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Leaving Kentucky doesn't guarantee success. Here's how some Calipari-era transfers fared

Kentucky players and Calipari talk after the Cats get knocked out of NCAA Tournament

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Roster turnover has been the norm in John Calipari’s tenure at Kentucky.

It should come as no surprise then that with every new group of vaunted freshmen to arrive on campus there might be a few upperclassmen left to wonder about their roles moving forward. And it’s only natural some of those players might look elsewhere for greener pastures.

“The bottom line is kids want to play,” Gary DeCesare, the high school coach of former Wildcat Charles Matthews, recently told Courier Journal.