Cal wanted UCLA?
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Yeah. Can't take any committee seriously that ended up with Mick Cronin.
Or believe any of their statements. "Anonymous sources whose entire job was to not mess this up but who messed it up spectacularly tell us that John Calipari was just about to take the job but despite getting everything he asked for decided not to at the last minute."
Sure, pal. Sure.
That theory is way overblown. Do you think he talked to his wife during the tournament? Did he have dinner? Did he sleep? It would have taken very little of Cal’s time. Most of it would have been done via his agent. He didn’t watch film 24 hours a day 7 days a week during the tournament. Never understood people getting mad about this. Even is he did do this, it would have no effect on UK’s performance on the court
It also happened between the SEC and NCAA Tournament, but anyone complaining doesn't actually care about the truth or the timeline.
Tony Bennett and Chris Beard both told them no during the NCAA Tournament. Seemed to work out okay.
Yes, it's not like he was sitting down across the table from the UCLA AD and administration in an ACTUAL face to face negotiation. Bruins guy sends a text. Cal answers it. He sends another. Cal answers, and so on. There is also a thing called facetime or other video calling apps. And yes, the agent was likely doing negotiating, also. This is a tempest in a teapot.
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Its news about our coach bruh, in the LA Times. Of course they're going to post it. Doubt they'll be filing for bankruptcy anytime soon. The bar is doing extremely well. One of the busiest bars in Lex.
It takes no effort or taking his focus away from the team to tell his agent "see what UCLA is willing to offer and I'll look at it when our season is over". Who cares.
I wouldn't live in California if they upped my salary by 10. I'm dead serious. That state is a hell-hole and getting worse by the day.
Lol, Well yeah, if UCLA offered him $17- $19 million a year (double as you say) he probably would think about it but that didn’t happen did it?
If xyz company offered me double my salary I’d be a fool not to listen, but guess what? They didn’t.
Anybody can Randomly make up scenarios my friend.
If xyz company offered me double my salary I’d be a fool not to listen, but guess what? They didn’t.
Anybody can Randomly make up scenarios my friend.
It’s been 10 years with a slew of opportunities and “offers” yet he’s still here. With a lifetime contract
You guys care way too much about politics. From weather to lifestyle, there's basically something in California for everyone.
If LA isn't for you, I get that. But California isn't just LA, and there are very few civilized places I wouldn't move for 10x my yearly pay, especially with adult children like Cal has.
If LA isn't for you, I get that. But California isn't just LA, and there are very few civilized places I wouldn't move for 10x my yearly pay, especially with adult children like Cal has.
But at the end of the day your opinions, feelings (shocked or not) mean absolutely nothing. Literally has no meaning whatsoever.
Lifetime contract
It's weird how @Calsthebomb has been viewing other threads all afternoon but hasn't responded to a thread he started, despite being tagged in it a few times.
I didn't mention politics. Homeless tents litter the streets of the major cities, with open drug use and human feces all over the place. People of any political stripe should be repulsed by that.
Which is the case for certain parts of most major cities throughout the world. Like I said, if someone meant LA, fine. I get it.
But to say California as a whole seems crazy to me. Mountains, beaches, small towns, gigantic cities, virtually any culture you're looking for--I think anyone willing to try could find happiness there. It's probably the most diverse state as far as living environments.
I like Cal and always have but that is where you are wrong. You don't flirt when you continually tell the basketball world that you have the best job in college and I would not want to be anywhere else.
If you get a lesser coach, then they won't flirt and no one will want them...
Great coaches are ambitious...great coaches are offered.
I'd rather be dealing with this...than feeling good about...say Archie Miller being happy where he is and not being looked at by other schools...
This is UCLA trying to save face, that that is so true that if they couldn't afford Barnes, they had no chance at Calipari
Barnes, they couldn't even buyout Dixon LOL.
Dribble drive in Westwood! Still waiting for him to run it at U.K.
When he first came to U.K. and talked about Dribble Drive I thought it sounded innovative.
Now, just wish we ran Princeton offense..
When he first came to U.K. and talked about Dribble Drive I thought it sounded innovative.
Now, just wish we ran Princeton offense..
When has Calsthebomb ever been accurate? Or truthful?
Actually, it’s more likely, the texts or calls went to Cals agent. Doubtful Cal was directly involved.
Lol. Jones trying to sensationalize.
Anyone with a shred of understanding about how this works can see straight through this transparent nonsense.
Cal got the contract he wanted. Case closed.
UCLA is just a name. Cal wouldn’t dare try that wasteland but he would use the name to get a LIFETIME contract at the top program in the land. Sure.
Anyone with a shred of understanding about how this works can see straight through this transparent nonsense.
Cal got the contract he wanted. Case closed.
UCLA is just a name. Cal wouldn’t dare try that wasteland but he would use the name to get a LIFETIME contract at the top program in the land. Sure.
California is in massive decline and there’s no doubt about it. Now it might be for you, but California isn’t attracting people, it’s losing them, and it’s for a reason. Let’s not try that.
There are dozens of places you could live in California and have zero idea about this "massive decline."
That might be true man, but so is the “massive decline” that has become California and it can’t be helped that it’s due in part to political policy. It’s not debatable. People pointing that out aren’t wrong.
California is losing far more people than want to be there and that has never been that way until the last couple of decades.
It’s not the weather keeping them away man. At some point it just has to be accepted for what it is and not what people want it to be.
He was never going to leave. It was about getting a better deal from UK. It worked. That’s why he is a good businessman.
Matt Jones doesn’t need me to defend him but please explain to me how an article from a Los Angeles newspaper has anything to do with Matt Jones? I’m seriously beginning to question the collective IQ of the “I hate Matt Jones” crowd.