"You don't fire Pitino Lite for barely making the Final Four with 8-9 five-star guys. But you sure as hell don't list that on his coaching resume. LPT was the #1 overall seed and set up to easily make the Final Four. Barely getting there was hardly a great accomplishment.
And the year before, losing control of 7-8 five-star guys during the regular season so badly that they surprised the hell outta everyone making a deep tourney run doesn't qualify either. Your in-game coach should have never been in that situation.
Simply put, the talent you've recruited is way too high to just win easy games, eke out others, and/or rise from ashes that you should have never been in."
....wow....where to begin...this pretty much solidifies that no matter what level of winning UK may achieve, Zipp will go to great lengths to discredit those wins, in any way his imagination can conjur up.
"....barely making the Final Four"...apparently the term 'FINAL Four' holds no meaning for him....unless of course we look back to 2005, when RP first 'barely made it to the Final Four'... then, of course...it 'mattered'.
"#1 overall seed"? Sure didn't look like it.....did you even see Duke's bracket?
"losing control of 7-8 five star guys during the regular season so badly that they surprised the hell outta everyone making a deep tourney run doesn't qualify either."
.....Wow....this might be your wildest theory yet. Forget that Florida was awfully good that year, or that this team wasn't nearly as deep as last season's team. You just take the easy (lazy) way out on admitting they were actually pretty damned good by tournament time and just blame Cal. This team that you're making a lame attempt at analyzing came together at the right time, beat Kansas St., Wichita St., Uofl (without WCS more most of the game), Michigan and Wisconsin......AS AN 8 SEED.
It's blatantly obvious...even in UK had gone 40-0 last year, you'd still be here, saying all they had were "easy wins".
And the year before, losing control of 7-8 five-star guys during the regular season so badly that they surprised the hell outta everyone making a deep tourney run doesn't qualify either. Your in-game coach should have never been in that situation.
Simply put, the talent you've recruited is way too high to just win easy games, eke out others, and/or rise from ashes that you should have never been in."
....wow....where to begin...this pretty much solidifies that no matter what level of winning UK may achieve, Zipp will go to great lengths to discredit those wins, in any way his imagination can conjur up.
"....barely making the Final Four"...apparently the term 'FINAL Four' holds no meaning for him....unless of course we look back to 2005, when RP first 'barely made it to the Final Four'... then, of course...it 'mattered'.
"#1 overall seed"? Sure didn't look like it.....did you even see Duke's bracket?
"losing control of 7-8 five star guys during the regular season so badly that they surprised the hell outta everyone making a deep tourney run doesn't qualify either."
.....Wow....this might be your wildest theory yet. Forget that Florida was awfully good that year, or that this team wasn't nearly as deep as last season's team. You just take the easy (lazy) way out on admitting they were actually pretty damned good by tournament time and just blame Cal. This team that you're making a lame attempt at analyzing came together at the right time, beat Kansas St., Wichita St., Uofl (without WCS more most of the game), Michigan and Wisconsin......AS AN 8 SEED.
It's blatantly obvious...even in UK had gone 40-0 last year, you'd still be here, saying all they had were "easy wins".