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He was probably less interested in DR making the Olympics than in his access to a 2015 standout kid...

Looks like it worked. The team even practiced at UK.

But he produces all of those lottery picks. You know, the lottery picks who wouldve been lottery picks had they been able to enter the draft straight out of high school.

He had like 14 1st rd draft picks on that team..

I could have won a NC with that roster and I reached my peak in basketball as a member of an 8th grade basketball team as the gritty 5'5" kid with PF skills.

LOL. Go flame somewhere else instead of hijacking this thread. There is no need to hold a vendetta against people who are more hip than you.

Cal has been there twice though and gone to 4 final fours. As much as the folks on here think he is a scum bag, the man can actually coach.

Show me definitive proof that he has cheated while at Kentucky.

track record. Everywhere he coaches gets sanctioned. Happened at UMass and it happened at Memphis. He consistently used illicit means to get players into his program and/or a track record of players under his watch getting money (see Derrick Rose and Marcus Camby). Calipari has had EVERY NCAA final four appearance prior to his arrival at UK vacated due to NCAA violations.

With a history like that, anybody with any bit of common sense would be skeptical of the way Calipari has managed to bring in blue chip prospects at the rate he is bringing them in at UK.

This too. UK has a long history of issues. They were the first program to get the death penalty due to violations back in the 50s and they came close to getting the death penalty again in the early 90s due to multiple violations at that time too.

So when you have the combination of a coach who has a shady reputation with a school with a history of sometimes shady tactics, and you HAVE to be skeptical.

Sure we can...

You said he's been to four final fours as your basis of him being a good coach. Two of those have been vacated. Now you want to change it to just look at his time at UK?