[Hoot Gibson]

Lol listen . You mentioned Bruce pearl taking Auburn to the final four . Tell me how many other final
Fours does pearl have ? Sweet sixteens . College basketball coaching is 50 percent recruiting. We seen the players Billy G brought , it takes more than the Uk name to bring top talent .

Cal is a great recruiter, no doubt about that but he is also living proof that top talent only takes a team so far. Great coaches at top basketball programs know how to take advantage of an opponent's weaknesses. Kentucky enjoyed a huge inside advantage against Auburn and Calipari failed miserably to exploit that advantage.

You are right about Bruce Pearl's record in past NCAA tournaments, yet he recruited and coached well enough to take an out-manned team from a football school to the Final Four at Kentucky's expense. When was the last time that Calipari beat a team with better talent than he had? Which happens more often, a Calipari team losing to a team with inferior talent or a Calipari team beating a team with more talent than his team?

Calipari was a mediocre NBA coach. If you don't think Brad Stevens could recruit talent to Kentucky, given his record at Butler and Boston, then you have not been paying attention. If Billy Donovan wants to return to coach a college team after a successful run in the NBA, he would also find recruiting talent to UK pretty easy.

Giving Calipari a 10 year contract is a huge mistake. There was no way that he was going to leave UK for UCLA and short term extensions to make potential recruits comfortable in committing is all that UK should ever sign with a basketball coach. Hopefully, Coach Cal will not put the program on cruise control through retirement.

I can live with UK losing to a more talented team, but it is tough to watch UK lose big games to teams like Wisconsin, West Virginia, Auburn, and Robert Morris.