He can take a ambassador role after this year. Lets hope he does.
But it does.... "There’s a chance he’s back next year but it’s over for him. People being nice to him in public"
As much as Cal has underachieved recently, the NBA pedigree he’s built that rep Kentucky will pay major dividends for our future coach(es) in the same way UNC has ridden Jordan’s coattails for decades.
Why would you want him to be an ambassador for UK? He doesn't care that much about our program. He should be an ambassador for players with NBA potential or something.
"People who I know that have regularly talked to cal now they don’t care too."
Precisely. The guy has no business being anywhere near the program at this point. He's an albatross.
lets say you get a coach for 5 million a year, thats about 4-5 million a year you save to go towards cal's buyout. lets say 5 years 25 million contract to a new guy.. that saves 21-22 million to go to cal's buyout over 5 years.... just need 10 million from boosters at that point or less if you can negotiate his buyout over 10 years then you can have money you save pay for all of it.
If the last 6 or 7 years have taught me anything, it's that there is sometimes a HUGE difference between better talent (which we have in spades) and better players (which we sorely lack).
Every year has been a rebuilding year since he's been here. There will be no difference.
yea it has...I don't really understand why people are so worked about what we would get or not get in players given Cal has conditioned everyone to accept you will have a totally different group of players assembled randomly at the start of each season
Yea and neither Bcg nor Sutton had several years of under performing. They were dealt with swiftly. Yes the worst season in the last century, followed by a first round out as a 2 seed, then the next season a second round out. The into this season we aren’t top 10 lol. We are going to drop like a stone tomorrow do you realize that? We are trending towards a 7 maybe 8 seed. Yep that’s Kentucky standard and I ask you to go and find a worse 4 year stretch for our program. You will have to go back severe rules violations and near death penalty to find anything close to it. Did you hear that? This stretch is worse than one where we were almost shut down. At least we emerged from that. This is going no where.
My thoughts for a long time is that he never liked UK. Remember what happened in the NCAA tournament? I think he wanted to see where his recruiting could take him at UK, and wanted to get the last laugh at the NBA, at UK's expense. When he's gone from here I don't expect him to step foot in the state again or even reminisce on his time here. His former players will mostly keep in touch with him and have nothing to do with UK
These are before negotiating. If you don’t think UK doesn’t have leverage to roast Cal then you haven’t been watching. Best case scenario would be to remove him and give the new coach time to recruit and get set up.
It was stated that this is
The statement was “the program is by far in the worst shape than it’s been in the last 100 years”. It is underperforming but it is not the worst shape in 100 years. Facts cited above show otherwise. Did you know Adolph Rupp made 1 Final Four in the last 14 years of his tenure? The point is the program right now is not where it should be performing. However, calling it the worst shape in 100 years is unfounded hyperbole.
I would sacrifice all of the recruits we have next year for Calipari to be gone.
