Rupp Rafters

#39
#39
OrangeInKy said:
I thought I was the only one. Our team playing ncaa tourney game and I’m reading and relishing our rival fans’ misery.
I know Cal talked about recruiting players to be one and done, but I didn’t know this is what he was talking about.
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He's a victim of his own success. Yes, he can get the top talent. For 1 year. In his post game interview he acknowledge his 19 year old's playing 24 year old and admitted he had no answer to how to fix it.
 
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#41
#41
Mimi#1 said:
Yes, it was pretty filthy.
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there were some serious gems in there. Amongst all the wild language, he called Cal an "f'n, sob, dvd, ged, l m n o p." Another gem, that his "body has gravitational pull that effect our shots..." Just an unreal mess of a post.
 
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#43
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I can ALMOST have some empathy with Kentucky fans this morning. This really SUCKS for them. Tennessee Fans understand disappointment, especially after the football debacles before Heupel
 
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If the Kentucky athletic director wants to assemble a very young NBA G league team year in and year out, they've got the right guy in place, as he will assemble some of the highest rated high school talent each year, but he is bringing those guys to Lexington purely for exposure and training to get to the NBA draft and to other basketball environments. Most are gone after a year, some are there for two years, but the talent hoarding that Kentucky was noted for prior to NIL has been somewhat muted now that other collectives are in place in the South and talent has other choices to consider. The connection between the team and the campus and to a certain extent the fan base, is tenuous at best.

Long gone are the days when Kentucky assembled cohesive, talented basketball teams, grew them for 3 sometimes 4 seasons, usually equipped with 3 or 4 sharpshooters from the Blue Grass state and ordinarily the number 1 or number 2 players from the state of Tennessee, occassionally a player from Louisville, all of which laid the foundations for most of the SEC titles and record success that the Cats garnered prior to Cal.

In my opinion, Cal isn't much of an in game coach, but he is an accomplished ring master of a basketball circus of talented players, whether or not they can all perform their acts in the center ring when the bright lights are on seems to be a roll of the dice each season, much like Penny at Memphis, Jimbo at A & M, he's somebody else's business problem now, we can watch from the sideline and hopefully not make those kinds of mistakes at Tennessee.
 
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volfeeva said:
He's a victim of his own success. Yes, he can get the top talent. For 1 year. In his post game interview he acknowledge his 19 year old's playing 24 year old and admitted he had no answer to how to fix it.
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True but none of the one and dones that he has recruited the last 8 years or so are anywhere near the studs he had back in the day with John Wall, Anthony Davis, or Demarcus Cousins. They didn't play like 19 year Olds. I think Calipari's system is not landing the true phenomenons that he had early on.
 
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