I for one am glad to see him go. Yes, he is very good man with a great personality and is great with x's and o's. On the other hand his recruiting, taken as a whole, is fairly poor. He coached for 4 years at Tulsa, with other peoples recruits. He coached for 2 years at Georgia with other peoples recruits. He won a national championship with Pitinos recruits. When he got the chance to play with players he recruited, the program went on a steady, downhill slide. Is recruiting all his fault? No. That is easy. Is he hiring Kentucky caliber coaches that might help him with recruiting. No. Look at his coaching staff. Talk about a Good Ol' Boy network. If you have not worked with or played for him in the past, forget getting a job with him.

In a nutshell, he can coach at the Kentucky level but that is all he can do and it takes a lot more than just x's and o's to be successful in the Bluegrass. I am not asking for a Final Four every year, but he is at the helm during the longest Final Four dry spell (9 years) in the history of the program since the NCAA championship tournament started and that is a problem. I wish him the best of luck and hope he does well, but the Kentucky basketball programs deserves more.

And for all of those folks that are talking about how younger people don't care about tradition and how it is a "what can you do for me" atmosphere, take a good look at yourselves and try to figure out who taught those values.