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he has taken the same level of talent to the dance 3 years running. To say he doesn't develop talent is crazy. Does Calipari develop talent? He has a whole team of 1 and doners. 1 thing MC has done is get the most out of his players. The question is can he get the better players?
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I don't blame him, players like to romanticize the past. People like to forget, but the last two years of Huggins, Cincinnati was #14 and #34 in adjusted OFFENSE respectively...
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Let's make this a simple percentage breakdown. Let's say 50% of his job is coaching and 50% is recruiting. (I realize it is much more complex than this, but it's just for discussion's sake) You keep reiterating that he doesn't have the talent. It's his job to get it!!!! Even if he's the best coach in world he's failing in the other 50% if what you say is true. (That he's a fine coach, just doesn't have the horses.) The fact of the matter is the team continues to have the same struggles. You can blame this on recruiting or coaching. Personally I think it's a combination of both. While neither area is awful I think both need vast improvement. There is simply no excuse to see what we're seeing in YEAR EIGHT. We don't have a single player on this roster that can play with their backs to the basket. We're seeing the same offensive sets we've seen all along. Recruitn a different type of player!!!! Coach them up to play a different style!!! Do something, anything!!!! It's not working!!!! It hasn't changed!!!! Unless you're content with being a a middling team, usually ranking anywhere from the 25-60 range, and sneaking into the tourney as a 6-10 seed at about a 50-60% clip, then it might be time to consider moving on. Year 10 will be here before you know it. Exactly how long before we can expect to see different results? At what point can we reasonably say "This is pretty much who we are and what we can expect"? I think we can say it right now. This program just isn't very good. While Mick is not a terrible coach and he did do a good job bringing this team back from nothing, a lot of people are going to want more. UC is routinely considered one of the top 20 programs of all time. This isn't good enough. These type of results would coaches fired at plenty of places with similar or lesser resources than us, and with way less of a history and pedigree. So why is it acceptable here? Because of what happened damn near a decade ago? I'm so tired of the excuses. I don't know how saying he doesn't have the talent isn't a knock on the job he's doing. What else could it be? Rant over....
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When you have only been to the 2nd weekend of the tournament ONCE since 1996 there is nothing mediocre about making the Sweet 16 two years ago.
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