This doesn't make sense. "go get a young proven energetic coach that can and will be here long enough to re-establish UK as a BLUE BLOOD program." then you say "Take the top 5 coaches in basketball today and write a check to make one of them our new savior." that is not the same thing. UK should not have to look for an up and coming coach, they need to find someone in their prime and offer them. UK should not be taking risks on unproven coaches, If they have their eye on someone, let them coach somewhere else and see if they can prove they can coach at that level and then offer them when possible.
Read my post again. I said go get a YOUNG, PROVEN, ENERGETIC coach. Nothing was mentioned about up and coming coach. I don't think we need a 65 year old coach to revive our program. Someone under 55 would be OK but there are several top coaches under 55. Chris Beard 53 , Dan Hurley 52, Todd Golden 40, Tommy Lloyd 51, Mark Byington 49, Dusty May 49, and even Pat Kelsey 49.
Now Bruce Pearl 65, Tom Izzo 70, Rick Barnes 71, and Bill Self 63 are too old for UK to hire because we don't need an interim coach. Write a check to any of the young group I listed and all of them would kill it here in Lexington. I'm sure there are several more that I have left off. Nothing about up and coming in that list, they all have arrived.