John Calipari moving to Arkansas is a win-win-win WPXI [Video]

John Calipari needed an off ramp into a fresh start.

Arkansas needed a bolt of boldness and the excitement that comes with it.

Kentucky needed a way out of an albatross of a coaching contract for what had become a stale program.

It isn’t often that a college basketball coaching move satisfies all parties, but Calipari jumping from Lexington to Fayetteville may have somehow done it.

Win. Win. Win.

Now Coach Cal better go win. Same for the guy who follows him in Big Blue, especially in March (or April).

Let’s start with this: Why would John Calipari leave vaunted Kentucky for Arkansas? Traditionally speaking this is a step down, a reversal of fortune. Indeed, in 1985, this went the opposite way, with Kentucky not just hiring away Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton but Sutton making clear the pecking order of the two programs by declaring, “I would have crawled all the way to Lexington.”

This isn’t 1985 any longer, though, and Calipari isn’t an …