Yeah I went and looked it up assuming something vaguely shaped like a swastika. There’s no way that is an oopsy was just moving my hand around randomly!
Well my hypothetical college basketball season is already ruined
https://twitter.com/BigBlueNat1on/status/1328173173490278402
Anyone catch this today? Crazy that the dude is fine.
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And now your actual college basketball season is working on ruining itself.
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It was going to happen sooner or later but Dan is leaving ESPN in January.
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Came to post this as I’ve finally figured out how to download the podcast lol
https://www.si.com/media/2020/12/03/dan-le-batard-will-be-leaving-espn-early-next-year
Fuck ESPN seriously, just such a travesty that we have to go through these goddamned deplorable dickwads to access so many of our sportballs. It really truly is like if Home Depot or IBM was a sports network. Total trash on every level.
I see there is no college basketball thread. Let’s leave it that way.
Holy hell, they lost again?
After Evansville last year I set myself up to not be crushed if UK lost to Richmond. After all Richmond is likely going to make the NCAA tournament.
But not just losing to Georgia Tech, getting absolutely smacked by them is something else. Their first two games were losses to Georgia State and Mercer.
The single biggest problem with Calipari right now isn’t that he recruits one and dones. It’s insanity to argue against him recruiting the best. The problem is currently two fold
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He hasn’t been landing the elite of the elite. Merely the elite. Three best teams UK has had under Cal 10,12,15. What do those teams have in common? #1 draft picks. We were after Zion, thought we had a good chance at him. Man that team easily titles with Zion.
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The one and done culture. UK just doesn’t have many players sticking around after two years because they feel like a failure. Either they transfer or go play internationally instead of being a four year player. That is the massive problem Calipari has failed to deal with. But I don’t have an easy answer.
Yeah I don’t have an easy answer to that one. It does feel like Cal needs to do a better job of almost a two-track recruiting process. Go after one and dones, bring in anywhere from 4-6 per year, then recruit a few 3-4 star guys every year that you bring in with the intention of playing 4 years and accepting that they’ll be role players on a successful team.
It’s just a really hard sell to guys IMO where you basically never give them the promise of being the star player, and even guys who are fringe top 100 prospects think they can achieve that and will go elsewhere where they aren’t overshadowed by the incoming recruits every year.
As is, Cal is just rolling the dice every year of whether or not the new crop of guys is ready for big time college basketball. Some are and some aren’t.
ACC getting absolutely crushed by the B1G
LMAO Kansas State just lost to an 0-3 Division 2 school.
In ten years, he’s got like 4 final fours and shipped it once. That’s seems pretty good. Granted, he hasn’t done much in the last five years, but maybe that’s just variance. Unless the thinking is that he has gotten worse at recruiting in the last five years. I guess that’s possible. I don’t really follow NCAA Basketball until March.
Yeah his first 5 years so much better than next 5 years. But I’m an old enough UK fan to remember going from 98-11 without a final four. So I’m not upset at all about the last 5 years.
I listened to the Georgia Tech post game show. There were callers going I hope this is Cal’s last year. Lets get Brad Stevens or Billy Donovan. Yeah my fanbase is fucking insane.
Calipari is my fucking coach. I just want him to find a way to get some four year players. Number of scholarship four year players not from Kentucky under Cal…I think the list is Alex Poythress.
Looks like someone fixed that problem with an OP that I’m not sure you can argue the team doesn’t deserve.
India all out for 36 2nd innings against the Ozzies - lowest test score since NZ were 26ao in 1955.
Sounds like a wild baseball game!
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Darts without a crowd is not darts
Better to be bored stiff than stiff as a board.
Cheers m8
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How is there no 1 pm playoff game today. crazy?
And hi, first post here
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