Calipari coached Kentucky for 15 seasons and led the Wildcats to the 2012 national title.
One half of a seismic shift in college basketball is official: John Calipari confirmed Tuesday that he’s leaving Kentucky after 15 years. “This is a dream job. It was my dream job. Anybody in our profession looks at the University of Kentucky in basketball and says, ‘That is the bluest of blue.’ The last few weeks, we’ve come to realize that this program probably needs to hear another voice,” Calipari said in a video message posted to his social media accounts.
” A message to : — John Calipari Calipari won 410 games at Kentucky, 855 in his career, and has led three programs to Final Fours: Massachusetts in 1996, Memphis in 2008 and UK in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. The Wildcats won their eighth national championship in 2012 with Calipari at the helm. But now it’s going on a decade without a Final Four appearance and four straight seasons without reaching the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament.
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