I gotcha. I thought you were saying Painter was switching to a Calipari type plan.

There is no doubt Painter has it going on right now.

Meanwhile IU has 1 recruit for next year and seemingly not able to get anyone off the transfer portal.

Fire Mike Woodson!

Woodson puts in very little effort in anything but game prep. It's amazing they didn't fire him but he has influential friends. That's why you don't hire a legend to be your coach. Find a Painter who was at best an average player.

I'm as happy as I have been after any game this year.

UCONN is one of the all time great college teams. They had a great game plan and Purdue is a couple years from being able to match their NBA talent.

Should have NBA-ed it. If UConn is going to press Smith full court, you GOTTA blow by and park 3 guys on the 3 pt line. Have Edey high screen if need be and then trail.

I was frustrated when Edey kept kicking the ball back out to that Jerry Sichting motherfucker. I just wanted him to go straight at both UConn big guys. He almost fouled both of them out as it was.

Once the lead got to double digits it was too late for that strategy.

No doubt. And it may seem silly to say this the way the game ended up, but the atrocious foul call against Jones on what was OBVIOUSLY a charge really affected the game the last time Purdue was building any momentum.

No doubt. And it may seem silly to say this the way the game ended up, but the atrocious foul call against Jones on what was OBVIOUSLY a charge really affected the game the last time Purdue was building any momentum.

Looks like the Cal news is getting closer to being official.

It's a big get.

You know you'll get great talent

It is a HUGE hire, I am still shocked.

Only if Calipari has anything left in the tank, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Maybe Arkansas will get 2 good years out of him?

He's 65 years old.

Only if Calipari has anything left in the tank, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Maybe Arkansas will get 2 good years out of him?

He's 65 years old.

What exactly has Musselman won? Did not win conference at Arkansas and never got past the elite 8.

He is a charismatic guy that gets talent, but loses his appeal quickly and has to find a new gig.

Calipari has been a WAY better coach over his career.

No way is USC a better job than Arkansas.

What exactly has Musselman won? Did not win conference at Arkansas and never got past the elite 8.

He is a charismatic guy that gets talent, but loses his appeal quickly and has to find a new gig.

Calipari has been a WAY better coach over his career.

“Never got past elite 8”. There are probably 25 coaches in the college basketball HoF that never got past the elite 8. The game has changed incredibly in the past two years (NIL/ portal) much less the past 5 years.

Like Ben Howland has two final fours on his resume, you want to hire him to have his hand on the tiller at whatever school you are a fan of? Musselman worked four seasons on The Hill. He made the elite 8 2x and sweet 16 1x. That’s a coach you keep.

We aren’t trying to win games in 1999, we are trying to win in 2024. Cal has a lot to prove in the NIL/portal era.

Maybe he couldn’t get the money for the transfer portal, do we know Kentucky’s NIL budget. We know it was clearly a point of contention for him to come to Arkansas.

Sounds like to me he had to do all of the fundraising himself.

Hawg, Cal might be great in Fayetteville, I sure hope sure (I have my name in cement there), but I just would rather have Musselman. I think if they took care of him and he would have stayed, he could have had a 15+ year run of relevance there. We shall see.

They paid him elite money, he basically got what he wanted. He has since said so, it is why I made my comment earlier. I don’t think HE wanted to leave.