Henderson’s 8 years at UK:
258-199 with an SEC record of 105-134.
That’s a much more logical expectation of what to expect than this last few weeks.
John Cohen’s 13 year body of work in the SEC (including 8 years at a Top 5 SEC program in terms of facilities, history, fan support, etc, and 5 years at the worst program in the SEC):
459-315-2 overall (.591 winning %)
171-215 SEC record (.443 winning %)
Gary Henderson’s 9 year body of work, 8 of which were at the worst SEC program in all of the above factors and 1 of which was at the same Top 5 program as Cohen.
294-222 (.570)
120-149 (.446)
Cohen, who anyone with a brain would consider a very good / borderline elite HC during his time in the SEC, had an overall winning percentage that was .021 higher than Henderson and an SEC winning % that was .003 less than Henderson. Are there extenuating factors that make Cohen’s record lower than it should be for a supposed elite coach? Sure there were, namely his first 2 years at each program where he had some rebuilding. But his 8 years spent at a program with a **** ton of resources considerably cancels that out compared to a guy who spent 85% of his time at the league’s worst program.
Point is, there is not a universe that exists where John Cohen is a great / elite coach while at the same time Henderson is a not good / terrible coach. Henderson is at least a pretty good head coach, even though I and many others don’t think he is the long term answer for our program. So people need to quit shitting on him and at least give him some damn credit for the run we have been on.
