The program as a whole has been. That doesn't mean the top recruits care about that. You are kidding yourself if you believe all those players come here if he wasn't the coach. I'm glad it's over and I hope they go to Arkansas.... for him maybe, like I said earlier. Cal seems to think UK is the Gold Standard while Pitino argued that UK is the Camelot of college basketball. Both those coaches are gone today and both lament having left. Seems odd that both regret leaving if every college BB program is the same as the next.