Does Anyone Want to Coach at Kentucky?

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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John Calipari’s tenure at Kentucky included a national championship and four Final Fours. At most other programs, that kind of resume would have guaranteed him a job for life. But things are different in Lexington, as the Wildcats’ five year streak of no Sweet 16 appearances made Calipari’s recent decision to jump to Arkansas shocking but not surprising. So today, SportsCenter anchor and lifelong Kentucky fan Michael Eaves gives us the view inside the Big Blue fanbase and explains why picking the next head coach is an unenviable challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we begin Sports Enter tonight with huge breaking news that John Calipari is
0:08.4	finalizing a five-year deal to leave Kentucky to become the next head coach
0:11.8	at the University of Arkansas.
0:13.4	Cal has won just one NCAA attorney game in the last four years,
0:17.1	though it's not for a lack of talent.
0:19.3	In his time in Lexington, 35 first round NBA draft picks.
0:27.0	So as I digested the somewhat surprising news that John Calipari would be leaving Kentucky after 15 seasons in one national title
0:37.6	I began wondering how this development was being received amongst the big blue faithful
0:42.3	And when I want to take the temperature of that rabbit was being received amongst the Big Blue faithful.
0:43.0	And when I want to take the temperature of that rapid fan base,
0:46.0	there's one place I typically turn.
0:49.6	Michael Eaves, as a child, who was your favorite UK Wildcat?
0:54.0	Derek Hoard.
0:56.0	He was on the 1983 team that lost to Louisville.
0:58.0	He looked like he could have been my older brothers,
1:01.0	so I think that had a lot to do with it. But besides Derek Hoard, that's when I was a kid,
1:05.3	kid. But then Rex Chapman was a great player in Kentucky, and he grew up not far from where I grew up.
1:10.1	There's Chapman from down.
1:12.1	And there's one in. There's some from down. Hanging it on in.
1:13.0	There's no two.
1:14.0	Those are not short three-pointers.
1:16.0	That's an NBA three-point shot by Chapman.
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