GYERO ARCHIVE
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When you pay a coach 9 million per year for a job that could be done for $2 million you’re going to get weak/outdated facilities.
The guy who breathed life back into the program is taking it right back out with his old age, stubbornness and arrogance.
He and Mitch may dislike each other but that’s because they are more alike than most realize.
The guy who breathed life back into the program is taking it right back out with his old age, stubbornness and arrogance.
He and Mitch may dislike each other but that’s because they are more alike than most realize.
I wonder what $10,000,000 in Craft money would look like translated to new basketball facilities…
The Wildcat Coal Lodge or whatever they rushed to completion 11 years ago looks like a mid grade Holiday Inn Express. Just embarrassingly ugly on the outside.
After working out in a rundown, undecorated, cinder block room with a concrete floor and yard sale equipment at the Seaton Center in college, I just can’t bring myself to utter any words involving teenage kids needing better exercise facilities.
GTFOtta here with that bull butter.
GTFOtta here with that bull butter.
This is where Sadie and Oliva, the Tri-Delts from Sacred Heart, stay during their freshman year on campus:
This is where multiple NBA All-Stars stayed during their one year on campus:
This is where multiple NBA All-Stars stayed during their one year on campus:
When will a facility be enough? I mean the best UK team in my lifetime (96) that would beat any of these Cal teams practiced in an old Memorial Coliseum with ancient amenities compared to today and an old Wildcat Lodge and did not seem to have any issues with their performance. Yes, I get kids today are spoiled and are entitled to these ridiculously nice facilities but at what point is enough enough? Especially for basketball where all you need are some courts to practice on, weight room and nice lounge areas to hang out in. Nope, not good enough. Need a separate dorm room the size of a home, tv's and bling everywhere, LED signs, leather chairs that look like mini beds in the locker room, etc etc. Yep, that is going to make you play well. Off my old man rant now....
You guys are really missing the point.
UK missed an opportunity to make Royal Lex the absolute premier athletic housing venue in the SEC
This is where Sadie and Oliva, the Tri-Delts from Sacred Heart, stay during their freshman year on campus:
This is where multiple NBA All-Stars stayed during their one year on campus:
You have to pay for the first.
-coffee is for closers, win something.
Some of you haven’t seen Rocky III and it shows.
Overheard a guy in the beer line Friday conclude that Cal is in decline bc "Honestly man- all us guys just try to get our youngest in and out of college and then we mail it in a bit."
You get to drive a 2023 Bentley and stay in a 200sf shoebox. Something isn’t aligning.
Our facilities are a contemporary to Cal's coaching philosophy, seems fair to me.
My setup at Blanding was dopeThis is where Sadie and Oliva, the Tri-Delts from Sacred Heart, stay during their freshman year on campus:
This is where multiple NBA All-Stars stayed during their one year on campus:
My blanding set up was the same. Haggin was similar but had bunks on the right. Fridge in the window with tv on top.My setup at Blanding was dope
You say that our basketball team can't compete because our facilities are lacking, then show us 3 videos of FOOTBALL facilities. The notion that our BASKETBALL team is behind the times because our facilities don't stack up against other major programs is ridiculous.
As a reminder, the last 2 years we've lost to Kansas State and Saint Peter's.
Pray for our poverty-stricken, underdog basketball program. Just can’t catch a break.
-volleyball team won a natty whilst playing/practicing in sad/run down memorial coliseum...hell the women's basketball team won an sec tournament outta the same run down joint.
The women’s equestrian team can’t compete. I mean, have you seen the Dallas Cowboys locker room??!
-anth
I get the facilities complaint, I guess, but also they can get f***ed about it. It’s a complex issue.
-I'm 100% team they can get ******. Get in line with the rest of the non-revenue generating sports.
Again, for someone who is so well read, your comprehension is awful.
The point is, we're the preeminent basketball program in NCAA. We spend 10 million on a coach. We sell million dollar court side seats. We have athletes sponsored by Beats and Nocta. We should have the the best facilities as well. Instead we're a generation behind. I'm just passing along what the guy told me before Cal even started to mention it. Maybe it's never cost us a recruit but we shouldn't be getting passed in any aspect of the program. They're obviously important in football.
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-locker room facilities at Rupp have seen significant upgrades in Cal's tenure. His offices at Craft were redone recently as well, iirc.
He raised the money for both and both are really minor projects. Believe the locker rooms are now 10 years old. That's why I said University sponsored.
Whether UK needs new facilities or not is of no concern to me, I am completely opposed to them JUST to piss cal off. F*ck him.
Can I interest you in a bourbon raffle or old athletic equipment silent auction to help raise money for the Shaedon Sharpe Memorial cold tub?
-duly noted, Anth.
^still a bad look to gripe about facilities when you're on a 6 year slide.
^still a bad look to gripe about facilities when you're on a 6 year slide.
You did your best. I mean we suck and obviously don't need to spend any more money on basketball until they win a couple of more titles. Seems fair. We'll just spend all of the SEC money on all of our other teams that are killing it.
My kid comes home with Cs on his report card, I’m not buying him a new PlayStation I guess is where my head is at.
If you seek comprehension, well friend, this isn’t the internet thread for you.
It’s not that the inhabitants lack the ability to comprehend, they just don’t give a damn about doing so.
See to them, comprehension, as important as it may be, is secondary to annoying and embarrassing their friends.
I bet if doors were closed, and no mics were on, Mitch would actually say this in the right conversation with the right people.
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