Bozich: Tubby makes a better Gopher...

[4chs]

This may have been discussed before (I've not followed all the Tubby threads) but it occured to me as I watched the game last night how many coaches have their sons on staff. Knight, Sampson, Smith, even Pitino to name a few. With the memory of how Saul was treated as a player, Tubby's move to Minnesota may have at least partially been to allow him to further Saul's career without the micro scrutiny of UK.

 

Saul could not legally coach at UK as long as Tubby was coaching there..............and this could have played into Tubby leaving.

[4chs]

So what was Pitino's?

UK fans loved him and he won BIG.

 

I liked Pitino's teams.....................but I always liked Tubby better than Pitino, but both are excellent coaches.

[mobaar]

Saul could not legally coach at UK as long as Tubby was coaching there..............and this could have played into Tubby leaving.

 

:confused: Never heard that before.

[Jim Schue]

:confused: Never heard that before.

 

It's an anti-nepotism law the state has in place, mostly to prevent "county empires" from being formed.

[Lucky Charms]

I agree Roy Williams has not won a title with players he recruited, and I thought as you said; many times he had the most talent in the nation and couldn't win a championship that's why I considered him a choke artist.

 

Most people with any basketball knowledge at all know that Tubby is a very good coach and person. What some of us believe is that he left UK in worse shape than he found it, and I'm not even going back to the championship years, but Tubby's best years. If he had left us with players like Bogans and Prince and Hayes and several other very good players he had recruited and coached we wouldn't have half the discussion we have.

:thumb:

Well of course he did. I have pointed out over and over and over and over, what UK did in 96 to 98 has happened like 6 times in the history of the NCAA (UK twice, UCLA's run, Cincinnati, Duke, Florida and San Fran). Any coach that took over from Rick at this twice reached peak in UK basketball history would have done the same thing.

 

If Gene Bartow would have won 2 National Championships at UCLA after John Wooden, the Bruin fans could have said that he left UCLA in worse shape than what John Wooden did.

 

If Tubby would have left Prince, Hayes and Bogans, it STILL would have been in worse shape than what he got. That was a special time in UK history that has ONLY OCCURRED one other time.

You should have bolded the entire sentence. I don't believe he was talking about the national championships, I think he was talking about just being able to compete on a national scale. Which UK didn't do the last two years and won't be doing this year.