re: Are Kentucky people getting restless?

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No question Cal has done great things, but we should have at least four titles in the seven years, and we have one.

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UK has 8 total over several decades and several coaches. Rupp himself had just 4 over his 42 year career at UK with undoubtedly as much talent in comparison to his competition as Calipari does now.

In non-UK comparison, it's taken Coach K 36 years at Duke to win 5. The bulk of those coming after he was already at Duke a decade.

The numbers among active D-1 coaches:

Mike Krzyewski (Duke): 5
Roy Williams (UNC): 2
Rick Pitino (UofL): 2 (1 at UK)
Jim Boeheim (Syracuse): 1
Larry Brown (SMU): 1 (Kansas)
Steve Fisher (San Diego State): 1 (Michigan)
Tom Izzo (Michigan State): 1
Kevin Ollie (UConn): 1
Bill Self (Kansas): 1
Tubby Smith (Texas Tech): 1 (Kentucky)
Rollie Massimino (Keiser): 1 (Villanova)

IMO, top talent or not, it's unreasonable to expect that many titles while discounting how tough it is to win one. People's expectations of a title every other year is completely infeasible.