Interesting Question...
In Official Overall NCAA Appearances:
Calipari is 37-25 or .596 with UMass, Memphis and UK
Self is 43-18 or .704 with Tulsa, Illinois and Kansas.
Self made one NIT appearance with Oral Roberts and Cal had five NIT appearances with UMass, Memphis and UK. None of their NIT record are included in these percentages.
Cal is hurt by his 0-6 (2007-08) and 0-5 (1995-96) vacated seasons.
If you don't count all of the vacated losses and just give him 0-1 for those two years, then his record improves to: 37-17 or .685
Dok is practicing and should play some minutes vs. Penn. My guess he will get 10 minutes or so.
Let me explain to you what KySpringcat is trying so valiantly to get through your thick skull.
First of all, Cal wasn't cheating during those two seasons, but let's even say that he was for sake of analogy -
Say your child is in a U-14 basketball league, and some other kid leads his team to an undefeated season, dropping 30 and 10 a game and generally getting the best of your 20 and 5 boy every time they meet.
It later turns out that the other kid is 15, and his title is stripped.
Forget about age for a second... at this moment in time, is your boy a better player than the other kid? Of course not.
The numbers still demonstrate a considerable gap in ability which doesn't magically disappear just because the record book is altered.
Maybe later down the road when they're both adults, your kid will be better - and maybe when Billy rughead grows up, he'll be better than Cal.
But he sure as hell isn't now, and the actual tournament results make that clear (46 and 17 for Cal if your numbers are correct, which is a 73% win rate).
To answer your Louisville retort, no, they don't have a championship, but if we were comparing the strength of teams from 2013, it would be asinine to state that because Duke went to the Elite 8 and Louisville technically had no wins in the tournament, Duke was in fact the better team.
It's not a difficult concept.
Louisville was obviously better than Duke in 2013. Anybody who isn't brain damaged knows that. At the same time, Louisville was not allowed to keep their championship from 2013.
Cal is obviously a better coach than Self. Anybody who isn't brain damaged knows that. At the same time, Cal was not allowed to keep his F4s from those two years.
All of these statements can be, and are, true - all at once.