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  • Matt Dillon
    Administrator
    • Oct 2014
    • 49609

    #256
    It's true.
    Philippians 4:11-4:13

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    • George
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2014
      • 10355

      #257
      Originally posted by Matt Dillon
      It's true.
      It’s the least surprising decision of all. He has said from day one he was going to leave after a year, and his performance did nothing to derail that plan.

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      • TrueblueCATfan
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2014
        • 16267

        #258
        Best of luck to you Cason Wallace

        Not sure how everyone else feels but I'm sick of one and dones

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        • justford
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2014
          • 4669

          #259
          Originally posted by TrueblueCATfan
          Best of luck to you Cason Wallace

          Not sure how everyone else feels but I'm sick of one and dones
          Better than a none and done😊

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          • Lighthouse
            Gone But Never Forgotten
            • Oct 2014
            • 35962

            #260
            Wishing the Best for you young man. Enjoyed watching you play.
            John 3:3

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            • GOCAT15
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2014
              • 2019

              #261
              I have never had an issue with one and dones, especially potential lottery picks. What has bothered me over the last decade is the ones that have left that don’t get drafted, and I hope I’m wrong but I have a feeling Oscar and Toppin are gonna join that list, Livingston as well if he’s dumb enough to stay in it.

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              • DA#23
                Administrator
                • Oct 2014
                • 7342

                #262
                If anything else, our (ahem) "roster building efforts, formerly called recruiting" has shown that you have to recruit to a style of play. You have to have a vision.

                With our revolving door of a program we've shown that you can't just grab what's out there and figure it out later. A program that does that, and we have done that far more often than not, is at threat to fall on its face. We have done just that while UConn has won 3 in the last 12 years. I thought we could win 3 in 12, and I'd probably get a Calipari tattoo.​

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                • Joneslab
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2014
                  • 39604

                  #263
                  Originally posted by matt colvin
                  If anything else, our (ahem) "roster building efforts, formerly called recruiting" has shown that you have to recruit to a style of play. You have to have a vision.​
                  Yeah, particularly defensively. If he wants to switch like he does and play only that type of defense game after game for 40 minutes then you have to have a shot-blocker on the back side. All Cal's good/great teams have had one. If you don't then you have to slough and change things up and protect your front line...which, as we all know, Calipari absolutely will not do that.

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                  • DA#23
                    Administrator
                    • Oct 2014
                    • 7342

                    #264
                    I whine about the PG thing a lot, but not having that Center we have had so many times over the last few years probably was a bigger issue.

                    It's a luxury.

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                    • DA#23
                      Administrator
                      • Oct 2014
                      • 7342

                      #265
                      I am sitting here in Floyd Co. KY drinking my coffee, enjoying this pleasant weather this morning, and fuming about UConn.

                      Thanks, Cal.

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                      • Joneslab
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2014
                        • 39604

                        #266
                        Originally posted by matt colvin
                        I am sitting here in Floyd Co. KY drinking my coffee, enjoying this pleasant weather this morning, and fuming about UConn.

                        Thanks, Cal.
                        Maybe a hot take, but to me it makes it a little easier than they've done it under three different coaches.

                        I'm not sure why that makes it any different, but it does.

                        For one thing it suggests Kentucky could move on from Cal and win if we got the right guy. (We all know this, but there have been programs who *haven't* won nearly as much without a particular coach.)

                        Their situation has shown it really is about the program. That's a good thing as Kentucky likely moves into the last year with Calipari.

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                        • DA#23
                          Administrator
                          • Oct 2014
                          • 7342

                          #267
                          I think we're the program that has shown it is about the program. Time for the program to repair itself.

                          Kemba Walker could come over here, grab my coffee and chuck it into the yard, and I'd simply reply "I deserve nothing less, Champ".

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                          • KCKUKFan
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2014
                            • 14228

                            #268
                            Nothing bout UConn bothers me. They'll probably be 17-13 and in the NIT again next year, and the inexplicably be back in the championship game in five years.

                            Garbage or champion. Strange case.
                            Last edited by KCKUKFan; 04-04-2023, 08:53 AM.

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                            • KentuckyWild2020
                              Senior Member
                              • Dec 2020
                              • 4120

                              #269
                              Originally posted by matt colvin
                              If anything else, our (ahem) "roster building efforts, formerly called recruiting" has shown that you have to recruit to a style of play. You have to have a vision.

                              With our revolving door of a program we've shown that you can't just grab what's out there and figure it out later. A program that does that, and we have done that far more often than not, is at threat to fall on its face. We have done just that while UConn has won 3 in the last 12 years. I thought we could win 3 in 12, and I'd probably get a Calipari tattoo.​
                              Hit the nail on the head. You have to have a system in place and recruit for that system. Cal just grabs who he can get in the top whatever so he can brag about it and usher them off to the NBA a year later, it has become a complete joke , makes my blood boil to honest. I appreciate Calipari off the court across the state ,he does a great job lying to folks and telling them what they want to hear but on the court whatever system he's running or whatever moves he's making is junior league compared to other coaches in the game. I said i would give Calipari one more year simply because of this great recruiting class but in the back of my mind, it will probably be the same ol same ol with wasted talent and opportunity.

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                              • Joneslab
                                Senior Member
                                • Oct 2014
                                • 39604

                                #270
                                Originally posted by KentuckyWild2020
                                Cal just grabs who he can get in the top whatever so he can brag about it and usher them off to the NBA a year later...
                                This would be okay if he were landing the top players like he was in the first 5/6 years.

                                Cal's missed a bunch of those top players and they still leave. That's the flaw in the whole system.

                                It's not like we have one-and-done phenoms running around and Cal is losing with them. It's that we don't have enough phenoms and he still runs the program like we do.

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