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Crain & Company

Ep.15 - Why Kentucky's John Calipari Is Overrated

Crain & Company

The Daily Wire

Sports

3.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

2 seed Kentucky falls to Saint Peters - what this means for the east region and Calipari's future Davante Adams becomes a Raider - why he should have stayed a Packer The Booster Club weighs in on all the college basketball madness

Transcript

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0:00.0

Kentucky falls to St. Peter's, we'll discuss what this means for Coach Cal's future.

0:04.7

Devonté Adams becomes a Las Vegas Raider, and of course, we'll hear from the Booster Club.

0:09.9

All that and more on Cranicum.

0:25.2

One of college basketball's bluest bloods fell to St. Peter's.

0:30.0

A school of 2,300 in the first round of the NCAA tournament yesterday,

0:34.4

and sent many brackets around the country on fire.

0:37.6

But there's a bigger problem after seeing this David vs. Goliath defeat for Kentucky.

0:43.6

The problem is head coach John Calipari and his lack of titles and doing less with more

0:48.8

than just about anybody. It's almost a shaman commercial.

0:52.2

Recruiting is one of the most pivotal things a coach can do.

0:55.3

And coach Cal can recruit like a madman. We're not doubting that.

0:58.1

And Kentucky as a brand recruits itself, like Bam and football.

1:02.1

The problem is Calipari has had college basketball's best roster more times than not,

1:08.9

and only has one title to show for it.

1:12.0

Here are just a few names that have played at Kentucky.

1:15.1

Carl Anthony Townes, Devin Booker, Anthony Davis, Dearing Fox, Bam out of bio,

1:21.1

Tyler Hero, Malink Monk, Jamal Murray, and DeMarcus Cousins.

1:25.6

So basically half the NBA, and that's just scratching the surface, to be honest,

1:29.6

Kentucky struggles with in-game adjustments, and as animated as Cal gets on the sidelines,

1:36.0

and he gets outcoached on the regular against lesser talent. We see it almost every year.

1:41.2

With the talent they have, you're going to win games by default. It's gravity, it's science.

1:45.9

But Kentucky fans aren't happy with just winning games or making the tournament.

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