They weren't the biggest brand because of Cal, they just got the reputation for being the best NBA pipeline because that was Cal's main focus as a coach

Cal has put a ton of guys in the NBA but he has also put some really terrible basketball teams on the court, you know what you're getting with him and I don't think it's fair or even remotely accurate to say Kentucky's brand is because of him

You are delusional

They had 7 championships before Calipari and he won 1 in 15 years

They have four chips in the NBA era

Yeah

That's why they need a new coach

I’m not questioning their pedigree, I’m talking about how many NBA ballers have attended UK throughout the years before Cal

Bogans-Prince-Rondo

Only three I can think of that Tubby brought in and got to the league

Otherwise it was pretty bleak in the early 2000s

The Calipari cult on Twitter sound like the Auburn fans that are horrified of pre-Pearl days

Except their pre-Cal days are still being a blue blood with 7 natties lol

They should move on to Arkansas with him tbh

Oh yeah, that’s why I don’t really care personally about him going there. But Ark fans are just annoying if you give them anything at all to work with. You would’ve thought they lost Nikola Jokic when Trevor Brazile went down a couple years ago lol

I can understand being a bit shook just bc Cal was there so long, and there was such a high floor with him there, but UK just isn’t a program that should be concerned about “floor”. I guess you could say the same thing about UCLA, Louisville and esp Indiana, who hasn’t been in real title contention in god knows how long, but those tier 1 programs will always have their moment again

Kentucky literally can’t be bad forever, the game makes too much money off of them mattering

They just gotta make the right move now, and quickly.

Felt like something was afoot when they were barely getting mentioned with any of these portal players.

The rumor of him getting his whole class to move with him, everything the dude has done the past few years has just came off as careless.

Would be ashamed if they fall to the wayside like Louisville or Indiana. Especially given them teams are all local to one another.

Basketball is better when they're better

Not enough people are talking about how crazy it is that UConn is a 6.5 point favorite on a neutral court against a team that ranks 2nd in the country in 3pt%, 6th in offensive rebounding, 13th in free throw rate, 4th in opponent free throw rate, and has the back to back NPOTY

The only weakness Purdue even has as a team is that they don't force turnovers, but it doesn't even matter because they're also the 13th best defensive rebounding team and 36th in opponent efg%

Great morning in the coal mines

$6M for nil. And incentives worth $10 if cal hits goals

Evidentially we never contacted Beard and it was Calipari the whole time. No wonder we let Muss walk.

Our roster currently has 0 returning players.

just looked into the KTT bracket for first time in a while

this has got to be the worst group OAT lmao

Mans is just out walking his dog

Hope y’all UK niggas get Coach Drew