Calipari was essentially fired from Ky. Because of the situation we were able to allow his legacy here to leave in a few pieces vs. a million pieces. Every basketball talking head is aware of this so this article doesn’t move the needle. Even Arkansas knows he was essentially fired informally. Calipari even tried to backtrack when he realized we were going to do it and we said no, we’ve moved on.
If you listen to the presser (I guess that’s what we call it) Barnhart and Pope made it clear that we intentionally moved on from the Calipari era. If you look at Calipari’s expressions during his presser it’s easy to see what transpired here. Calipari was pressing UK to give more to him and UK simply wasn’t going to do it because we’d already given him so much and he neglected it. The final straw in Calipari’s career was what happened in Nashville followed by the 1st round exit. Calipari tried to force our hand using Arkansas and when he realized we weren’t going to bluff he tried to back out and agreed to changes. We said no.
Arkansas can have Calipari. What he was doing to UK basketball was unnecessary and he’s simply not good for college basketball. They will be fanbase #5 that hates him when he leaves. And Calipari is not going to care about little Arkansas, he’s going to ruin himself there in the end. I give it 3 years.