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That assistants name was John Robic, be gone since 2019. Was with Cal for 24 years, interesting story why he left, lot of speculation. Then Kenny Payne left in 2020. Payne was with Cal from the start at UK. Robic was the OC, game prep, scouting competition, everything guy behind the scenes. Payne was the player developer. Cal not changing, no reason to think he is, been saying this stuff and lying to fan base for years now. Hopefully this time next he also gets Barnhart fired also.
Yeah, that comment is total bs. Anyone who watches basketball knows Cal is not a good in-game coach. If anything, Cal has proved year after year it takes more than superior talent to win ballgames.
Breaking News world wide…. Cal says he going to be 1st pregnant male D1 basketball coach, will be on maturity leave starting March 2025.
Insider news….Cal breaking out the “Super Duper Dribble Drive” next year, Cal says the NCAA just has to clear it, hopefully next year but definitely by 2028. A offense so lethal been banned in 14 countries for giving a team such an unfair advantage over opponents!
Reeves 5th year senior, Mitchell senior, Theiro sophomore, Ugo sophomore…..All 4 of these guys started during the season and logged big minutes a game, 3 of these 4 started all season with Edwards and Wagner. Might want to walk that one back Cal Jr.
So misleading, using players who never see the court. Taking the 10 players on UK who actually played in last 10 games, playing in any of those games over 1 minute, comes out to 2.1 years. The 5 players that finished the game against Oakland, 2.6 years. 5 players who played the most minutes, 2.8 years. Again, using metrics that don’t actually reflect the product on floor or field.
“Healthy” may fly for the football program, not going to for basketball. 49 SEC titles, 38 Elite 8’s, 17 Final Fours, and 8 National Titles is why UK is a prominent basketball school, a national blue blood that is going south last 4 years. 9-16 was good for no one. Rebuilding with the same coach is asinine, “rebirth” is only based on hope with Calipari.
There is a new book out, must read “Humanitarian Coaching Philosophy When You Underachieve” by John Calipari. Another book by Calipari, “Move the Goal Posts, When You Cant Win”. Coaches for decades upon decades have been winning and developing their players for the future, Cal has been selling what fits his narrative of late, and it’s not titles and tournament wins.
A handicapped wheelchair team would hang 80 on this team, worst defensive team in UK history. Another milestone Cal has produced!
Time to take another UT fan to school… Tom Payne 1970 UK basketball/ Greg Page 1966 UK football 1971 UT basketball - Larry Robinson 1967 UT football - Lester McClain Know your own history before calling others on integration.
Time for Cal to take his humanitarian coaching style somewhere else, his legacy at UK will be remembered in pain if he doesn’t step down. Going on a decade without a final 4 appearance, but more importantly putting a great basketball tradition in the dumpster for his self interests.
1st time in UK history have lost in 1st round of tourney 3 years in a row! Sec tourney record last 4 years ranks #13 in the conference! Swaggy Cal getting it done! #timeforachangeUK
Oates and Calipari have had 30 games to improve their defenses, not happening in 1 week of practice.
The SEC is down when UK is down! The fact is only 1 SEC team has made Final 4 since 2016. Auburn had to beat UK in overtime in Elite 8 to do it. Before that, UK went to Final Four 4 of the 5 years. There is not a legit Final 4 team in the SEC this year, UK is down and will find out just like the last 3 years that is the case. SEC basketball is as good as UK is, only exception last 25 years is Florida with Donavon.
It’s truly amazing what Cal has pulled off at UK, in the beginning it was about getting a title(for himself) he accomplished that and still was competive for 5 or so years. Now he is a life coach for these players, and he sells it better than anyone. Take a top talent player that a high school coach developed for 4 years, get him to UK and throw Cal wizardry on him for 1 year, send him to the draft, take all the credit, and use it for future endeavors. Cal is the ultimate middle man, make no mistake. Basketball coach, still working on that out of bounds play he has been promising for 15 years.
If there is only 5 sports people only pay attention to, how is a gymnast LSU’s most popular and recognized athlete!
That is not a stat, Knecht led UT to the regular season title with his play. Every team has a point guard!
Zeigler has no business being 1st team, could understand 2cd maybe, but sympathy vote here. Zeigler 11.6 pts / 40% fg / 35% 3pt / ft 72% / reb 2.7 / ast 6 / stl 2.1 / to 2.1 Sheppard 12.7 / 54% fg / 53% 3pt / ft 84% / reb 4.5 / ast 4.5 / stl 2.5 / to 2.0 Plenty of other players more deserving, Zeigler may be a big piece for UT, doesn’t make him 1 of 8 best in the league.
Exactly, if Filipowski doesn’t step into that forearm he threw they don’t bang knees. The other guy goes flying down court on his rear. As for the punches Filipowski claims he was hit by, it was an open hand on the back as a guy went by, far from a punch…. But it’s Duke what would you expect, turning a pat into a punch. Filipowski and Scheyer remind me of rock stars and movie stars complaining about the paparazzi. Filipowski making big bucks through NIL and whining the other teams fans had it out for him, maybe they let him where a helmet next game!
Let’s get a countdown going to see how long it takes Coach K to come in to save his boys and whine.
A Eastern Tennessee District federal court judge doesn’t ever get appealed???? That’s comical, this is not a shocker….. High school players being auctioned off! Way to go state of Tennessee!
A win is a win even if the opponent is 0-12 in conference and you win by 5! Take 18 of them!
Do you know UT has beat UK multiple years UK has won a National Title? Did UT hang a banner for that? They hang 1 for everything else except Final Fours and Titles! It’s a big deal to beat UK, I get it!
2cd personal shot at UK this year, 1st being Wagner was going to transfer to UL, which was a total fabrication. Williams going take shots as former Duke player and “a guy who through it all away” his words, from getting on a motorcycle with no helmet and no experience late in the night leading to his pain pill addiction that he now openly talks about, I hope to help others, but who knows. His popularity has gone down hill over the last few years, he used to stay away from personal jabs and just talk about the games at hand. Looks like even the sports booth has passed him by also, stick to the game and be advocate to help these kids not make the same mistakes you made. That would be honorable, a personal agenda never has been.
That’s funny, only one whining is Pearl! Pearl isn’t sending anything to the league from Hack Nation and Flop U! That’s a complete idiot talking.
Just a 20 mil difference between 1st and 12th pick in draft. Doesn’t matter? Need to look up last years draft, further you fall less money you get.
AU ran out 3’s for the week, used them all up against Gamecocks. AU needs to get use to a game being called somewhat equal, Tournament is played on neutral courts. Best stat for AU is they went 50% on flops. That’s been a staple of Pearl teams going way back. Pearl said in presser he going to turn some calls into the league, guess he thinks they should get 55 free throws every game? Bad 3 pt shooting by AU was the difference in this game, both teams need a lot of work to make a tournament run.
Skinny Cal with this lineup would be UK -9, as we all can see Cal doesn’t resemble that anymore by any shape or coach on the floor.