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The Big Blue Daily Mail -- Midweek Edition

As we move closer and closer toward the Memorial Day holiday and the NBA Draft, there is a lot of John Wall talk and a lot of Calipari to (fill in that NBA team) talk.  A month or so from now, most of that will have subsided.  By mid-July, it should be just a memory.

The news follows the jump.

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Get Bruce some kool aid-

Just another reason to look forward to our games with UT…

"You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't"

by iam4ukintn on May 26, 2010 10:51 AM EDT reply actions  

Bruce is going to need Excedrin, Tylenol and Midol so that blue kool-aid will come in handy for him

to wash it down after the headaches of playing us…..Florida???….please…

I AM THE CAT......The Cat In The Hat!!!

by ALLBLUCAT on May 26, 2010 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions  

Rondo's speech?

A double heh.

Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!

by a2d2 on May 26, 2010 11:03 AM EDT reply actions  

Why does this Tubby Smith trial keep looking like an

indictment of UK? First they talk about Sutton and his disasterous tenure….then they bring UK into their articles about Minnesota?……

I AM THE CAT......The Cat In The Hat!!!

by ALLBLUCAT on May 26, 2010 11:30 AM EDT reply actions  

You mean like this?

http://www.nationofblue.com/tubby-asked-about-cal-during-fraud-trial-1285/

Mark(Williams’ lawyer) asked Smith about the current head coach at the University of Kentucky, a job Smith held for 10 years before coming to the university. He noted that John Calipari had NCAA violations while a college coach at Massachusetts and at Memphis — as recently as 2008. “You don’t attribute those being detrimental to his career,” Mark said. “You’re not holding it against him?”
Smith said, “No.”

Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
is just a freight train coming your way.

by btcoop71 on May 26, 2010 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions  

Why was that even asked?

*Sigh

Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!

by a2d2 on May 26, 2010 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions  

Even the lawyer can't get it right.

Calipari didn’t have any NCAA violations attributed to him, the schools did.

But why would I expect accuracy in an adversarial forum? Too much to ask, for sure.

A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan

by Glenn Logan on May 26, 2010 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

If Smith were prepared for questions like that, he would have scored points noting the true facts.

So either his attorney wasn’t expecting something like that, or he didn’t know the facts either.

by JackBluto on May 26, 2010 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

I wouldnt expect Tubby to be up on Calipari and if he had any NCAA

violations…..Tubby has moved on…..

I AM THE CAT......The Cat In The Hat!!!

by ALLBLUCAT on May 26, 2010 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

I beleive history and what Tubby accomplished at Kentucky will be very favorable.

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.

by ParisGuy on May 26, 2010 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

What, letting us slide

into mediocrity?

I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.

by kywineman on May 26, 2010 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

HELLO!

Can you say, “argument starting comment?”? Yowza……

by BigSkyCat on May 26, 2010 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Just one man's

opinion, I am sure others see it differently.

I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.

by kywineman on May 26, 2010 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

This is a Tubby eruption.

Don’t do it.

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by Glenn Logan on May 27, 2010 6:50 AM EDT up reply actions  

saying that Tubby will be looked at favorably is causing an eruption?

c’mon Tru.
Let’s not talk about Rupp, Hall and the others then.
Any one got Calipari’s shoe size so that can be discussed?

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.

by ParisGuy on May 28, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

lol

the schools where he coached at the time of the violations. But of course that doesn’t matter.

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.

by ParisGuy on May 26, 2010 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Lawyer Is Wrong

No NCAA violations were attributed to Calipari. NCAA exonerated him in both cases.

by FortyYearCatFan on May 26, 2010 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

It's simple ABC..

there is NO way that UK can be as good as they are without cheating. And since Tubby coached here then, he has to be a cheater and therefore cannot cast dispersions in Williams direction. Marupeh euhen ieisns,mf ieken… sorry about that my tongue was stuck in my cheek. :)

by Cameron1 on May 26, 2010 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions  

That made my head go bonkers ;-)

Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!

by a2d2 on May 26, 2010 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions  

its clear that the lawyer is no basketball fan...

if he was, he would know that the reason tubby left was we wanted him to “recruit better” – ie cheat – and since he would not do it, he left….(SARCASM ALERT)

only one rule in my house - uk has to be your favorite college bball team

by memphis wildcat on May 26, 2010 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

didn’t Saul say as much early last season?

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.

by ParisGuy on May 26, 2010 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sutton Had A Disastrous YEAR (1989)

But his UK teams were 77-21 (78.6%) otherwise.

by FortyYearCatFan on May 26, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

yep, and the Gulf of Mexico is clean if that damn oil well blow up.

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.

by ParisGuy on May 26, 2010 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

Maybe they are trying to show of an honorable man like Tubby coached at Kentucky and at one time was a program noted to be clean.

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.

by ParisGuy on May 26, 2010 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

Regardless

The jury awarded $1.27 million in damages to Williams.

by FortyYearCatFan on May 26, 2010 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

From Tubby?

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.

by ParisGuy on May 26, 2010 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

To Be Determined

The lawsuit was a personal suit aginst him, not the university.

by FortyYearCatFan on May 26, 2010 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

From ...

… this article:

Rotenberg added in an interview with the Minnesota Daily that the amount being asked is “completely unjustified by the facts in the case,” and if payed, would come from the University’s wholly-owned subsidiary insurance company, ROMINCO LTD.

I suppose Minnesota should have hired him, and then promptly fired him after discovering NCAA violations that were apparently not a part of his known resume.

I’m sure it will be appealed, and knowing what little I know, I think it has a better than average chance of being altered significantly.

A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan

by Glenn Logan on May 27, 2010 6:59 AM EDT up reply actions  

Ah, but then ...

… there is this:

The fact that Jimmy Williams was a member of the Gophers men’s basketball staff for 15 years — and allowed to remain on Jim Dutcher’s staff even after he was found to have been involved in NCAA violations while working for Bill Musselman — had to be a factor in a jury ruling in Williams’ favor in his lawsuit against the University of Minnesota and coach Tubby Smith.

I revise and extend my previous remarks — I think that Minnesota looks liable for something here, and Smith and Maturi are the proximate cause.

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by Glenn Logan on May 27, 2010 7:03 AM EDT up reply actions  

Pearl

Well, at least we have a coach with enough sense to not provide bulletin board material for his opponents. You keep expectations below what you hope will happen, and when its better than expected, you look great. This is what I see ahead for UK this coming season. I can hear it now, " we should have lost that game, I don’t know how we won", many times.LOL.

by UK1972 on May 26, 2010 12:02 PM EDT reply actions  

When our

former coach (BG) was hired most of us had high expectations. It didn’t work out and I
really thought our basketball program was in trouble. Seems that a lot of UK haters did also and didn’t expect the program to recover.

Then along comes Coach Calipari. He not only rebuilds the program but does it in one year! So according to the UK and Calpari haters he had to have done it by breaking the
rules.

No coach could possibly be that good a recruiter and head coach. Of course not, unless he was coach at one of the favorite universities. You all know who they are. Cal would be hailed as a miracle worker if he did this anywhere except at UK in that hick state down south.

It just does not seem to register with these bugwit hatemongers that this man has not been charged with doing anything wrong. Ever. It’s just a prejudice that oozes out of these poor miserable people.

"What to do with a mistake....recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it....that's why they put erasers on pencils".- - - - Adolph Rupp

by WildcatBlue1930Adolph on May 26, 2010 12:38 PM EDT reply actions  

I wonder

I think we all approve of the product last year. And it appears we have as good of recruiting class this year.
All like to comment he hasn’t been proven by the NCAA to have done anything wrong.
But I wonder what the average players who were on the teams at UMASS and Memphis, not the stars who have the money to clean up the memory feel about not seeing the schools name in the listings for the teams in the Final Four?
The lack of their teams name hasn’t hurt the poplarity of Calipari. He’s making more now than ever.
What do the players on those ‘vacanted’ teams have to ease they disappointment.

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.

by ParisGuy on May 26, 2010 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

Boy-O-Boy.....

Someone needs to get an old time galvanized bathtub, fill it with blue kool-aid and soak you in it. LOL

"What to do with a mistake....recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it....that's why they put erasers on pencils".- - - - Adolph Rupp

by WildcatBlue1930Adolph on May 26, 2010 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

I believe you mean "vacated".

And why would those teams be mad at Calipari or care how much he makes now? The guys who rode the bench at UMass should be upset at Marcus Camby since he acted on his own. Oh wait, I forgot Calipari did turn Camby in for those violations, so maybe those players are mad at Cal for getting Camby in trouble.

by Cameron1 on May 27, 2010 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

I bet that have a soft spot in their hearts for Cal to this day.

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.

by ParisGuy on May 27, 2010 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

Have you EVER heard of a former player saying bad things about Calipari? Or implicating him in anything?

Sure it’s easier to blame someone else for your own problems instead of looking in the mirror, but the only person you harm is yourself.

by Cameron1 on May 27, 2010 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

If those players

are mad at anyone else it should be Marcus Camby.

by Cameron1 on May 27, 2010 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

For an "independent thinker" ...

… you sure are a slave to groupthink.

A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan

by Glenn Logan on May 28, 2010 8:23 AM EDT up reply actions  

Thank you

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.

by ParisGuy on May 28, 2010 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

My favorite quote:
John Wall responded via his twitter.

“Thanks President Obama for the shout out.”

I am trying to think back to my own teenage years, and what the highest office is that would have given me the 1980’s equivalent of a “shout out.” I am thinking: junior high school principal’s office.

These kids today.

-- Tim . http://HomeSalesLexington.com/barn

by HSLex on May 26, 2010 12:45 PM EDT reply actions  

Agreed :-)

Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!

by a2d2 on May 26, 2010 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

Another E. St. Louis FB Commit

Clint Tucker 3* DT commits to Cats. Perhaps E. St. Louis will evolve into another LaGrange.

"There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness." --George Washington

by Wild Weasel on May 26, 2010 12:57 PM EDT reply actions  

That should be a hotbed

of football recruits. Could be for Joker what Camden, NJ was for Curci. Just hope they don’t bring in some 25 year olds. j/k

by hoboat33 on May 26, 2010 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

apparently he had a lot of Big Televen schools after him

Good get for Joker

Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
is just a freight train coming your way.

by btcoop71 on May 26, 2010 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Pearl's comment

and Tru’s response.
 If you have the best talent shouldn’t you be expected to win?
Or does it come down to getting the most out of that talent?
Seems coaching falls in there somewhere.
Not recruting, coaching the product you have.
What do you think?

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.

by ParisGuy on May 26, 2010 4:52 PM EDT reply actions  

Pearl was talking about talent.

Kentucky is clearly the most talented team. That’s what I think, and that’s what I wrote.

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by Glenn Logan on May 27, 2010 7:08 AM EDT up reply actions  

are they the best coached?

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.

by ParisGuy on May 27, 2010 7:52 AM EDT up reply actions  

Sounds like a

Calipari eruption to me.

I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.

by kywineman on May 27, 2010 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions  

Not really an eruption

Just a little pole with a string and a hook.
You may not have seen a Tubby eruption, wineman. (You I do not want to see one again). :-)

Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!

by a2d2 on May 27, 2010 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

Unquestionably.

Can any coach in major division 1 college basketball match records with Calipari over the last five years?

Not even. Ipso facto.

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by Glenn Logan on May 28, 2010 8:24 AM EDT up reply actions  

I know a few coaches that would love to just have Calipari's losses on their record.....lol

even when he loses it aint by much……his points for vs. points against is huge in his favor

I AM THE CAT......The Cat In The Hat!!!

by ALLBLUCAT on May 28, 2010 8:32 AM EDT up reply actions  

certainly not!

At least from a major conference. And we all know how powerful Conference USA is.
Always mentioned in the top of any discussion. 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.

by ParisGuy on May 28, 2010 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

I didn't see this posted

Sorry if I missed it. John Wall the role model. A very mature young guy indeed.

“I’m comfortable with any role. The key with me is winning games, but you also want to help the community out, and you want do things like that for the team and whats going to make the team look better in any kind of way.”

Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!

by a2d2 on May 26, 2010 5:06 PM EDT reply actions  

John Wall.......

To me Wall’s demeanor was that of a 28 year old instead of an 18 year old. A really fine young man.

"What to do with a mistake....recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it....that's why they put erasers on pencils".- - - - Adolph Rupp

by WildcatBlue1930Adolph on May 26, 2010 6:33 PM EDT reply actions  

Kenny Payne to UK

Dana Altman broke story this afternoon. Not unexpected though. Great for UK.

by UK1972 on May 26, 2010 7:50 PM EDT reply actions  

'72

Cal is the best recruiter,even of coachs!

Happy Days are here again! Wildcat's have #1 recruiting class again!

by oldcat70 on May 26, 2010 7:55 PM EDT reply actions  

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