Even Tyler Ulis was visibly shaking his head at that big final play as Cal drew it up. The TV guys discussed it on air!

And Cal is not a real coach. He’s an $11M NBA development agent using Kentucky as his resource hub.

Cal has crushed & stomped on our Kentucky dreams. he truly doesn’t get Kentucky basketball. he wants to recruit top players. BBN wants to WIN games & NCAA championships - that’s Kentucky basketball 💙🏀💙

It's not going to turn around this year everyone should know that by now

That last play cal called was a terrible call. This team isn’t physical. We got out manned in the paint. 3 straight losses at rupp is unacceptable. Not playing rob more in the second half was unacceptable.

We've had our UK BBALL season tix since 1972. I'm extremely close to letting them go completely. Cal has steadily worn me down to a state of apathy. It's increasingly more difficult to support him. I'll always back our players. But, Cal is not coaching for championships here. He's coaching to get players to the NBA, and that's become tiresome and extremely disappointing. I hate this feeling of disgust. Cal can recruit, but he's become an average coach at best. Sad to see our program's dismal state.

This game came on Calipari's 65th birthday. He is now at retirement age. If that's not a sign I've never seen one.

We need to suspend Calipari and let his assistants handle it from here. My money says it will only get better if we do.

This is not a cult! We need to be adults about this issue. We need to replace the entire coaching staff! We need a complete overhaul… or nothing will ever change for the better.

You just cant make a deep run with absolutely ZERO defense and ZERO offensive rebounding...i really miss Oscar Tshiebwe

This is a situation we’re a school hangs on to a coach three years too long.

Cal gets out coached AGAIN. Depressing and embarrassing.

Zag fan here, Reeves and Sheppard are something special. I hated watching them go crazy against us but wow they are gonna be great at the next level. Also the game definitely wasn’t lost for Kentucky in the first half. I think they won the game half way through the second half but didn’t adjust. I thought for sure we were done for at about 12 mins left

Weakest Gonzaga team in 10+ years...but they had the MUCH better coach, and much better coached team. Dillingham not playing 35 mins tonight should get Cal fired tomorrow. Also wtf was that final play lol?? A lob play...great idea dummy!

I think this is cal's last run if we don't make it to the tournament or lose the first round.

This keeps up no tourney at all. Cal has no love for the fans or the university. He coaches for his own glory. Remember he has said championships are not his priority but getting players to NBA. Then go coach in D league. He has one championship in all his years of coaching 1. Sad

Kentucky is a feeder program for the NBA and there is little team building.

Calipari absolutely sucks he has destroyed my passion for UK basketball he's gotten us all completely used to losinggames regularly now he has killed Kentucky basketball and it's gonna take quite a while for the next coach to pick up the pieces

We are putting it on him. We can’t take calipari. It’s time to go cal.

Seven losses with Seven NBA players! The last 3 seasons you could explain away because of Covid and just being stuck with a bad blend of bad shooters/passers the last two seasons. But this team looks the 1996 Wildcats when theyre rolling (on offense, D, not so much!!!) yet cant stop an NIT team at home. And Cal keeps saying young! Yeah we have 6 freshman, but our two highest minutes per game guys are fifth year seniors. It's hard as hell to win on the road, so you cant just show up and expect to win at Rupp. You gotta protect and respect that home court advantage. And the trio of Orlando, Bruiser, Chin might be the worst assemble of basketball strattegy brain power in all of CBB. Our best assistant coach is an unpaid grad assistant and our second bestt is the individual workout guy!!!!!!!! Then Cal says UK lost the game in the first half. Yeah they got their asses kicked in the first half, but the score was freaking KENTUCKY 57 Gonzaga 51 with 12:30 to go in the SECOND HALF! If the game was tied or UK had a small lead at Half, Cal wouldve found a way to blow it. UK has one good win to hang their hats on this year. They had UNC down by 14 blew the lead and somehow managed to pull it out. We'd be a bubble team if that one wouldve got away. Cal been going to the grind it out crap in these type of games way too early and blowing win after win! Im rabbling now. Hopefully they can figure it out, unlike the last few seasons, this team has a magic about it but needs to be coached to win a pushed. But they look completely lost on Defense and I alway thought that was was Cal 2nd best coaching strenghth behind recruiting.

Matt l do enjoy your show and you are really good keep good work you and billy this is sally hammonds from Kentucky' western part 50 miles west of paduch ky

Cal knows he don’t have to do much he’s got a lifetime contract and Barnhart is scared to fire him and just goes along to get along

They look like they on the road at home don't look comfy smh

We definitely lose in the SEC Tournament. Do we go to the NCAA's this year? I don't think we do. And that should be the bell for Calipari. To not make the tournament with this much talent? My god, I would resign out of embarrassment that I as a coach couldn't win enough games to get my team to the tournament. He says to "put it on me"? Yes it's on him, and thats just where it belongs.

Cal does NOT coach games to win. he coaches games to (in his eyes) to help players...he has NEVER been a Program wins guys... Ive been done with this guy for YEARS NOW. FFS he thinks draft picks are more important that Rings. we need a coach that puts TEAM and PROGRAM .. FIRST

Shepherd was just doing what he was told with that lob

summed it up absolutely perfectly

Cal is like a kid in a candy shop when recruiting. He wants it ALL! But too many talented freshmen mean not enough seasoned veterans who can handle clutch situations and DO play defense. So take a few 3-star guys who will play with heart for 3 or 4 seasons and are NOT obsessed with the NBA! Those guys are the heart and soul of a real team anyway.

If Gonzaga is not that good? Then what is Kentucky then?😅

Time for Cal to go

Need four year players.

I wonder when Aaron Bradshaw is gonna learn that fouling isn't good

We are nothing more than a feeder program for the NBA. Players that he recuirts do not care about winning championships just getting to the level!

Cal is the Joe Biden of college basketball.

Saying fans “deserve” better is the most entitled thing I have heard anyone say about sports. We are spectators, we sit by and watch. Why do we deserve anything? Just root for your team and stop whining about things you have zero control over. The “fans” that attack these kids online and run them off deserve less than nothing. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Just imagine if Bruce Pearl or Rick Barnes coached this team . I bet that record would look a lot better.

Same damn thing ive been saying Matt !!!

no adjustments, no coaching ability, no clue who to play when. That's UK's coach. As much talent as ever, and lost 3 in a row at Rupp. Unacceptable, can we agree? Unacceptable.

We have the best players in the nation but also the worst coach in the nation it’s so obvious. Matt jones your the man

So tired of hearing from Cal about the other team being veterans when his team is still young. He has a built in excuse every year for being a terrible game coach. It will only get worse when the majority of the players are one and done and just using UK as a stepping stone.

Big z played first half had better stats than the other bigs but didn't play at all in second half same with Dillingham

Kentucky keeps helping teams make the NCAA Tournament while Kentucky fans keep getting disappointed. I see Kentucky losing 5 more games this season before the SEC tournament.

Sick 😫

Cal looks old, slow and burned out. There is nothing wrong with that, it's normal after coaching at a place like UK for 15 seasons. He has been here long enough, it's time for a fresh face and a fresh set of eyes to lead the program.

UK is probably the only team in history that can claim to have three too many 7 footers.

I think it’s time we had the talk. Cal has ran his coarse. He’s been doing this in every loss aside from the Kansas loss.

The media needs to tell Cal in his next presser that no one's blaming the player's.. We're all blaming him.

We gave cal a lifetime contract he will never leave unfortunately

I would never have expected this.

I’m not big on Matt jones because of his liberal status but he’s right! Im sick and tired because of John Calipari! This is weakness displayed on the national level!

😯 This Week: Dayton, Florida Atlantic, and Utah State (WITH A 1ST YEAR HEAD COACH) Will Be Some of the Teams Moving Ahead of Kentucky in the TOP 25 RANKINGS! 🤯 Try to Come to That "Realization"? 😳 Is Kentucky Even Going to Be a Top 25 Team, When the Season is Finished (Just Look at the Schedule)? 👀🤕

nice to be able to watch a well coached team not a lot of silver not too much one an done just well coached bunch of guys playing with the eye of the tiger and a lot of heart just a shame they get off the bus from another school

I’ll be honest I was there watching the game live. In the first half it seemed we couldn’t get anything to fall. The second half we were doing great, came out exploding. Later on in the game, I counted 5 walks and they never called a single one. It’s ridiculous. Crowd was very loud and there’s no reason we should’ve lost the game. We should only be a 3 loss team right now and it saddens me to even say that. This teams way too talented.

This is TOO MUCH ! 😂 Coach Cal said Kentucky lost it in the 1st Half ! Kentucky up bye 6 in the 2nd Half ! 🤣

Hire John Pelphrey. Travis Ford. Scott Padgett. Tubby. Richard Pitino. Jay Wright.

Same story as the other losses I looked at. Kentucky's starters: Senior, Sophomore Sophomore, Freshman, Freshman. Gonzaga's starters: Senior, Junior, Junior, Junior, Junior. There will be help when the covid year is gone, but too often, KY's young guys are playing against grown men.

St Peters will give you a team building clinic.

The only way players buy into the team is if they all know team defense unlocks the key to winning.

You sure spoke my mind. Cal. wants to do something good then he can step down.

Cal couldn't draw a play to save his life. He has never been able to. He is an awesome recruiter. But cannot teach or coach the game of basketball.

The best thing you can do to help stomach this season is to bet against Kentucky. I’ve done it five times and have one all five times. It’s amazing almost like clockwork.😲💵💵💵💵💵😲

Early in the season they played end of games like any other part of the game, very over powered but they want to be more dynamic

Just because he’s in town calling the game, why don’t we kick the tires on Jay Wright and see if 10 mil a year would bring him out of retirement

Matt Jones and all of you geniuses, this was the problem: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hqmbq8KatpPUiJs.htmlsi=U18YjSmMinfzq-Tt&t=233 Out of Edwards' own mouth he said they allowed Gonzaga to seal them off and that they had been focusing on that in practice. Gonzaga killed them all night with that, but someone how it's Cal's fault the players won't do what he's worked with them on?

I am a big Kentucky fan and it no comfort in saying that coach Cal just can’t deliver in a crunch situation. It’s been the norm over the past several years especially in the Tournament. He had way too many “ one and done” players over the years. Seems to me he recruits on the promise of getting them into the Pros before they graduate if they ever graduate.

As a Kentucky fan I can’t handle a Louisville situation if we lose Cal.

Honestly, we were better before we got any of our big guys in the lineup. That was the team that had KU on the ropes, dominated UNC, etc. I don't know if that just messed up the chemistry or what, but it has been steadily downhill since. The bottom line is our 3 big guys are not developed and are a huge defensive liability, with apologies to Onyenso who is the most developed IMO. Cal has forgotten more than I'll ever know about basketball but I would go back to playing Mitchel at the 5, and limit playing time for the 3-7 footers. I know he won't but certainly would try that for a game or 2 and see what happens. If we don't shape up, not making the tournament is soon going to be in play.

I hear everyone talking about Gonzaga not having any talent but, don't forget the history of Coach Mark Few. This Kentucky team will improve, coach Cal will get better production from this team. I would not look down on this team because there is still a long way to go, SEC Tournament and, some winnable games. Everyone has always had trouble with Gonzaga, yes Coach Few gets the max out of his teams.

Everyone is finally starting to open their eyes and see what Cal truly is. The man has done less with more and that is FACTS. We will never sniff another final 4 with this man let alone another title 😅 How does he have supporters still?

I just have to tell you I was born in Kentucky and have followed UK basketball almost all my life. Coach Cal has got to go. He is a one dimensional coach. Great recruiter, terrible coach. I have said all year, this team can't play a man to man defense. Adjust your defense that this team can win with. Where is the motivation on defense. Our Kentucky teams have always been great on defense. Not this year. Is Cal practicing blocking out. The opponents are getting alot of offensive rebounds. This team better come together defensively or they are going to be a first round out. Some players still playing one on five basketball on offense. Cal, please get this team out of the ditch and get them motivated to play defense. Got to get more stops and block out on the boards.

Cal and KY is like a bad marriage. Starts out good , turns bad , with the Husband refusing to leave ...

"coaching malpractice"? So NOW WHO DO YOU WANT TO COACH KENTUCKY! These are are very young and immature.

I think it's time for Calipari to go.

Cal needs to go his time is up ! I hate to say it but we need a change!

The problem is not with recruiting top players. The problem is Cal not encouraging them to stay for longer than 1 year! He doesn’t care about what UK stands for, all he cares about is the kids reaching their NBA dream. Yeah they may get drafted, but most end up in D-league or overseas. Encourage these kids to stay for a year or two, and you’d see a HUGE difference. Look at how the Harrison twins were for an example, or Willie Cauley-Stein, or my God think about how much better of a ball player Terrance Jones was the championship year vs the year before. Jesus Christ Coach, encourage these boys to stay!!!

Wow Cals way better than anything we ganna get! A lot of responsibility at UK.

I just don’t see how it will happen. The way they’ve played and been beaten will continue to repeat as I just don’t think they have a team that can stop it. The blueprint is now out in full effect and Lamont drew it up for all to use. UK does not have the personnel to stop it. Their only hope will be to inject chaos and high scoring but that hasn’t been their game consistently. I think their only shot is to go back to small ball and focus more on perimeter defense with speed. If the ball gets past the outside just move onto the next play. They just can’t go pound for pound inside. Cal doesn’t build his teams for that and it shows.

I agree with this take 100%. Another note here: Cal put Burks in the second half before putting Rob in. Cal sucks he is a great recruiter but he can’t coach. Until he leaves we will continue to underachieve because of him not because of this team. THIS TEAM IS SO TALENTED!!!

I quit watching KY basketball, it's a waste of time.

He’s got some weird obsession with DJ Wagner. It’s weird. Wagner isn’t better than Sheppard. Starting 5 should be Sheppard. Reeves. Thiero because of his Athleticism and attacking the rim. Dillingham at Shooting guard and Tre Mitchell if he looks like he wants to play or replace him with Bradshaw.

I agree with about everything that Matt says

Why the press makes an issue out of 3 consecutive losses in Rupp arena since 66’? In 1966 with Rupp himself KY lost 13 games the year after going to the ncaa finals getting beat by Texas Western. One of his worst seasons…

People do not do this.Ky does have problems with defense. These boys are young playing against 24or25.stop now

It's not about all the NBA players. It's about players who want to win for Kentucky....and more importantly, a coach who wants to win for Kentucky. The only player on this team that wants to win for Kentucky is Reed.

Cal is not motivated. They should put him on a per win salary When you get the 10 or 20 mil a year whether you win or lose what is your motivation.

Can we get another billboard together and ask Rick to come back

i think the writing is on the wall for Coach Cal

this shows what I have said all along! The one-and-done's are good but only a few can come in like the 2012 team and win. Especially in the SEC. Without experience and veteran leadership UK will never win another championship under Cal. He is a GREAT recruiter, but not a coach! he is a Manager of pros and plans on outshooting these teams, this year, without defense. This is why you see 140 points scored in the NBA . A real coach, like Rick Barnes, Mark Few, Chris Beard, Lamont Paris, etc. can make in-game adjustments to defend the basket. Forget about halftime adjustments! If it gets that far Cal gets outcoached. Pay his contact and go get a COACH!! before our program ends in a Billy Gillispie era

We have to rebuild UK the way Pitino rebuilt it. And Start with some of his former players. John Pelphrey head coach, Travis Ford guard coach, Tyler Ules, Jim Master, Big Man coach, Mashburn, Pope, Feldhouse, Reggie Hanson. I mean think about the alumni. Sean Woods, Winston BennettKenny Walker, Sam Bowie. But put Pelphrey at the helm.

how on earth do we deal with his huge contract!?

that what i been saying to much changing people in and out

It’s time for cal to go

I think John Wooden had the greatest run

I’m you wanna see rapid fire development, get Pitino and Jeff Shepard on the side line together.

I said it after UNC game, until they realize Rob is most Dynamic player they will struggle

100% correct

Where were the big blue chants shame on the fans don’t give up on coach cal 2:03

I have watched it every single time . Everytime he calls a timeout and we have to score they have turned it over and don’t even get a shot off let Reed or reeves or Dillingham shoot let your best offensive players shoot y the hell would u lob it to the 5th best scorer I’m so sick of cal always underachieving got all this nba talent and can not do shit with same old story

But the lob worked, if the pass was higher. Adou was there for the dunk. It wasn’t the worst call ever.

They probably need to put that new floor back down, so little Cal will have another excuse for them losing. Actually, how long does it take to "fix" the new one that they supposedly said wasn't right in the first place?!?🤣