The Big Blue Daily Mail -- Midweek Edition
by Glenn Logan on May 26, 2010 10:12 AM EDT
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PrintAs 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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John Calipari defends the recruitment of Terrence Jones - The Dagger - NCAAB - Yahoo! Sports
If Calipari's version of the story is accurate, then even the most ardent Washington fan shouldn't complain about Kentucky's pursuit of Jones. If Calipari initiated contact with Jones or pursued him more aggressively than he's letting on, however, then go ahead and criticize him as long as you're also willing to admit that his actions are no worse than what most of his peers do as well.
I think that's right.
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John Calipari talks about his friendship with LeBron James - Page 2 - ESPN
John Calipari:
"What I have said is that I am going to be coaching at Kentucky and I will be at Kentucky next year. I am not out looking for jobs. I have got, in my opinion, the best job in the country. We are No. 1 in attendance. Our radio show post-game has 9,000 people. So our radio show ranks in the top 30 in attendance vs. other people's games."
When you look at it like that, how could he ever leave?
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President Obama Gives John Wall A Big Shout Out
I am fine with Wall going to Washington. It should be fun for him.
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The University of Kentucky men's basketball team showed improvement in the classroom in the spring semester, but its cumulative grade-point average still was well behind the overall average for UK student-athletes.
Men's basketball needs to to better, but I am encouraged by the improvement as small as it was.
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Rajon Rondo's Hall of Fame Induction Speech - WEEI | Jerry Thornton
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Lorenzo Romar speaks about Kentucky - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
In an interview with 710 ESPN Seattle on Friday, Romar didn't use the opportunity to criticize John Calipari. Rather, he compared Jones to a groom at the altar with "cold feet" and reiterated that Kanter had not yet achieved a qualifying test score at the time of his commitment.
Romar is a classy guy, and I have nothing but respect for him.
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John Calipari addressed true blue fans Tuesday on his website, asking them to pray for his mother, Donna, who is battling cancer.
I hope and pray Coach Cal's mom will recover, and be well.
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All due respect to Ohio State’s Evan Turner, who dutifully pointed out during last week’s Chicago pre-draft combine that he won all the National Player of the Year trophies, but John Wall was the biggest story in college basketball this season.
Yep. Evan Turner is a great player, but he is no John Wall.
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Calipari discusses relationship with LeBron, denies interest in NBA job
"I mean I can't stop the speculation. LeBron and I are friends. That is what we are, but I have other players in the league that I have coached, I mean eight or 10 of them," Calipari said. "So I don't know all of a sudden this became LeBron and Cal, and how that started. But obviously I am not going to answer everything that is thrown, and all of the speculation. I just said that 'Hey, I am going to be at Kentucky.'"
That's about as unambiguous as it gets.
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Heart of the case: Did Smith offer a job? | StarTribune.com
Smith testified for seven hours over two days. The coach showed a flash of controlled anger when Mark asked if he had a duty to people who rely on what he says.
"They have an obligation to me to give me the full facts. That is what he had an obligation to do," Smith said, pointing at Williams.
Mark pressed Smith, "You're telling the jury you didn't have the full facts?" Smith said, "That's exactly right."
This case is getting interesting.
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"Billy Donovan has had several years of really, really good recruiting,'' Pearl said, according to Mike Griffith of the Knoxville News Sentinel. "They will be by far the most talented team in the SEC.''
Heh. Hey, Brucie -- get a clue. They may be the best, but they most certainly will not be the most talented.
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Calipari talks about Terrence Jones - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
The Washington Huskies and the Kentucky Wildcats may never form a rivalry, per se; there's a distinct lack of proximity standing in the way. But Washington fans will certainly feel the type enmity toward Kentucky coach John Calipari that most programs reserve for their most-hated rivals. All thanks, of course, to Terrence Jones.
Meh. I suppose. Get in line, UW fans, there are a lot of people there ahead of you.
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ROPRT - Roseburg, OR - One on one with Jeff Goodman, Fox Sports
Jeff Goodman says the Kenny Payne deal is all but done.
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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"
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!!!
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!!!
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.
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
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.
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!!!
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.
What, letting us slide
into mediocrity?
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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
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.
This comment makes no sense. Do not run from person to person trying to start crap.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
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.
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.
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
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.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If those players
are mad at anyone else it should be Marcus Camby.
For an "independent thinker" ...
… you sure are a slave to groupthink.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
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
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
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
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.
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.
Pearl was talking about talent.
Kentucky is clearly the most talented team. That’s what I think, and that’s what I wrote.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
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.
Sounds like a
Calipari eruption to me.
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
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 !!!
From the descriptions and news accounts, it sounds like they almost had one in that courtroom.....lol
I AM THE CAT......The Cat In The Hat!!!
Unquestionably.
Can any coach in major division 1 college basketball match records with Calipari over the last five years?
Not even. Ipso facto.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
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!!!
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.
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 !!!
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
'72
Cal is the best recruiter,even of coachs!
Happy Days are here again! Wildcat's have #1 recruiting class again!
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