It’s just basketball bud. No way in the world I’m letting something like this actually affect my mood or personal life lol. Especially when I’m not the one playing and even if they win the championship, when it comes down to it, I get nothing from it but a hell yea and maybe the chance to buy a shirt. Yea it sucks to have the team I support struggling but why stress it
We should feel embarrassed right now
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I've been logged out of this site for a while and didn't bother logging back in because didn't remember my password and didn't want to go through the rigamarole just to deal with all the negativity on here. However, I logged back in just so I could like this comment.
And it was still 14years ago. His last 4 years at UK still exist and most of that was way worse than pope has done and he had way more talent. Apply your own logic there
You still completely skirted around answering my question and added in a bunch of your opinions while still ignoring facts. You clearly can't have a rational conversation. You are too biased and feel way too entitled. The me, me, me attitude is what is wrong with the world today. Try to think about things from other perspectives besides your own. It's not hard. Gets easier with practice and it will make you a lot less angry
Repeat your question. I average “50” responses every time I jump back and forth and I don’t shift around. I answer people and don’t always keep up with or re-read what is said. I was telling you “first of all” which is the point that matters. In the beginning….
I don’t get angry fella. I think you have a context problem. You seem to make a lot of logical fallacies and as we’ve seen cognitive bias issues. Projecting that back after I’ve already called you on it isn’t going to help you.
Bruce Pearl was never considered or mentioned by any boosters with a voice in the decision. Stop spreading lies Morg.
Couldn't have said it better. He's the smartest guy in the room. He's had that schtick for years
And you're not involved in any of it either. You're so desperate to impress people that you just make **** up
When he was at UK, Cal said the SEC tourny is meaningless. Plus, they only won because Florida and Bama choked. Cal is still a players first coach, and doesn't care about the name on the front of the jersey.
Agree. If you stay downtown it's and expensive few days...
Lol. In other words you refuse to answer the question because it would make you look a hypocrite and not support your argument. Got it. Conversation over since you can't answer a question and then project your ineptitude on others.
Can you show me the media laughing at how pathetic we are?
There's a lot of pathetic but it's not coming from the media.
You don't have to watch another second this year if you choose not to. Pope isn't going anywhere, so either you don't watch and don't have to see him, or you choose to make yourself miserable. Either way, decision is on you.
Pope is going just not yet. By next season it’ll be about week 3 and he’ll be unanimous. I get people like the nice goofball girl dad routine (I don’t) but winning is the only way he’ll stay and to date that hasn’t happened to the UK standard. So yea right now you’re right but he will soon. We can’t assault great players and make them play for him when they’d rather have a real man coach somewhere else. Is what it is. Can’t recruit.
Same thing over & over he runs on offense, good coaches take advantage of his lack of coaching/adjustments. I love the fact the NCAA hates Cal so bad they sent him to Portland Oregon
Actually the year before I believe it was we had the most efficient lineup in the nation available and he refused to play them too. Don’t recall exactly who that was but we would get those 5 players for maybe 5 minutes/game on the floor together. Some will argue Cals too competitive to not care about winning but his ego takes precedence over winning. He’d rather lose his way than give in or admit the fanbase was ever right about anything. Hes still a smug prick I’ll never welcome back to UK.
It is no fun, Bugs. At all. Like you, I believe Pope shouldn't have been the choice. He was put in a bad situation. Whoever followed Cal would have been. If it is true about his inability to close recruits, hampered by JMI, his wholesale changes during games, crazy lineups, and post-game disposition, the job is too big for him in my opinion. I don't want to see one of our own destroyed, but I'd much rather OUR PROGRAM not be destroyed. There have to be great basketball minds with UK basketball ties who know the right people to set up shop in Lexington for what college basketball has become. I wish changes could come faster than I fear they will.
GO BIG BLUE!
Did you see how they got bent the **** over at Florida? Auburn beat them by double digits & we even beat them down there & I guarantee Cal actually watched film then when he usually doesn't lol. Yeah, they have the talent but he's still the ultimate choke artist coach. He gift wrapped 2 titles to Uconn alone with his in game coaching, not to even mention his stupidity against Wisconsin minus Tim Higgins.
And yet won the SECT and are one of the hotter teams right now going into the tournament.
Ultimate choke artist? In what way? Hes got two bad tournament meltdowns: Oakland and St. Peter's. But last I checked Self has Bucknell and UNI and others. Coach K has Lehigh and Mercer. Michigan st was Golf coast? Or similar.
I can tell you this, even my college basketball group of friends, none of which are Kentucky fans, would never think of Cal as a "choke artist". The call is coming from inside the house on that one. Ohio st 1 seed, the 5 game tournament run in 2014, never losing egregiously early in the tournament for almost a decade. He was as close to a 3rd round and beyond coach as you can get during his peak, he just ran into injury issues and his own undoing in the 2020s, where coincidentally, was when he finally had his two big tournament upsets.
Odd isnt it, that he seems already improved from those final few years. Hmm? Probably just entirely a coincidence
Odd isnt it, that he seems already improved from those final few years. Hmm? Probably just entirely a coincidence
I think I have said the exact same thing. You get a moment of joy and the ability to buy some merch. Doesn't affect my real life. Pretty numb to all of it. Nothing is the same anyway. Not the same sport or culture even.
I definitely have gotten this way the older I get. In my younger days I'd be upset for a week when we lost. Now I just enjoy the victories and shrug off the losses. But it was the 2015 loss to Wisconsin that broke me. I haven't been the same since and honestly it's for the best.
Not sure how one can laugh at this. In year two of Cal, they won their first conference title since 2000. We haven't got to the SEC Finals since 2018. Obviously not the easiest thing to do.lol Arkansas had the easiest road to a conference title in history.
And this is all cal is good for. It’s all he can win. They’ll be lucky to make a sweet 16. They couldn’t even beat us at home
We will get bounced first weekend. They have a chance at being there in the second weekend.
He has 1 title with all of that talent at Kentucky, any Kentucky fan that's being honest knows exactly why, his coaching or lack there of.
Mashburn and I can safely say this, is the best basketball player I ever witnessed play for Kentucky. His game, his demeanor, the way he carried himself on and off the court, the absolute best I’ve ever seen. Go to YouTube type in Kentucky-Arkansas SEC Tournament 1993. Watch the first 6 minutes.I was that same kid in the late Pitino years and early Tubby years! Wish I was old enough to have witnessed Mash!
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Okay. And who was the coach of Kentucky from 2018 to 2025?
Cal said numerous times he didn’t care about conference tournaments and that they’re useless and need to be done away with.
He was washed here and would have continued to be washed here. He’s not winning another title so he can have all the conference tournaments he wants. In his own words, they mean nothing.
I am happy for Cal too. He gave this program a lot of Great Memories! I could care a crap about Arkansas.
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You clearly have “CDS”lol Arkansas had the easiest road to a conference title in history.
And this is all cal is good for. It’s all he can win. They’ll be lucky to make a sweet 16. They couldn’t even beat us at home
Nothing new here. I have been embarrassed by the teams and coaches the past 10 years. The downward spiral continues and will pick up speed next year.
Let me tell you what's embarrassing:
-Losing to St Peters w/ a loaded roster
-Losing to Oakland w/ a loaded roster
-Losing twice to K-State with loaded rosters
-9-16
-Losing at home to Richmond
-Losing at home to Evansville w/ a loaded roster
-Losing at home to UNCW w/ a loaded roster
I have no idea why any UK fan would be embarrassed because Arkansas won the SECT. We heat Arkansas in their house and we beat the snot out of Vandy just a couple weeks ago, Arkansas struggled with them.
Also, at least our losses to Florida weren’t blowouts, Arkansas got their stool pushed in by Florida.
If you're embarrassed, that's a YOU thing. Go be an Arkansas fan.
-Losing to St Peters w/ a loaded roster
-Losing to Oakland w/ a loaded roster
-Losing twice to K-State with loaded rosters
-9-16
-Losing at home to Richmond
-Losing at home to Evansville w/ a loaded roster
-Losing at home to UNCW w/ a loaded roster
I have no idea why any UK fan would be embarrassed because Arkansas won the SECT. We heat Arkansas in their house and we beat the snot out of Vandy just a couple weeks ago, Arkansas struggled with them.
Also, at least our losses to Florida weren’t blowouts, Arkansas got their stool pushed in by Florida.
If you're embarrassed, that's a YOU thing. Go be an Arkansas fan.
Why should I feel embarrassed? I didn’t hire Mark Pope . And I don’t know one single fan that was advocating for Mark Pope to be hired .
Now if you had said ANGRY……then yeah, I agree with that.
Mitch is the one that should be embarrassed. But he’s getting a million dollar a year made up job so he’s probably feeling okay.
No you wouldn't have. I guarantee you wouldn't have.
If this is your mindset, stick to pumping out septic tanks and port-a-jons for a living. If you ever managed more than just 1 person (yourself), you would run any business straight into the ground.
You can't fire a coach that has had this many injuries and got the team to a sweet 16 last year yeah, sweet 16's and 14 loss season's aren’t our standard, but the second the injuries happened, all bets were off. Firing a coach in this situation, after only 2 seasons, is the worst thing you could do. You won't get another coach.
But you keep on throwing that temper tantrum like a child.
Go be an Arkansas fan. Cal quit on UK and kept losing to 15 seeds in the tournament and in Rupp. Hadn't won a tournament game in 5 years, but you're pissed at Pope. Makes zero sense. Cal embarrassed us more than any coach not named Eddie Sutton.
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It never has been and Jeff never said it was.
He did when he said “last year was a sweet sixteen season “ as an excuse to give Pope another chance. Sweet sixteens have never been successful seasons for this program.