Calipari Coaching Tree

[Cats192]

Take it easy on Brad. He goes out there and gets that Frankenstein fade cut everytime he goes to the barber and that takes guts

Earned, not given

 

[ck-2]

The man was and is a recruiter not a coach.

 

[kats23]

I think when he was at UMASS his system was very unknown so he was able to take a couple guys with some talent and win with it. By the time he went to Memphis he took on grey area studs and used his system to thrive. When he went to Kentucky, he was even at a better advantage with our resources. So how do you teach “get superior athletes and let them take your defender 1 on 1 and let him distribute to score. That doesn’t translate to other coaches like Pitino’s where his system works no matter what you have. It just works better when you have better athletes.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

I came to post this.

 

[ccukuk]

Oh boy another calipari thread

And you don’t have to comment with your paragraph length run on sentences.

 

[Wildcats1st]

I saw some tweets about this and thought it would be an interesting discussion here. Not looking to pile with Cal because he clearly had some magic from mid 90s through late 2010s but it’s insane to me that his coaching tree is so barren.

Josh Pastner is his most successful assistant in terms of HC success and I would not categorize him as a Cal guy given he was on staff for one year.

After that you have Payne, Barbee, Antigua, Flint, Kellogg… no offense to those guys but I don’t even think you could categorize them as even mediocre head coaches.

So how does one of the most successful coaches in this era not have any coaching tree to speak of? I don’t think “he only won because of talent” is it, although that’s part of it. To me it probably points to his something in his personality or DNA and not giving up control on anything with his programs, stunting the growth of his assistants.

Would love to hear some thoughts/theories on this because I think it’s a pretty glaring anomaly that says something (what I don’t know) about Cal, for better or worse.

Cal is a terrible coach and his inability to develop coaches is a testament to his fixed mindset.

 

[podgejeff_]

K's most successful was Mike Brey.

Quin Snyder has been pretty successful.

 

[bthaunert]

Another coach who has had lots of success but has a pretty terrible coaching tree is Bill Self. I think BCG might be his most successful believe it or not.

Jay Wright is another one. I don’t believe he’s ever had an assistant hold a major DI job. Granted, he was only a head coach for 20 years.

 

[CondorCat]

Interesting coaching tree. Dead end at Cal.

 

[CastleRubric]

Interesting coaching tree. Dead end at Cal.

Oh that's freaking cool!
I was going to ask if something like this could be created but here it is!

See?
Even "another Cal thread" can lead to something unexpectedly awesome 🌲

Thanks for posting that , Condor

 

[CondorCat]

College basketball's most barren coaching tree

John Calipari has won nearly 850 games, but none of his former assistants have had close to the same level of success as head coaches. It makes the Kentucky boss a historical outlier

frontporchsports.substack.com

 

[Wildcat Sheli]

Then former players who became D1 coaches. Pope, Pelphrey, Ford....who else are we missing?

(Things were looking so promising for Walter McCarty until 2019).
Though not a college player under Pitino, as a teenager in 1977 Cal participated in a Five Star Camp and met Pitino….

Sean Woods has coached at several universities.

Steve Masiello was head coach at Manhattan, and is currently an associate head coach under Pitino at St. John’s.

Scott Padgett was head coach at Samford, and is currently an assistant at Mississippi State.

 

[jwphelps]

I saw some tweets about this and thought it would be an interesting discussion here. Not looking to pile with Cal because he clearly had some magic from mid 90s through late 2010s but it’s insane to me that his coaching tree is so barren.

Josh Pastner is his most successful assistant in terms of HC success and I would not categorize him as a Cal guy given he was on staff for one year.

After that you have Payne, Barbee, Antigua, Flint, Kellogg… no offense to those guys but I don’t even think you could categorize them as even mediocre head coaches.

So how does one of the most successful coaches in this era not have any coaching tree to speak of? I don’t think “he only won because of talent” is it, although that’s part of it. To me it probably points to his something in his personality or DNA and not giving up control on anything with his programs, stunting the growth of his assistants.

Would love to hear some thoughts/theories on this because I think it’s a pretty glaring anomaly that says something (what I don’t know) about Cal, for better or worse.

Cal is not a real coach, so his assistants learn basically nothing basketball wise from him

 

[will1976]

Holllly crap didn't realize that
Jim B gets mad props then in this category

Jim isn't impressed with this thread

 

[Wonky]

Take it easy on Brad. He goes out there and gets that Frankenstein fade cut everytime he goes to the barber and that takes guts

Is there a bigger goober out there than Brad Calipari? The fade… the turtlenecks… the bling. He is like a white Drake but with no money, women, or talent (not that Drake has any talent either). Brad does have a better jumper tho… barely.

 

[Lost In FL]

Cal didn't coach he just had an edge. Once everyone started copying his strategy he was a dead man walking.

Good point. It seems UK started with the DD and lob for the slam. Now you see many teams doing that, and better than UK can do it. Plus people have figured out how to defend it it seems.

 

[CatDadCoog]

Color me Brad = Built for March

 

[Skyguyb27]

This is exactly what I thought about when I read the title.