Cal created this monster!

[dmpatp]

Appreciate it Tank.

 

[Cawood86_rivals]

To be fair, Cal did say a lot of things that have led to people feeling he has not fulfilled his statements. He was braggadocios a lot in the beginning, but we ate it up because we were winning a lot and getting to FF's and championships.

I can't blame folks for feeling he has not lived up to his own statements. He did make them. He is sort of a prisoner of his own making. Gold standard, UK is the needle, UK is college basketball, that sort of talk is great if you back it up.

The posts that get are the ones wanting him gone and acting like he can't coach. That's just ridiculous.

 

[CB3UK]

What cracks me up is the fans we have here who buy into it and act like we should care about some player and his family/posse getting crazy rich over winning a championship. None of us would care one iota about these guys if they played somewhere else.

This model has grown old. It’s like watching the same movie over and over again. It’s like a new roster every year and if we don’t win it, we know we have to start back at zero because we lose most of our contributors. This program under Cal, will never experience what UNC did by losing in 2016 and then returning nearly everyone to win it in 2017. We lose the likes of Briscoe, Humphries, Gabriel, Vanderbilt, etc.

Then we convince ourselves before the season that we can win it, get a reality check when the season starts then offset it with the same excuses, “It’s a process. We’re young. They will be alright by March.” It has grown old.

Even last year, we convinced ourselves we were better than we were by ignoring we just beat a 12 and a 13 in the tournament and then lost to a 9 seed(We would’ve lost to Loyola in the next round anyways even if we did win that game).

Then brag about lottery picks and try to justify why we didn’t get to the final four again. Rinse and repeat.

This. 1000 times over, this.

 

[chattanoogawildcat]

I stopped reading after this.


WilliamBonne

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[JC CATS]

When Cal took the job he raved at the passionate fan base and how KY only hangs Championship banners and that was what he was here for! Let’s be honest FF’s are good but it’s not a Championship banner! Unless we get a guy like AD every year it may not happen again because our players are preparing for the rigorous NBA. I like Reid but he should not be shooting 3’s down by 10...he should be posting up and going after every rebound. The run Cal has had has been great but when he complains of the fan base he needs to remember that he set these wheels in motion, so stop bitching about fans when you lose, because with the biggest fan base in all the College basketball world you’re going to have people complaining when the expectations that you have set for this program do not measure up to the standard we have all come to expect under your guidance! We love our players in the NBA but we all know not every player is ready every year and we’d all like to get to cheer their success at UK more than anything!
We also understand we are everyone’s SB, so shouldn’t we come out and play every day as if it were the SB!
I know the fan base can seem irrational at times but does it hurt in recruiting & overall success when the HC and players are calling out the fan base? I am sure younger players read that stuff as well.

We have the 2nd most titles in history, at that we have 8. If it takes a title to please you, well you aren't going to be pleased very often