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We’ll have more later on Calipari taking the UK job.
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March 31st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
WOOOOOO!
WELCOME TO BIG BLUE NATION COACH CAL!!!
We’ll be hanging banners soon!
March 31st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
=]
March 31st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
For better or worse…
Let the banners yet wave…
March 31st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I love my city.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/11573816 …..This is an amazing article.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
And we’ll get our website back! WOOOOOO!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:22 pm
proposed subjects for the live blog:
1. are uk fans crazy?
2. do uk fans have unrealistic expectations?
3. what will happen if coach cal doesnt take us to the championship game next week?
4. will matt ever get a decent haircut?
March 31st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
This is totally AWESOME! Banner #8 coming right up!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Live Blog with Coach Cal next week?
March 31st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
5)awesome, AWESOME article!!!!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
5) That article gets me hyped up. I’m ready for next season.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
remember this? –> http://bit.ly/APn0t <– Chaney to Calipari: “I’ll Kill You”
awesome
March 31st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Tyson, aren’t you late for your live chat at the Cards web site? I think they’re going to talk about the next U of L coach after he goes to Arizona.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Cal at the helm:
John Wall PG
Xavier Henry SG
Jodie Meeks SG
Patrick Patterson PF
Daniel Orton C
not to mention John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Nolan Dennis
March 31st, 2009 at 8:31 pm
@5 Doyel Rules!!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:31 pm
John Hood rather
March 31st, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Matt will do his live blog at 10 with comments that Coach Cal is making on the plane trip. Matt is currently undercover as a flight attendant. LOL.
Last Matt undercover joke on this. Promise.
Sounds great. Oh, to see my UL co-workers tomorrow who all said we’d never beable to hire another coach after firing Gillispie. Oh yeah, I since I’m off on MON-TUE they thought they were going to the final four too. Cant wait till tomorrow.
ON ON UK…..
March 31st, 2009 at 8:32 pm
tyson does hit a good point though. i hope the excitement of this hire doesnt spike the already unrealistic (at times) expectations even higher, to where people are gonna be pissed if we dont go to the final four next year. i really believe we are about 3 years away from being a true powerhouse again, but i hope like hell its alot sooner
March 31st, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Great Gobs of Goat Shit!!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:51 pm
thanks syrin but ill stay right here. i am happy that cal is here, just worried that we are all counting how many banners he will hang for us in the next 5 years (i think the concencus is 4 1/2) . doyel’s article doesnt help either.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Our team has really really sucked, and I believe the only remedy is a little more CAL-bell!!!!!!!!!!!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:53 pm
I will donate $100.00 for the upgrade the server fund!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:53 pm
I visit this site everyday and love it, but how the hell does a site that is supposed to be so big crash for two days. I know people want to say, there were so many people trying to get on that it crashed but geez guys, be prepared…Update your server….If you want to be the best for the love of God, get a site that can be visited…………………….That being said, damn fellas we got a lot to celebrate about…Ntl title talks with the potential recruits coming in!!!Greg Doyels article gave me chills!!!!!
March 31st, 2009 at 8:54 pm
13- I have a feeling he’ll make Bruce Pearl go off the edge…that is if Bruce doesn’t get scared and go to Arizona. lol
March 31st, 2009 at 8:54 pm
so fake gimel, what happend to KSR for the last 4 hours… i couldn’t access the site at all. I was afraid that i had broken the internet with my wild surfing all day… i guess i actually have to try to work tomorrow. I’m really going to miss that door. Good times.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Can’t wait for the pep rally.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:55 pm
This is going to make the McDonald’s All-American game MUCH more interesting.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Xavier Henry isn’t coming. I sort of expect wall to come. Cousins perhaps, Dennis perhaps. I’ve also heard a little about Eric Bledsoe (#67 on rivals…is #67 to low in the ranking anymore…). What about Hood, we’ve been waiting a long time for the home grown boy that can bomb the threes.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:55 pm
If Zona wants Bruce Pearl it wont be bc he’s a great coach, its because he can recruit..Lets be honest.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:56 pm
If Zona wants Bruce Pearl it wont be bc he’s a great coach, its because he can recruit..Lets be honest.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I’m about to move back to Kentucky for the sole reason of Kentucky basketball. I can’ take being away any longer. For what it’s worth, I do come across the occassional Cat fan in Colorado now and then.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Jerry Meyer of rivals said the other day that Eric Bledsoe is flirting with 5 star status, that’s how good he is. I’m about 100% that Nolan Dennis will follow Cal…he’s one of those 3 or 4 year college all-american type guards.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:01 pm
9:30 press conference tomorrow morning called by UK.
http://johnclay.bloginky.com/2009/03/31/uk-announces-press-conference/
March 31st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Good info Band. How will the schollie situation be handled? Aren’t we already over our limit. Tucker has already decommitted. Will Porter be back? Who else will be gone?
March 31st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
only UK fans could crash the internet
March 31st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
The SEC is really upgrading the coaches the last few years with Cal, Anthony Grant, Trent Johnson.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:03 pm
http://www.wreg.com/
I thought he would be in town already but this Memphis TV station is doing some serios surveilance at the airport
March 31st, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I just cracked open a new bottle of Elijah Craig small batch bourbon and toasted Coach Calipari. I’m in Northern Virginia and had to take this toast alone. I might have another one for him, too. Don’t judge.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:06 pm
according to that site, anderson re-signed with mizzou. i was hoping hed take the uga job
March 31st, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Anthony Grant is all over Bledsoe right now though.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Well, we all got what we wanted thank you Mr. Barnhart you gave the fans what we wanted. The first thing I liked was the fact he called Coach Hall to see what he thought about the job. Rick we all loved you but you broke our hearts when you left for Boston, and then Louisville of all places to show back up at. I forgive but that sure did hurt for a while. Coach Cal, keep it clean, bring us a championship maybe 2 and your name too will hang from the rafters of Rupp just don’t ever think of going to Louisville please.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:08 pm
22. NICE!!!!!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Can’t wait for the pep rally!!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:08 pm
o thank god the saga is finally over…I don’t think I could of handled another day of not knowing!!!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
UCLA’s national championship record will now be challenged!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:10 pm
11 to 7…watch out UCLA, here we come!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I am thinking about changing my name to pistolcalipari
March 31st, 2009 at 9:16 pm
this is the first time i have been able to get on here all day! this is the happiest uk fans have been since 1998
March 31st, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Thank you Coach Cal….You have come to the greatest city in all of America and the greatest basketball tradition of all time. Buy yourself a nice horse farm, a Porsche, & enjoy coaching the UK Wildcats
March 31st, 2009 at 9:19 pm
(and thank you Gods of KSR for letting me make that post)
March 31st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
I bet the Lexington realtors are creamin themselves right now…I bet the market to sell him a mansion is real competitive. lol
March 31st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
This is the greatest day in UK Basketball History.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:21 pm
50- I know he drives a very nice Audi.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:22 pm
The plane left Memphis at 9:07 P.M.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:22 pm
36–UK fans…and Chuck Norris
March 31st, 2009 at 9:23 pm
people are getting on the jet in memphis http://www.wreg.com/
March 31st, 2009 at 9:24 pm
the jet is moving, he is on his way here!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Our high school coach and his assistant told me he had been glued to the news all day. They are excited.
Just like Pitino caused lots of high schools to press and shoot the three,
this will have a tremendous effect on our high school basketball style and standards.Maybe
Kentucky will start producing more McDonald’s All-Americans because they know that
you will not make the uk team with subpar ability and talent.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:28 pm
http://www.zagsblog.com/2009/03/31/calipari-to-kentucky-recruits-in-fl ux/#more-14279
March 31st, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Dribble Drive Motion!
March 31st, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Is that RJ Cormans plane picking him up?
March 31st, 2009 at 9:31 pm
well he’s in the air and on his way here
March 31st, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Josh Pastner and Orlanda Antigua are two of the best recruiters in the game, and John Robic is one heck of an associate head coach, and Rod Strickland who has NBA experience is the director of operations…great staff.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Calipari’s in the air, a- air air a- air.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:44 pm
I bet Billy G has a house he can sell Cal…
March 31st, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Just think Memphis feels like we did a couple of years ago!! GOOD
March 31st, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I want to know what’s happening with the recruits and UK’s current players. I know it will take some time to sort out, but I can see it being really great, or really disappointing.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:04 pm
What a great day in Kentucky Basketball. I was beginning to sweat this thing, but man the possibilites are just endless. Last night the site was flooded with the “Moles” from the other programs pretending to be Cat Fans, declaring it to be “over”. Where are you now Loosers, on your way to Arizona Too?
March 31st, 2009 at 10:06 pm
#68-There was apparently lots of discussion relative to this in the negotiations. I hope it works out for everyone, but the bottom line is that some players will not be back next year, and I would think that at least a couple of future schollys will probably be pulled as well. Elite talent is now the order of the day, not mediocraty.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:20 pm
The 9:30 presser will be live on ESPNEWS in the morning.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Cal just landed at RJ Corman’s landing strip!! It has begun!!
April 1st, 2009 at 12:47 am
Exciting times Matt.Final Four is coming up………Wrestlemania is a few days away and………….WE GOT A GREAT COACH
April 1st, 2009 at 1:20 am
Love it 72 I watched the plane take off about 10 times Kentucky Basketball First Class all the way.