Final Four: John Calipari And Kentucky Cup Person or Bust

Final Four: John Calipari And Kentucky Cup Person or Bust: When John Calipari signed, Michael Teague and Gilchrist Kidd Marquis last November and December, he just does what he does every year: choose two more elite talent school. (He signed a five-star recruits 12, not including Kanter Enes, becoming the head coach of Kentucky in 2009.), When he signed Anthony Davis if Calipari won like once-in-a-generation talent, and he did it for right now: Final Four.
In the Big Blue Nation, where the gain by as much as joy, only to achieve two consecutive NCAA Final Fours is not good enough.
Calipari, who receives a salary of $ 36.5 million principal advantage (more than five times greater than Rick Pitino Louisville man's head), was, of course, been here before - with the big teams - but he never closed the deal. He was Marcus Camby at UMass, Derrick Rose, and lead by 8 points in Memphis, and Brandon Knight last year. With all due respect to these commands, none of them approached to praise the very possibility of this team from the state of Kentucky.
With seven legitimate NBA prospects, including the first and second peak of the NBA in June (Davis-Kidd and Gilchrist), Kentucky's talent level very scary. And unlike other teams seeded with the national aspirations of the title, Wildcats are not faced with atrial injury problems. The best defender in the state of Michigan and the second leading rebounder, Branden Dawson, tore ACL, NC Kendall Marshall broke his wrist, and Syracuse Fab Melo was found to be inadmissible before the tournament starts.
With the onset of madness, Calipari exaggerate the pressure to win the championship in Kentucky, the top seed in the tournament as a whole. "I think I always feel," he said. "Let's do it. Will [] the game for a while. Will be [a] possession at a time. And let me try and get my team play, and they can play. This, I feel pressure, but I feel every time I bring to the team this tournament. "
The fact that this remains true, as we prepare for the finals in New Orleans, the pressure on coach Cal, to win the jackpot is now palpable. Kentucky 36-2 with a 1.27 grade point average in March for possession of crazy enough to attack the second best efficiency rating KenPom. This is the best the most dominant defensive player and Davis, who helped the Wildcats beat the record for one season for the team in total blocks. And then there are fans who claim the national title, like little children crying their mothers during the first sleep of the camp.
Whether or not Calipari delivers the goods this year, it has revived a sleeping giant in the Kentucky program, which is not enjoyed such success and excitement since 1998, when Tubby Smith cut the network as soon as he first season at the helm. However, in the Final Four team, which includes a national championship and 13 in conjunction with the semi-final rematch nemesis Louisville, headed by former Kentucky coach Pitino (who won it all in 1996) all missed the championship will still shocking failure of the Big Blue Nation.