Let me just say a few things
1. The UK administration was in contact with the NCAA all weekend and went through a much deeper vetting process than last time. They EMPHATICALLY cleared Calipari and his coaching staff. Rick Pitino had multiple recruiting violations on his resume and been disassociated with a program per the NCAA. He was clean. Sandy Bell is on top of things. She blocked the recruitment of Kevin Durant allegedly because of grade issues.
2. Greg Doyle is an a-hole and a bad writer. He has also been quoted as saying "Why is he screwing this up!" in regards to Billy Gillispie's tenure at UK
3. John Chaney and Calipari are actually friends now. Have been for awhile.
4. A lot of people want this to happen in the college basketball world. Why is it you think the media has been saying "This is awesome" Bilas, Vitale, Katz, Gottlieb, Seth Davis, Digger Phelps..all have stated this a perfect fit. ESPN and the SEC want this. Nike wants this to happen really, really bad. IMG wants this to happen really, really bad. There's reasons for that and frankly I don't care if everyone "hates" us. We've always been hated. Why? Because we win and others don't.
5. If Coach Smith had taken Jodie Meeks (like some of you who were hoping he'd transfer to Minnesota at one point on this board) and Patrick Patterson I'm SURE you would have felt bad about it. I don't want to see the Memphis program hurt in all this. I don't want any current Memphis players transferring to UK.
But John Wall is uncommitted and has signed nothing. He's made it clear he wants to play for Calipari. He was already being recruited by Kentucky. I don't see the issue. Henry will not be coming to UK if he gets out of his LOI. He's going to Kansas (and the Jayhawks will thank us everyday of the week and twice on Sunday) and guys like Cousins will have some hard choices. We have one of the top big men in this class coming in. It's going to be a numbers game..it was going to be that before the coaching change.