but there's a long way from that and the guys that Memphis has been looking at so far. Tim Floyd, Mike Anderson, and Bruce Pearl are probably the three biggest names that have surfaced in the national coaching circles this year with the exception of Calipari. Can't blame Memphis for trying, but I think it's very telling that none of these three really had much interest in the job. It's also very telling that their recruits bailed, their signed players are looking to get out of the their letters of intent, and their current players are bailing. In other words, these kids didn't come to Memphis for the prestige of playing at UofM. They came for Calipari. Nothing more, nothing less.
If you were to rank the Top 15 available coaches for this offseason, Scott Drew would probably fall somewhere around 13th. Honestly, I think that's right about where the Memphis program is right now. They are not the mid-major that some say, but they're also not the perennial national power that Memphis fans would say either. They had a great 4 year run, but those spurts of title contention aren't the annual norm for this program.
I know that some people here want to watch their program burn, but I never expected a complete implosion like what we're now witnessing since Cal left. I wish he could have moved on without completely destroying the current state of the program.
