[BelfryJustice]

Tubby Smith has been at UK for eight years and has had one final four apperance.

Rick Pitino was at UK for eight years and had three final four appearances, two national championship game apperances, and one national chamionship.

When Rick Pitino took over, UK was in a mess that was started by previous coach Eddie Sutton. In 1988-89, UK had a losing record (13-19) for the first time since 1926. The next year, Pitino took over as coach and turned the program around. He took UK to the national championship in 1996, and led them back to the national championship game in 1997.

When Tubby Smith took over, UK was on top. He won a national championship his first year, but in all reality, the only place for the UK program to go was down. UK isn't making the final for every year, but it is still one of the top programs in the country. I don't see what is making you think that UK is going down completely. Tubby has been at UK eight years, and I'm yet to see his teams perform bad enough to where a coaching change should be considered. Just because Tubby doesn't win the national championship every year (like every coach), doesn't mean that he is a bad coach.

Even if the UK program was in bad shape when Tubby came in, I'm sure he would have turned it around. Tubby was the head coach at Georgia before he came to UK, and in both of his years at Georgia, he took them to back to back 20 win seasons, which had never been done at that school before he coached there. The first year he made the NCAA tournament and reached the sweet 16, upseting #1 seeded Perdue to get there. Tubby lost all five starters from that team that reached the sweet sixteen and eight seniors. Even though he lost a lot of players from that team, he managed to lead the Bulldogs to a 24-9 record the next season, which ties the school record for wins in a season. If he can do that at Georgia, I'm sure if UK was in bad shape he could do that there as well.

I really don't get the point of that post other than saying Pitino has put up better numbers than Tubby at UK, but even though he has, Tubby is still keeping UK in contention for another title and he could possibly win another one sometime in the future. Even though Tubby may not be as great of a coach as Pitino was, he is still a great coach, and I'm glad he is the coach at UK.

I do respect your opinion, but I have never liked Tubby's style of coaching or recruiting! He isn't a bad coach! I just don't like him at UK and feel as if a change is needed! May be we don't see eye to eye, but just respect my opinion! Pitino did more for UK than most have and that is very true! No coach stays forever! Thank God, I have hope!

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