LEXINGTON, Ky. — To a degree that would have been unthinkable five years ago, the John Calipari coaching era at Kentucky has begun to feel like the end days of Tubby Smith’s UK coaching regime and the final seasons of Denny Crum’s coaching tenure at Louisville.
There is something especially wrenching when the performance of a championship-level coach stops meeting the exacting standard that is excellence.
In the cases of Smith and Crum, we all know how the latter two coaching runs ended.
