[alfus21]

This is the UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY People. AND WE ARE ACCEPTING 4 STAR RECRUITS AS IF WE LANDED A PRIZE PLAYER. We use to average 2-3 5 STAR recruits every year. And yeah I have reasons for Tubby to be fired, you know winning 26 games a year isn't evidently enough because we NEVER EVEN MAKE IT TO THE FINAL 4 anymore. When was the last time? EXACTLY the year Pitino's team with Tubby coaching it made it and won it in 1998. That's right 1998 was the last FINAL FOUR appearance! I was 2 years out of High School! I am glad winning all of these regular season games is enough for some of you, but if you are ANY KIND OF competitor whatsoever, then nothing less than a championship season is a failure. But hey, let's keep on winning 18-24 games a year, then hang it up and talk about the SAME OL' CRAP! "Please quit saying we should fire Tubby, he is a good coach, blah blah blah blah blah"!

Heck yes we are accepting 4-star recruits as if they are prize players...If you knew anything about the situation you'd know that Jasper is the 5th best point guard in the nation coming in to UK next year....Meeks is the 8th best shooting guard in the nation coming in next year...Stevenson is the 15th best power foward coming in...That sounds pretty good to me right there...You won't accept pefectly fine recruits like that, yet you're the same person who would beg Tubby to recruit a "zero" star recruit like Chris Lofton....Speaking of "5 star recruits" and bringing in 2 or 3...That's exactly what Tubby done last year and now he's getting blistered for it...It's a lose-lose situation with some UK fans.."5 Star" recruits aren't good enough, then "4 Star recruits" area step down despite all 3 being unreal basketball players, but EVERYBODY knew that Lofton was going to be a great high school player..Tubby had been burnt on Kentucky Mr. Basketballs before "a la Stockton/Carrier", and UK fans hated him for bringing the Kentucky boys in so he passes and then turns out Lofton was a diamond in the rough, that even Pitino the great didnt' want to have...26 wins a season are great to me, and Tubby winning the SEC every year but this one is fine with me, because the final four means NOTHING unless you win it all, which only 1 team has down twice since 1998 and that's UCONN..Even with all the great teams Duke has had being ranked #1 every year they only have 1 over the last 10 seasons....People need to realize that National Championships don't just fall in your lap...Kentucky went almost 20 years without one before 96, and then won in 98 and fans got spoiled...

your exactly right playboy, and you WILL get bashed for saying that....but you are absolutely 100% correct. It seems that going to the sweet 16 is like winning a national championship to a lot of fans. As I have said a hundred times, Tubby is a great guy, a GOOD coach, but he DOES NOT fit Kentucky. Yes you will win your 25 or 26 games every year, win the SEC tourney every now and then, but having good regular seasons dont win championships. Ask the team that won 26 straight games, had CLEARLY more talent than the Dwayne Wade Marquette team and got the daylights pounded out of them. Oh well, this season isnt done either, they still have three more conf. losses to take before the season ends (Tennessee, Florida, and LSU).

The team that lost to Marquette was a great team, but you forget that Bogans was injured that game...When one of your team's leading scorers is ailling then it makes it a lot harder to beat a Marquette team that was actually pretty tough, with Dwayne Wade, and several guys that couldn't miss 3 pointers...Season isn't over yet, so don't count the losses yet...