John Calipari Is Overrated

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Did you think Joe Torre was the best manager of all time? Or was he lucky enough to be managing the Yankees? And when you have the Yankees' roster, is making the playoffs a success story? Losing the World Series?

Fair point, and I'm not saying that Cal is the best coach in the country....but on the flipside I don't think ANYONE really thinks of him like that. So as far as him being overrated, I guess it depends on where you feel people are rating him :yeshrug:

A lot of times I think he gets too little credit because he's working with such elite talent.
 

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nah, he's not overrated cause he's not rated highly as a coach in the sense of systems, x & o's, etc...he's highly rated as a recruiter and motivator, which is very deserving, but that's about it...
 

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Did you think Joe Torre was the best manager of all time? Or was he lucky enough to be managing the Yankees? And when you have the Yankees' roster, is making the playoffs a success story? Losing the World Series?
Joe Torre had a bunch of paid veterans. John Calipari has a bunch of paid freshmen. Big difference.
 

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So getting 5 Freshman to a national title is the sign of an overrated coach now? :wtf:

I know y'all hate Cal b/c he's a sleazeball, but he's one of the best coaches in the nation EASILY
These dudes literally don't know how much fukking work it is to get 5 fukking freshman every year to play ball like men. Cal is literally falling apart physically while trying to keep this team together lol. Whatever though. Sure, he's overrated.
 

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Fair point, and I'm not saying that Cal is the best coach in the country....but on the flipside I don't think ANYONE really thinks of him like that. So as far as him being overrated, I guess it depends on where you feel people are rating him :yeshrug:

A lot of times I think he gets too little credit because he's working with such elite talent.

I think he underachieved to such an extent that his run to the title game looked amazing. When in reality he took his 60% of the top 10 recruits team to a mediocre regular season and another year without a title.

I don't think he's garbage by any means. But damn... Give Belein or Smart that level of talent and you just might get a 37-3 juggernaut. Cal just lost to a second year coach with significantly worst talent on his side. That means something.
 

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he took UMass to the final four, made Memphis a national power, and 3 Final 4's for Kentucky....

Kansas, Duke, North Carolina, etc get the same talent as Kentucky.... :camby: reactionary fans

no, they not getting the same talent he's getting...they might get 2 maybe 3 top players a year, this cat gets 5-6 at a time...i mean, you do realize this was rated as the best recruiting class ever right?....he had 5 outta the top 10-15...it was even more highly rated than the fab 5, just think about that for a sec...

on a side note: if he could talk all them into coming back, they'd go undefeated, easily....that's how much potential talent this team has...
 

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I think he underachieved to such an extent that his run to the title game looked amazing. When in reality he took his 60% of the top 10 recruits team to a mediocre regular season and another year without a title.

I don't think he's garbage by any means. But damn... Give Belein or Smart that level of talent and you just might get a 37-3 juggernaut. Cal just lost to a second year coach with significantly worst talent on his side. That means something.
I'm guessing he should have went out there and shot the fukking free throws for them. I like you, breh, but you've got no fukking clue how hard it is to get a team of 5 dumb freshman to play together.
 

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All y'all defending Cal, answer me this...

if Cal is such an great coach, what happened with the Nets??
 
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