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Very fair, but BCG, just like my post to ColonelBill, you know that Knowing the "Kentucky Way" will mean nothing if UK is still fighting to get out of the NIT with a new coach. If the decision is made to bring in a 2nd tier guy, he will get eaten alive, no matter what the name on the front of his college jersey was, if he does not win, and win FAST.

Whoever it is, I wish luck to. I want UK to be successful. IMO, with more patience, we may well have got there with BCG. Who knows, it's all conjecture now. But in our Microwave soceity, where we don't want for the soup to cook up nice and thick on the stove top at three times the amount of time, we won't be forgiving of whoever the new coach is if he does not recruit the Blue Chip player, which Ford has never done, or get us to elite status that comes from a pedigreed coach.

I think you miss the point. Most people did not want BCG fired because they were impatient, but because they saw a coach on the sidelines who did not know what to do and made poor coaching decisions. I know you liked him and his coaching, but you are the minority. Top people in the college game have been saying he was over his head and looked lost. I would love to be back in the final four next year, but do not expect it. I just do not think UK fans deserve to lose games due to poor coaching. I can handle losing if the players are the total reason for the loses. UK gets enough talent every year and pays their coach enough to expect to make it in the big dance each year (they may be eliminated in first round but should at least make it into the dance).