There's been some talk that bloggers and a Lexington, Ky., TV station have made reports that Florida head basketball coach Billy Donovan will take over the vacant head coaching position at the University of Kentucky.

I understand Kentucky has a storied history, what with seven national titles and countless all-americas. But that mystique is gone. The Kentucky job isn't the "it" job in college basketball anymore. If it was, coaches would be flocking to Lexington to visit with UK officials to talk about the position.

Donovan would be insane to give up what he has in Gainesville. He's on the verge of winning back-to-back national titles, a feat that hasn't been reached since Christian Laettner was relevant, Grant Hill had a high-top fade and 1992 and 1993 Final Four banners still hung from the rafters in Ann Arbor. Yes, Florida is and will always be a football school. I could understand Donovan possibly wanting to make the move to be The Man at a high profile basketball school. Donovan has more appearances in the Final Four the last seven years, three, than UK has in the last nine, one.

While it's perplexing to determine why Donovan would leave Florida, it should be no secret why Kentucky is hot on Donovan's trail.

Florida and Donovan have beaten Kentucky six straight times. No other coach or school can say that. That has to eat at everyone in Lexington, from admistrators, to coaches, to players and fans. I've learned Kentucky backers seem to have a sense of entitlement when it comes to basketball. How else can you explain the firing of a coach, Tubby Smith, who averaged 26 wins a season in Lexington. Smith's dismissal, to me, is the equivalent of Oklahoma letting Bob Stoops go.

You can't tell me that had Tubby won at least two of those six meetings with the Gators, Smith wouldn't still have his job? John Cooper won 10 games  a year in Columbus, but he couldn't beat Michigan. He was let go because of that. That's not to say OSU pursued Lloyd Carr, but the reason behind the dismissals seem to run along the same lines.

Of course, Donovan should listen to the offer. But he'd be an #### to leave what he has built. Kentucky should go another route, though, and not try to steal a coach because it can't beat him.