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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4480639, member: 10"] I usually don't revel in other people's failures, but this does warm my heart. :) [I]The big national headline, however, is still that Kentucky will enter January with zero Quadrant 1 wins and even less of an identity. Calipari has neither the type of overwhelming [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/nba/']NBA[/URL] talent he's normally had at UK, nor an obvious understanding of how to maximize the pieces actually in the program. That's a bad combination that's led to a rough start to this season and the removal of the Wildcats from Thursday morning's updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings. Calipari has always had his critics, sure, but the concerning thing for him now is that his most intense critics are diehard fans of the program he's running, and that's never really been the case for him at the collegiate level since he began his head coaching career more than three decades ago. Is there still time to get things right? Of course. But history tells us once your own fans turn on you to this degree it's difficult to completely win them back over, and the fact that KenPom is now projecting Kentucky to lose eight more times before Selection Sunday suggests that Big Blue Nation will likely spend the next three months just growing more and more disgruntled with a very expensive coach who is finding it harder than ever to meet expectations.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketball-rankings-kentucky-falls-from-top-25-and-1-as-john-calipari-critics-grow-louder/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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