78 championship
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I'm pretty sure Chuck was averaging double figures the following year when he decided to transfer. Does anyone know why he transferred?
Yes, I was so nervous we were about to blow the season.
I don't. I just remember my grade school teacher telling me one morning before class.
On Youtube? Because I've looked everywhere for it on Youtube with no luck?
I think there should be an SEC storied on the 2010 team. Sure 2012 won the title but 2010 changed Kentucky basketball.
That is the very reason I started disliking Dean Smyth and the whole Carolina Way so much. Then, I find out how much they cheated!
Sounds familiar to a coach I know who only has one title.
softball girls always got that dump truck though.
Quite a bit different. Dean Smith was at one of the Blue Bloods of college basketball for well over 30 years. Cal has been at a Blue Blood for 12 years. Judging coaches by how many national titles is a horrible way to judge them. Only 4 times since the mid-80's has the overall #1 seed won it. First of all the tournament is a one loss your out crap shoot that the favorite seldom wins. Secondly, very few coaches have won multiple titles (14 total, only 3 active coaches). Thirdly, there are plenty of great coaches that never get the chance to win one because they are not a a big-time basketball school.
Sorry I meant the opening round tournament game of 1978 against Florida State.
One thing that 78 team show reminded me of was how much trash UNC's 4 corner offense was. Best thing the NCAA has ever done was implement the shot clock.
To be fair, Smith won 2 titles in about 36 years. If Cal stays here for another few years (looking likely) and doesn’t win another title (hopefully not but looking iffy) his conversion rate at a blue blood will be just as poor as Smith’s.
Also there have been 4 schools repeat titles over the past 12 or so years, and only one first time winner that I can recall (Virginia which may win another before all is said and done) so winning titles is not so random as it’s made out.
Discounting titles is typically something done by those who don’t have as many as they’d like (cough Kansas fans). I didn’t see much of it around here in Cal’s first years when it looked like he’d win 2 or more. But now that he’s underachieved titles are random, a little too convenient to me.
Not discounting titles. No one wants to win them as much as me. But, I've been around long enough to know it's a terrible way to rate a coach. Again, only 4 overall #1 seeds have won it since the mid-80's. Lots of luck involved too. Look at UVA, they had to pull off miracles to beat Purdue and Auburn just to get to the title game and if they miss one shot against Texas Tech, they lose that game. UNC's last title, they hit a shot with less than 1.5 seconds against us or they might now have won that year. Villanova hit a 25'er at the buzzer to beat UNC. You have to be very good, but you also have to be lucky at times too. I can't remember the last time a time just breezed to the title. I guess we came as close as you can in 2012.
Hall was better when Dicky Parsons was an assistant.
I agree. I also thought Pitino suddenly became a better coach when Jim O'Brian came on his staff.
I actually think Cal losing KP hurt his " coaching" ability more than all the other issues, Covid, youth, etc.
Not being able to evaluate talent or having an assistant coach that can was the biggest problem this year.
I think titles tend to seem random when taken one year at a time. However, when looking at programs and coaches over the course of years, you see that the systems developed bear some pretty consistent fruit.
It’s really about the systems developed to create championship caliber teams imo, rather than one individual year of great performance and luck. Those years don’t usually happen in isolation.
Sometimes the systems aren’t so fair. Duke’s AD has a wide tree of protege administrators who have served on the selection committee over the years. Is it any surprise they don’t get too many brutal draws? Similarly Cal’s biting sarcasm and against the world attitude has bore some bitter fruit in how refs and the committee treat him.
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Very good show. I enjoyed the integration information. I also didn't know James Lee was a PK (preacher's kid).
No question. I was a nervous wreck when he did that starting the second half.
I still have mine it is beat up. So a couple years ago I bought a really nice one. Put it in a protector.
Something that struck me from the SEC storied program was the fans did not seem to be all decked out in blue like later on. I never went to a game until the 1980s and by then it seemed the fans were always in blue. Doesn't look like on the SEC storied that the fans are 100% decked out in blue or even 60%. Does anyone know when this changed or am I just imagining things?
That was before Nike and other athletic apparel companies came along so there wasn’t a lot of stuff to choose from back then. I remember when I got a Kentucky shirt it was pretty special.
I had some Kentucky Football sweatshirts from the 70's until just recently. Pretty sure they came from JC Penny's and the blue color then was completely different than now. Deep, dark blue. Almost Penn State blue of today.
I said this a while back. UK used to be more of a Navy Blue, now it's like a royal blue I guess.
I recorded it but looks like the softball game previously screwed it up and it cutoff during the Duke game. One thing I'd love to see again are some of the full games from Memorial, some great video footage from back. And it was great to see Denny Trease, a big part of my childhood was going to the game and then come home and watch the replay on WKYT.