It could get really messy

[cats#1again]

Lot's of people have won one-in-a-row. HC is a model of "Coaching OAD"....One (championship) And Done. Barring a paradigm shift on his part, he will never win another.

GBB!

You may be right. He will have plenty of opportunities to though.

 

[BoulderCat_rivals187983]

The divorce. Folks, it’s coming. You can see it from a mile away. Losing Payne was tough, but losing Dwayne Peevey as the intermediary between Cal and Mitch was probably the death blow. Mitch and Cal are very different. Their personalities clash. Cal is loud, brash and drips with hubris. Mitch is rather humble and quiet. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Cal’s weakness is stubbornness, and Mitch’s is not particularly liking confrontation.

Mitch has to sit Cal down after this disgrace of a season and demand changes. Cal won’t like that at all. This will likely be played out publicly and be very ugly next season. Fans are pissed and rightfully so. Three freshman will leave off the worst team in forever, and any support Cal had will erode at break neck speed. If next season doesn’t produce a really good team, the atmosphere in Rupp could become poisonous. Cal’s buddies in the media will defend him and claim our fans are unrealistic. I hope I’m wrong but all the signs are there.

Cal has got to change the culture. Every guy who comes to UK 5 or 4 star comes with the mindset he’s going to play one year and go pro. We returned 1 guy this year who’d actually played, and even he thought of leaving. In the worst case next season we return Askew, Tobbins, Ware, and the WV transfer. We have 3 recruits I believe I know nothing about. That’s a 7 man roster, 8 if Mintz returns, and the table is set for a lackluster season next year. Of course none of us know what’s going to happen, and as always these are just my opinions, and that’s all there worth.

 

[KyFaninNC]

All it takes is an unbiased mind.
One of the huge problems of our program is our fans are either taking what they hear too literally, or they just aren't very bright. I'm gonna give most the benefit of the doubt. What I mean by this is for example:
1st: Coach cal saying You aren't coming back, you're going pro. I won't let you come back. Half of our fan base heard this and still to this day believes cal refuses to let players come back and pushed them out the door. The answer, the proof that he doesn't mean it that way..... The majority of our players come back. If he really pushed kids away to the NBA nobody would come back ever.

2nd. The nba draft was the most important day in our program history....
Strictly for recruiting purposes. If he didn't care about winning why in the world is he so passionate in the games and screaming and constantly coaching??! If he didn't care to win would it benifit him at all to try n coach on mistakes? What would he benifit from helping kids get rich only? That argument doesn't even make sense.
Sure he wants to help kids reach their dream, but it's common knowledge to understand its a benifit and not a goal

Sorry. That is not proof. That is you trying to spin what Cal actually said.

 

[DelkBowl]

Look at the non conference schedule in non Covid years....it's basically UL, Champion's classic (i.e. a Michigan St or Duke), Big12/SEC challenge and then the home slate is 8 other games vs. poor teams. Why do you think he's all "I am out of my mind for playing this schedule" literally every other interview on why the season is so bad.

I'll grant him we for sure needed a few more scrub teams to not stick an "L" on us.....but were teams like Richmond, Notre Dame, UL, Georgia Tech, Richmond...hell even UNC/Kansas aren't having good year really a murder's row of a schedule?

I guess better than 99% of the rest in college.

 

[NavyCat88]

You may be right. He will have plenty of opportunities to though.

On THAT....we certainly agree.

GBB!