Darius Miller Believes in Pope, Urges Fans to Support Team

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1. This game won't be decided by talent, effort, or execution; it will be decided by this team having a "come to Jesus" meeting about what's going on with them. They don't trust each other and they don't like each other. They don't care about winning for Kentucky; they only care about getting in the NBA! Pope needs to lay down the law…you either play my way or you are off the team! Sadly, I don't think he has the stones to do that. It looks like it's time to hire a new head coach.

   1. Ditto Barry, that's what I thought too.

2. Miller said they are young kids that haven’t figured it out yet? That’s a crock of BS!! With his comments that shows even more that the problem falls on the Head Coach and the Assistant Coaches! Old Mitch needs to be looking at a coaching replacement, all of the coaching staff has failed. Why wait til the end of probably the worse season ever… I’ll wait until the end of the season to see what happens. I’m not wasting time watching anymore or reading about this team of spoiled kids.

3. This team needs the fan base now more than ever. If you think they like losing by any number of points you’re crazy. It is tough to watch and yes they need a players only meeting but they need a fanbase to also get them through the tough times. I believe this team can be great but if everyone is ready to throw in the towel that is crazy.

4. Some UK fans take things to far. Basketball is like a religion to them. How about just getting behind this team and support them and give Coach a chance right now. Pope has not been here long enough to fire him, and he is dealing with injuries to key players. They under estimate him. He will get this team in gear in time if fans support through thick and thin. These UK basketball fanatics were all singing his praises when he first got here, now that he has lost a couple big games they fade like a winter rose. This is worse than the poor play we saw from these UK players against Gonzaga. UK is fast becoming a football school anyway, I love it. It was time to move on from Coach Stoops, but coach Stoops still did much good for UK football. I say build that statue. Get off Coach Pope's case and give him a reasonable chance. At times the talking heads of KSR are a disgrace A bunch of whinny cry babies.

   1. Larry Pup, Some of our fans can't take the bad that comes with it. Yeah its ugly right now, the thing is weather this team can turn it around that's the next question mark. There's lot of healing that's need to be done to correct the players if we going have a somewhat successful season. But there's always next year if not.

   2. Not fair Pup. Most of BBN supported Pope through the double digit losses last year and he came through with a Sweet 16 appearance in the Dance. The second season is supposed to be a step up. Many were calling this a Final 4 team, especially after beating Purdue. All of BBN was behind Pope. But then came the loss to Georgetown which did not count but was ugly as hell. Then we get bitchslapped by Louisville and destroyed by Michigan State. We QUIT and lost to North Carolina, then got embarrassed by Gonzaga. That is 5 quad 1 losses in a row! BBN has every right to be mad a Pope. He and his team are not earning their pay! This stink is going to stay with us for a long time. It has already shut down 2026 recruiting…no kid wants to jump into this shitshow. If Pope wants some slack, he needs to win a couple of Quad 1 games. If things don't change, we will finish the SEC with a sub 500 record, have a losing season, be one and done in the SEC tourney, miss the Big Dance, and most likely miss the NIT. If Pope wants to change this narrative, then he needs to start winning. You don't come to Kentucky to have double digit losses, but we did cut him some slack last year and he won a couple of games in the Dance. You don't dare have back to back double digit losing seasons, injuries be damned, this team is 13 deep…that's Billy Clyde territory! If Pope wants a break from the pressure, he can earn it by beating Indiana and St. John's. Anything short of that is going to cause the noose around his neck to get pretty tight.

   3. Yea you're right, some of our UK fans definitely take things too far–for example, saying that Mark Stoops should have a statue built and that UK is a football school.

5. Yeah and if you fire Coach Pope now, what happens to this season then, and even next year? I say ride it out, support the team and see what happens. Pope is one of UK's own, he has earned the chance to stay at UK for a reasonable amount of time IMO. No need for a nervous breakdown in year two over a basketball team with a ton of youth on the floor, life's to short.

   1. I say let Pope finish the season. We will have to win the SEC tourney to get into the Big Dance. If he can do that and make it to a regional final, he keeps his job. If not, it's time to move on.

6. Most of the NIL recipients of UK NIL funds have been primarily influenced by the woke wave that undermined teaching students to think, reason, exercise integrity and work with others as a team instead of being a selfish individual.

   Coach Pope & his staff rapidly built & deployed an amazing TEAM 1st assembly of players who played FOR UK & FOR EACH OTHER during the 2 exhibition games and the initial 5 to 7 regular season games.

   THEN, some of the key players who had gained the position to get the most minutes began to play as selfish individuals. Nit slowly got worse as the season went by.

   UK started 11-1
   Then It was 13-11 the ear of the way as the Team 1st mentality slipped away with selfish play becoming apparent through the A:TO stats and the losses.

   This season the players did not even last more than 1 exhibition game before dropping the TEAM 1st Coach Pope style of play!

   MOST OF THOSE WEARING UK on their jersey could care less about UK or even the others in the locker room room.

   Just look at the Kentucky State Seal:
   UNITED WE STAND
   DIVIDED WE FALL.

   Unfortunately only a few players have the integrity, up-bringing, heart, intelligence – to know that being selfish is a loser approach through life. Their losses will add up over the years, and the BBN is the victim of their first big lesson.

   It’s sad, but true. Se players score a lot of points but do NOT share the ball and it ruins the entire group of players.

   Identify & root out the selfish independent NIL recipients who refuse to play TEAM 1st Coach Pope ball and send them out of state! They never have and never will be useful to UK or the grear state of Kentucky.

   I’ve posted this same message content over and over since the middle of last season when UK began to win 1/2 the games instead of 90%. Nothing has changed.

   Noah & Chandler should be shooting the 3’s and have set plays to get them a quick clear view of the basket via a big solid screen just as Rodney Dent set them for Travis Ford. Such set plays would have unleashed the great shooting Travis Perry instead of making him play 1 on 1 to get a shot against the SEC thugs who grab, hack, push, shove, trip, pull & hack as their “defense”.

   In advance to Jimmy, go write your nasty childish sick comments & personal attacks to yourself and leave me alone, as well as many others you have often whines about. Please seek professional help before your personal issues you possibly suffered in your youth destroy you on the insides and you commit a crime trying to unleash your unhappiness as a human being in a new era where woke has been out to sleep!!!

   1. If you don't want a reply from me you should keep my name out of your mouth. You want to blame "woke" for the Cats failures. What a joke. People talk that racist trash but when them black boys hit the floor or field you sure do cheer for them.
      You should look in the mirror when talking about not being raised with integrity, intelligence, and as a descent human being. Are you mad because your boy Perry isn't as good as you predicted. Averaging FOUR points and ONE assist per game. I guess they can't set a big enough screen at Ole Miss either. Maybe you should call Pope and tell him he should get all white boys from Ky and he'll be good to go.

      1. You don’t even know my color or nationality or where my distant ancestors came from. Keep your racist comments to yourself. So YOU say that woke folks are black! Not even the liberal stations make that ridiculous racist claim! When YOU stop commenting on my posts, the you will never be me ruined again. I look back thru VV to catch up on reading and I see where you have to comment regardless of what I write. That is NOT normal!

         YOU STARTED THE NASTY STALKING.
         YOU STOP and it all ends which will please me!

         I have ZERO interest in bantering.

         1. Correction – “you will never be MENTIONED again. (Not ‘ruined’ which Siri must have inserted when I misspelled mentioned). I have no desire to see you have anything but a bright future – just stop stalking me. Thanks

7. Darrius Miller is the ONLY UK player to..,
   Be the KHSAA Mr, Basketball
   Lead his team to the KY State Tourney Title
   Play for UK when a National Champ

   Great person & great player!

   Cousins did not get UK past the E8 but a great & likable player who called it like it is!

   1. Darius Miller is one who, in my personal opinion, should have his jersey retired. And I'm sure the initial reaction from alot of people would be one of negativity or disagreement. But my reasoning for it begins with the very 3 statistics that u posted about him right there: only KY player to win the state HS championship, win the KY MR BBALL, and win a national title for UK. But it doesnt just end there. Just about ALL of the retired jerseys at KY are some combination of being a KY native, winning a national title or playing for teams who went to multiple Final Fours, and/or making personal great individual contributions to the UK BBALL teams that they played on, such as posting top-5 to top-10 rankings on the all-time UK career list in scoring, rebounding, assists, steals, blocks, etc….. Darius Miller is DEFINITELY one on a fair-sized list of players who UK has snoozed on or gotten behind on when it comes to jersey retirement. To me, Darius is one of the most blatantly obvious ones. This guy stayed at UK ALL 4 YEARS in an era when that concept HAD GONE AWAY. And it wasn't like he was some walk-on or bench scrub, a la Jonny Hood! LOL. Darius is really the last in that line of old-school players who came here and succeeded at UK the old-fashioned way. He kept alive the 100-year tradition of every national-championship-winning team at KY has had a born-and-bred native of the state on the team who either started or played a significant role in that team winning the championship. And if u need to look that stat up, be my guest, because it's a FACT. And Darius kept this alive in 2012 by being the ULTIMATE 6th man for that starting group of 5—that championship team really was the SUPER 6 because in reality, they honestly had 6 starters: Davis, Jones, MKG, Lamb, Teague, and Darius. Then the 7th guy was Kyle Wiltjer who thrived in that role by being able to come in and spell a few mins here and there for rest or foul trouble for the stars, or in games where they had comfortable leads midway through, and have absolutely ZERO PRESSURE IN THE WORLD on him at all by being able to come in in any of those circumstances, and knock down a couple of threes to keep the defenses honest and working, and to ensure that UK didnt lose much when they had to rest or take out any of the Super 6. Because one thing about that team, they were not very deep at all. They truly only went 7-deep, and then Eloy Vargas was the 8th guy who would have to come in every so often to spell Davis or TJ–fortunately, they didn't have to lean on these guys too much, but they gave respectable backup for being the players that they were, and Vargas had already played the year before on the 2011 Final Four team, so he had the experience. But it really only was a 7-deep team in reality, but the dropoff was immense after the SUPER 6. So CAL was basically able to rotate the first 6 in and out as much as he could before he even had to go to #7, and that's one of the many things that made that 2012 team so damn good. That's a rare thing for a team to basically have 6 starters. No KY team had really had that, at least not since Tubby's 2003 Final 8 team, and then before that, the great teams of the 1990's. So it was a unique situation that CAL was able to take advantage of, and Darius in that 6th man role was a KEY COG in that championship-winning run. (BTW, the 1978 UK national-championship team also featured 6 starters this same way with James Lee starring in this exact same role as Darius as the ultimate 6th man. That's exactly what Lee was known nationally for that year. It was James Lee combined with one of the best starting fives in UK history: Kyle Macy, Goose Givens, Rick Robey, Mike Phillips, and Truman Claytor. And u could rotate those 6 guys around any way u needed to before going to the rest of the bench the same way as the 2012 team. Anyway, Darius played a very key role in UK's 8th national championship, which I think has been lost on alot of people, and I don't think he has gotten the credit for that he deserves. Im telling u, THEY DO NOT WIN THAT 8TH CHAMPIONSHIP IN 2012 WITHOUT DARIUS MILLER. IDC how good the other 5 were–just the mere advantage that was provided to that team and to CAL by being able to have a starting group of 6 rather than 5 was HUGE. That took the advantages for UK as a team up a notch in so many ways, but especially in individual matchups with opponents. Really, each opponent had to prepare for 6 starters instead of 5. And the additional cushion UK was provided in each game with the foul situation–it enlarged the bench advantage for KY, and really made Kyle Wiltjer more like the 6th man in reality, but u didn't have to necessarily go to him as often as u normally would have. And then Darius just happening to be the specific type of player he was also, on top of all this–that pushes it over the top. It would have been one thing had he fit a specific type of position straight-out, like a true center, or a true PG–instead, Darius was a true MR VERSATILITY–this guy could fit a number of positions and roles anywhere from being a 2-guard up to almost a PF, but at least a SF–he could really do anything between the 2 and 4 spots–he was a deadeye shooter from outside, and got better as his career advanced, he could drive the ball to the basket and score, and get to the foul line, he could rebound and mix it up inside with guys that were bigger than him, he could play defense and run the floor, he could handle the ball, get steals, block shots, he could jump, and then best of all, if the team was in need of a basket, he could hit those little turn-around running floaters, or mid-range jump shots that were basically impossible to stop. He became very very good at this by the time he was a senior. He was very very talented, more so than fans gave him credit for. Honestly, his shy, low-key personality probably prevented him from being even better than he actually was. But his specific role and abilities fit so well on to a team like the 2012 one–he was going to be a bigger success when he could jump on to a super-talented team like that one, where he had guys around him who were better than him, as far as individual talent and athletic ability, but that's the very element that allowed him to do what he did that year. The opponents had to invest so much time and energy trying to plan ways to stop people like Davis and TJones, and MKG, and Lamb or Teague, that they didn't have enough time and resources left to worry about Darius! It really was like pick your poison when trying to stop that 2012 KY BBALL team. The matchup nightmares that team created with the fact that even guys like Jones and Davis had guard-like skills and abilities while being 6-9 and 6-10!! Then u throw in an absolute banger and wild animal like MKG who nvr met a rebound he didn't like, and could go inside, could drive, get fouled, and even he could handle the ball a little bit like a guard and go outside and shoot too, and WHO ABSOLUTELY LOVED TO JUST PLAY THE GAME OF BBALL. His intensity level was always turned up to 100, and those are the kind of qualities that, for coaches, cannot be bought or replaced. Then that doesn't even count an absolute assassin from the 3-pt line in Lamb, a great facilitator and defender in Teague, who could also shoot the ball, and then Darius. So that truly was a Super 6 who were without a doubt the best unit in the country in college bball that year. And Darius Miller was just as important a cog in that engine as any of the 6–hes a championship-winning UK native–and he was a part of one of the most talented championship-winning teams in the school's history–and he deserves to have his jersey retired in Rupp Arena. Here's hoping to someday that he might. Others that I believe should be retired, or is worthy of consideration, taking into account the best mix of individual ability and contributions, the highest level of team success and accomplishment while with the program, the highest degree of love and fan appreciation from the state of KY, and what impact and meaning their time at KY had for the program……

      Tayshaun Prince (4-yr letterman, the #1 superstar of Tubby era, top 8 in career scoring list, tied Goose's individual-game scoring record in NCAA Tournament games with 41, a fan favorite)

      Keith Bogans (4-yr letterman, 2nd superstar of Tubby era, top 10 on career scoring list)

      Wayne Turner (4-yr letterman, all-time leader in career games played, 2x championship winner, 3 Final Fours)

      Jeff Sheppard (5-yr letterman, 2x championship winner, 3 Final Fours, a fan favorite)

      Anthony Davis (one of two greatest and most critical individual KY recruits of shot-clock era, the other being Mashburn; the second and best superstar recruit of CAL era, swept all All-America and National/SEC POY awards in one season; national championship-winner, a fan favorite)

      Antoine Walker (2-yr letterman, the #1 superstar of the post-Mashburn Pitino era and the second-most critical Pitino recruit behind Mashburn; national championship-winner)

      Ron Mercer (2-yr letterman, the #2 superstar of post-MASH Pitino era and third-biggest recruit of Pitino era, national championship winner, led KY to back-to-back Final Fours and national championship game appearances in Pitino's last season, finished with 1,013 career pts in only two seasons)

      Terrence Jones (2-yr letterman, national-championship winner, led KY to back-to-back Final Fours in CAL's second and third seasons)

      Patrick Patterson (3-yr letterman, top-20 on career scoring list, a superstar who was recruited by and played for 3 different UK coaches, and who stuck around the program and provided stability during a time of major upheaval, then who teamed with one of the best recruiting classes in UK history to usher in the first season of CAL era, a fan favorite)

      Rajon Rondo (2-yr letterman, the third superstar of Tubby's career, an outstanding two-year individual career, finished high on career statistics for KY PG's and went on to become a 2-time NBA champion with Celtics and Lakers)

      John Wall (1-yr letterman; the first and most important superstar one-and-done recruit of the CAL era, led KY back to Elite 8 in CAL's first season at the school, a fan favorite)

      Reggie Hanson (4-yr letterman, the FORGOTTEN 5th member of THE UNFORGETTABLES only because he graduated one year before the other 4, was recruited by and played for Eddie Sutton first, the same as the others, however he was not redshirted his first season like the others were, so he played two seasons for Sutton and two seasons for Pitino, and graduated the year before the other 4. Hanson is also a KY native the same as the other UNFORGETTABLES, which I think is another thing about him that has been forgotten. Hanson was just as critical and instrumental to the Pitino rebuild, and just as big a contributor to what became the legacy of the UNFORGETTABLES as the other 4 were, however, he was the only one who literally got to taste NONE of the rewards or fruits of their labor that came at the end of their careers. Hanson was the only, closest answer to a big man that Pitino's first team had. A lanky 6'7"-200 lb forward, Hanson exhibited and illustrated all the blood and guts that were representative of the way the UNFORGETTABLES played, and of their story. He literally put his body on the line against the best and biggest centers in the SEC, and in all of college bball, every game, while scoring points, grabbing rebounds, blocking shots, and excelling in Pitino's trapping man-to-man defense and full-court press. He played all his best games against the best big men, such as SHAQ, all the while being outsized in height, weight, physicality, and athleticism every time. However, due to Pitino's strength and conditioning program, Hanson and all those players found themselves in the best shape of their lives, so that allowed him to take advantage of being less fatigued late in games, and being in better condition than alot of the big men he went up against. Hanson's senior season, Pitino's second, saw the arrival of a freshman Jamal Mashburn, and MASH's presence turned Hanson into a different player. Having to go against MASH every day in practice, this got Hanson in even better shape and condition than he already was, and influenced the level of his talent, as well–along with Pitino's system. Reggie was one of those early Wildcats, much like Jeff Brassow and Travis Ford, who very much benefited from the Pitino system, and became better ballplayers from it than they would have been. Reggie and MASH playing together that one year allowed each of them to play off each other and learn from each other, and gave KY some serious muscle and size inside that they hadn't had in years. And it was good enough to allow KY to finish with a 22-6 record and a 14-4 mark in the SEC, which was the best overall record in the league. KY was still on probation and still ineligible for SEC or NCAA tournament play, and ineliglbe to win the official SEC reg season championship. But that team made it official within the UK family annals: they cut down the nets in Rupp Arena after the last game of the season, and they had Tshirts printed up that read "UK-SEC-BACK ON TOP!". Then they had a team parade in downtown LEX. And Reggie Hanson was the heart and soul of that team–at that point, he had become the anchor to which THE UNFORGETTABLES locked onto. The next season, it was MASH that they locked onto. But I have always said that Reggie had bad luck by not being redshirted his first season with the other 4. I have no doubt that had he had one more year like the rest of them that he would have been honored as an UNFORGETTABLE the same as the rest of them. He was a part of that group who stuck around in KY's darkest hour. Reggie played at KY with everybody from Rex Chapman, Winston Bennett, Eric Manuel, and Chris Mills to Jamal Mashburn, Gimel Martinez, Jeff Brassow and Travis Ford. He was recruited to KY during the peak of success of the Sutton era, and was part of an insane deep bench his freshman year that saw he and the Unforgettables backing up NBA-level talent of the guys previously mentioned, along with guys like Ed Davender, Cedric Jenkins, and Richard Madison. That 1988 team was absolutely loaded, they literally had like 16-17 guys on that roster that year, with one of the biggest and best senior classes in history, and a huge freshman and redshirt class, then the next year is when they had signed Shawn Kemp and Chris Mills, but of course by that time, the trouble had begun, and Kemp never played, and Manuel had been dismissed from the team. They lost so many guys in a two-yr period between the 1988 seniors, Chapman to the NBA, Manuel dismissed, Mills and LeRon Ellis transferring, and then Kemp and a remaining entire recruiting class not signing–it left KY absolutely decimated, especially Pitino's FIRST year, when he literally had NOTHING. Those of us who lived thru that and still remember it like it was yesterday understand why the UNFORGETTABLES are what they are, and why they had to be honored, ESPECIALLY after what they pulled off once they finally did make it back to tournament play. When the smoke cleared Pitino's first year, he was left with Pelphrey, Feldhaus, Farmer, Woods, Hanson, Derrick Miller (who also is an UNFORGETTABLE for me), Jeff Brassow, Johnathan Davis, and Junior Braddy…..that was it. And Davis and Braddy were essentially walk-ons at that time. But even those guys Pitino made better and turned into athletes. Davis and Braddy became valuable subs, so much so that Braddy even became a worthy sub on that loaded 1993 Final Four team. It's a further testament to the ungodly accomplishments of Pitino but also to the dedication of those kids. That's why old timers like me just struggle to warm up to this ungrateful mentality these kids today have–ABOUT EVERYTHING. If any UK players ever earned 2 million dollars, it was all those guys who played here for Pitino his first 3 seasons when they had NOTHING, and were guranteed NO REWARDS at all when it came to playing in any tournaments or competing for any championships. Anything they wanted to win, they had to literally get it through the sweat and blood off their own backs. But I do think that Reggie Hanson has gotten overlooked and forgotten in terms of fan remembrance and jersey retirement–he did just as much of the early work that the other 4 did, it was just true misfortune that he never got redshirted in the beginning, because it was nothing more than bad timing. I have always wondered what kind of season they would have had in 1992 with Hanson still with them, and have thought about how he would have done in that DUKE game against Laettner. U never know, sometimes it's only being one Reggie Hanson away from 2 seconds going against you or in your favor. Maybe Reggie is one more basket or one more defensive stop away from going all the way. Even with MASH, they truly missed Reggie that year, because if u think back on that season, what always happened when MASH had to leave a game with foul trouble? Everything would fall apart. What happened against DUKE? We were answering every bell–until MASH left the game for good. So Reggie, as much as he has been forgotten by alot of people, will never be forgotten by us die-hards, and us HISTORIANS. That's why I don't know that, for a fan, there will ever be a more thrilling era to live thru than that early Pitino era, which includes 1993 also, because that was the first year that all of Pitino's hard work paid off with both RECRUITING AND POST-SEASON SUCCESS, in the same year. The 1993 season was just as fun and thrilling as the previous 3 because it was a continuation of the story, but this time the biggest AND the best. It was finally the first time that Rick got an OFFICIAL NCAA banner in Rupp Arena, and one of the most talented and deepest teams that I have ever seen at KY–honestly, I believe second to only 1996. The team was led by MASH, and then Travis Ford, who by the way, is another of my jersey-retirement honorees–but the stage was set for those two –the UNFORGETTABLES had all graduated, opening the door for MASH to take over and make it HIS TEAM, basically a coach on the floor, and then the same with Ford also, who had backed up Sean Woods the year before. So two coaches on the floor who complimented each other unbelievably. It was an all-out assault every single game on offense and defense both. The pressing that year was otherworldly. That team only had two seniors: Braddy, whom I mentioned earlier, and Dale Brown, whom Pitino had picked up the year before thru JUCO, but who became a key cog and contributor on that Pitino press and a deadeye 3-pt shooter, as well as a good rebounder, and great passer. But u see how the upper classes of the team were depleted and the freshman and soph classes is where most everybody was, because of all the recruiting restrictions Pitino was hampered with for the first three years. The juniors were MASH, Ford, Brassow, Martinez, and Rodney Dent, whom Pitino had also brought in via JUCO, and who proved to be invaluable, then you still had Andre Riddick and Chris Harrison off the bench as well…..but then also, that was the first year the seeds of the future could for the first time be seen through recruiting, the first seeds for what would become a Final 4- and championship-winning MACHINE: the freshman class was Tony Delk, Roderick Rhodes, Jared Prickett, and Walter McCarty (McCarty had to sit out that first year). But that year was the beginning, and Delk made his name known right away his first year, as did Rhodes, which turned out to probably be his best year at KY–then the next year Jeff Sheppard, Anthony Epps, and Mark Pope were brought in, so the building was happening, and happening quickly. But all of these guys in '93 were able to anchor their game around MASH. What a gift. They went on a run in the SEC Tournament and NCAA regionals like I have never seen since, even with the '96 team–an avg of 31 pt-winning margin per game, against GOOD TEAMS, and just crushed 3's, went bananas with the press and the traps, and also the pace of play as well, and had so many different weapons that they could bring off the bench–it was mind-blowing. And Ford put together one hell of a KY career in his three years–setting SEC and NCAA records on FT shooting, and finishing career all-time top 5 in assists, on way to the Final 4 in '93, and an integral part of the UNFORGETTABLES run in '92, and one last ride his senior year the first year without MASH, which turned out to be a temporary rebuilding stretch for Pitino, but MASH was an All-Century type of player, so that was to be understood. But Ford was a part of the biggest moments that brought this KY program back from the ashes as well–i kinda look at Ford and MASH today as kind of an UNFORGETTABLES ERA II, the '92-'94 era. It didn't take long for Pitino to recover from that though, because as soon as Ford graduated, he assembled the remaining pieces of the dynasty run that was now right around the corner: Allen Edwards, Antoine Walker, Scott Padgett, Derek Anderson, Ron Mercer, Wayne Turner, Nazr Mohammed, Jamaal Magliore, and Heshimu Evans. They, combined with the two classes from '93 and '94, had set the stage for a run to 3 straight championship games, with two championships and a runner-up finish, a run that this fan base will never forget. And when u look back now at the entirety of Pitino's 8 years here, u say: how did he do all that, and accomplish all that? Like, it had to be more than 8 years…..it truly is an incredible run that no other coach will ever top in any 8-year period. Especially because of THE PLACE that this program WAS when he first got here in JUNE 1989. Thanks for letting me share my memories.

      1. James, I am sure you made a lot of good points, but I fell asleep before I could finish reading it, lol!

      2. Well said James.

      3. Wow James. Totally agree on Miller and what passion you have for the Cats

8. We all have opinion folks and sometimes we may get carry out of control what we type including myself. I'm sure Larry would like us to put it more perspective to keep the name calling out and just give your opinion without putting fingers.

   1. I fully agree. I did not start it and just want it it end, but felt the need to call it out before it happened this time.

      Thanks!

   2. Exactly right Cats79. I don't like to delete posts but might have to. Fine to disagree and we all have opinions. Just be nice. s Darius Miller said in a story today, just have some grace

      1. I agree Larry and regret & apologize for reacting to being called names and harassed. I am no better since I react to it.

         Anytime you choose to delete my comments, I fully understand and am sorry to have muddied the waters in any of your excellent threads!

         1. It is not just you Little Barron. The holier than thou rah rahs are the ones who always start this. You post an opinion about Kentucky sports and if the rah rahs don't like it, they attack you instead of posting a differing opinion. The rah rahs think they are the Grand Poopaas who have the right to say what is an acceptable opinion and what is not and then attack you for having it. That is not what this forum is about. That is not what America is about. This would all stop if the rah rahs would just post their opinion and not attack those with a different opinion.

            1. Thanks, Barry. That means a lot to me.

               Your posts are always solid as a rock & I agree with nearly 100% of them. Keep up the good work!

9. Pointing fingers that is.

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