John Calipari to Arkansas

[Kinch]

As a KU fan I agree with a lot you are saying and think conference titles should also be thrown In there but if UConn wins it tonight I think they should be the exception. With that many titles you would have to be considered a Blue Blood.

I would have said last year cemented their status.

 

[Frak]

If I were them, I’d hire will wade and open the nil checkbook

 

[JBone84]

Should we be surprised that Cal is the kind of guy who "walks his dog" by putting it in a stroller?

 

[CycloneWarrior]

A soft firing to save face? Kind of looks like the McDermott to Creighton. Seems like a win-win for everyone involved.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

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I don't even know what that means? What has Drew done that is dirtball?

On a serious note, I have heard that Drew is a very big negative recruiter. I was told by some KU fans that one big 12 coach (i believe it was Huggins), confronted Drew at a big 12 media day and really grilled into him about it. I think Self has also made subtle comments about Baylor's recruiting strategy before as well.

 

[flycy]

He found out real fast how much of a pressure cooker that Kentucky job was. Had them on probation within a few years. Kentucky is still arguably the top job in college basketball. I think Arkansas is a way better job now than when he was there in the 70s even though he went to a Final Four. Great facilities, lots of $$$, good tradition, and great fans.

I don't even consider Kentucky to be a very good job in today's environment.

 

[8bitnes]

and that year he got incredibly lucky that he basically had an all star team in the NBA playing for him. I could have coached that team to a National Title. They were that talented.

I just crunched the numbers. 15 years at Kentucky, in the 14 years that have been followed with a draft/NBA season, he has had 59 guys play in the NBA. That's 4.2/year. Of course multiple years had overlap so well above 4.2 per roster. And yet, 1 title in year 3 and no final fours across the past 9 years. That's an impressive amount of underachieving

 

[Cycsk]

I just crunched the numbers. 15 years at Kentucky, in the 14 years that have been followed with a draft/NBA season, he has had 59 guys play in the NBA. That's 4.2/year. Of course multiple years had overlap so well above 4.2 per roster. And yet, 1 title in year 3 and no final fours across the past 9 years. That's an impressive amount of underachieving

That's great recruiting . . . and lousy coaching!

 

[trajanJ]

I would have said last year cemented their status.

I agree. This year will just add to it. I don't see that coach going anywhere and he'll win some more. I probably just jinxed it and Wednesday he'll announce that he's the next UK coach.

 

[trajanJ]

I just crunched the numbers. 15 years at Kentucky, in the 14 years that have been followed with a draft/NBA season, he has had 59 guys play in the NBA. That's 4.2/year. Of course multiple years had overlap so well above 4.2 per roster. And yet, 1 title in year 3 and no final fours across the past 9 years. That's an impressive amount of underachieving

You have to remember a lot of those NBA players only played one year at Kentucky and were 19 years old. Cal got lucky with his 1 NC team because he had a super mature generational player that led them, but usually mature teams are the ones capable of running off 6 wins in a row. If Cal figures that out and starts getting the top transfers with some top freshman he'll have another shot at it.

 

[Halincandenza]

Cal recruited at a level probably not seen since Wooden amassed talent at UCLA. Thr problem was Coach K and Duke jumped into the one and done pool and started taking some of those guys.

 

[NWICY]

I don't think T.J. has nearly enough cache yet to land a job like that. I could see another Big 12 coach landing that job though, Scott Drew.

Drew is not leaving Baylor he knows he's got a good thing going

 

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[Nolaeer]

Just heard pete thammel say arkansas has twice the NIL money as Ky.
we wont know until 2-3 years from now who the new elite teams are going to be bc of deep pocketed donors.

 

[cyclones500]

I would have said last year cemented their status.

Certainly qualifies as Blue Blood this century.

UConn has 4 tournament titles (could be 5 tonight) … plus one in 1999.

Since 2000:
Duke, UNC: 3
KU: 2
(Florida, 'Nova also 2 … not blue blood)

Kentucky has ’98 and ’12

UCLA .. sort of former blue-blood — none since ’95.

This doesn't take into account tournament appearances, Final Four/Elite 8/S16/conference titles.

 

[Drew0311]

Just heard pete thammel say arkansas has twice the NIL money as Ky.
we wont know until 2-3 years from now who the new elite teams are going to be bc of deep pocketed donors.

It would be really cool if some no named team had an enourmas booster who just decided his team is gonna be a blue blood. Like North Dakota State, Samford or some small school like that

 

[Marcelason78]

Drew is not leaving Baylor he knows he's got a good thing going

Seth Davis was saying on the Final show tonight that he thinks it will end up being Drew. He did say Kentucky’s first call should be to Donovan.

 

[ISUTex]

Believe it's 6 in 25 years. If UCONN wins tonight believe they will have the 3rd most tiles of all-time (Behind UCLA & Kentucky). Pretty crazy for a school from Storrs, Connecticut.

UCONN is a blue blood. They have 5 and maybe 6 titles. They're New England and New Yorks team. And they have blue in their color scheme.

Kansas
UCLA
UNC
Duke
UCONN
Kentucky

Those are the blue bloods IMO.

If ISU ever wants to be a blue blood some day they need to put that 90's blue back in their color scheme. Maybe even make it the primary color. In fact just replace the Cardinal with blue.

 

[simply1]

Sickos gather!