John Calipari and Bruce Pearl aren’t supposed to be on the same side of anything.
They’re different brands of loud. Different brands of confident. One is a slick-talking program builder who can turn a press conference into the Gettysburg Address. The other is a human energy drink who might sprint into the student section if you give him a reason. They’ve competed, sniped, rolled their eyes at each other, and generally represented two completely different philosophies on how to live inside college basketball.
So when both of them are staring at the same horizon and saying, in their own ways, “this isn’t going to last,” it’s worth treating that as more than offseason noise.