Uh oh Calipari

[trob115]

Forde looks to be off the Kentucky bandwagon. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/you-made-your-bed-john-calipari--now-lie-in-it-233738456-ncaab.html

[smootness]

Forde has always been off the Kentucky bandwagon and is, in general, a complete tool.

That said, I agree with a lot of what he's saying here. The think about Kentucky right now is that you're just hoping to catch lightning in a bottle...every single year. There's never anything to build on. They'll just have another team of freshmen next year.

And this was supposed to be the greatest recruiting class of all-time...well, if they can't even get it done, then the approach as a whole is totally flawed.

Obviously, he won a national title doing it, and that can't be overlooked. But you basically just have to get lucky and get truly transcendent players, and that's almost impossible to do.

[Bubb Rubb]

Forde has always been off the Kentucky bandwagon and is, in general, a complete tool.

That said, I agree with a lot of what he's saying here. The think about Kentucky right now is that you're just hoping to catch lightning in a bottle...every single year. There's never anything to build on. They'll just have another team of freshmen next year.

And this was supposed to be the greatest recruiting class of all-time...well, if they can't even get it done, then the approach as a whole is totally flawed.

Obviously, he won a national title doing it, and that can't be overlooked. But you basically just have to get lucky and get truly transcendent players, and that's almost impossible to do.

The problem with Calipari is that he's gone too far to the extreme side with regards to the one-and-done players. It's okay to have a couple of those, but you'd better have some four-year, high character glue guys in your program too. He had that his first couple of years at Kentucky and that, more than anything else, is what won him a championship there. His teams at Memphis were remembered for Tyreke Evans, Derrick Rose, and Chris Douglas-Roberts, but he also had glue guys like Antonio Anderson and Robert Dozier, who were in the program for four years. He's been lacking that kind of player.