the thick of it because he can bring in top 10 top five picks every season. It’s frustrating to have all that talent that came through a Kentucky that we as fan had to put aside or traditional fandom of following players for the promise that next year, will yield better players? Just because the coach changed it shouldn’t have changed. Problem is the mentality popes mentality is inclusive of those 96 guys and then some guys here and there that’s it. People grumble about cal closing in the program. Well now it may be worse.
richmond played 28 minutes a game....i mean, your arguments are crap.
The minutes aren't the point - the point is that he had a stacked roster, and got a 4 seed. They had the 60th rated defense via KenPom.
Pope quote, "Right now, we feel like we've got a beautiful Ferrari, and we cant wait to take it for a spin". At the time, he knew JQ was probably not going to play . Do you think Pope underachieved?
Yeh we do chase Nattys but to be honest we piled up 4 of those in 10 yrs (48-58). We have only won 4 more in the last 68 years or on average 1 every 17 years.
I will never give Cal a pass, but losing Knox made a small team even smaller and susceptible to a team loaded with size like Arizona.Ewin is a finesse big and Brazile is really a 3.
Cal hasn’t been in the thick of it since 2017, maybe 2019 or 2020.
they were not stacked. they were picked around 14th in pre season polls. made it to the sweat 16, finished 13th in the rankings. you want to make them more than what they were because you just want to blame cal. 2 plus years after he is gone......its pretty pathetic. but grind that ax if you must
in this era i just dont think 1 lottery pick and 1 other NBA drafted guy is enough. every year, every team in the top 10 will have 7 or 8 high quality players and most of them will be JRs/SRs because of the portal. 10 years ago sure.....but now, its going to be hard to win at a high high level with a roster of total studs.
thats where i'm at. if pope doesnt make a big jump this year....there is a real case to be made he should be fired. yet folks want to bring up some dude from another team that had a few good freaking summer league games....
I wrote when they lost he probably had the second most talented roster in the country after Duke. And Arkansas got blown to smithereens by Arizona, who went on to get blown to smithereens by Michigan. He absolutely underachieved, again. It actually felt like closure to me on the whole Cal ordeal. He is never winning another title. Whether we made the right hire with Pope we'll see, but Cal is done as a serious contender.
His team was loaded like always. They had a good season overall, He just doesn’t get them to play in big games. Same problem as here. He doesn’t prepare, he doesn’t hold them to winning standards. It’s all about the draft and their future and nothing more. It’s the single reason he didn’t retire here.
Who did Arkansas beat to get to that Sweet 16? Let’s not act like they accomplished something.
LOL at how miserable you haters are. Dear Leader has complete control over your simple minds. He just has to give you something to hate to control you.It was bunched up SEC. If Arky came in 2nd, UK came in 4th. Cal got a premier draw for the SEC tourney (OU, Ole Miss, and Vandy for the SECT). He made the Sweet 16 after also getting lucky draws in the first two rounds (Hawaii and High Point). The SEC was probably the second best league last year. Cal had some of the best talent in college basketball last year (he lost at home to Mark Pope). Mark Pope must like that people are defending that season. If UK did that under Pope, what would the assessment be?
