I do as well at times. Watching a-holes chase their own tails is a guilty pleasure.
Love that name, Willie Bithers!!
Would A Final Four Change Your Perception
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I do as well at times. Watching a-holes chase their own tails is a guilty pleasure.
Love that name, Willie Bithers!!
So stupid make it to the final 4 and call the system broken that would be the 5th while at Kentucky his system would be averaging one final four every two years
I suppose your response would make more sense if this proposed hypothetical scenario had more than about a 1% chance of actually happening.
The only thing more pathetic than making up posts for someone, is repsonding to posts you made up. Good grief. Get a life. To ignore you go.
It would be welcome relief for all of us I am sure . Well except for the morons like Zaytovencat and Calisthebomb and a few others. If Cal got to the final four but didn’t win they would simply start in the see Cal can’t win the big game anymore!
We're 1-4. I'd say the message is already desparate. And none of those guys you mentioned had family members in the same situation.
Nobody ever said that UK makes it so easy even a caveman can do it. Come on, why does every minor detail have to be explained to you.
Yes UK gives you an advantage, but if you choose to take a nap, instead of getting on the jet, that UK provides, to go see recruits, than that’s on you.
Tubby got lazy and BCG got drunk. You're blaming UK for their actions. Again, why do I have to explain these things to you? It was their fault that they didn’t use the advantages.
Also, are you so ignorant that you're going to completely ignore the fact that Sutton coached UK in the 80's? We've won 3 titles since then, those titles elevated UK.
Not to mention, that was over 30 damn years ago, the game has changed exponentially since then. Social media and coverage weren't even a thing back then.
I get trying to argue, but why are you pretending to he so ignorant? Why am I having to spend so.much time explaining what should be common sense things here?
Even Baller knows UK gives you advantages.
Again, it doesn't mean you get to just push a button and have success.
This quoted post, combined with your other posts, tells me you are totally in lala land with this. Advantages don't mean "automatic titles", but that’s what you’re making it sound like. As a coach, you still have to work hard.
Why are you struggling with this? How can you possibly disagrees that UK, as a program, gives you an advantage as a coach?
You, and others, have certainly implied that it essentially does. You have stated multiple times that we should look past coaching candidates records at other places, that they are irrelevant because of the advantages we provide here. Somehow, they are just miraculously supposed to start winning titles annually because UK/Kentucky is on the jersey. Reality has proven that isn’t the case.
What are these alleged advantages then?
When 3 out of our last 5 coaches were fired or forced out, and now the current one is having his job questioned, that tells me your so-called advantages aren’t that great. That means 1 out of 5 were actually able to utilize these so-called advantages consistently and successfully. That sounds more like a disadvantage than anything.
Tubby just wasn’t a good recruiter. He tried, he just couldn’t sell himself and the program. These so-called advantaged didn’t help him.
BCG actually recruited pretty hard, but again, the alleged advantages sure didn’t help him land top talent. We were getting Dakota Euton and Vinny Zolo back in those days. We thought Jon Hood was a big catch.
Calipari had previously recruited big at Umass and Memphis. Wall, Cousins and Bledsoe were all expected to commit to Memphis before Cal left for UK. So what was the advantage there other than UK landing Cal? Since you can’t name a single player that has come to UK in Cal’s tenure for our tradition and advantages instead of to play for Cal, that again just proves Cal is the advantage, not UK.
UConn, UNC, Duke, UL, Nova have all won 3 titles since the 80s as well. FL and KU came real damn close. It isn’t quite the accomplishment you might think.
Yes, it’s changed. That is my damn point! UK isn’t the program we once were. Nobody really is. Kids don’t care about that **** anymore. Hell, most of them don’t even know about it. And they haven’t for a couple decades now. You are living in the glory days of old. Those are long gone. UK used to have advantages. Other than TV time and big spending, we really don’t have them now. That is what you seem to be missing. And all the good programs are getting big TV time and budgets. That isn’t just a UK thing.
Because you haven’t explained anything yet. You ignore the questions you are given and have never provided any exampled of these current “advantages” UK still implores. Why can’t/won’t you answer what recruits came to UK for the school and tradition and not just to play for Cal during his tenure. What are these advantages you think exist today? Why were 3 of our last 5 coaches ran out of town, and why is it beginning to happen to the 4th, if we really have all these advantages?
If you are having to do the same work as elsewhere, it isn’t really much of an advantage is it? So, what are these advantages? Maybe you can ask baller for help since you say he knows.
Under Pitino and Cal, we pretty much have been the program reminiscent of the glory days. Just last year we were a top team, won the SEC and were a top contender heading into the tournaments. Just the year before that we were in the E8. However, were Cal and Pitino the reason for that success, or was some alleged advantage no one seems able to highlight?
I wouldn’t really call being 1-4 desperate. A lot of season left to play. All of those guys have family members that would like nice jobs in return for them playing here. Why do we show favoritism to one and not the others? PJ’s dad was a coach, as were several other guys we have had. Why didn’t we hire them? Do you not understand the can of worms you would be opening to allow recruits to give you demands? What do we do once they end up here and keep making more demands for PT, amount of shots, raises and contracts for the family member and so on? It becomes a never-ending cycle of having to meet the demands of the next crop and having to put up with a lot of headaches and ********. Would you really want to end up with a LaVar Ball on staff?
Wasn't Jalen Johnson top tier recruit? Look how well Puke is doing.I agree the OAD model is on its way out...the teams that are doing well are Jr and Sr laden. 2020 was a effed up year and 18yr olds don't know how to deal. AAU ball has destroyed a generation of talent. Its not only UK that is having a bad start of the season. The ship will be righted. Our players will pull out a hard fought win and the young ones will get their confidence up and we will roll on thru to the tourney(God willing it happens.