I think that's what Cal's mission/vision was.
Cal even said as much. His goal was beyond SEC/Dance standards.
There was even a time when Cal himself had a celebrity status that transcended CBB. He was a cult of personality.
But that was about a little 6–8-year bubble, that burst like most bubbles do.
The ever-swinging pendulum is moving back towards what we've seen consistently since Wisconsin beat the greatest collection of talent and names on one team since the Wooden era.
That was it, the grand finale of NBA age rule meets elite/celebrity tier AAU circuit meets marquee name star recruiting meets John Calipari. It all came together had a great showing no doubt about it.
We have to understand there's a generation of player that thinks that is what CBB and blue blood ball is. That was their experience. It's all about 5-star recruits, NBA/AAU circuit style ball, and what coach/program is getting guys to league.
However, they don't realize that prior to them there are several generations, and since them there are new generations of player and ball that are totally different.
Players, coaches, teams, programs who aren't judged/loved because of star rankings, and professional accomplishments, but what they accomplished in college, for the program, as a team.
That brief era of ball and its founder are now in Fayetteville Arkansas. Not at a blue blood, or program in a big destination coastal port city...Arkansas.