Calipari Name Mentioned Again...

[ChapelHeeled]

Do not think that this will happen for either Coach but...



http://247sports.com/Bolt/Rockets-interested-in-Shaka-Smart-and-Bill-Self-NBA-writer-says-45183720

 

[mikeirbyusa]

Can't take the pay-cuts.

 

[UNC Blue Hup]

He's proven when they have a spending limit he can't win.. Woooo!

 

[wilsinnc]

Didn't see cals name in the article only shaka and bill self was there a different article?

 

[RoseHeel]

Cal was not mentioned anywhere in the linked article...

 

[jchammock]

Yep, Calipari gone "AGAIN"

 

[3skinny]

Hope he stays at Kensucky. Great recruiter same can't be said about his coaching and will leave them like the other two universities.

 

[DSouthr]

I would LOVE for kalipari to go to the NBA !!!

BUT, honest question guys, why would he? Think about it, great NBA coaches do not have job stability very few if any are a coupe of losing seasons away from unemployment. literally kalipari would have be caught with his hand in the cookie jar with dead bang proof of involvement in a major NCAA investigation for him to lose his job at Ky and even that may not be enough. The guy has as solid a job at Ky as K has at duke and being a LOT younger than kal that ride can last many many more years.

While a NBA team may pay him more short term the longevity of a college coaches job trumps what ever the NBA will pay you short term and it isn't as if kal is not getting paid huge now. And you have the added bonus that you do not have to baby sit millionaires that tell you how to run the team you are head coach of, you do not have your own players getting your owner to fire you because that star player does not like you.

I could see it for Brad Stevens, he was coach at mid major and went to the NBA for a mega pay increase, as young as he is has plenty of time to take the NBA gold and still come back to the college game and jump right in to a major college program as their coach, very likely a consistent top 5 "blue blood" type of program. Duke or UNC would LOVE to have him when their coach retires so his options are wide open. But kal is already at a blue blood and has maybe more college stability than any coach not head coach at duke tight now. Why would you give that up when you are already making what, 6-8 million a year now and fans that worship your every word?

I mean, I know we get excited when we see the potential for kal to leave for the NBA but I just don't see how or why he would do that and give up what he has right now, that very likely 90% of todays NBA coaches would love to have? I don't like what kal has done to the college game by embracing the one & done thing as he has, I think he is a slickster and con artist and enjoys being so but I don't see why he would give what he has up for the uncertainty of the NBA.

 

[RoseHeel]

Cal said he'd leave for 10 Year 120M + Some type of control as a Manager.

If any NBA team is stupid and desperate enough to make that offer, they deserve every bit of failure they get.

Cal is not leaving Kentucky. It became clear after he turned down the Cavaliers. He knows he has it too good at Kentucky to do so. The question that needs to be asked is "How long will he stay at Kentucky"?

 

[dgheel57]

"How long will he stay at Kentucky"?[/QUOTE]



Until he gets caught.

 

[3skinny]

Matter of time before the back on probation. Kentucky shame back on cover of sports illustrated.

 

[BillyL]

Not gonna happen guys, Cal won't get caught . . the UK family has a lot of buffers.

 

[uncfan in ky]

Not gonna happen guys, Cal won't get caught . . the UK family has a lot of buffers.

BINGO... Not going to get caught when guys like WWW doing his dirty work for him.
His relationship with WWW almost bit him in the ass over the Derrick Rose situation. They've learned a lot since then.

 

[hills5]

BINGO... Not going to get caught when guys like WWW doing his dirty work for him.
His relationship with WWW almost bit him in the ass over the Derrick Rose situation. They've learned a lot since then.

Yup. And he won't get "caught" because like with the previous schools, when he sees the writing on the wall he'll make the hard decision to "leave for a new challenge" just before the axe falls.