(08-10-2013 02:58 AM)Tanyaskees Wrote:  

(08-10-2013 02:11 AM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 11:42 AM)HoopDreams Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 11:31 AM)Tanyaskees Wrote:  

(08-09-2013 11:12 AM)EarthBoundMisfit Wrote:  Exactly. People on here take the man at his word that "UK is the Notre Dame of basketball" all they want.
While he was here, he kept iterating that programs like UK, Duke, UNC were just 'names on a shirt'. or something like that.
If the NCAA had not been on his tail....Cal NEVER WOULD HAVE LEFT MEMPHIS FOR ANOTHER JOB.
The man doesn't have a shred of truth in him.
Like years later while at UK...he tells the cameras how close he was to taking the NC State job. THAT WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN either.
He used them folks royally...as I posted earlier in this thread.

Give it up....they'll never get it, just like we'll never get their thinking.

I "get it", I just don't agree with it.

The recruiting class wasn't coming here no matter - signed out clauses or not - it's a dead issue.

Recruiting current players - we've already demonstrated that Pastner has engaged in similar activities, so no biggee.

He lied - yep, so do a lot of coaches who say they aren't going anywhere and then take another job a week later.

I mean, it's a job and it's college basketball - I've known folks to forgive and forget with ex-wives/husbands in less time.

But most coaches who "move on" don't trash the schools and the cities they left, take everything that is not nailed down, recruit players they don't want out of a vendetta against the new coach at the school they left, leave their school on probation, which they fled just in the nick of time, allow their son to wear the colors of their dad's new job while they continue to attend school in the old city, and leave town without saying goodbye in the dead of the night. I could go on and on. It's HOW he left, in SO MANY ways. Most coaches do not do those things.

But...but...but...he cried on his front lawn because it was such a heartbreaking decision to make. He couldn't even finish the interview