Post by CardHater on Dec 9, 2005 17:37:41 GMT -5
I love how everyone thinks it is just so easy to win as long as you are the coach at mighty Kentucky. Recruiting is easy cause everyone wants to come here. Winning is easy because we are Kentucky. Final Fours should happen every year because we are Kentucky.
I hate to burst everyones bubble, but that is about as realistic as flying unicorns. No program in any sport is that good period. It doesn't matter what the past is the future can always be different. The only guarentee of success is to stay on top of things and stay focused.
Only one of the ten best coaches in America could keep a team in the top ten every year no matter who that team might be. You are mildly dillusional if you think differently.
Look around the college basketball landscape and there are numerous examples. Indiana is bad right now because they have a bad coach. UNC was bad before Roy came because they had a bad coach. Kansas is going downhill because they have a bad coach. UCLA hasn't done much of anything since John Wooden because of bad coaching.
If Tubby were a bad coach UK would not be ranked at all much less maintain a top ten ranking just because they are Kentucky. Anyone who is coaching a lesser program is not going to just step in and magically take UK past Duke because they are now coaching at UK. The only thing that is going to make UK better than Duke is to hire a coach better than Coach K.
There are three coaches (Pitino, Izzo, and Williams) who might improve our situation and they aren't coming here anytime soon. So my suggestion to everyone is that you better be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Tubby will get a title well before firing him and hiring someone else will. Trust me. No one that is available is better.
I hate to burst everyones bubble, but that is about as realistic as flying unicorns. No program in any sport is that good period. It doesn't matter what the past is the future can always be different. The only guarentee of success is to stay on top of things and stay focused.
Only one of the ten best coaches in America could keep a team in the top ten every year no matter who that team might be. You are mildly dillusional if you think differently.
Look around the college basketball landscape and there are numerous examples. Indiana is bad right now because they have a bad coach. UNC was bad before Roy came because they had a bad coach. Kansas is going downhill because they have a bad coach. UCLA hasn't done much of anything since John Wooden because of bad coaching.
If Tubby were a bad coach UK would not be ranked at all much less maintain a top ten ranking just because they are Kentucky. Anyone who is coaching a lesser program is not going to just step in and magically take UK past Duke because they are now coaching at UK. The only thing that is going to make UK better than Duke is to hire a coach better than Coach K.
There are three coaches (Pitino, Izzo, and Williams) who might improve our situation and they aren't coming here anytime soon. So my suggestion to everyone is that you better be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Tubby will get a title well before firing him and hiring someone else will. Trust me. No one that is available is better.