Pearl is a better basketball coach than Calipari

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guy from memphis explains it all....he wouldn't be saying that if Cal was still set up in that town.
 
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You don't have to be an outstanding X's and O's guy if you have a team full of NBA talent....
 
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With all the talent Cal had at Memphis and what he has at Kentucky anyone can coach them and get 30 wins a year. Give Cal the team that Tennessee has and he will not win much with it. Pearl is alot better coach than Cal ever will be.
 
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If you count recruiting as part of coaching (which you should in college), that is a hard argument to make right now.
 
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Sweet thread, Cal sux!!!! :) But really Chris is such a bright person, the FCC should be proud.
 
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rickyyrs said:
With all the talent Cal had at Memphis and what he has at Kentucky anyone can coach them and get 30 wins a year. Give Cal the team that Tennessee has and he will not win much with it. Pearl is alot better coach than Cal ever will be.
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Yeah, Cal just magically got handed a Kentucky team that was so amazing that it missed the tournament and got its coach fired last year. He didn't recruit or anything...
 
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Look guys... I know all of you think Cal has a wonderful recruiting ability. But that snake shouldn't even be allowed to coach in college atheletics anymore. He has a proven history of cheating, and I despise the man for corrupting young atheletes. I despise Kentucky even more for stooping so low, and being so desperate to win that they would hire such an immoral sleeze. But the most disgusting thing to me is how this man is portrayed by the media as a good coach. He is quite the opposite, in fact. But in today's society, apparently the "IN" thing just to condone corrupt behavior, but to actually reward it. I've had my gripes about Bruce over the years, but he truly cares about his players. Like the kids, he too has had a number of personal distractions; but at the end of the day, he treats his team as a family. One thing you will never see on a Calipari team is guys like Dane Bradshaw, Chris Lofton, and Wayne Chism... I doubt there has ever been one humble attitude on a Calipari roster, and THAT to me is far more indicative of a good coach.
 
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Cal is the best recruiter in the nation bar none. His x's and o's and in game adjustments,on the other hand,are below pearl's. His lack of coaching adjustments cost Memphis a national title a couple of years ago imo.
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I'm counting down the days until UK is hit with some pre-Petino type sanctions due to that piece of garbage.
 
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Squoshua17 said:
Look guys... I know all of you think Cal has a wonderful recruiting ability. But that snake shouldn't even be allowed to coach in college atheletics anymore. He has a proven history of cheating, and I despise the man for corrupting young atheletes. I despise Kentucky even more for stooping so low, and being so desperate to win that they would hire such an immoral sleeze. But the most disgusting thing to me is how this man is portrayed by the media as a good coach. He is quite the opposite, in fact. But in today's society, apparently the "IN" thing just to condone corrupt behavior, but to actually reward it. I've had my gripes about Bruce over the years, but he truly cares about his players. Like the kids, he too has had a number of personal distractions; but at the end of the day, he treats his team as a family. One thing you will never see on a Calipari team is guys like Dane Bradshaw, Chris Lofton, and Wayne Chism... I doubt there has ever been one humble attitude on a Calipari roster, and THAT to me is far more indicative of a good coach.
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So a booster giving a kid money, and test scores that were cleared by the NCAA means Calipari is a cheater?

You are correct about one thing. You will never see a Dane Bradshaw type on a Calipari team. He has Derrick Rose and John Wall types.
 
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UTodd01 said:
I'm counting down the days until UK is hit with some pre-Petino type sanctions due to that piece of garbage.
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The only thing that worries me about this is that UK has the cash to buy a broom big enough to sweep everything under the rug. Calipari didn't have that luxury at Memphis or UMass. It didn't used to matter how big the program was, cheating wasn't accepted. But now, money talks and the NCAA listens.
 
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Squoshua17 said:
The only thing that worries me about this is that UK has the cash to buy a broom big enough to sweep everything under the rug. Calipari didn't have that luxury at Memphis or UMass. It didn't used to matter how big the program was, cheating wasn't accepted. But now, money talks and the NCAA listens.
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Of course UK can sweep it all under the rug. The 'AA is so inconsistent in their enforcement of the rules as it is anyway.
 
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Calipari's most skilled in maintaining plausible deniability about the cheating that seems to follow him. He's teflon. I'll give him some benefit of the doubt in recruiting. He outrecruits the other cheaters and pays the right players.

For actually leading a team and making in game calls... well most of the country beats him.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Recruiting is part of coaching.
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Recruiting and coaching are 2 totally seperate skills having little to do with each other. I guarantee you no AD lumps them together when choosing a head coach. Calapari is the best recruiter over the past decade but he is an average coach at best. This UK team in the hands of a great coach would have dominated the NCAA tourament.
 
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iflipburgers said:
Recruiting and coaching are 2 totally seperate skills having little to do with each other. I guarantee you no AD lumps them together when choosing a head coach. Calapari is the best recruiter over the past decade but he is an average coach at best. This UK team in the hands of a great coach would have dominated the NCAA tourament.
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These are all standard English words, and the sentence holds together grammatically, but this may be the single most nonsensical statement I've heard so far this year. And I hang out all day with a five-year-old who thinks his toys have feelings and his cats can talk.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
These are all standard English words, and the sentence holds together grammatically, but this may be the single most nonsensical statement I've heard so far this year. And I hang out all day with a five-year-old who thinks his toys have feelings and his cats can talk.
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Let me put it another way, only a idiot would say recruiting is part of coaching. What part of coaching is it exactly? Look it up in the dictionary and see if you can find the word recuiting in any definition. Every time anyone evaluates a head coach they always examine both attributes separately. Recuiting is a big part of a coaches job description but thats as far as it goes.

The grammer forum is over here; www.grammerboard.com
 
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iflipburgers said:
Let me put it another way, only a idiot would say recruiting is part of coaching. What part of coaching is it exactly? Look it up in the dictionary and see if you can find the word recuiting in any definition. Every time anyone evaluates a head coach they always examine both attributes separately. Recuiting is a big part of a coaches job description but thats as far as it goes.
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It's a part of a coaches job description but it's not part of coaching?

Wouldn't a job description be a bit more accurate indicator of what a coach does rather than a blurb from Merriam Webster?
 
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