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E-PrinceFrom a professional standpoint, there are two advantages for John Calipari — the former men’s basketball head coach at the University of Memphis — taking the head coaching job at the University of Kentucky: more money and more tradition. Calipari’s ...(back to the article)
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As a Memphis fan, I will say Coach Cal will be missed. Most of us were so looking forward to next year we didn't even see this coming. Like you said the players are all now wondering what their going to do. Memphis had the best recruits coming in next year and now who knows most of who they have now want to leave. Part of me wants to hate Coach Cal for leaving us so close to what could have been the amazing season. Its no secret that KU wanted coach cal and all those he was bringing next year. thanks KU
OK, by this logic, Cornel West should never have left Union Theological Seminary in New York City (his first job) to move on to Yale, then Princeton, then Harvard, then Princeton again. West never should have left because career should always be trumped by loyalty to the students that have come to study with him.
Same with Joyce Carol Oates. She never should have left the University of Detroit for Princeton, because after all, she should have let her loyalty to the students who came to study with her at Detroit trump any ambition to teach among the best and the brightest in the Ivy League.
Coach K should have stayed at Army, and never moved to Duke?
What planet are we living on?
Please.
He better win...and win big...and soon.
And I hate UK (it is UK) but understand why he took the job. It is the same reason Trump builds towers - not to rent space, but to put his name on them. Those who don't understand UK (and would call it KU - {Kansas}) don't realize there is no more signficant tower upon which one can place their name. The Memphis program sucked when he arrived...so instead of bemoaning the departure, you oughta send him a Thank You card. However, I feel the same toward Cal that Rush L does toward the President...I hope he fails miserably.
Sorry, Charlie. I can't buy your arguments on many levels: firstly, "college" basketball is not really a sport anymore, it's a business and a major money maker for the institution; secondly, while I was extremely disappointed to see Coach Johnson leave the Naval Academy for Ga. Tech, I fully understand his reasons therefore and wish him every success ... he had completely turned around a moribund program and put it in the national spotlight with six straight wins over Army, five over Air Force, bowl games, C-in-C Trophies, a very nice pay check, and probably life-time tenure [if he wanted it] ... he did not leave for anything other than the challenge and the chance to prove his detractors wrong, as well as a chance to compete in the BCS ... I am sure that the decision weighed heavily on him, but probably only insofar as the players he had recruited and the institution itself; finally, if you chose Princeton merely because of its water polo coach, then it is you who are at fault and not the coach ... you are kind of shallow and should get over yourself !