John Calipari Reacts to Kentucky's Loss to Oakland: 'This one is painful' | 2024 March Madness
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- Kentucky head coach John Calipari speaks postgame after the No. 3 Wildcats loss to No. 14 Oakland in the NCAA Tournament First Round
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John Calipari’s tone of voice, this might be his last season with uk
lowkey just like my saban
Unless they pay him 33mil
@@allen2333Jimbo Fisher was paid 77 million dollars to walk.
@@Kentuckykid14yes, but Kentucky doesn’t have the boosters that A&M does. Also, basketball programs don’t generate as much money as football programs do, especially in the SEC. I just don’t see KY coming up with 33M to get rid of him. Unless they can convince him to agree to part ways it won’t happen.
Time to go
just thank AD for your 1 title
Lol
Never forget AD getting spanked in the Kentucky locker room. Ahhh I lovveee it 🤪 Team chemistry never been the same since
@@zavdab5238pause
Not just AD, the NBA Lockout in 2011 caused 3 of their other top players to come back instead of go to the NBA which gave them the veteran presence they needed to win the championship.
Kentucky is a one and done factory school, bunch of freshmen. They always lose to teams full of juniors and seniors. lol What do you expect??
Coach it’s time to part ways.
Cal is a glorified recruiter and an average coach....at best
Average? He’s way below average. I coulda coached that super squad to a win over a border line d2 squad.
Overdramatic boomer Kentucky fan😅. Cal has recruited and coached the most NBA all stars and lottery picks than any other active coach.
@@zavdab5238 yeah with 1 tourney win in 4 years 💀💀
He's garbage
Get off the sack
15 years is long enough, Cal looks tired, miserable, and burned out.
I’m done!!! I have been watching UK basketball since the 1970’s!! When Cal is gone, I may watch again. I just can’t!! I’m sick of one and done!!!
Unless you gift millions to the school they don't care 😂 someone else will take your seat in rupp
One and done players is not why the program is stale. It is a coach who refuses to change and keeps doing the same thing and expecting different results.
I bet the seniors are ashamed
$9m/year … FOR THAT!? 😂😂😂
The 9 million is to keep rupp arena full.
You’re gone calipari😂
I have always supported Cal as a UK fan but blaming the players is sad. Can we all agree that Cal either doesn’t care or he can no longer coach. BBN is ready for a change. It would be nice to win more than a couple of NCAA games in 7 years.
Yeah he clearly isn't coaching defense properly
Players missed shots they shouldn’t have. They should ask goatKe for advice on how to make unbelievable shots
Game passed him by.
@mr.mcbain You can’t just blame the players though, if you’re gonna recruit them you better know how to handle them, and these aau players go to other programs and become great players, it’s only here they continue the bs look at elliot cadaeu or aden holloway
Seems like that would’ve been a good opportunity to take responsibility for being out-coached with a bad game plan against a zone they knew was coming lol
But it’s on the freshmen? Ok.
Lololol . Great day to be a Louisville fan
@mr.mcbain your looking at yourself in the mirror lol
@mr.mcbain and where have y’all gone in the past 5 years? The round of 32?
Your team is so bad all you can hold onto is the hope of Kentucky losing. Pathetic 😂😂😂
@@SmashingUrMom and they just lost their beloved coach lol
@@captainspartan04loserville can’t beat UK in anything so you wait for them to lose to someone else to have your “good day”. LOL how pathetic.
Why would you as a NBA hopeful out of high school go to Kentucky? What's the appeal? They've sucked for a decade now
John is like a used car salesman
That guy hit some crazy shots
Complacent coaches don’t deserve “lifetime” contracts… I can’t bear to hear his excuses after early exits anymore.
Pitino did say that he wishes that he ended his career in Kentucky recently 👀
Edit: At some point, you have to ask if the “players first” format is actually what’s best for the program. Elevate them as much as possible… but not at our program’s expense.
The #1 objective should be championships, not just prep for the NBA. He has encouraged so many kids to leave early that never got drafted. If they stayed another year or two, who knows how that would have changed their trajectory. The program has really slipped the last 5 or 6 years.
@@DigiC0M Daniel Orton immediately came to mind lol he says the same thing every year… “we’ve got a young team that’s inexperienced with a ton of potential… it’s more important that they develop as players to move on to the next level.” It would be easier to take if he didn’t heckle and gaslight fans because we’re upset… it’s like we can’t have expectations with him.
I can’t help but notice how we’ve stopped utilizing styles of play (e.g., lobs and alley oops a la our 2011-12 championship year). I think maybe his assistant coaches that started with him at Kentucky were doing most of the “heavy lifting” when it came to actually coaching.
@@TheGlaabFather The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Cal has not figured that one out yet.
You make a good point about the assistant coaches. Cal really needs a strong staff, because his strength is recruiting not x's and o's.
@@DigiC0M it’s funny you say that about insanity when you think about the name of our preseason event. Big blue madness lol
Since college athletes can now get paid from NIL deals regardless of college choice… I’m not so sure he’s gonna continue to be as efficient at recruiting as he has been in the past.
$$$$ all I see… Kentucky is not a basketball school anymore. They don’t win when it matters, Coach Cal could and should lead his teams to a sweet 16 every year. If not, he’s gonna be known as one of the most overrated coaches ever. They’re more of a football school.
Bro KY is not a football school. At this point they are a nothing school.
As a Gator fan I really enjoyed this game lol
did you enjoy your game too😭
Cal sorry buddy you can't be losing to low seeds like that unacceptable
He needs to leave Lex Ky
coach needs fired along with barnhart!
It’s pronounced Barnfart 😬
18 year old KIDS missed dunks, lay ups, bunnies and free throws. The moment was too big for the KIDS. But man I would love to see them all come back with a years experience under their belt. That would be fun to watch.
“Folks we’ll get it right next year!”
Contract extension??
I’ve won only one fewer tourney game than all UK players for the past five years.
He is really good with the BS. I mean really good.
Cal is a koe. Always has been. His players talent has carried him. Fire this hack.
You need talent to when genius. Nobody winning championships with a team full of open tryouts walk ons.
@@zavdab5238 He doesn't coach his talent, if they're good enough to win, they'll win. The lack of coaching is completely obvious moron. Can't play help d, can't d against ball screens, rebounding is nowhere to be found. They couldnt d against the dribble drive. His decisions in the SEC tourney and the NCAA were horrible as were his lineup choice for starting the game all year, horrible. Starting lineup had one proficient scorer on the floor. Talk about making it easy on the other team when you have two NBA guards sitting the bench. Genius.
Bye Cal. No one believes your b.s. anymore. The fans have had it.
Calipari is trying to be a salesman. He is trying to sell the UK faithful that this horrible loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament was nothing more than bad luck. What else could it be when the best 3-pt shooting team in the nation, can't seem to buy a basket? Cal tells us that only bad luck could explain the reason why Oakland was nailing their 3's and UK only made a few. Hopefully, the reporters will be sure to ask Cal, why he couldn't teach his massive pool of basketball talent how to play a bit of defense.
I could have bought Cal's excuse back in mid-February. (I think I did.) However, I just can't buy it now. Everybody knows how much talent and how much potential this team had. Yet there were too many upsets that made no sense and these upsets happened way too frequently. Yet the sports reporters never asked Cal why does KY have to score 90 to 100 points every game in order to win. Furthermore, Cal had just used this same lame excuse to explain the dreadful loss to Texas A&M 5 days prior to this fiasco. The loss to Texas A&M wasn't even a weak old, yet they forced the Wildcats out of the SEC Tournament without winning a game. Tonight Oakland forced the Wildcats out of the NCAA Tournament without KY winning a single game.
Although the UK Calipari era, started off with a National Championship in 2012, KY's more recent adventures in the NCAA Tournament have been rather dismal especially when one compares them to most of UK's past performances in The Big Dance. When Calipari took the reigns at UK over a decade ago, UK's basketball team was the most winningest team in NCAA history. Not anymore. Calipari may have been the highest paid BB coach in the NCAA, but the coaches at Kansas, UNC, Duke, etc. were winning more games and National Championships. Although KY is still 2nd in the country for most NCAA championships, it has been 12 years since they won a National Championship. However, KY's peers Kansas, DUke, North Carolina, etc. have won at least one Championship this decade.
We can knock Calipari's ability to win and even his ability to coach, but Calipari can definitely brag about one accomplishment that he truly excels at. As of March 2024, Kentucky leads all other universities when it comes to past university players who are currently playing in the NBA. Right now KY leads the pack with 28 players currently in the NCAA. They are followed by Duke with 24, UCLA with 16, Kansas with 12, North Carolina with 11, and Gonzaga with 10. For much of the past decade Gonzaga has been the team to beat, yet UK currently has 28 players in the NBA and Gonzaga only has 10. It seems like Calipari has a knack for attracting players who want to use UK as a pit-stop to the NBA. I remember in 1993, when UK players were devastated when they narrowly missed upsetting favorite Duke for a spot in the Final Four. Pelphrey, Farmer, Feldhaus, and Mashburn wanted to win a NCAA Championship for UK more than anything. When Rob Dillingham, who had an off-game against Oakland, started throwing up bad shots toward the end of the game, I have to wonder if his desperate heaves was an attempt to keep UK's NCAA dreams alive, or if he was more worried that if he didn't increase his point total in his final performance for UK, he might slip a couple of spots in this years' NBA draft.
Cal has said many times that he will take talent over experience any time. While he still excels at recruiting top--notch talent, both fans and experts alike wonder if he is still a top-notch coach. Perhaps, he has too much young talent and needs to focus on finding a few players who are willing to spend 2 or 3 years in college if it is better for them in the long run. Or perhaps, his "one and done reputation" has become a magnet for attracting the kind of player that cares more about money than winning. While Calipari may still be the best, or among the best, at recruiting top-notch talent, many think that his coaching skills are not what they used to be.
In my opinion, KY fans, which includes myself, need to do some serious soul-searching. Do we want to be known as the school that puts the most players in the NBA? Or would we prefer to have a few more NCAA Championship banners hanging from the rafters in Rupp Arena? If we still want to be the school that has won more NCAA Championships than anybody other than UCLA, I suggest we find a replacement for Calipari within the next year or two. Otherwise, North Carolina and Duke will be #2 and #3 and UK will have dropped to #4 when it comes to schools with the most NCAA championship banners.
Personally, I say get rid of Cal now!! I've been saying this for several years now. I've been saying this, and with each and every year that passes, he slowly devalues the UK brand a bit more. Perhaps, we can look to Louisville for some help. Maybe Louisville, who currently reeks of desperation when it comes to finding a quality head coach, will come to UK's rescue and buy out what's left of Cal's ridiculously expensive contract. Perhaps, we can shame them into this. Remember how happy U of L fans were when they picked up Pitino. They were so happy because they had the once beloved UK Coach, who had ditched UK for the Pro's, only to return to KY, but as the coach of U of L. However, the Pitino they inherited wasn't the same Pitino that UK once had. In the end, Pitino shamed U of L and UK fans got the last laugh. In fact, UK fans are still laughing and U of L fans want revenge. We need to convince them that they can get the last laugh if they steal Cal. Otherwise, we may be stuck with Cal for quite some time.
Some will argue that UK can't fire Cal because of his ridiculously high contract. They argue we can't fire Cal because it will cost UK a small fortune for violating the terms of his contract. Just remember that Cal is causing UK to lose money right now. He is devaluing the UK brand.
built for next march...lmmfao
Bro played like prime game 6 klay it’s alright Cal any school would be glad to take you
🔥Cal
death taxes and Justin Edwards missing wide open layups
lol, is just me, I don’t really watch sports anymore, like every thing else in this country, it’s hard to find things with enough integrity, and decency to actually find myself actually wanting to get emotionally invested enough to cheer for an organization. But just watching the highlights, this 14 seed look just as big as KY. IMO you use to be able to notice a size difference between 1,2,3 vs 14, 15, 16. May not just seem so to me, also seems defensive slow, like nba, use to see more effort in college, it want nice to see young men working hard. And playing great especially when a high 1,2, or 3 didn’t want to get embarrassed by a 14, but I’m glad they took the stigma away from losing and being an awful lazy player, that way everyone on the floor can just encourage one another… so everyone can chill cause let’s not worry about winning just play a pressure free game void of all judgement … wait that one white kid.. it’s he going a little overboard? Is playing to aggressive? Did you see him stick out his tongue? Are we even allowed to root for him he’s white? This might be construed as racist if he’s playing well? Or the play-by-play guys even Steer any attention his way? Maybe we can disqualify Oakland for the rest of the tournament?
He was up there house hunting ppl. This was gonna be Cals last season no matters what happened in this tournamen. The players all know about it and have. It ll come out in a day or two
It’s time.
Lay the CaliPonzi Scheme to rest.
Alway thought he was a bad coach always blamed his players never takes accountability… leave
Anyone who wants cal gone who are they going to get to coach at uk tubby smith billy g come on you all no one is better than him as a coach for what he does every year anyone who says he isn’t well either they don’t knew basketball or are trolls just want him to leave so uk will suck again period. Think about what other coach are they going to get
Oh anyone who’s mad at the one and done then blame the nba not him every team would do it if they could duke does it and when he was the only team doing you know how bad a rap he got you had coach knight talking about how bad he was then when coach k started you never heard a word about it oh and reason it stopped well coach k was a assistant for bob knight back in the day I guess people forget or they never knew
No, Calipari you are the one defined by another loss... let's be real Calipari is not a winner. He doesn't win. We are fatigued of one and done... and we are done with you! Cal you need to leave....
Always blames the players. Step up as a coach then. Not just a recruiter CAL
The spoiled UK fans may support a huge buy out to get ??? As coach and recruiter
Team wasnt even that good
Sounds like a bunch of what my guys didnt do and not what the other team did do. Go cry about it your recruits didnt win for you
Alr question maybe think of like this he can only tell them what to do he can’t go out there and do it for them
@@UKfan172your right he can’t play for them, but he could game plan better and make in game adjustments. The fact is, he just isn’t that good of a coach. The talent he has had over the years just masked his ineptitude and inabilities.
This one is painful? Why? b/c you didn't have a 1 and done NBA lottery pick to save you, and you don't teach defense?
Geesh. Nothing has changed at all with Ky fans since I was a kid watching them play. I was born and raised in London Ky and the fans have always been so wishy washy. 1-2 losses and it’s, “Time to fire the coach!”
People who make those remarks just show me they’re the ones who’ve never played competitive sports or had kids who played competitively.
I have a daughter who has been playing elite volleyball for years. Giving her heart to it. These kids care SO much, they get anxious. It’s performance anxiety. My daughter dealt with it for a 1-1.5 years on and off. She looked like she had never touched a ball when she was in her head like that. It drove me crazy!
So because I’ve seen performance anxiety in so many girls over the years while watching my daughter play, I was able to spot it in Reed, Dillingham and Ivisic a few times this season. During the Oakland game it was glaringly obvious. There was a moment when they showed Reed on the screen after a shot and his face and body screamed NERVES! Mental game is as important as skill.
This loss was not coach Cals fault. The boys choked because they’re young and inexperienced and let their anxiety get the best of them. If you noticed, Reeves and Mitchell were the two top scorers that game. They’re also the two older boys with experience. They were cool and collected.
This team was a great team. Highly skilled and would’ve won if they’d had their minds right. I guarantee they learned a lesson through this game though and I’m proud of them for a fun season either way.
Ky fans, you should stop saying you “Bleed Blue” if you can’t hang when the goin gets tough.
What does you-know have to do with it? You shouldn’t talk about you know ! You know
Learn how to talk like a professional instead of saying you know a lot
Time to go
😂😂😂😂😂 WPS. if Arkansas had to have an shit season, at least we aren't Kentucky right now😂 they ran into Larry Legends reincarnated😂😂
Rick pitino come home
Please go
Time to fire him
None of them are nba ready, even for the soft ass program it is today (the LeBron program) none of them will make it
Time to retire cal
Fraud.
John CaliBiden
Played defense with there hands making half hearted attempts not just this game all year long joke