Late Night Open Thread: Talk About the Wildcats

He came down to Memphis and Kansas back when he committed. Kansas is a likely destination for him, but I don’t think he’s leaning anywhere right now.

Cousins is looking at Alabama now with Grant there. He’s wide open, but we’ll be right up there as an option.

Wall was leaning heavily towards Memphis with Duke making a late push. Frankly, I don’t know how he could say no to UK and Calipari. It’s the perfect situation. We have no point guard and his surrounding cast will be great. If Walls is all we add to our current class, then we’re set in my opinion.

baby girl plays softball. She loves it. That is her main sport although I wish it was basketball. She is a pitcher well urr, trying to be a pitcher anyway :). I am assisting on her team this year and I have no IDEA what I am doing :)

at keeping anderson there. already offered raise and contract extension.

i was able to get tickets to a game at rupp last year – took all the kids and they were hooked.

hated being in the nose bleed section, but it drove home the point that there were 24k plus in the house…..

It is an interesting read, but some highlights are:

Questions from past press conferences:

Q: What do you think about Seth Davis of CBS?

A: He picked the Germans in WWII.

Q: What’s your philosophy in recruiting?

A: We’ll get the kids we’re supposed to get.

Q: What about The Commercial Appeal, John?

A: The only time I see it is when I back over it in my driveway.

And on his rocky start in Memphis (NIT first couple of years…)

Q: Were you always this popular in Memphis?

A: After my first couple years, there were "For Sale" signs in my yard.

Or not. Who knows, at this point, if those "For Sale" signs were reality or metaphor?

Calipari did have his critics. You know how he countered them?

With two words: "The Miserables."

What a brilliant phrase. It’s funny, for one thing. The Miserables. How can you say it and not smile?

But what it did was effectively inoculate Calipari from criticism. Instead of addressing the criticism — instead of taking it seriously — Calipari could label the critics as The Miserables.

He still uses it, too. He used it Monday at his radio show.

"We have no more Miserables around the program," he said, to laughter. "They’re in cracks now, waiting for us to lose games."

i went to the helicopter cam………..

he’s gone way to far to back out at this point. even dana altman would blush at that.