That’s a bunch of baloney. Calipari has never been implicated for any “illegal recruiting.” In addition, this is not “Calipari’s system”, but the system put in place by the NBA and the NCAA. He’s simply one of the best at working within it.
In any event, I would prefer it be changed to require they stay at least two years, but I’m not the rulemaker.
Sleazy Cal is here to stay. Well, as long as he wishes. There is an easy way to get rid of him: Reputable programs could just ignore him and refuse to schedule KY. If he was not able to sell TV commercial time for NCAA and KY, it would be goodby Cal. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen as reputable programs will continue to schedule UK to bring in the money. So what is going to happen, assuming Cal wishes to stay around, is that reputable programs will join his scheme. That is, sell the university as nothing but a six months NBA prep school. Kentucky’s one and done brand of college basketball has all but killed real competition. So here we have a team that was not even ranked in the top 25 to end the season, lost 10 games, and was definitely not the best team in their own conference, on the verge of winning the NCAA title. The last two games they should have definitely lost, the same player hitting a desperation 3 point shot to win the game for them. Now they win tomorrow night and all we will hear is how Kentucky is on the verge of overtaking UCLA as the greatest basketball program of all time. And how the NBA farm team ran at Kentucky is the new wave of the future in college basketball. Let Aaron Harrison miss those two prayer threes and all this talk about how great Kentucky is with their NBA farm team is out the window...as it damn well should be.