Winning the national championship last year wasn’t enough for University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball coach John Calipari. For him it’s already a “been there done that” feat, and now he has a new goal…A PERFECT SEASON. While at the University of Memphis Calipari went 38-2 during the 2007-2008 season when he had studs like Derrick Rose, Chris Douglas-Roberts and Joey Dorsey. Last year his Kentucky team also went 38-2. Kentucky proved the losses didn’t matter by rolling over almost every opponent the rest of the season en route to their national title victory.
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| Nerlens Noel |
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| Andrew and Aaron Harrison |
Calipari isn’t sure exactly when that perfect season will come but he is expecting it within the next 2-3 years. His squad comes into this year ranked number #3 with big recruits like Nerlens Noel but he’s even more excited about the recruits he’s landed for next season. He has already landed 4 of the top 15 high school players in the class of 2013 including twins Andrew and Aaron Harrison from Fort Bend, TX who rank 3rd and 4th in the country. The experts are saying that there is still a chance that Kentucky could land the top rated player in the country Julius Randle, and on top of that the top rated junior Andrew Wiggins might reclassify as a senior and also sign with Kentucky. If it all goes down like that Kentucky would have the best recruiting class in history and a 2013-2014 squad that would be virtually untouchable. That’s an extremely frightening possibility that I’m sure every other school in the nation is praying doesn’t happen. Even without Randle and Wiggins the UK 2013 recruiting class should still be the top class in the nation.
As a University of Memphis alumni I am supposed to dislike John Calipari because he left us for Kentucky but I find it hard to hate on a man that went after what he called “his career goal”. I was happy for him when Kentucky won the title last season and I wouldn’t mind seeing him accomplish his goal of a perfect season.
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