ESPN is doing a series on school’s that were prominent with certain coaches and they explain how they are chasing their ghosts after they have moved on.
UMass was a top program with John Calipari but after he left they haven’t been relevant in the big picture of college basketball.
One question they asked was if we were in an alternate universe and Cal stayed at UMass like Mark Few has at Gonzaga, what kind of program would it be right now?
Let’s consider an alternate universe in which John Calipari aspires to be Mark Few and stays at UMass in 1996 instead of looking for new challenges elsewhere.