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johnlg00 writes:

in response to orangecountyvols:

As I mentioned on the other column about the game, no one doubts the skill and success of last year's Kentucky team. Great team.

Having said that, the thinking of bringing in the one and dones every year, with the NBA farm team lure..........came back this year to bite Cal.
If some of those stars stayed with the team longer than just one year, you'd see a really formidable team more than just what was evident with that N C group.

About the coaches. Notice how Cal blasted his players after the game, publicly. That should be great for team confidence going forward.

Good post. Though I have my own doubts about how often Calapari's formula will succeed as well as it did last year, there is a certain logic to it, and he is certainly the only the coach at perhaps the only school where it could even be tried year after year. I think most of those guys WILL be back next year, and they will have most of the ingredients of last year's championship team, i.e., all-star freshmen backed by, or leavened with, experienced guys who can help them over the rough spots in the season and in games. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if both the Vols and the Cats were top-ten teams next year.

It will indeed be interesting to see how these guys react both to the beat-down and to Calapari's words afterwards. If they crumble, it could be a serious blow to Calapari's experiment. If they came to UK because they were eager to embrace the challenge inherent in representing such a program, they will rise to meet it. If they came to jump on some championship train that was already in motion, they may not react as well.

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