Heartless & Gutless

[SoulSr]

It's unbelievably tough. I imagine Pitino runs a good-cop, bad-cop routine with one of his assistants and Padgett was probably the good cop for these guys for the last 3 years. He was the one who was nice, accommodating, and encouraging when Pitino was ripping them to shreds. It's hard to turn into the other guy with the same players when they are going through an extremely stressful situation. It's especially hard when the other assistants were fired too and you have to bring in 2 guys they have never met to try to fill the other roles. If this team did something special it was going to be a miracle. They can still pull it together and make the tournament, but yesterday they were lost and quit in the second half. That's a gut check for everyone involved. It will be interesting to see how they respond.

I also was at the game and normally about 10% of the crowd in Rupp is wearing red. Yesterday that was more like 1 in 50 if even that much. I went 2 weeks ago to watch the Cats play Va Tech and they had more fans in Rupp than you all had yesterday so you need to get behind these guys if you want them to succeed as well. This is one Cat fan that will be pulling for you all the rest of the way. Good luck!

Most of us were in Jacksonville for a very important Football Game and the last chance to see the greatest UofL of all time.

 

[shutzhund]

I guess they're not as giddy as you are with RP getting the boot. (Imagine that) I get the feeling they could careless what you or any of the other fans that supported booting their coach thinks.

………or any fan cares or wants. Just as it should be.

 

[Card47]

Not to be the bad guy here...but the players had no choice. The timing of Pitino being fired, followed by Jurich...there was virtually no time to pick a coach...get a staff...and implement new offensive and defensive sets in place, so the players get operate. Not saying its any better, especially after yesterday's game...IMHO, I think they would be lucky to be 10 and 3. They were talking Tom Crean as interim...really? So, the players don't Padgett, because of the performance yesterday. Unfortunately, we are in a world that the high caliber players we get, could care less about the rivalry because of the one and done rule. What gets me, its works for Cal, but a Pitino didn't. Cal 10-2 , Pitino 2-9 and Padgett 0-1...and we don't who is coach next year. Tired of losing to the UK A-holes....need change.

I don't like Crean at all but at least he has head coaching experience.