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Delmar said:
No debate about a huge ego. But I don’t think his self esteem is fragile at all. He is on record as saying he was one of the best to ever play the game. And he was when healthy. But I think he truly thinks he can coach as well as he could play. His “success” in high school and AAU ball fed that delusion. He just thought he could promise kids he knows how to get them to the NBA and that’s all he would need.
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I've never heard a head coach, when his coaching/strategy was called into question reply with an expletive-laced tirade that included the phrase, " Stop disrespecting me, bro!", and "I work too hard!".

Penny is making it all about him in a defensive posture, which isn't surprising. Frankly, the team's performance isn't talent-related, so their failure to perform at a high level has drawn his coaching ability into question, and he clearly can't handle that pressure because he is used to it being all about him in a positive manner. Penny is not mentally tough when he can't physically establish his dominance like he could on the basketball court. If required to use his mind and his words to project confidence, he wilts and melts down like you saw here and when he called out Rick Barnes. Self-esteem and emotional maturity generally go hand in hand, but if it seems more apropos to called him emotionally immature, then I'm fine with swapping that terminology out with low self-esteem.

Can you imagine Barnes or Calipari reacting like that? Cal had many opportunities to blow up like that, last year, as did Barnes the year before, when their teams underachieved. I don't recall their ability to get the job done ever being called into question by media members in a press conference, but I'd suspect both would have handled it with more grace and composure than One Cent did.
 
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cncchris33 said:
I've never heard a head coach, when his coaching/strategy was called into question reply with an expletive-laced tirade that included the phrase, " Stop disrespecting me, bro!", and "I work too hard!".

Penny is making it all about him in a defensive posture, which isn't surprising. Frankly, the team's performance isn't talent-related, so their failure to perform at a high level has drawn his coaching ability into question, and he clearly can't handle that pressure because he is used to it being all about him in a positive manner. Penny is not mentally tough when he can't physically establish his dominance like he could on the basketball court. If required to use his mind and his words to project confidence, he wilts and melts down like you saw here and when he called out Rick Barnes. Self-esteem and emotional maturity generally go hand in hand, but if it seems more apropos to called him emotionally immature, then I'm fine with swapping that terminology out with low self-esteem.

Can you imagine Barnes or Calipari reacting like that? Cal had many opportunities to blow up like that, last year, as did Barnes the year before, when their teams underachieved. I don't recall their ability to get the job done ever being called into question by media members in a press conference, but I'd suspect both would have handled it with more grace and composure than One Cent did.
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Yep, emotionally immature is absolutely accurate. I think he’s got lots of self-esteem as misplaced as it is. Pretty sure he doesn’t think any of this is his fault. As far as other coaches go, the only one that I remember was Bobby Knight. His actions were embarrassing and that eventually got him fired. But I don’t remember him cussing the media in a press conference like Penny did. Sometimes the media deserves it but it’s something that a coach just doesn’t do.
 
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Delmar said:
Yep, emotionally immature is absolutely accurate. I think he’s got lots of self-esteem as misplaced as it is. Pretty sure he doesn’t think any of this is his fault. As far as other coaches go, the only one that I remember was Bobby Knight. His actions were embarrassing and that eventually got him fired. But I don’t remember him cussing the media in a press conference like Penny did. Sometimes the media deserves it but it’s something that a coach just doesn’t do.
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Knight knew how to say it eloquently:

Bobby Knight Quotes
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass!
 
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Freak said:
You sure it was deleted? I don’t see it anywhere. And I love celebrating Memphis losses maybe more than Kentucky.
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I created it after their first loss of the season in the forum here. Then it disappeared a few hours later.

Made it to mimic the "Kentucky lost" thread from last year.
 
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JelloPuddinPup said:
I created it after their first loss of the season in the forum here. Then it disappeared a few hours later.

Made it to mimic the "Kentucky lost" thread from last year.
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I just double checked and there's no such thread in this forum that was deleted. It could have been moved or merged, though. Here are your posts from that day. idk.

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Freak said:
I just double checked and there's no such thread in this forum that was deleted. It could have been moved or merged, though. Here are your posts from that day. idk.

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Weird. I specifically know it was created because I came back once and someone had "Liked" it, then it just disappeared. Maybe was merged/moved. Just figured I would've gotten some form of notification had those things happened?
 
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cncchris33 said:
I've never heard a head coach, when his coaching/strategy was called into question reply with an expletive-laced tirade that included the phrase, " Stop disrespecting me, bro!", and "I work too hard!".

Penny is making it all about him in a defensive posture, which isn't surprising. Frankly, the team's performance isn't talent-related, so their failure to perform at a high level has drawn his coaching ability into question, and he clearly can't handle that pressure because he is used to it being all about him in a positive manner. Penny is not mentally tough when he can't physically establish his dominance like he could on the basketball court. If required to use his mind and his words to project confidence, he wilts and melts down like you saw here and when he called out Rick Barnes. Self-esteem and emotional maturity generally go hand in hand, but if it seems more apropos to called him emotionally immature, then I'm fine with swapping that terminology out with low self-esteem.

Can you imagine Barnes or Calipari reacting like that? Cal had many opportunities to blow up like that, last year, as did Barnes the year before, when their teams underachieved. I don't recall their ability to get the job done ever being called into question by media members in a press conference, but I'd suspect both would have handled it with more grace and composure than One Cent did.
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Geoff Calkins asked the question, and he has a local morning radio show. He explained his mindset when asking the question. He was talking before the PC with another media member, who said they have to ask him about the "noise." Meaning, the grumblings have gotten louder that Penny just can't get it done. Calkins said he wasn't going to ask him about being fired or the "noise" and thought this was a softer question. He anticipated Penny saying that he just needed to work harder and that he still has faith in his team.

Calkins actually understood why Penny blew up- he's frustrated. But he didn't think it was an inappropriate question. I think Penny is comfortable in his skin, but he has an overinflated view of himself. Calipari and Barnes have done it for a long time and have succeeded. They frankly don't care what others say. But they are also professional, and while Barnes is competitive on the court, basketball doesn't drive his life.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Geoff Calkins asked the question, and he has a local morning radio show. He explained his mindset when asking the question. He was talking before the PC with another media member, who said they have to ask him about the "noise." Meaning, the grumblings have gotten louder that Penny just can't get it done. Calkins said he wasn't going to ask him about being fired or the "noise" and thought this was a softer question. He anticipated Penny saying that he just needed to work harder and that he still has faith in his team.

Calkins actually understood why Penny blew up- he's frustrated. But he didn't think it was an inappropriate question. I think Penny is comfortable in his skin, but he has an overinflated view of himself. Calipari and Barnes have done it for a long time and have succeeded. They frankly don't care what others say. But they are also professional, and while Barnes is competitive on the court, basketball doesn't drive his life.
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It was absolutely a fair question. Penny is just emotionally fragile. He isn't used to failure or answering questions regarding his performance.

It's easy to be comfortable in your skin when you have success to back it up. He doesn't have that, right now, perhaps for the first time in his life.

He made an enormous jump from a couple years running Memphis East High School's program to running a major D1 program. Who knows...in his mind, it's likely that he imagined success would come as easily in this venture as it has in every other basketball avenue of his life. When it didn't, he has had to answer for it, and he's clearly not comfortable doing that.
 
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I just never understood the rumors that Penny was "seriously considered" as a coach for NBA programs.

And who knows, he may be better suited for that than college.
 
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Tyty Washington went down for UK with lower leg injury. Doesn’t look good, not putting any pressure on it.
 
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