[Hoot Gibson]

Cal's is in the Hall of Fame. 

Fans who bash their players and coaches 95% of the time belong in the Hall of Shame.

People who defend overpaying incompetent coaches from taxpayer funds belong in the Hall of Shame. Like Jet said, Calipari would have already been the former UK basketball coach had he not been signed to a lifetime contract for an obscenely high salary. Cal was a mediocre NBA coach, at best, and two colleges who employed him have had NCAA Final Four appearances vacated as soon as he departed. Calipari has always been more of a shady manager than a basketball coach. And nobody is blaming UK's players for Calipari's failure to earn his keep.

They don't induct shady managers into the CBB HOF.

The evidence says that you are wrong. First of all, John Calipari is not in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Secondly, Calipari is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, along with the very shady Jerry Tarkanian and Rick Pitino.

Only one other college basketball coach has ever had two Final Four/Championship tournament finishes vacated. The difference between Rick Pitino and John Calipari is that Pitino is one of the greatest college basketball coaches in history and Calipari is not.

I wouldn't trade Rick Pitino for 10 Caliparis. And if I traded Calipari to you for Tubby Smith that's one of the very few deals in history where we would both get f@cked. No wait I would win because I would get the same results and save millions.

The players would also come out ahead in the trade for Tubby because they would at least end their college careers having been taught fundamental basketball skills while on campus. Calipari just stamps players' temporary work visas. If a player accepts a scholarship to UK expecting to receive a master's level basketball education, well then the joke is on him.