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[QUOTE=MrSplitshot;545391]Funny - I stood in my seat in Indy screaming that same thing. It was a coaching fail at the worst possible time. Players can get out played and coaches can get out coached. Cal got out coached.
Why we took the air out of the ball and held our testicles through 4 shot clocks is beyond my comprehension. Should have fed Karl...and we would have been playing Duke tonight. No question.
It wasn't the officiating. That has equally sucked for everyone here lately.
Oh well...[/QUOTE]
And yet he won COY honors........I honestly don't know how that happened........Lots of coaches infinitely better than him, including the coach that beat him.
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[QUOTE=psprowler;545396]I get what you're saying here but the problem is every time the dreaded "n" word and it's "a" or "er" variations are used you have to play the "context game". With the racial wedge that's currently being driven into this country it only worsens the situation. Only the person that utters the phrase knows what's in his/her heart at the time. In this day and age people hold down the turbo button when judging others. Half the people immediately start in with the "if a white person said that" rhetoric while the other half fall into the "aww no big deal term of endearment" camp. Why is all that even necessary? Why can't we come up with a slang phrase of endearment that doesn't require an "a" or "er" decoder ring? With social media this should be easily obtainable. As long as we continue on using the phrases we continue to earn the present day situation we have.[/QUOTE]
BINGO........
It means what it means......and will ALWAYS mean that. If you don't like it. Stop USING it. Simple.
What thoroughly disgusts me is the wanna be thugs using it. And then the wanna be white thugs using it. I can only imagine the beat down I'd get if I went up to a wanna be on the waterfront and said what up my n***a......
Yea, stop using it.....period. Let the word die.
Later,
Geo
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[QUOTE=GeoFisher;545425]BINGO........
It means what it means......and will ALWAYS mean that. If you don't like it. Stop USING it. Simple.
What thoroughly disgusts me is the wanna be thugs using it. And then the wanna be white thugs using it. I can only imagine the beat down I'd get if I went up to a wanna be on the waterfront and said what up my n***a......
Yea, stop using it.....period. Let the word die.
Later,
Geo[/QUOTE]
Reality is it will never die away. Hollywwod, rap thugs, gangs, wanna be tough guys all use the word or words. Sad.
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[QUOTE=GeoFisher;545424]And yet he won COY honors........I honestly don't know how that happened........Lots of coaches infinitely better than him, including the coach that beat him.[/QUOTE]
C'mon man...he took a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, taught them how to play together, selflessly, with limited minutes...wire to wire regular season AP #1...SEC regular season and tourney champs...went 38-0 with them before losing in the National Semi-Finals to a Wisconsin team that was **** good. Final Four in 4 out of the last 5 seasons. May put 5 kids in the NBA Draft this year.
As for the X's and O's lapse during the Wisconsin game when he should have called a timeout...even Michael Jordan missed a jump shot now and then...didn't mean he wasn't all-world at the game of basketball. Calipari deserved Coach of the Year. There were others deserving, but there can only be one.
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[QUOTE=MrSplitshot;545442]C'mon man...he took a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, taught them how to play together, selflessly, with limited minutes...wire to wire regular season AP #1...SEC regular season and tourney champs...went 38-0 with them before losing in the National Semi-Finals to a Wisconsin team that was **** good. Final Four in 4 out of the last 5 seasons. May put 5 kids in the NBA Draft this year.
As for the X's and O's lapse during the Wisconsin game when he should have called a timeout...even Michael Jordan missed a jump shot now and then...didn't mean he wasn't all-world at the game of basketball. Calipari deserved Coach of the Year. There were others deserving, but there can only be one.[/QUOTE]
OK....
Bo Ryan took a bunch of kids who were not heavily recruited by anyone. And their "superstar" didn't even start and rarely played the first 2 years at Wisconsin......Yet they beat a bunch of future NBA players, many of whom were touted the BEST in the country........
Yea, you tell me who is COY......
I'm just saying.
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I'm a Ky fan . The words and no handshakes were not cool, but this day and time there is 2 sets of rules. Not going to say anything else but it is what it is and its getting worse
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[QUOTE=GeoFisher;545457]OK....
Bo Ryan took a bunch of kids who were not heavily recruited by anyone. And their "superstar" didn't even start and rarely played the first 2 years at Wisconsin......Yet they beat a bunch of future NBA players, many of whom were touted the BEST in the country........
Yea, you tell me who is COY......
I'm just saying.[/QUOTE]
Bo is deserving...I like the guy...but if you want to play that game, those same Badgers also lost to Rutgers, Maryland, and Duke twice. Kentucky lost to no one, from last year's title game until this year's Wisconsin. The win against UK was epic, but one big win doesn't make you a shoe in for COY. The Badgers didn't set a new record for most consecutive wins in a single season. Kentucky's run was historic and they didn't do it beating patsies either...they beat ranked tourney teams...all while carrying a huge target on their backs.
Cal earned it.
