BigBlue8Titles
Favorite team: | Kentucky |
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Registered on: | 11/25/2014 |
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Is Kentucky baseball real?
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 5/12/24 at 6:34 pm
Admittedly, I don’t follow college baseball at all and know very little about the teams. It seems, however, that a substantial group of Kentucky fans are jumping on the wagon for this team, despite Kentucky being pretty average in the past. Can someone with more background following college baseball...
Cal to the Lakers?
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 5/3/24 at 5:13 pm
Hearing lots of chatter today that the Lakers approached Calipari and he is considering. Word is the wife isn’t thrilled with Fayetteville so a quick pivot to the NBA might be best for everyone ...
Arky: Buyer’s remorse yet?
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/30/24 at 8:46 pm
A few weeks with Cal and his antics are in the books. Are you guys still as excited about the future as the day you signed him? How does it feel for your school and state to be pitched as “Calipari U” instead of “Arkansas”? ...
USCe fans poured beer on Kentucky players at this weekend’s game
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/29/24 at 9:45 am
Keep it classy Cocks!...
Kentucky snags Andrew Carr from the portal.
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/28/24 at 8:53 pm
Huge get! 6’11 stretch 4 who shot 37% from 3 for Wake Forest this past year. Our post is looking pretty solid. Pope is getting it done! ...
re: What did you learn during UK’s bball coach search?
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/14/24 at 8:15 pm
Who is this dumb shite “captdalton”? Never seen him on here much before. Sounds like a homer (for a team with ONE final four all time), with an axe to grind with UK. And no, a substantial part of the fan base didn’t want Nate Oats, regardless of the price. Kentucky fans filled Rupp (23000 capacity) ...
re: Rupp coached at Freeport High School (Illinois) and was hired as HC at Kentucky
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/12/24 at 7:49 am
[quote]It took rupp 14 years to win a national championship. He would have been fired in todays world[/quote]
While technically correct, it's important to note that no NCAA or NIT tourney existed in the 1930s. Rupp won the Southern Conference regular season championship in his second season (193...
Rupp coached at Freeport High School (Illinois) and was hired as HC at Kentucky
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/12/24 at 7:20 am
His record at Freeport from 1926-1930 was 66-21 and he was coming off a third place finish at the state tournament when UK made the call to bring him to Lexington. Let's look at how that hire of an "unproven" coach turned out! Mark Pope's college experience beats Rupp's by a mile....
re: Kentucky wants Dan Hurley for 100 milliom per 8 years
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/11/24 at 1:40 pm
[quote]There is zero chance Hurley is leaving the northeast. He and his wife are from Jersey and there is no way his wife is moving out of the area.[/quote] Kentucky is better. Now if it was LSU recruiting him, and the family was faced with moving to Louisiana, I could see your point. :cheers:...
re: Rick Barnes has removed his name from consideration for the Kentucky job
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/11/24 at 1:35 pm
Don Devoe beat the Cats often too, but I would have never hired him as my coach :cheers:...
re: Kentucky wants Dan Hurley for 100 milliom per 8 years
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/11/24 at 1:33 pm
[quote]Will need 16m per year IMO[/quote]
I told someone a couple of nights ago that $15 mil per, a NIL guarantee and new practice facility in the near future would bag Hurley. Still think it's true...
re: Theyre coming for you Auburn
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/11/24 at 11:50 am
[quote]Tony Bennett catching wild strays [/quote]
I can't imagine the reaction of the fans if he was hired and implemented his "deliberate" style of ball. Rupp would rollover in his grave....
re: UK Press conference could come as early as later today - First Waco, now Storrs
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/11/24 at 9:05 am
[quote]WTF are you talking about Titties. Tony Bennett isn't even on our tier 2 list[/quote]
If Drew says no (and assuming Hurley and Donovan do as well), it's wide open. I wouldn't expect Bennett would be considered a good fit at KY with his style of play, however, who knows what the High Comma...
re: UK Press conference could come as early as later today - First Waco, now Storrs
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/11/24 at 8:22 am
Rumors they may be talking to Tony Bennett? The Craft jet was heading to VA this morning....
"By all accounts, John Calipari is one of the premier coaches in college basketball,"
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/10/24 at 3:30 pm
Quote by Hunter Yurachek (Arky AD) at the Calipari announcement. It's becoming obvious that the boosters (Tyson, Walton, Hunt, etc.) hired Cal and it doesn't sound like the AD was really on board. I'm thinking the AD, Yurachek should probably update his resume, because Cal will do whatever he want...
re: Kentucky fans, help me understand what happened to Calipari
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/10/24 at 3:22 pm
It's easy. Barnhart (the KY AD) and Calipari fell out a couple of years ago and basically Barnhart froze out Calipari from NIL. Also, it didn't help that Calipari fell out with a major booster over the booster's wife using one of the players at her political campaign rallies for Governor. It all ...
re: Kentucky fans, how will you feel if Arkansas wins multiple national championships…
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/10/24 at 2:25 pm
Really surprised......
re: Hurley: 11 mil per X 7 years offer
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/9/24 at 6:55 pm
Seems like the largest group of folks with supposed inside info think it’s Drew...
Hurley: 11 mil per X 7 years offer
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/9/24 at 6:12 pm
Probably will take $14-15 mil per to get him in Lexington plus $50 mil+ NIL for players, and a practice facility. I sure hope that next SEC TV deal is a doozy to pay for all of this…...
re: Should Auburn have kept Malzahn?
Posted by BigBlue8Titles on 4/9/24 at 2:06 pm
From his commentary on the SEC Network, the dude does seem like he knows football....
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