A college basketball coach can be a tactical genius or a silver-tongued recruiter, but if he doesn't fit with his institution and the diehard fans who support it, he won't last long enough to make any spectacular impact.

Kentucky found the man who fits it, and the Big Blue Nation, better than anyone else possibly could when it contacted John Calipari about its vacant job back in 2009. And his impact qualifies as spectacular by any definition, save that of the most ardent admirers of, say, a John Wooden or even an Adolph Rupp.

Five years. Four Elite Eights. Three Final Fours. Tw...

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