[Cactus Jack]

I love you CJ but you are admitting you were wrong 6 years ago. I'm getting older and that's 6 years of my basketball life stolen from me.

Nothing but love here too, but here's a list of the college coaching changes as of Summer 2018:
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basket...r-2018-19/

Before anyone says it, stop... is Dan Hurley, a northeast guy, going to come to Kentucky instead of UConn? Even if he does, is he staying? Chris Mack and Penny Hardaway didn't exactly set the world on fire. Otherwise, was anyone clamoring for Dusty May or Shaheen Holloway? They've been deeper in the tournament.

Some of the other names on that list may literally end up being players with ties to Kentucky (Richie Riley & AW Hamilton) and maybe they're at a big school one day, but even now, there's a huge difference in EKU or South Alabama and UK. Walter McCarty had a great record at Evansville and looked like he was well on his way to a big-time coaching gig until some off-court happenings derailed it all.

Yes, Kentucky has the type of tradition and resources that would attract names that weren't on that list, but that was the college coaching carousel in 2018 and UConn, Louisville, Xavier, Pitt, and Memphis are all pretty respectable jobs that needed filled. It might seem weak, but it also isn't as if a Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, or Kansas comes open very often.

It is asinine to think that Kentucky wouldn't have been raked over the coals in the national media if they'd hired a Chris Beard and that type of scandal broke, or if they'd fired Calipari but ended up with someone who got basically the same result that he's just given us since 2018 with the ONLY possible exception being if Calipari had also went to another high profile program and performed terribly.


I know everyone wants to fire Cal and I agree that it's time to go, but I don't see any explanation of how the buyout is going to work and who the Athletic Department has enough money to pay once it's all said and done. If anyone says a name like Billy Donovan (as unrealistic as that may be), are you also cool with losing Stoops and not having enough capital to pay someone on his level again for at least three to five years?