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That's smart. A bunch of bung holes with more money than sense attempting to keep a coach who has already told you he wants to move out of Guanoville. And if you are successful? Right, you have a coach that is ULTRAMOTIVATED to lead (or would that be LEAVE) your program. Move on guys and steal your next coach from someone else. It's the American way.

He can do what he wants, he does not owe Memphis anything or Kentucky, but the NCAA needs to put a rule in that players and recruits can transfer to any school they want except the one the coach leaves to work at. If not, then students are being used as bargaining chips for million dollar contracts. At the very least they must sit out a year and lose a year of eligibility. Either that or the NCAA must just accept the fact they are not amateur sport.
Coaches will be recruited for what players they can bring with them.

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Originally posted 08:04 AM ET  03.31 by 50yearfan

He can do what he wants, he does not owe Memphis anything or Kentucky, but the NCAA needs to put a rule in that players and recruits can transfer to any school they want except the one the coach leaves to work at. If not, then students are being used as bargaining chips for million dollar contracts. At the very least they must sit out a year and lose a year of eligibility. Either that or the NCAA must just accept the fact they are not amateur sport. Coaches will be recruited for what players they can bring with them.

Agree in principal with the transfer rule, problem is, where does it end? What if an assistant leaves, a coordinator, the ubiquitous Associate Head Coach?

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Originally posted 08:04 AM ET  03.31 by 50yearfan

He can do what he wants, he does not owe Memphis anything or Kentucky, but the NCAA needs to put a rule in that players and recruits can transfer to any school they want except the one the coach leaves to work at. If not, then students are being used as bargaining chips for million dollar contracts. At the very least they must sit out a year and lose a year of eligibility. Either that or the NCAA must just accept the fact they are not amateur sport. Coaches will be recruited for what players they can bring with them.

I thought sitting out one season was the rule to maintain your eligibility? Look at Seth Curry; he's transferring to Duke but he can't play till 2010.

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Originally posted 08:29 AM ET  03.31 by ATLfan15

I thought sitting out one season was the rule to maintain your eligibility? Look at Seth Curry; he's transferring to Duke but he can't play till 2010.

Pardon me, I should have said 2010-2011; he will have three seasons of eligibility. Here's the link to the article:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/basketball/ncaa/03/29/duke.curry.ap/ index.html

Calipari isn't going to turn that much money down so these boosters might be better off trying to line up his successor instead of blocking his inevitable exit.

UK is talking Sabenesque numbers. I don't think Memphis will be able to match that.

50YEARFAN is so right........................
He can do what he wants, he does not owe Memphis anything or Kentucky, but the NCAA needs to put a rule in that players and recruits can transfer to any school they want except the one the coach leaves to work at. If not, then students are being used as bargaining chips for million dollar contracts. At the very least they must sit out a year and lose a year of eligibility. Either that or the NCAA must just accept the fact they are not amateur sport.
Coaches will be recruited for what players they can bring with them.

SOMETHIMG HAS GOT TO CHANGE: Memphis fans will be left a team of 3 or 4 players total. The administration will be forced to rape away someone elses coach and his signees too. College sports is going downhill and fast!!!

I feel real badly for Memphis. I agree with MemphisTigers59 in that their team will be decimated by all these players leaving. It seems unfair, but they sdid sign the papers that said the players could do this. This situation sucks and heralds a reallly bad precedent. If this happens in football, then you're going to see some really bad stuff going down.

totally agree with the team being decimated and it sets a bad precedent.

as far as everyone CONTINUING to say that "Memphis can't match those Kentucky dollars".....****???? Somehow there simply can't POSSIBLY be as much money in Memphis as there is in Lexington???????? you got to be kidding me!!!! Word had it that late last night Fred Smith (owner of Fed Ex for those peeps who keep say the quote above) was meeting with Calipari....

with all that said, I personally don't they should match any offers from Kentucky. I love Coach Cal and all that he's done, but enough is enough. He's one of the highest paid coaches ALREADY in college basketball and anything short of a championship at this point won't merit a raise. He's received a raise every year he's been here, he's been worth every penny, but at some point you have to draw a line in the sand and quit being held hostage.

Memphis might be a football school now, lol, but not funny.

Funny when you think about it. Kentuckys goal is to be more like Memphis. Now if Calipari takes some players with him, and a year from now those players decide to enter the draft early, will UK fans think it is wrong and terrible? For that matter, as long as Calipari is the coach there will feel that it is wrong for a player to leave early or not honor a verbal committment to the school? It really is a dirty little world, college athletics that is.

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Originally posted 09:17 AM ET  03.31 by MemphisTigers59

College sports is going downhill and fast!!!

but this has been going on for DECADES
it is not new-

I believe that ANY kid should be able to change his mind
prior the end of his HS academic year (june).....
that benefits the KIDS

ps- memphis fan- no offense- but your school is in a world of hurt
if cal leaves...no one is going to be able to replace him

The boosters blocked him - did they have a sit down???

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Originally posted 09:32 AM ET  03.31 by Joekidd1992

I feel real badly for Memphis. I agree with MemphisTigers59 in that their team will be decimated by all these players leaving. It seems unfair, but they sdid sign the papers that said the players could do this. This situation sucks and heralds a reallly bad precedent. If this happens in football, then you're going to see some really bad stuff going down.

I also agree with this sentiment and something really needs to be done to curb any chances of the precedent reoccuring. otherwise, "hiring a new coach" will just mean nothing more than stealing another school's team roster altogether.

just wait... calipari will go to uk, then two years later we will find he violated ncaa rules like he did in umass, and memphis will get stung again... cal is good, but worth what everyone wants to throw at him! uk has not made very good hires lately, this would be another! uk standards are too high for anyone to meet, and this contract will come back to haunt everyone when cal doesn't win a title there either!

oops... NOT worth what everyone wants to throw at him...

Louie, Louie, come on baby, say we gotta go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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Originally posted 02:43 PM ET  03.31 by GatorBaitor

Louie, Louie, come on baby, say we gotta go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Is that the 'Animal House' version?! Toga! Toga! Toga! :-)

All this Calipari to Kentucky noise goes away tomorrow if the boosters can find a way to convince the ncaa brass to put Memphis in a REAL conference.

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Originally posted 02:39 PM ET  03.31 by NEinSWPA

oops... NOT worth what everyone wants to throw at him...

Outside of free throw shooting, he teaches offensive discipline and focused defense, that puts him as one of the top coaches in all of basketball in my book. Especially for the defensive part...