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Well, I guess I am one of those so called BGR basketball scholars as OSH so lovingly put it.

To each is own but I just don't understand the infatuation with how they're doing or how they're going to do in the future. I never liked him even before he came to Kentucky, definitely didn't like him when he was there, and still don't like him now, and there's still people out there that do and that's completely fine if you're a Cal fan. But he is gone now, I understand those fans still want to keep tabs on how Arkansas is doing, then there's ones who want to keep tabs just so then can throw jabs at him since they aren't doing good, I'm not one of those to waste my energy on something or someone I really don't care about.  I will just keep focusing on Kentucky Basketball.

Understand where you're coming from, but keeping up with Cal is keeping up with Kentucky basketball in some sense.

Seeing where things went wrong at Kentucky, if there were problems with the administration, boosters, and fans, and keeping an eye on a team that would love to consider Kentucky a fierce rival, even if Kentucky fans don't really see it that way.

I honestly think Calipari did very well at Kentucky. Not that I agree with everything he did, just that he was an overwhelming net positive. I'd cheer him in his return to Rupp. At the same time, I don't think that saying any of that conflicts with believing that it was best for the program that we parted ways.

@Cactus Jack I see where you're coming from as well. I can see it from that perspective of observing where things went wrong, and also paying attention to see if those things occur while he's at Arkansas. 

No denying he did have success while at Kentucky, I just hate what he turned the program into. I am a realist, I completely understand that some of the players mentioned like Wall, Davis, Cousins etc. were destined for bigger & better things in the NBA, and making all the money in the world, but what I got tired of was having to learn new players names every single season. Kentucky basketball just became a passerby for players to go to the NBA, like I said I completely understand that they had the opportunity to go, be the #1 or a high draft pick, but that's what Cal hung his hat on more than anything else. Kentucky basketball basically recruited itself for years, tradition & history, success but that's what turned me against him more than ever is that he went away from it. He always thought he was bigger than the program, that was even true the day he took the job. 

I do agree that it was time to separate, Kentucky will be fine in the long run, I think hiring Pope brought back that since of nostalgia when we had Pitino, and even Tubby Smith that tradition, and Kentucky recruiting itself with the name on the front of the jersey. 

CJ I appreciate your perspective on this, and love everything you share on here in other threads, you go in depth with a lot of things, you start a thread for discussion and have a great amount of info and stats to back that up.