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    Assistant coaching change

    Without getting into the substance of this allegation, it's pretty remarkable that a moderator of this site would say this about the head coach. I guess any questions about the inclinations of Cats Illustrated have been answered.
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    MJ Comments on Cal’s Coaching (old video)

    You guys are probably right - who would want to play for a crazy guy who’s always yelling. Probably explains why he’s never been able to recruit very well.
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    Referee Swings At Parent At Indiana AAU Game. Fight Ensues

    Pretty sure this is the same game/fight I heard about a few days ago. If the video in the OP is from Indy, I’m sure it is. A friends daughter plays for Indians Elite. They were playing a team from Chicago. From the start, the Chicago team was jawing pretty constantly, a lot of taunts about...
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    9 Years Since Cal's Title; A Comparison Of Tubby's Last 9 Years After His Title; Incredibly Similar

    without reading the thread, I'm sure someone has pointed it out already - this is a pretty poor effort. dlh, you're good with the stats, but this is poor. The argument against Tubby was he didn't make a Final Four in his last 9 years. You can't compare him to someone who made multiple final...
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    Something for fans to be excited about

    I've tried this, to say fairly simply that our offense isn't quite the relic from the 1940s that folks want to believe. You get nowhere. Calipari needs - in my humble view - to be a little more embracing of the 3 point shot. I think you can say all you want about kids shooting it, but until...
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    CJ Fredrick

    Powell’s dad is a piece of work - based upon prior conduct, my guess is he was making certain demands. Plus the kid has transferred after a single year at every school he’s attended since 8th grade (one exception - he was at Trinity for 2 years). I really like Powell’s game, but he’s not worth...
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    UCLA

    I am sort of going to enjoy the next year of hearing how Mick Cronin is resurgent - how 1 tournament performance should define him and not the previous 15. He is no different, not any better of a coach, than he was. He caught lightning in a bottle, that's it. No different than any number of...
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    Using ESPN System For Ranking Programs; Top NCAAT Programs 2016-21 (Don't Shoot Messenger)

    So, for a portion of one decade, just outside the top 10. Given what we did the first half of the decade, I have no complaints about that. If some of our stalwarts are right and Cal has lost his fastball - if this isn't a momentary blip but something lasting - we'll know soon enough, and I'll...
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    According to most "NBA Draft experts" UK and Duke have 6 projected draft picks combined....

    yeah, true. On the one hand......everyone went through Covid, but not everyone had the same experience. If this team had had a normal summer and fall schedule, and if they hadn't played a top 10 schedule, they would not have been 9-16. They wouldn't have been great, because every one of them...
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    ESPN updated transfer rankings

    I don't really know these kids, so I'll defer to others. Tucker says we need one of Carr, Miller and Washington. So I'll go with that.
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    According to most "NBA Draft experts" UK and Duke have 6 projected draft picks combined....

    We live in a crazy time. I really wish we'd start to analyze talent - when assessing whether a particular coach did a good job or a bad job - in terms of how good a kid is right now, while he's in college. How good he was in high school really shouldn't matter much. And how good he might...
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    Some Coach Rupp Stats For UK “Fans” Trying To Diminish His Record

    Oh, I'm familiar - "they couldn't touch my boys with a 10 foot pole." I agree that it would be hard for Rupp to keep track of his kids when mobsters are offering money to win by a little less. But like I said, I think a coach is responsible for what happens in his program. Derrick Rose took...
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    Where does Calipari rank among UK all-time coaches?

    What I had read/heard - and more than once - is that Wooden, Krzyzewski and Calipari are the only 3 coaches in history to go to 4 Final Fours in 6 seasons. Dean Smith Final Fours (11): 1967 1968 1969 1972 1977 1981 1982 1991 1993 1995 1997 Looks like you're right. I'm wondering if I got the...
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    Some Coach Rupp Stats For UK “Fans” Trying To Diminish His Record

    Sure. The head coach is the man in charge and ultimately responsible for his program. So any time there is a scandal, the head coach is accountable. Now, it should go without saying that all scandals aren't created equal - so not all coaches who have lived through scandals are equally...
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    Mac McClung

    I think Kyle Tucker had a pretty good answer to the "it feels like Cal is scrambling?" question: "I totally get why it would look like a scramble, and while I certainly cannot rule out that this isn’t the case, I don’t really think it’s that so much as the plan is to make damn sure they don’t...
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