Love Cal and I hope he stays here for another 10 years.
But I'd be lying if I said I didn't want him to change his model just a little bit. I wish we could retain our players longer. I get it, if you're a guaranteed first rounder, you have to go, but the culture right now at UK is one and done and if you're at UK for a second year it's a crime.
Winning with Freshmen is damn near impossible, but Cal has us in the mix every year through extremely hard work.
But he's a much better coach than most realize, if he retained players for more than one year, he would crush it. I mean really good players, not the Derek Willis' or Hawkins type players, top notch players.
Give me a 2 year rule and UK would reel off an obscene amount of titles under Cal.
As far as the next coach, I feel he needs to get his fair share of elite players, he should, this is UK. But I hope the next coach is a passionate X's and O's coach that has an eye for talent and has proven himself on the big stage. That last one is key, don't want a dude that has nothing on the resume, give me a Brad Stephens, I think that guy is the perfect fit for this job and he's young.
By the time Cal hangs it up, BS might be ready to take that spot.
At this time, I don't see any other worthy candidates. Sorry, but Sean Miller needs to not be mentioned here, he's done less with more too often. He's snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory too often when it really counts.
