(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:  

(08-09-2013 10:54 AM)transitt Wrote:  Common sense tells us that when the country and NCAA reacted the way they did to the manner in which Calipari left then it was a much bigger deal than some on here made it.

The fact that he left Memphis for another job isn't the situation and why so many of us dislike him. It was the WAY he left.

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.

(08-10-2013 08:33 AM)Bluebeard Wrote:  3601, did HoopDreams steal your woman or something? Lol.

(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

(08-10-2013 04:49 AM)TallTiger Wrote:  Yes, he cried on his front lawn...but he had laughed at the Lexington press conference to the Memphis reporter who reminded him of his "Memphis is the only place I want to be" quote. He's quite the actor.

I remember listening to his radio show BEFORE the Missouri game. He thanked people for being so nice to him during his time here and how things change, etc...I thought then, he sounds like he's leaving.

In early March, a salesman and big UK supporter announced to a local distributor that cal would be the next ky coach.

When you connect the dots, the evidence is there. I am glad when ky didn't make the tournament and though he happened to be in NYC the first week of the tournament, CBS or ESPN didn't call him to be their coach analyst. Sure that dinged his ego, maybe just a little, for 5 minutes.

His manipulation of RC and not improving the football program didn't help us at all.

I'll be glad when he goes back to the NBA, then the Grizzlies' fans can boo him when his team comes here.

(08-10-2013 09:50 AM)missjtiger Wrote:  He went to mass every single morning (according to him). That's a good thing, right ?

(08-10-2013 04:49 AM)TallTiger Wrote:  Yes, he cried on his front lawn...but he had laughed at the Lexington press conference to the Memphis reporter who reminded him of his "Memphis is the only place I want to be" quote. He's quite the actor.

I remember listening to his radio show BEFORE the Missouri game. He thanked people for being so nice to him during his time here and how things change, etc...I thought then, he sounds like he's leaving.

In early March, a salesman and big UK supporter announced to a local distributor that cal would be the next ky coach.

When you connect the dots, the evidence is there. I am glad when ky didn't make the tournament and though he happened to be in NYC the first week of the tournament, CBS or ESPN didn't call him to be their coach analyst. Sure that dinged his ego, maybe just a little, for 5 minutes.

His manipulation of RC and not improving the football program didn't help us at all.

I'll be glad when he goes back to the NBA, then the Grizzlies' fans can boo him when his team comes here.

(08-10-2013 11:35 AM)MTigerBlue Wrote:  Does this board have a time/length limit, or do we just go on beating this dead horse forever? Oh wait, now I remember Garcia-Simpkins. Never mind.

(08-10-2013 09:43 AM)tigerderek Wrote:  Is anyone here actually related besides tigerseth and I?

(08-10-2013 12:26 PM)georgiatiger Wrote:  

(08-10-2013 09:43 AM)tigerderek Wrote:  Is anyone here actually related besides tigerseth and I?

Sorta.

(08-10-2013 01:15 PM)tigerderek Wrote:  Will one of y'all adopt Seth?

(08-10-2013 11:35 AM)MTigerBlue Wrote:  Does this board have a time/length limit, or do we just go on beating this dead horse forever? Oh wait, now I remember Garcia-Simpkins. Never mind.