“We have a chance to do whatever we choose to do,” he said on his postgame radio show on the UK Sports Network.
But we all know that Kentucky isn’t playing to squeak into the tournament and hoping to do some damage. They didn't make him king of the bluegrass to watch football schools like Alabama leave the Wildcats in the dust.
The Calipari of a decade ago was the perfect Kentucky coach. That’s undeniable. Not only did he have all the external parts of the job figured out, but he brought in great recruits every year, pumped them out into the NBA and was a threat to win the national title more often than not.
Calipari should have more than just the lone 2012 championship, but there was no real complaint about the kind of program he was running.