ESPN.com reports John Calipari has announced he's leaving his Memphis basketball head coaching job and accepting the Kentucky Wildcats basketball head coaching vacancy.
The Kentucky Wildcats must have all the money in the world. John Calipari said to make him an offer he couldn't refuse, and 3 days after paying Billy Gillispie 6 million to hit the road, that is exactly what Kentucky did.
The contract is the richest contract in college basketball history. The numbers are staggering. 8 years 31.65 million. Kentucky also had to give Memphis $200,000 dollars to buyout Calipari's current contract. It gets better, Calipari also received a 2.5 million dollar signing bonus for becoming a Wildcat.
I said on a recent post regarding Kentucky on who the man to be was...the man is whoever the head coach is at that school. It doesn't matter if you're vacating the position, or filling it.
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