if I am being honest I probably wouldn't be any happier, but I'd be resigned to the idea he is the coach of Kentucky for several more years if he chose to do so.
But this is Kentucky - it basically boils down to the idea that you don't get future credit for past performance in coaching.
Once you hit the lows that Cal has hit, there is more reason to believe that trend will continue as their is to believe UK will return to the 2011-2015 years. Its not like 2012, 2013 NIT, bounce back year in 2014, amazing season in 2015. Its been a steady decline year over year.
Cal knew this going in, he told anyone that would listen that you get 10 years at this job and it burns you out.
For whatever reason ...cough...cough ...$$$$$$...cough...cough, he stayed beyond his expiration date, and what could have been an opportunity to be thought as the greatest coach since Rupp to coach at UK has turned into a legacy of gauging the damage he has done to the program and the most expedient way to stop the bleeding.
I'm not sure a 2015 championship, given that team *almost* achieved it, would change much.