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I went to UK, as did my mom, and I work with UK fans in Atlanta, everyone in my circle, from alumns to lifelong fans to casual fans want him gone. He can't coach. He can recruit, but that's all. He can't develop these kids into players who want to play at/for UK. I understand the need/desire to help these kids achieve their dream of playing in the NBA, but UK isn't a prep program, we're a college program. Cal's job is to coach UK and win at UK, not to exclusive produce NBA tallent. There are more Cal kids in the NBA than any other coach in college basketball and what do we have to show for that? 1 title in 15 years and a couple of final fours, all of which were a decade ago. Meanwhile, UConn and Nova have two titles, and everyone of our blueblood rivals have multiple final fours since our last. Hell, UVA became the first number 1 seed to lose to a 16 ever, and then the next year won the title. UK made history as a 2 seed losing to a 15 seed and, lost in the first weekend the next year. UK fans are done with him. He isn't holding up his end of the contract, which is to win, and not win good as if you're at Vandy or Oregon, but win like you're at the best basketball program in the country...

Kentucky is the only school with five different coaches winning a title, only school with 4, and one of only 3 with 3 different coaches (UConn and Kansas being the other two). Unlike UCLA, our titles span over 70 years and have occurred in 5 different decades (only UNC can lay claim to that many different decades too). UCLA's last title was 1995 while we've won 3 since then. I don't think we're "living in the past". We have as many SEC Tournament titles as the rest of the conference combined. We have 49 regular season SEC titles, more than the next four schools combined (Tenn, Bama, LSU, Florida). We simply expect more than any other school in the conference and there's nothing wrong with that given our sustained historical successes in the sport. We're down right now, but we were down with Sutton and came back. Critiques of Cal are valid. He hasn't been the same since that Wisconsin loss in 2015, and it's time for him to retire or move on. But, Mitch gave him a Jimbo Fisher deal and we're stuck with him for a bit longer. What pains most UK fans isn't the rest of the conference getting better, we like that, we like having rivalries in the conference, it's more other schools, like UConn surpassing us, Kansas, UNC, and Duke, having continued success with new coaches. Those are the real rivals. Not a new Auburn or LSU...

I can't agree with you that he coaches them. Plenty of other schools have one and done heavy rosters over the years and have done more with them than Cal has.

The best part is the erasure of Tubby. As if he didn't coach and win a title at Kentucky. His last three seasons were better than Cals. Pitino is 71, he's not able to coach at UK anymore. Even if Mitch were willing to consider it, he'd have a few years at best. As for the money, we're in the SEC just like A&M. There's money in central KY, not oil money, but horse money is real.

We can't all play FSU every weekend of non-conference play. UK, UF, UGA, USC all play an ACC team every year, home and home. South Carolina is upping it this year with UNC and Clemson, as is Florida with Utah. The rest of the league plays a Power5 game too. Find me another school that plays their conference and 4 "power" games.

UK had two fumble recoveries, both of which were returned for TD's (though one was called, incorrectly, player down, so UK only got a recovery instead of a run back.) Doesn't sound too bad to me.

Just wait, in the next 10 years the SEC will start to sponsor Men's hockey and take it from the Big10. :)

It would be interesting to see, during the same time periods picked above, what schools have been doing program first things? USC and AU have made it to program first Final Fours in MBB. MsSU's Final Four in WBB. Other increases in program successes, UK Football in recent years. While the top is winning titles with different programs the bottom is rising just as fast if not faster.