John Calipari has accepted the head coaching offer for Kentucky, leaving a Memphis team that has had a lot of success under him. Calipari has expressed his desire to take on the Kentucky coaching job from two years ago, when Kentucky hired Billy Gillispie. Calipari will receive an 8 year $31.65 million, and he was also receiving a $2.5 million signing bonus. This is now the richest contract in college basketball.
Calipari led Memphis to the national championship game last season, where they lost to Kansas in overtime. They were eliminated last week by Missouri in the Sweet 16. He has produced NBA players such as Rod Carney, Derrick Rose, Chris Douglas-Roberts, and Joey Dorsey. Memphis is not particularly thrilled about the move, but they'll continue and look for another head coach for their basketball program.
Calipari jumping to Kentucky, in my opinion, is not a good move. I think being the head coach of Kentucky is overrated. There are other programs that are better, in my opinion, such as Duke with Mike Krzyzewski, North Carolina, and Kansas and Michigan St. with Tom Izzo. However, I think Calipari will be able to make them contenders again because a lot of high school kids will want to play for him.
What do you think? Was this a good move for Calipari and Kentucky?
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