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You're right about the numbers not lying but the numbers say that Pitino did more in the six years that he coached following UK's probation than Calipari has done. Unlike Pitino, Calipari does not coach his players up. His success depends primarily on his recruiting ability, whereas although Pitino was not quite the recruiter that Calipari has been, he didn't need to be.

In his 10 seasons at UK, Calipari has won 81.1 percent of his games. In 8 seasons at UK, Pitino won 81.4 percent of his games. In the 6 seasons that followed UK's probation, UK won 85.9 percent of its games under Pitino.

Only in Pitino's first season, a season in which UK was on probation with a roster depleted through the transfer of UK's two best players and NCAA imposed scholarship limits, did Pitino lose more than 4 SEC games. Calipari has lost 5 or more SEC games in 5 of his 10 seasons as UK's head coach.

In the 6 non-probation years, Pitino only failed to reach the Elite 8 once and he never failed to advance past the first round of the tournament. In those 6 seasons, Pitino's UK teams won an NCAA Championship and were runners-up once. Calipari has done the same in 10 seasons.

Calipari has recruited better than Pitino did but has done less with more talent. In 3 of his 10 seasons at UK, Calipari has lost 11 or more games. In his 6 non-probation seasons, Pitino's worst record was 27-7.

Pitino is the second best coach that UK has ever had and Calipari is a distant third, at best.

I agree that Pitino is a better in game coach, but he ran off to Loserville to chase prostitutes. Some of you complain about Calapari wasting talent.Other coaches couldn't get as much talent and win as many games. I'll gladly take another Calapari decade over Gillespie or Hall.