[Hoot Gibson]

How many of those coaches that Hoot listed would (1) give UK a better chance of winning national titles years after year and (2) be willing and available to come to Lexington?

The only one that I would definitely want( and I have wanted him for almost a decade now) is Brad Stevens. I would take him in a heartbeat.  Would Brad leave Boston for Lexington?  No.    Would Few leave  Spokane for Lexington?  No.  His program is better than UK's now.   


None of those NBA coaches are leaving their gigs for Lexington.  When a better option presents itself  and/or  if we have  couple more  11-15  type seasons , then  I'm  in agreement about moving on from Cal.

Cal has not been doing a great job over the past five years and he is doing a pretty bad job this year in particular. 

How many coaches would turn down an offer to double or triple their salary in exchange for coaching in one of the nation's elite programs? There may be a few exceptions, but in general a basketball coach is no more willing to stay in a position where he makes a third to half the salary that he could make elsewhere than people working in other occupations are.

Calipari has been able to recruit top talent to UK by selling recruits on his ability to prepare them for the NBA. Calipari was a mediocre NBA coach who was fired after a brief NBA career. Why would a more successful NBA coach not be able to sell the same message to recruits?

I am not in favor of firing Calipari. It is not fair to whoever is paying his salary to ask them to shell out $25 million to get rid of him. UK signed a bad contract and the best way to avoid preventing that from happening in the future is to fire the AD and everybody else responsible for that contract, IMO. As for Calipari, UK signed him to a lifetime contract and I think that he should retire whenever he is ready. I just hope that UK learns a lesson from this experience. They apparently did not learn any lessons after hiring Eddie Sutton and Billy Gillispie and negotiating their contracts.