January 6, 200818 yr Hey wait a second shouldn't we be blaming this thing on Billy Donovan???:jump: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
January 6, 200818 yr :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Kentucky fans will miss the 20 win seasons and Sweet 16's... I'll give you the 20 win seasons, but I already miss the Sweet Sixteens. Haven't seen those in a couple of years already....
January 6, 200818 yr After the game I stubbed my toe. At first I thought it was my own clumsiness, but then I remembered. TUBBY!!!!! CURSE YOU TUBBY, my toe hurts.
January 6, 200818 yr If Tubby had takin his teams to the final four every year people would still be calling for his Job...UK basketball is all or nothing...:creepy:
January 6, 200818 yr This is tired....Tubby isn't the basketball coach at UK anymore, its time to stop bringing him up after every loss
January 6, 200818 yr If Tubby had takin his teams to the final four every year people would still be calling for his Job...UK basketball is all or nothing...:creepy: :thumb: Tubby is doing pretty good now...
January 6, 200818 yr A pretty dumb statement, Tubby ruined UK basketball! Nothing else needs to be said!
January 6, 200818 yr Tubby didn't ruin anything. He just turned a top 10 basketball program into a mid-major program. UK is still a competitive mid-major though, so I won't say that Tubby ruined the program.
January 6, 200818 yr Tubby didn't ruin anything. He just turned a top 10 basketball program into a mid-major program. UK is still a competitive mid-major though, so I won't say that Tubby ruined the program. Yeah, you're right... I didn't know that if you took a team to the NCAA tournament every single year you were there, then you turned it into a mid-major. I didn't know that if you won over 260 games in 10 years, that you turned them into a mid-major. He won them 5 SEC championships too. He took them two 6 Sweet 16's, the Elite 8 4 times, and won them a championship. But the man ruined Kentucky basketball...
January 6, 200818 yr So has Georgia Basketball been better off without Tubby? No I guess not, they never were able to recover from the Smith era hope we can, just kidding, but can you really truthfully say, Tubby left KY in anywhere near as good as shape as it was when he got here? Not even close. IMO no one ran Tubby off to the North he knew what was coming and hit the ground running. Smart man he knew he would come off smelling like a rose no matter what happened at UK. The way its going now, even better for him.
January 6, 200818 yr UK has moved backwards the past few years and it has finally caught up with us. It's all fixable. Just not an over night fix. If you are expecting that, might not wanna watch a game this year or next.
January 6, 200818 yr Author Tubby was a good coach I give that to him. But the guy could not recruit at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wasn't he the one that let Chris Lofton go? Isn't he the one who recruited Shagari Alien, Morris, Rondo (who both turned out to be wastes of scholarships), Orbzut, and many more players who turned out to be really nothing? This is a rebuilding year and once Billy G. recruits more players that has the potential just like Patterson and fit his style of coaching, the program will be turned back around for the good.
January 6, 200818 yr Tubby Smith averaged around 27 wins a year, won a National Championship (and please don't use the "with Pitino's players crap excuse Tubby was on that staff as well and although not the head coach he had a hand in coaching that team AND recruiting some of them), Tubby had something like a 76% win pct. I believe w/o looking it up, Went to I believe three elite 8's, was a bad ankle one year away from and another - an overtime away from another that would have made two more final fours, was in the NCAA every season and advanced at least a couple of rounds in all of them but one or two I belive (again, I haven't looked it up). I know that just the first two or three rounds is not good enough for U.K., is not for me either but there has to be some being realistic. Pitino's teams had a run that may never be seen again as far as the talent on his teams for a stretch of a few years. That kind of talent dosn't come around all the time for anyone. Should Pitino had let Derek Anderson play in that championship game when the Dr.'s and Anderson's family gave him the o.k. then imo U.K. would have no doubt won another NC and U.K. would have had a three peat (96,97 &98)! : Lets blame sommeone for that while we are at it. As for Tubby, the man can flat out coach basketball............Period! How long is he going to be blamed for losses at U.K., I have said numerous times on here that there will be some of the bashers that are NEVER satisfied with anyone or anything no matter who it is and that will be blaming U.K. losses on OTS 10 years from now . To those people I would say...."Get Over Rick Pitino"!! He is not at U.K. anymore and hasn't been for quite some time. Some of these same people were against OTS from the day that he was hired at U.K., they deny it but that does not change the fact. There has been mention on this thread of blaming Joe B. Hall, heck, Why Not and while we are at I am sure that Adolph Rupp had a hand in this as well from the grave :eek::lol:! I also want to say that I support Billy Gillispie as well, he is our coach. I am not bashing him at all. I just get sick of all the Tubby bashing that is still going on after the man is gone, is imo ridiculous. I know one thing, Tubby did not inherit near the talent at Minn. than what is here and he left at U.K. and the man is 10-3. Yes, he has played a weak schedule but as I and others have said I am not looking for San Diego, Stoney Point or Gardner Webb to make any final 4's anytime soon. O.K., I am done with my rant now :lol:......carry on. :thumb:
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