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Does he not have any self awareness?
He does stand with his players... where exactly are you seeing his lack of self awareness?
Going all caps, so you know he means it!
Don’t worry about UK or the loyal fans Cal. Just do your best to get your players to the league.
Hes just responding to the Yahoo Article.
He would do well to take his own advice and not listen to the noise. Instead he took the bait. It was a hit piece; he would have been better served ignoring it and not giving it the attention to keep it alive. His players know he has their back.
Sure you will Cal!!!! Signed, W. Gabriel
John Calipari is the Donald Trump of college basketball.
He forgot the rest in which he said he would stand with, by, and for his players as the other team continues to shoot threes and drive by them.
Lmao I’m glad he sticks by his players but can we have this discussion when we aren’t the worst team we’ve had in decades? I want to hear more about how he is going to fix this mess of a team. Or are we going to have to wait until they go to the NBA to be stars, ala maxey, keldon, herro, booker, etc etc etc.
He does, to the point the point that UK and the program be damned. That is his lack of self awareness. He isn't apologetic for it and he will not change.
I mean what is he suppose to say ?
. “I don’t stand by my players” ? he will say that even if he didn’t believe it. For “lifetime contract” millions of dollars. I would too, this is he’s livelihood
. “I don’t stand by my players” ? he will say that even if he didn’t believe it. For “lifetime contract” millions of dollars. I would too, this is he’s livelihoodSaying that he he will always “stand with” the players was a bad choice of words in this context.
Here’s the deal....this is a delicate balance for all guys in Calipari’s position. These young guys don’t know anything about anything. That’s just the damn truth and yes Calipari knows that too. So they are protesting what exactly? Clearly with the answer from Brooks they don’t even really know. The truth is it’s become the “cool” thing to do. It’s become the cultural flavor. It’s become an issue that the cancel culture jumps on when given the chance if someone disagrees.
So the reality for guys like Calipari is they have to balance it all with players, fans and the media. Frankly, that’s what you are seeing here from Calipari. Some of you simply need to be realistic when it comes to issues like this one. He’s trying to balance it all just as you would if you were in the same position, otherwise you’d be looking for a new career.
So the reality for guys like Calipari is they have to balance it all with players, fans and the media. Frankly, that’s what you are seeing here from Calipari. Some of you simply need to be realistic when it comes to issues like this one. He’s trying to balance it all just as you would if you were in the same position, otherwise you’d be looking for a new career.
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I mean what is he suppose to say ?
Exactly lol.
I mean I feel like this is like when you are in a bad relationship with someone and then every little thing they do bothers you. That's the Cal/fans relationship right now.
What you just described is not a lack of self awareness.
A lack of self awareness would be when he said he doesn't play favorites with five stars.
Does that make the NCAA Biden?
2k comments within 30 minutes of posting to Facebook! And about 80% are negative directly calling Cal out.
I don’t think he can talk his way out of this one.
This is a conservative state that Trump won in a landslide. The majority of the people live and breathe KY basketball.
It’s not California or somewhere with multiple college and pro sports teams. You know big money boosters that were Cal fans have flipped!
Bad hand played by Cal on this one!
The product on the court is making it even easier for people to cut ties with him!
I don’t think he can talk his way out of this one.
This is a conservative state that Trump won in a landslide. The majority of the people live and breathe KY basketball.
It’s not California or somewhere with multiple college and pro sports teams. You know big money boosters that were Cal fans have flipped!
Bad hand played by Cal on this one!
The product on the court is making it even easier for people to cut ties with him!
Except sometimes they aren't little things.
For the record, kneeling used to bother me. But then I started asking myself why do I care what these people do?
But this does remain true.
1.) Politics do not belong in sports.
2.) More people would get behind the police brutality thing if they weren't so busy fighting over people kneeling over the flag.
I'm fine with Cal backing his players too. But screaming about it on Twitter does nothing. Just further separation from a portion of the fan base. May be signs of losing it.
My take.
But this does remain true.
1.) Politics do not belong in sports.
2.) More people would get behind the police brutality thing if they weren't so busy fighting over people kneeling over the flag.
I'm fine with Cal backing his players too. But screaming about it on Twitter does nothing. Just further separation from a portion of the fan base. May be signs of losing it.
My take.
I would shut my mouth and worry about winning games before the fans stop purchasing tickets. As a season ticket holder, I can promise you that there’s a lot of us who are losing interest in throwing thousands to see this **** product and listen to our liberal coach.I mean what is he suppose to say ?
Does he not tell them who their customers(fans) are? They may be throwing away millions of dollars in endorsements by pissing off their customers. How is this having the players backs? It may hurt their NBA value as well,
Looks like Cal is the yelping dog this go around.
I STAND WITH , FOR AND BY MY PROGRAM, ALWAYS HAVE ALWAYS WILL ! I look at you as a temporary employee coach Cal .That is all .
I could get behind supporting them if they didn’t burn down cities. The nation was watching with Floyd and there would have been movement-but when you loot, steal, rob, and kill under the premise of equality, I can’t support it.
They all knelt and then they bent over for Bama .
This. For someone that shuts out the noise, he sure knows everything everyone says about him
Right. Every group has bad apples though. Try to look past the extremists on both sides.
What was he reasonably supposed to do? Tell his players they can’t kneel and express the frustration they feel with how they are treated by the society in the country in which they live? Yes, he could have done that he is the coach and has the final authority in the situation. But if he does that then our recruiting will fall off a cliff and recruiting African Americans to come live in an environment where they are told to “just shut up and dribble” becomes immensely more difficult. Almost every business tries to cater to it’s clientele so I can understand a coach catering to his players and his future players. Politics is sooooo toxic in this country right now and I wish that a situation hadn’t arisen that injected politics into sports. But it did happen and he was approached by his players and put between a rock and a hard place and he decided to back his players and his future players.
How about people just sticking up for their own beliefs? Too much phoniness in this country.