re: Kentucky fans, help me understand what happened to Calipari

It's easy. Barnhart (the KY AD) and Calipari fell out a couple of years ago and basically Barnhart froze out Calipari from NIL. Also, it didn't help that Calipari fell out with a major booster over the booster's wife using one of the players at her political campaign rallies for Governor. It all comes down to NIL, however. Barnhart knew that without NIL equal to competitors, Cal (and UK) was screwed. He was willing to use that leverage when Cal started looking around for other jobs. In the end, I think Cal may have wanted to move to tOSU, however, his discussions with Arky were solely to pressure Barnhart into opening up the NIL spigot. Instead, Barnhart took the opportunity to (indirectly) force him out since once word got out that he had talked to Arky, he could never come back as UK's coach.