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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 18, 2022 14:08:24 GMT -6
As a life-long Kentucky Wildcat fan I am so ready for John Calipari to take his circus to some other state. I never thought he was the right choice. It's been ten years since Kentucky's last NCAA Championship and they won that one in spite of him. Supposedly PT Barnum said "there's a sucker born every minute". Calipari is college basketball's version of Barnum and Kentucky, and many of our fans, are the suckers.
FIRE HIM PLEASE!!!
And no, I did not do a bracket.
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Post by garak on Mar 18, 2022 14:18:35 GMT -6
As a life-long Kentucky Wildcat fan I am so ready for John Calipari to take his circus to some other state. I never thought he was the right choice. It's been ten years since Kentucky's last NCAA Championship and they won that one in spite of him. Supposedly PT Barnum said "there's a sucker born every minute". Calipari is college basketball's version of Barnum and Kentucky, and many of our fans, are the suckers. FIRE HIM PLEASE!!! And no, I did not do a bracket. He is a great motivator and recruiter. However, he sucks as a bench coach. The best bench coach they had was Tubby Smith. He lacked in other areas but excelled on the bench. I view Pitino the same as Calipari, a motivator and recruiter, but a lousy bench coach. I read that it is estimated that 98% of brackets were busted with the Kentucky loss. Like you I did not do a bracket. Oh well, root for Murray State I guess.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 18, 2022 16:28:20 GMT -6
He didn't do any motivating last night. After the game he said he wished he could have thought of something to get them going during those last three minutes. I thought "you had the first 40 minutes to do that".
I've seen him speak three times in person. All three times he said he didn't come to Kentucky to win championships. He said he came to make millionaires. I thought "is there something wrong with doing both?" It's been 10 years since their last championship and they won in in spite of him. He makes 8.5 million a year. Hire Mark Few away from Gonzaga and pay him half that and give him the resources and reputation UK Basketball has. That would be twice what he makes at Gonzaga, and believe me, he wants to win championships.
He's got to go.
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Post by garak on Mar 20, 2022 9:09:13 GMT -6
Looks like St. Peter’s is the Cinderella of the tournament this year.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 20, 2022 11:30:02 GMT -6
Looks like St. Peter’s is the Cinderella of the tournament this year. Kentucky is just an ugly step-sister who hasn't gotten lucky at the big dance lately. Unlike last year, at least they got invited this year, but they kept tripping over their own feet. Time to fire the dance instructor.
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Post by garak on Mar 20, 2022 13:24:23 GMT -6
Looks like St. Peter’s is the Cinderella of the tournament this year. Kentucky is just an ugly step-sister who hasn't gotten lucky at the big dance lately. Unlike last year, at least they got invited this year, but they kept tripping over their own feet. Time to fire the dance instructor. I understand that you cannot stand Calipari but he was not the one missing the shots or the one only making one out of six free throws in OT. I agree that he is a horrible bench coach but the players share the blame, in my opinion.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 20, 2022 14:24:42 GMT -6
By the time they get to the tournament they should being playing well together (like St. Peter's did their last two games). Instead of doing a walk-through and discussing strategy for their game, they played a full blown intra-squad scrimmage against each other the day before the game. They might be kids, but they still get tired. St. Peter's out-hustled them the whole 43 minutes. They should have never been in the position of shooting free throws in the OT because the shouldn't have let go to OT. He's the second highest paid coach in college basketball. St. Peter's is the kind of patsy team they usually play at the beginning of the season.
Bellarmine played a number 1 (Gonzaga), number 2 (UCLA) and a number 4 (Purdue) team, along with West Virginia and Murray State in their first month of the season. They beat Murray by 20. But my point is, Calipari is always going to be what he is, a mediocre coach. I can give you 9 million reasons why mediocre isn't good enough.
And I don't dislike him. He's a nice guy and a good person. I'd be glad to play golf with him, have a few beers and yuck it up, but I want a coach who plays for championships on a regular basis. He's just never going to be any better than he has been. But, Mitch Barnhart hasn't called me yet to ask my opinion, so what I think doesn't matter.
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Post by garak on Mar 26, 2022 6:13:27 GMT -6
Forget Few. Maybe they need to hire Shaheen Holloway.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 26, 2022 6:43:22 GMT -6
St. Peter's is one of those flukes that happen every year. His coaching record is a .533 lifetime. Few's is .836 and Gonzaga has been a consistent top team at a school with nowhere near the resources he would have at a place like Kentucky. He has made Gonzaga what it is. Calipari has made Kentucky stagnant and has driven attendance to record low numbers.
In addition, I am far from being a racist, but I also don't like seeing college basketball programs used for social and political purposes. Individual players and coaches are entitled to their personal beliefs, but if UK came out on the floor, like St. Peter's did, in warm ups with "Black Lives Matter" across their backs I would find someone else to support. That goes for other "causes" whether liberal, conservative or middle of the road. Individuals can be political. Programs/teams shouldn't be, but that's just my opinion and maybe the subject of another discussion.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 29, 2022 8:41:21 GMT -6
Well garak, it looks like Shaheen Holloway is returning to his college alma mater Seton Hall. That's a shame for St. Peter's but that's the way college basketball goes. He had a 22-11 regular season record against mid-level teams but out-coached Calipari when it mattered, and beat Murray State and a good Purdue team to boot, so good for him.
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Post by garak on Mar 29, 2022 11:10:17 GMT -6
Well garak, it looks like Shaheen Holloway is returning to his college alma mater Seton Hall. That's a shame for St. Peter's but that's the way college basketball goes. He had a 22-11 regular season record against mid-level teams but out-coached Calipari when it mattered, and beat Murray State and a good Purdue team to boot, so good for him. I had not heard that so I looked it up. I am not surprised. A lot of coaches at lower tier schools have used the NCAA tournament as a springboard to a better job. The Murray State coach going to LSU and Shaka Smart going to Texas to name a couple. I wish him success.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 29, 2022 12:35:00 GMT -6
Well garak, it looks like Shaheen Holloway is returning to his college alma mater Seton Hall. That's a shame for St. Peter's but that's the way college basketball goes. He had a 22-11 regular season record against mid-level teams but out-coached Calipari when it mattered, and beat Murray State and a good Purdue team to boot, so good for him. I had not heard that so I looked it up. I am not surprised. A lot of coaches at lower tier schools have used the NCAA tournament as a springboard to a better job. The Murray State coach going to LSU and Shaka Smart going to Texas to name a couple. I wish him success. Weird coincidence. I listed something on Craigslist last week and a guy from Cincinnati drove down and met me downtown to buy it. We started talking basketball and it turns out he is the Murray State (now LSU) coaches cousin. What's really odd is that his replacement at Murray is the same guy he replaced at Murray, Steve Prohm.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 29, 2022 12:42:08 GMT -6
And what's even more frustrating, after Kentucky gets knocked out and embarrassed in the first round, three of my most hated teams, Duke, North Carolina and Kansas are in the final four. I have nothing against Villanova I guess, other than I'm getting a little tired of seeing them in the final four, so I guess I be pulling for them, though I don't plan on watching anymore basketball other than the U of L Women's team.
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Post by garak on Mar 30, 2022 14:16:53 GMT -6
And what's even more frustrating, after Kentucky gets knocked out and embarrassed in the first round, three of my most hated teams, Duke, North Carolina and Kansas are in the final four. I have nothing against Villanova I guess, other than I'm getting a little tired of seeing them in the final four, so I guess I be pulling for them, though I don't plan on watching anymore basketball other than the U of L Women's team. Damn. We agree on the three teams on the most hated list. Yes, Villanova is my preferred choice of the four. Next would be North Carolina only because of them having a new coach. I don’t think that I have ever met a Kentucky fan who likes Duke or Kansas.
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Post by James T. Kirk on Mar 30, 2022 15:00:41 GMT -6
All the more reason it pisses me off our coach sucks. For the first time ever, UK and the SEC has the National Association of Basketball Coaches Player of the Year in Oscar Tshiebwe and they couldn't even get out of the first round against a number 2 seed. Having those three in the final four just makes matters worse.
UPDATE: Add to that the Associated Press Player of the Year Award.
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