I appreciate Calipari's friends wanting to see him do well, but the whole "he wasn't treated well" at Kentucky is insane. He set the market rate for basketball coaches. Kentucky mainstreamed him at exactly the moment he was becoming untouchable for many. And at the same moment his friends are getting sentimental he's still lobbing bombs at BBN; it was never about the fans, it's about me and the players. SEC championship or not, whether Pope succeeds or not, it was time.
The other reality is that many on the MAGA right never notice when never Trumpers like me critique the left for things like gender ideology, trans athletes in women’s sports, the disastrous Afghan withdrawal, bad policy with Israel/Gaza/Iran, and just generally bad policy. But my podcasts are full of it.
Seth Greenberg has spent five years going off on UK fans about their expectations.
There is nothing wrong with BBN expecting a consistent winner. This isn’t Virginia Tech
Mark Pope now with four double digit losses to Alabama and in each game, the same script. Huge first half deficit, make a run but still end up never really having a shot at victory
At Halftime we thought Jaland Lowe was out for the year and Kentucky had the most anemic offense ever
One half later he is back, Quaintance becomes a star and we score 53 points
What a difference an hour makes
The Michigan State basketball and Vandy football games are two pretty bad national television humiliations to occur in the same week
At least the Women’s team won