Dan Wolken, a writer who has covered John Calipari since his days in Memphis, says it’s obvious that the Calipari era in Kentucky needs to end.
Wolken says Calipari is “unable to do this job at age 64 with the same innovation and vigor he did at 54.”
Check out his thoughts:
After nearly 14 seasons, he’s low on energy, out of ideas and coaching a team that has underperformed so profoundly any other Kentucky coach would be fired by the end of the month.
Those of you who bleed blue know it’s true, especially after a 75-68 loss at Georgia that puts Kentucky on the outside of the NCAA Tournament picture with a month to go. Calipari almost certainly knows it’s true as well, unable to do this job at age 64 with the same innovation and vigor he did at 54.
Hey, it can happen to the best of them. And it’s happening to Calipari right before our very eyes, a Kentucky program so obviously and precipitously in decline that change would be healthy for both parties moving forward.
And yet, Calipari and Kentucky are so welded together by a ridiculous “lifetime contract” that neither can admit a fresh start would be better than the miserable countdown to a day they can free themselves from each other.
