If your a college basketball fan you certainly know of the historical-success of the University Of Kentucky Wildcat program! Since the early 1950's under coach Adolff Rupp the Wildcats teams have racked up more victories than any other college team and have managed to gather the biggest home crowds far more than any other team during that time. They say Kentucky is horse country but I am here to argue that its 'basketball-country'! The success of the program a a whole certainly has depended upon talented players during these years but it also has depended upon good coaching and teaching from each coach up to the current head coach, John Calipari!
To this point, UK has had incredible success over the last decade, excluding the Billy Gillepsie era as
coach of the team during the 2007 and 2008 seasons which saw the Cats drop several games at home and create an irate fan-base which wa used to winning every game at home since the modern era began. Kentucky is NOT supposed to lose any basketball games! So with the firing of Gillespie, a new era of Kentucky basketball was on the horizon as coach Calipari was due to be hired!
Such stars as John Wall. Demarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, Devin Booker, Eric Bledsoe and others have developed into NBA stars in a short time and much of their success has to be credited to their unselfish willingness to "buy into" the team-first attitude which coach Cal preached from the very beginning of his career as a head coach in division one play.My excitement ignites when I think of more ncaa championships coming to UK very soon, especially if these new players also "buy into" the system from Cal just as others have done.
Its my hope that Calipari begins to make more of an instance of winning collegiate basketball championships rather than having at least one UK player on each NBA team in the near future, which he has recently stated. Its my opinion that the majority of the UK fan-base would much rather see their beloved teams win the NCAA far more than having every NBA team packed with former players, such as the Pheonix Suns have (aka, the Wildcats of the west).
Hopefully, that's exactly what I hope we see just that within the next 5 years and I know many of you want to see the same thing as well....the new NCAA National Champion, Kentucky Wildcats. Maybe the 2017-18 will be the first of several basketball championship banners hung in Rupp Arena.
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