LCPT Final Four: John Calipari vs. Tim Fuller
by Mike Rutherford on Jun 20, 2011 11:16 AM EDT
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PrintJOHN CALIPARI
How They Got Here:
Defeated Digger Phelps (67-32%)
Defeated David Baker (65-34%)
Rap Sheet:
--Consistently took shots at Louisville and Rick Pitino.
--Consistently took shots at the Big East.
--Consistently took shots at those who didn't praise his every move (enough).
--Blamed bad SEC losses on Kentucky being "everyone's Super Bowl."
--Didn't win a national championship.
TIM FULLER
How They Got Here:
Defeated Jeff Goodman (69-30%)
Rap Sheet:
--Served as an assistant under Rick Pitino during the 2010-2011 season.
--Bolted for Missouri and friend Frank Haith less than a month after the season had ended.
--His departure sparked a mass shuffling of the coaching staff, the decommitments of Rodney Purvis and (partially) Negus Webster-Chan, as well as the end of the Tony Woods saga.
--Landed George Goode.
--Is now recruiting Chicken Knowles.
Only one moves on to play for it all. Voting ends in 48 hours.
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Cal is just Cal. He is supposed to screw us over.
Fuller was probably doing dirty things and took our prized recruit with him to Missou.
(I voted for FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLEEEEERRRRRRRR ©® TM
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by HorsePig55 on Jun 20, 2011 11:23 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I agree.
The vote here is Fuller. Cal deserves to win every year, but that would just get old. Fuller really threw a wrench in what was supposed to be a very bright recruiting class. He is so not cool.
by Cardinals Cardinals UofL Cardinals! on Jun 20, 2011 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Plus....
……Cal is a cinch for the Lifetime Achievement Award so Fuller should get the win for a single year of doing shit.
No one is ever less cool than Calipari. A bag of used condoms is more cool.
by LouisDBrandeis on Jun 20, 2011 11:23 AM EDT reply actions
I was living under a rock until the LCPT tourney
Had no idea what Fuller looked like until the first round. I still voted for him because I couldn’t stand to see a vacated Least Cool Person Tournament.
A vote for Fuller is a vote for Bender.
by Leigh on Jun 20, 2011 11:42 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Fuller screwed us, but that wasn't his intent.
He may have actually been nudged to leave as well if RP or other staff found out about some unsavory recruiting methods. I think RP was probably happy to be able to wash his hands of Tony Woods. I have a feeling Fuller really pushed Woods on Rick. Also, Fuller was a Cardinal. I voted for him last round against Goodman, but against Cal? Nope. Rival coach who always acts like an asshole wins my vote.
ALL HAIL
by Cardinal_Pride on Jun 20, 2011 11:43 AM EDT reply actions
Agree to disagree
If there were unsavory recruiting methods, that sabotages our entire program, which in my eyes makes Fuller infinitely less cool than Cal. Cal can bitch and moan and show his ass all he wants, but at the end of the day he has no measurable effect on our program. And even if Pitino was happy to wash his hands of Woods, he definitely was not happy to lose Purvis and Webster-Chan (who cited the coaching instability as a primary factor for decommitting). Also, I got the feeling that Fuller leaving took Pitino by surprise. Leaving a job like that with no notice after less than a full calendar year is definitely not cool.
Good points.
But I can’t change my vote andCal is still a douche.
ALL HAIL
by Cardinal_Pride on Jun 21, 2011 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions
If it isn't Calipari v Bender in the championship
we don’t deserve to see Chicken Knowles play for Louisville.
How could Chicken not want to play in the YUM / KFC Arena?
It would be different if our arena was the Chick Fil-A Arena.
Recruiting Chicken put Fuller over the top.
Yes, that is Kyle Kuric
by TheRealSlimShady on Jun 20, 2011 11:56 AM EDT reply actions
I'm pissed @ Fuller too but
why are we saying he landed George Goode at Mizzou? Goode was free to go wherever he chose. I tried to get a freind of mine to recruit him to his school halfway through the season once I found out we were treating him as a senior. However it appears George wants to continue to play at a big school, with a coach he knows (kind of).
by ville 606 on Jun 20, 2011 1:18 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
As several people have already stated, it's Calipari's job to get over on us. He's the head coach of our rival. Fuller essentially cost us an entire year of recruiting relationships.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLEEEEEEER, BY A NOSE.
by Chick-Stratino'sUrDaddy on Jun 20, 2011 1:25 PM EDT reply actions
I'll have....the chicken
- Dave Chappelle
by Cambroni Cardinals on Jun 20, 2011 1:29 PM EDT reply actions
come on cards fans
classy votes here
let fuller go, the winner of this will lose to Bender anyway…
Cal vs. Bender is somehow MORE classy….
wait, now this is getting creepy, i miss the hottest bro competition, at least that was a corporate sponsored event
Anybody else think its a little lame to vote the other team's coach as LCP?
If they didn’t this at KSR- what would be your response?
by johnnyjoejohnson on Jun 20, 2011 1:59 PM EDT reply actions
If he wins, I'll never try to argue we aren't obsessed with Kentucky.
If we can’t find anyone less cool in everything releted to UL than John Calipari, I’ll give up and admit, that yes, as UL fans, we are totally obsessed with Kentucky. I don’t say this lightly- it will be a sad day for me, indeed.
by johnnyjoejohnson on Jun 20, 2011 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions
It has nothing to do with "obsession" about UK.
I don’t hate UK. Calipari’s another matter entirely. Calipari wins this one hands down if for other reason that Tim Fuller has never, to my knowledge, said anything snotty about Siva or any other player, and Calipari has. That crack about Bledsoe being in the NBA while Siva’s still in college – as if something is wrong with that – really burned me up. The fact that Calipari’s at UK has nothing to do with it. The fact that he takes cheap shots at kids (let alone Pitino, Louisville, and the Big East) has EVERYTHING to do with it. (I didn’t even have to consider the trash talking he did to Delk the year before that. After all, this tournament’s only for the last year.)
"If for no other reason than..."
Jeez, why don’t I proofread these things BEFORE I post them??
He's a dick for sure.
I dislike the man as much as anyone, and I might be wrong with the way I’m looking at this. But, something about him winning this contest seems like admiting that it is really not cool seeing him in the state, and its hard not to think this is in part due to his 2-0 record at UK against UL and his elite-8/final four in his first two years.
Personally, I hate UK, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Its human nature. And, I dislike Cal because he’s at UK. His comments about UL are a kind of act, IMO. He knows that he coaches a team with the most obsessed/classless fanbase in america. If he came out and said, “peyton siva’s mother is a whore,” the UK fan base would say, “give ’em hell, coach!” So, I don’t blame him for playing them like that. And, I really don’t give a shit what he says about UL because 99.9% of what comes out of his mouth is insincere.
by johnnyjoejohnson on Jun 21, 2011 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions
I submit for your consideration that noone is obsessed with Cal because
it is he who keeps getting in our faces and flapping his jaw.
It doesn't matter.
“Too much Bender breaks Cal. Brandon Bender is the Least Cool Person of the Year.”
ALL HAIL
by Cardinal_Pride on Jun 21, 2011 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions
This one is Easy
Calipari the big mouth cheater gets my vote. In fact I’m going to create 4 more IDs and vote for him a few more times.
I struggled over this one.
If it turns out Fuller was up to something shady and it winds up burning UofL, he will become the least cool person of the century. But I’ve changed jobs before, as have most people. I can’t fault him just for leaving, no matter what a head-scratcher it was, and no matter what the impact on certain recruits.
Calipari, on the other hand, has been mouthing off. A lot. And he has singled out UofL as the target of much of his arrogant blathering. And on top of that, he seems to go after some recruits for no other reason than to tweak Pitino. I went with Cal on this one just because being such a huge jerk is uncool.
"...and the present, for us, is something that we really look forward to."
- Rick Pitino
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