83Cat probably does have Cal posters. I bet he has personalized basketballs from the greatest player here under the Cal regime,
EPRAHS YDAHS
All you Cal haters who thought we could fire him and just take our pick
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So many folks on this board fall under the former. They come on here to announce every move one of their beloved NBA-former-Cats makes. And you never see them in the college game threads or discussing the game afterwards. Those are not UK fans.
Opposed to losing the first game of the SEC and NCAA tournament. Give it time and back away from the ledge. Damn.
Cal left. UK fans did not run him off. I for one am disappointed in the lack of character he showed in getting this miserable period turned around, but am ecstatic that his sham philosophy is gone. The last couple of days show how much Z and his buddies really cared about UK and our tradition. So much for any loyalty to the school and the name in front on the jersey. Changes like this come with some pain; I am disappointed also in the decommits, but good players abound and they will come here. This turmoil will morph into smooth air in the bluest of skies.
Other than that, don't know what to tell you and maybe you just needed to rant without a smart *** answer. That's OK, but assaualting those of us who like this inevitable change is going to ask for responses you also may not like. Have patience. Get a service animal if needed. Come off the ledge. Root for Arkansas if you want.
I tend to believe we are in great shape now and in the future. Mark Pope is super intelligent, experienced, still young at 51, and has a super support system. All things are in place for future success you and I can be proud of. Exorcising the demonic and flawed philosophy of the very disappointing past will take some time, but it will get done.
You can def tell some of these posters didn't watch the press conference and didn't get excited by the future and the change in philosophy. Some of you guys are still going to sleep at night kissing your picture of Cal sitting on your nightstand. If it pains you so much please follow in his footsteps and stop being a drama queen. Over and out.
Whew I guess we're screwed now we never had a title or any phone until the Cow got here, and now he's gone oh cry.
Sure, the fans had some role in Cal leaving on his own but more than anything, he made his bed and own demise by pissing off the big money boosters...and along came NIL. That didn't work out well for him. He thought he could just do his thing, and could...until NIL changed the process and he had already made his lumpy bed with the boosters right before he unknowingly would need them more than ever. His ego is what did that to him. That's why NIL was a huge deal in his negotiating with AR and quite possibly Oh St. Cal did this to himself.
Waaah,waaah,waaah. Just give it a rest. He didn’t get fired! He QUIT. Ego wouldn’t let him change. SMH
I wrote the original post before it was official but it looked imminent that Pope was getting the job. Many, many of the same people cutting me down were also worried about the hire and calling for Pitino, Hurley, Donovan, coaches that were never going to take the job. I have been a UK fan and graduated from UK most likely before many of you were born and support the team and the school financially in a very big way and have for many years. Please don’t call my over reaction and misjudgment a lack of support. I was wrong. Anyone who attended the press conference could see that I was incredibly short sided and if you could have seen the tears in my eyes when Pope was doing CATS, you’d know that I know I was wrong to pre-judge him. If I am anything, I am overly loyal to our staff and players. I didn’t want Joe B to go, I didn’t like losing Tubby, I certainly hated seeing Pitino leave and I didn’t like everyone blaming Cal for every missed wide open layup and three. I’ll support the heck out of Pope as I have done with every coach (except Billy G and that drunken Vandy game) since Rupp. I was wrong to make that post and I am sorry that I did. I could delete it (I think) but I’d rather glance back after next year and see what fool I was. Correct, I don’t post much (but I’ve been on this board since it was the clunky original format), I’d rather leave that for the you experts but there is not a bigger fan among you. I am very excited for the Pope era to begin and honestly glad for the Cal era to end. I should have had faith and gone with what I know…“We know not what the future holds, but we do know who holds the future.” Blessings to all of you. Welcome back to Mark and his family.
Save this for the Arkansas fans after they realize how awful Calipari really is as a coach.
Mine was as hard on you as any reply.
Appreciate you taking ownership and admitting your post was due to an overreaction.
Hope all those who are really fans but thought there was no other choice than Coach ChArLatan (at least that's what I read as the tenor of your original post) all rally with the rest of us who had CalFatigue behind what will hopefully be a rejuvenation similar to what happened in the 90s.
Well you’re a complete moron and a clown. You use the last 5 year even though 2019-20 was objectively an excellent year because it’s a Matt Jones talking point. Uneducated trash like you are too stupid to think for yourself and push all of his talking points and lies. That’s how pathetic you are.
Tell me more about 2020 being bad clueless moron. Congrats on getting the culture you begged for. It’s sucks that you have to lie to defend your ignorance.
Calipari was terrible. One title in all the years and talent he had. I'll take Pope any day.
Lol...still angry name calling. You are the only one attacking UK with all your negativity towards Pope. Cal can't coach. Gave up. His last 5 years are trash . Why would any coach be maintained at UK with those results. None would. You're arguments have no substance, make no sense and are illogical. You keep exposing to your character and intelligent level with each post you make. I don't even have to do anything. You make this so easy with your angry childish rants. Keep them coming
Throw the kitchen sink at Todd Golden. Maybe he wants to coach at a traditional power.
Have you watched Pope’s team play this year? Heck are you watching them tonight not even break 20 in the 1st half against a team that will be firing their coach soon?
Nah, I love UK, I would never attack UK with lies like you do pathetic POS. I’m attacking you because you’re a liar, a garbage human being, and an enemy to UK. LOL at character coming from a lying fraud like you.
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Show me one post where I attacked UK, it's current players or coaches. You can't. I could find a dozen where you do that. How are not seeing how bad these posts make you look. If you are so much more intelligent why can't you answer questions instead of angry name calling? Where is your proof,your facts. Provide those, prove me wrong. Stop saying everyone is lying but you. Why would we. You are the only one with anything to gain if JMI is what you say it is. Maybe you should stop thinking you are smarter than us and trying to manipulate with half truths and lies.maune then you could have an actual conversation instead of a childish rant.
"I'd rather have an experienced guard like Lowe, instead of Acuff and Thomas!!" It's laughable
Just read this board, and it should be obvious why we find it hard to hire a coach. Every time the team looses you want the coach fired, and now you want him fired when the team wins. What coach would want to come here and put up with that junk ?
Mark Pope could drop a Jasper Johnson on the logo at Rupp and it still wouldn’t justfy having retained Calipari. (And I say that as a Calipari fan.)
Bro. This is a spot on take. You’ve accurately predicted the behavior of so many people on this board. They are cool with making the tournament and using whatever statistics they can to point to how relevant UK still is. UK basketball is finished.
We were in a tough spot though, because the game has passed Cal by. He can still recruit, but he’s not winning another title or coaching a contender ever again.
All I can say is glad Cal is gone, tired of his arrogance, his piss poor coaching and his lack of respect for the school and the fans.
It’s funny seeing the fans that think they ran Calipari off, or the fans that think Mitch ran him off!
Here’s a dose of reality for you… Calipari went looking for the right program that could supply the necessary NIL to do what he wanted to do and UK’s donors simply couldn’t/ wouldn’t supply that for him, so he went where the money was. That’s it, that’s 90%+ why he left.
Now, fast forward to now, and his successor Mark Pope, has yet to land a single 5* or top portal transfer, going on two years, and everyone is either blaming the JMI contract, Pope’s fragile personality when it comes to closing the deal, or both!
What if it’s simply the lack of consistent large NIL donors like it was going to be with Calipari? What if that $22 million smokescreen was just that, a smokescreen? What if UK knew they were going to need a new football HC, and had no choice but to sandbag all their NIL to get a coach, pay off Stoops, and buy a mostly new team?
What if it was the NIL situation that turned off Drew and Hurley? We may never fully know, but one thing is for certain…
Big time recruits are passing up the opportunity to play at UK for lesser schools, and if it wasn’t a money issue, why on Earth would any UK MCBB coach be sitting at 0- for 30 on 5*’s alone, when almost half of those whiffs came before the new JMI deal?
Remember when it was leaked that Pope told recruits that he doesn’t get into “bidding wars” with other rivals? Maybe, just maybe, he doesn’t, because he can’t!
Here’s a dose of reality for you… Calipari went looking for the right program that could supply the necessary NIL to do what he wanted to do and UK’s donors simply couldn’t/ wouldn’t supply that for him, so he went where the money was. That’s it, that’s 90%+ why he left.
Now, fast forward to now, and his successor Mark Pope, has yet to land a single 5* or top portal transfer, going on two years, and everyone is either blaming the JMI contract, Pope’s fragile personality when it comes to closing the deal, or both!
What if it’s simply the lack of consistent large NIL donors like it was going to be with Calipari? What if that $22 million smokescreen was just that, a smokescreen? What if UK knew they were going to need a new football HC, and had no choice but to sandbag all their NIL to get a coach, pay off Stoops, and buy a mostly new team?
What if it was the NIL situation that turned off Drew and Hurley? We may never fully know, but one thing is for certain…
Big time recruits are passing up the opportunity to play at UK for lesser schools, and if it wasn’t a money issue, why on Earth would any UK MCBB coach be sitting at 0- for 30 on 5*’s alone, when almost half of those whiffs came before the new JMI deal?
Remember when it was leaked that Pope told recruits that he doesn’t get into “bidding wars” with other rivals? Maybe, just maybe, he doesn’t, because he can’t!
It's funny to me that the Cal fans can't accept that he basically got fired. He violated the terms of his contract which gave Mitch the opportunity to fire him for cause. He let Calipari quit so he could get him out the door and allow him to save face. So he did quit, but only because he forced to.
More Matt Jones lies that every KSR cult simpleton believes is fact.
Most of you still believe with your whole heart that Derek Anderson could have played in March after tearing his ACL in January nearly 30 years ago. No matter the ignorance, if the lie is believed by the herd, it is accepted as fact no matter how ridiculous.
You really are a retard. I hate Cal. You're a weird dude