The problem is not Cal

[Rembrandt90]

Calipari recruited and signed these players
Nearly all, if not all, have regressed in skills.

Development of players by improvement of players' skills is one of the biggest keys to being a successful college basketball coach. What players have actually improved in multiple years of playing for Cal? Offhand I can think of these-

Darius Miller
Terrence Jones
Doron Lamb
Willie Cauley Stein
Derek Willis
Dominique Hawkins
Tyler Ulis
PJ Washington
Nick Richards
Immanuel Quickley

Looking at this list, what stands out to me is that all of these players who improved significantly at UK were recruited before 2019, which is also about the time Cal started bringing in yearly plug and play transfers. I am not suggesting transfers prevent other players from improving. Instead, that was a time when Cal started fishing for quick fixes through the transfer process, rather than investing sweat equity in roster building. It screams boredom. This is also about the time our gazillion dollar staff of assistant coaches (Antigua, Chin) was hired to assume the grind of the coaching burden. Say what you will. To me, this was the bored Cal, succumbing to losing his competitive edge at that time.

BTW, did anyone notice that the Arkansas game on Tuesday would have been an ideal time to mix in some zone defense? Arkansas is not a very good perimeter shooting team. But we could not keep them out of the lane, which was where they were killing us. Layup after layup after layup. Stubbornly refusing to switch up defenses in order to outthink the opponent is another piece of evidence that Cal won't invest the sweat equity to develop and facilitate a competitive roster. Absolute power corrupts.

 

[TankedCat]

the real problem is Cal is no passionate about coaching anymore

its why he doesn't care about wins or losses, he doesn't care about fan interaction and he doesn't want to talk about what they can do to improve after a loss.

He likes the money, he likes the fame, he likes bringing in 5 star players, he likes running a soup kitchen after a tornado, but the actual base responsibilities of being the Kentucky coach? he's over that and he is sticking around the program for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Bkocats]

Development of players by improvement of players' skills is one of the biggest keys to being a successful college basketball coach. What players have actually improved in multiple years of playing for Cal? Offhand I can think of these-

Darius Miller
Terrence Jones
Doron Lamb
Willie Cauley Stein
Derek Willis
Dominique Hawkins
Tyler Ulis
PJ Washington
Nick Richards
Immanuel Quickley

Looking at this list, what stands out to me is that all of these players who improved significantly at UK were recruited before 2019, which is also about the time Cal started bringing in yearly plug and play transfers. I am not suggesting transfers prevent other players from improving. Instead, that was a time when Cal started fishing for quick fixes through the transfer process, rather than investing sweat equity in roster building. It screams boredom. This is also about the time our gazillion dollar staff of assistant coaches (Antigua, Chin) was hired to assume the grind of the coaching burden. Say what you will. To me, this was the bored Cal, succumbing to losing his competitive edge at that time.

BTW, did anyone notice that the Arkansas game on Tuesday would have been an ideal time to mix in some zone defense? Arkansas is not a very good perimeter shooting team. But we could not keep them out of the lane, which was where they were killing us. Layup after layup after layup. Stubbornly refusing to switch up defenses in order to outthink the opponent is another piece of evidence that Cal won't invest the sweat equity to develop and facilitate a competitive roster. Absolute power corrupts.

Excellent points
I was originally referring to this year’s roster but you are right…there hasn’t been any kind of development in years
Thank you for a phenomenal reaponse