Calipari Express — Baggage Included
by Wild Weasel on Nov 14, 2009 12:01 AM EST
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PrintWell, John Calipari has made the liberal big time. It was one thing to be written about by SI and ESPN, to have your name splashed across the top of The Sporting News and lede CBS Sportsline and be addressed by your enemies in the Commercial-Appeal and Orlando Sentinel. But you haven't made it until the "Gray Lady" says so, until "all the news that's fit to print" includes news about you. UK's basketball coach appears in today's New York Times and as the title indicates the story includes just about all the tidbits you'd expect: UK's checkered past, the travails of the last two coaches, the broken Big Dance string, the obligatory items on vacated Final Fours, recent small transgressions by John Wall and the dismissed staffer, plus, on the positive — well as positive as The Times can be — side, the fan worship, Twitter followers, and kind words from Joe B and surprisingly Memphis and Amherst (by way of Huntington). Considering the source, it's a pretty good piece.
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You know......
Do some of these people think that Coach Cal wants to have another FF appearance vacated? Think about it. You are a hard working basketball coach. You have made it to the finals of the Big Dance. Twice. Only to find out after the fact, the NCAA says you cannot keep it. That has to be terrible. A driven individual would want to rectify that. I think Cal wants those back (and then some) and he will do everything he can to keep them.
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
Heh.
Factual problems:
It was later determined that someone else took Rose’s college entrance exam after three failed attempts at a qualifying score.
This sentence is inaccurate. That determination was never made. You would think that these guys would get this right after having it rehashed over and over and over.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
Tru, I noticed that, too.
Of course, the nyt sometimes doesn’t let facts get in the way of an interesting story angle. Oh, well. the overall thrust of the article was positive, and the usual comments about insane, radical fandom were missing. Also, the facts concerning our two documented violation periods were just that: factual. Overall balanced.
No moral victories--it's all about Ws and Ls!!!
I totally agree.
I just blanch when people do things like that.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
He said he "KNOWS notHING'!
There is no way John ‘Shultz’ Calipari is going to get another Final Four vacated. Well, not with him knowing of anything happening around him that could cause it. Hasn’t be said he "knows nothing’ about any of the stuff that happene1d at Memphis?
I believe him.
The problem is all these little things keep happening on his ‘watch’. But a guy who has to take time out to twitter, Face Book, have his own web site, and who knows what else he has you could have for a mere $19.95?
There is no way a mortal human being could be expected to run a basketball program and keep up with the goings on with the load he has to carry.
Don’t take this wrong. I think the guy is a winner. Going to do great things at Lexington. But let’s be realistic. Even he has only 24 hous in the day. Or maybe when you’re making 4 million a year you can buy a few extra hours
GO CATS
I have be correctly accused of having a 'football fetish'. You know, someone who doesn't think football is the warm up sport to basketball season.
With UK's and his pockets,
he certainly can buy more hours in a day. It’s called employees and delegating.
by Grasslands1 on Nov 16, 2009 12:36 AM EST up reply actions
So What's Your Point?
Misplaced priorities?
"Learn(ing) without thinking begets ignorance. Think(ing) without learning is dangerous."
-Confucius
NO WAY!
My point is he’s innocent. No way a man can do all he is doing and macro manage a basketball program. SO if there should be a NCAA investigation, I for one, know he’s innocent. Isn’t that what you and the others would say?
If a family member sneaks on the UK plane, he might be twittering as he gets on the plane, etc. No way he could be held responsible. And if a player’s test results are in question, hey, they said he was clear to play. End of matter. He gets a few letters from some body wanting him to explain something. Not Cal’s problem No way.
We can’t expect a man who is making a mere 4 million a year give his undvided attention to the program. I can understand and I’m sure you can too, he didn’t know who was on that plane. Right?
I have be correctly accused of having a 'football fetish'. You know, someone who doesn't think football is the warm up sport to basketball season.
Paris, I expected better from you.....lol....
look, If I tell you that the NCAA has cleared me to play ball for you….you can question it, right?
But if the NCAA tells you that I am cleared to play ball for you, do you question it?? Well, in this case I guess Cal should have called them up and said, you guys said this kid is ok, correct???
But wait, Cal DID do that….then the NCAA changed their minds, AFTER THE FACT. And yes, if someone gets on the team plane, that has paid their way BEFORE, and they are a relative of my star player, then I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt. I have no doubt that the man gives his undivided attention to the program. Otherwise, the Camby situation never happens, and this discussion is all a moot point.
However, Memphis AND UMASS both have a compliance officer just like we do. OUR compliance officer took care of the Wall situation before it became a problem, and that is what I would have expected them to to at those schools as well.
Remember, we're having fun now!!!
On a side note....those letters you speak of were sent from the testing service to Rose....
Rose never informed Cal OR Memphis about them, and neither party was copied those letters at the time. The school was not made aware until the testing service actually invalidated the scores, notified the NCAA, who then notified the school. ALL of which happened AFTER THE FACT…….c’mon Paris…..you are a Wildcat through and through…..dont go starting something where it doesnt exist. We get enough of that from the opposition…..
Remember, we're having fun now!!!
He's innocent, I haven't changed my mind on that.
Hey, I said he’s innocent. All of a sudden everyone wants to just out of the wood work to defend him. Memphis, Rose etc. Of courss he’s innocent. Wasn’t Sjtton/Staff innocent? I don’t really care what they say, Cal is innocent. I believe that and you believe that, some of Memphis probably believes that.
But if he had taken the Duke, etc, job we would still be it wouldn’t we?
There is no way a man as sharp as Cal would let anything wrong go on in their program. As long as we believe that we’re OK.
Its amazing that we know what his parents thought when they supposedly recieved those letters. Not here but on another post. I mean, we’ve got an inside tap on what’s going on in the Rose household. That’s good stuff.
I’m not starting anything.
Didn’t I say he’s innocent?
If Cal’s above worrying about then he’s one of very few in the country. But, hey, we know he’s innocent.
Forget the old thing about smelling smoke and fire, it ain’t going to happen at Kentucky.
I have be correctly accused of having a 'football fetish'. You know, someone who doesn't think football is the warm up sport to basketball season.
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