spoken by someone who wears blue colored glasses.
Please detail for me the transgressions that Calipari is directly responsible for. Thanks.
And sick of all the Big East boosters on ESPN.
You might want to mark down those Calipari wins in pencil in your record books, Kentucky fans. His teams have had to forfeit them twice before.
I am well aware of that, as is everyone else in Blue Nation. I don’t see any of the NCAA violations that caused UMASS and Memphis to bring down their Final Four flags as something that can be pinned directly on Calipari, however, particularly the Marcus Camby case at UMASS.
Buncha haters, if you ask me.
That article is a bunch of bullshit. What a slanted piece of so-called journalism.
You don’t have to be a UK fan to smell the reek of bias in this “piece” of bullshit.
Of course, you don’t. You wouldn’t bleed blue if you do.
Nah, he is a sleazeball. They’re all sleazeballs, and he’s not unique in any way, so I think the question of who’s biggest is kind of silly. But, as I think I’ve recounted on these boards before, he’s not exactly mom and pop and apple pie.
I don’t hate Kentucky. In fact, I kinda like 'em. It’s always fun when they play my Duke boys.
I do question just how far Kentucky’s boosters will go to have a winning program. (They do have a bit of a troubling history in that regard.) And Calipari isn’t exactly known for “institutional control.”
This has been the most amazing day one I can remember. Wake just beat Texas in OT and I’d called that one on both my brackets. A LOT of really good games today. I hope this continues!
Save it for the sanctions committee. College athletics is a very sleazy business, and you don’t get involved in two scandals like that by accident.
Anyway, let’s not hijack the thread with the Calipari debate.
Wake just beat Texas. A wake-up call for ACC doubters?
Dude. Knock it off. You’re detracting from an otherwise good thread.
Also. Last 9 seconds of regulation in the UT/Wake game: anybody else think the refs should have called something? I vaguely want Texas to win out of BigXII pride, even though I don’t think they’ll win the next game, but the WF guy driving the court got absolutely mugged.
Easily the best day one I can remember.
Texas travels on the last play of regulation, not called, then a bad call goes against Wake to send the game to OT.
Texas looks like they will run away with it, then Wake fights back… and another unbelievable shot. Normally that would be the shot of the day, but Murray State has that locked up.
Word. Calipari is a coach like any other in the big DIV-I programs, and he has a good team right now.
What a crazy first round. Lots of (to me) unexpected upsets. And by “lots of”, I mean two…ok, maybe three…
Granted, I’ve never much understood the popularity of this kind of conference vs. conference extrapolation to begin with, but an 8-9 matchup with Texas wasn’t exactly the most functional delegate they could have found from another power conference against whom to go proving a point, were they? The rest of the Big 12 kind of had its way with them lately, too.
I think it says more about the way Texas’ season fell apart. I’m an ACC fan who thinks it’s a distinct down year, but I still had Wake winning that one. I couldn’t see Texas suddenly turning things around in the tournament.
Montana is putting quite a scare into New Mexico, but UNM looks like it will survive…
Yeah, except Wake’s season fell apart at the end too. (They lost 5 of their last 6 games.)
Well, I did not do well on Day 1. Worst start I can remember in the last few years.
Bracket #1: 8 - 8 (2 Sweet 16 teams eliminated)
Bracket #2: 11 - 5 (2 Sweet 16 teams eliminated)
True. I just didn’t think that compared to Texas getting to number one in the country, and then turning into North Texas State and losing seven of nine. Regardless it was a day of wonderful basketball. Of the eight second-round matchups that were set up yesterday, seven involve a first-round underdog. The only pairing where both higher-seeded teams won is Kansas St. vs. BYU, and BYU needed double overtime to survive that one.
I don’t really think a #1 is going to lose, but if it were going to happen, Syracuse would be a mighty ripe target: they haven’t been great lately, they’re missing a key piece, and they’re playing Vermont, a team that has been in the tournament several times recently and even beat Syracuse a few years ago. I don’t think it’ll happen but I’ll be fractionally less surprised than I would be if it happened to anyone else.
Went 11-5 in the first day (Not bad considering)… lost 2 sweet 16’s (Thanks GTown, now I have an extra reason to hate the fuck out of your basketball program… Thanks Vandy)
I called both of the 9 over 8 games (The Wake win is more about Texas than Wake and I think UNI would go farther if they weren’t facing Kansas in the next roiund.)
4 of the 5 losses were those double digit seed upsets. (UTEP was the other loss as a 5-12 upset that didnt materialize)