Good dude … Always has been …
Coaching Carousel (Basketball)
- Status
Good dude … Always has been …
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I don't know what "etc..." comprises; however, strict denial of the foregoing three pastimes in males 17-early-20-ish would seem to... how shall I put this... channel a certain energy and focus (even a certain amount of fury) into their basketball playing.
I think the thing that surprises me a little is how publicly this whole process has played out (esp. with Drew)....usually , by the time the news leaks that whoever is being offered the job....that person has been offered and has verbally accepted the position....and the only thing left is the signing of a contract....kind of surprises me that even with social media... that the powers to be at Kentucky aren't keeping info closer to the cuff
I think the timing of the search really hurt Kentucky. Perhaps they could have landed Muss if he wasn't already off the board. Plus, as others have mentioned, the changing landscape of CBB coupled with the (unrealistic) expectations at UK make this job less desirable that it was in the olden days.
217sports
- Springfield
Is it sad that I think you may be serious...
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I was thinking to myself how psychotic and crazy Kentucky fans have come across here, and it got me wondering if a program as far down from us as we are from Kentucky (say, Minnesota or something) would look at our fan base and think we are crazy as hell. And while I landed on the answer of "kind of" (we are pretty crazy, after all) ... I honestly think UK are just in another stratosphere.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
We're absolute lunatics and one significant way in which we are similar to BBN is that we've been very online since the beginning of that being a possibility. Kentucky is #1 in sheer volume of keyboard warriors and always has been, and we have always punched way above our weight. Both are also more recruiting minutae-focused than average, often caring more about the ups and downs of the recruit rumor mill than actual games being played (though the whole sport is becoming less like that, thankfully).
Still, all college fanbases have broadly similar tics to them, they're all "delusional".
I have always chuckled at the "Whining Illini" moniker we get elsewhere. The sheer volume of things we're complaining about at any given time is pretty remarkable. And we're definitely really, really bad about creepy weirdos in the replies of teenage recruits social media posts. Again, hopefully that era of CBB is fading a bit.
We're also unusually mean to each other. I loved that tweet with the top online rivalries in college basketball and one of the top ones was Illinois vs Illinois.
(One thing we're not and I'm glad we're not is cult-like. We're not like Texas A&M where there's like a whole cosmology and ritualistic practice and fans compete over who is the most pious and personally connected to the inner sanctum. We're a bunch of yahoos lobbing hot takes from our Peoria basements and that's a good thing.)
Last edited:
lol I’m not. I want to see him coach at bigger schools, then maybe.
I don't think anyone has dropped a name, or the school that they're interviewing at
sacraig
- The desert
uofi7477
- Silver & Gold Vandals
Yes, the SEC is righteously loaded with great coaches, but then there is Gates at Miznoz.
I don’t think a guy with Pope’s resume should be anywhere close to the Kentucky job. This is as bad as IU hiring Mike Woodson
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
sacraig
- The desert
Which surprises me. I thought he was going to be good and therefore not be in Columbia long. He can still recruit, though.
From a coaching salary perspective, we know that dealing with BBN brings a cost above $1.5 million or somewhere around +20% (give or take). Calipari set that market rate when he left the BBN hysteria and took a big pay cut to go to Arkansas. If you think about it that way, Pope getting $5.5 mil/year is a relative pittance for what he'll have to deal with.
The nice thing about BBN is that they make all other fanbases, even one as crazy as ours, look like masters of Zen.
Yeah, this person certainly has got my respect for being a realist in a sea of rabid fanaticism.
Last edited:
UK fans don't seem to be particularly fond of Indiana thats for sure!
Never gonna haopen
drsmitty74
- Rochester
SO............. Indy, in your well connected opinion, what does this do to our chances with Storr now that Chin is at a place with what seems like endless NIL availability?Antigua decided to take the guaranteed salary at Arkansas and stay with Cal rather than wait it out with Pope and other teams …
Chin is going to Arkansas … Short ties are already packed …
I know all of you guys (insiders) are very confident and I am sure that is the case, just wondered if this new wrinkle with Chin headed to ARK changes anything.
Last edited:
Love the amount of strays that Indiana is catching over a UK hire.... Lovely
madillini4
Ozamataz Buckshank
- Millywaukee
Woodson literally coached in the nba
- Status