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BuckTwenty
Parties with Pete Johnson's Beard
The one comment at the bottom of the article:LitlBuck;1741115; said:
that shouldn't be too hard considering their standards down there.
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OSU_D/
COYBIG, COYG
This is not specific to Davis, but I am a firm believer in the World Wide Wes & Slickster Calipari angle. You guys don't think it was coincidence that Wall and others had seats right behind LeBron last year, do you? It is also well known that WWW tried to dangle Calipari as the Bulls next head coach - this would have required at least a verbal authorization by Calipari. People are kidding themselves if they don't want to see the WWW fingerprints all over Kentucky's recruiting.
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OhioState001
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I don't even understand why Cal didn't go to the NBA. Whats the point of coaching college when none of your players graduate and they all leave you after one year. Most coaches say the greatest joy in coaching is seeing the kids grow up on and off the court. Anyway I can't see how Cal can win a title with a new group of freshmen every year.
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BuckTwenty
Parties with Pete Johnson's Beard
Rumor gone public (Chicago Sun-Times) that Kentucky paid potential recruit Anthony Davis $200k to come to their school.
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DZ83CK
Not Banned
How much longer is Calipari going to last at UK? He probably will want to get out of dodge ASAP like he did at UMass and Memphis. Way too many reports circulating about too many negative things (i.e., Eric Bledsoe's academic eligibility, multiple freshmen from last year not being academically eligible at the end of the year, Enes Kanter playing for pay in Europe (which is still being investigated by the NCAA - they have not cleared him to play so far), paying A. Davis Sr. to get a commitment), plus his checkered past. The UK administration is spineless for both hiring him and letting all these things go on as the reputation of their "student-athletes" deteriorates.
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DZ83CK
Not Banned
Oh, I didn't know this one - this is from a long time ago - you can add hostile relations with reporters to his baggage:
Calipari Apologizes Publicly for His Slur
By SELENA ROBERTS
Published: March 25, 1997
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., March 24— Nets Coach John Calipari read a statement tonight apologizing to Dan Garcia, a reporter for The Star-Ledger of Newark, for profanely yelling at Garcia last week and calling him a ''Mexican idiot.''
''I would like to apologize to Dan Garcia for my ill-advised attempt at humor and insensitivity for the remark,'' Calipari said before the Nets lost to the Lakers, 109-84, tonight at the Meadowlands. ''In retrospect, I can understand how the remark could have been misinterpreted. I have apologized to him personally and in writing. In no way was my intent to be derogatory in a racial context, and I am sorry for any pain my remarks have caused.''
Garcia, who has covered the Nets for about a decade, said he has not spoken with Calipari since the incident occurred Thursday afternoon in the Ramapo College parking lot in Mahwah, N.J., after a Nets practice. He got a letter of apology tonight, and although it was not handed to him by Calipari, Garcia said he would accept it.
The public apology came after a day of meetings by the Nets to address the situation. The National Basketball Association was also in contact with the Nets. Part of what came out of those meetings was an agreement by Calipari to issue the apology.
''I think with the fact that Dan accepted the apology, then that's what we had in mind,'' said Terry Lyons, a league spokesman. ''We're glad Calipari apologized.''
No details were announced about the meeting between the team management and Calipari.
However, someone close to the situation said that Calipari had not been fined but that there was a reprimand of sorts and a warning that any similar conduct would not be tolerated. Nets President Michael Rowe would not comment on whether Calipari's contract contained a conduct code.
The Nets signed Calipari, 38, former coach at the University of Massachusetts, to a five-year, $15 million contract last summer as vice president of basketball operations and head coach. He has the final say on all basketball-related decisions.
Nets officials, who issued a public team apology on Sunday, have been clear that Calipari's remarks toward Garcia were viewed as harmful to the image the Nets want to build.
''It's disturbing because it's out of character for both John Calipari and unprecedented for the Nets,'' Rowe said today. ''We've not had a history of this, nor has he. It distracts from the work we're trying to do with this franchise. We're trying to be a community-based, inclusive organization, and remarks like this, while they were given spontaneously and probably in anger, make people think we are not that type of organization.''
Garcia has not commented on the encounter specifically, but he has not denied eyewitness accounts of the incident as follows:
Calipari was having a heated conversation with a New York Post reporter, Fred Kerber, about news media coverage of the Nets. Calipari saw Garcia across the parking lot and yelled in his direction, profanely calling him a ''Mexican idiot.''
Kerber tried to calm Calipari, who yelled, ''He gave me a D,'' referring to a midseason report card Garcia had written about the team. Garcia walked over to Calipari and asked him whether he had a problem with him. The two exchanged words. At one point, Garcia told Calipari he thought he was acting like a ''5-year old.'' Calipari replied, ''If you ever say that again, I will punch you in the face.''
Toward the end of the confrontation, Calipari apologized to Garcia if the ethnic remark had offended him. But Calipari added that if Garcia could not take a joke, he would not talk to him anymore.
Calipari had not commented on the incident publicly until tonight.
''I consider this matter closed,'' he said in ending his statement. ''I will have no further comment.''
BASKETBALL - Calipari Apologizes Publicly for His Slur - NYTimes.com
Calipari Apologizes Publicly for His Slur
By SELENA ROBERTS
Published: March 25, 1997
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., March 24— Nets Coach John Calipari read a statement tonight apologizing to Dan Garcia, a reporter for The Star-Ledger of Newark, for profanely yelling at Garcia last week and calling him a ''Mexican idiot.''
''I would like to apologize to Dan Garcia for my ill-advised attempt at humor and insensitivity for the remark,'' Calipari said before the Nets lost to the Lakers, 109-84, tonight at the Meadowlands. ''In retrospect, I can understand how the remark could have been misinterpreted. I have apologized to him personally and in writing. In no way was my intent to be derogatory in a racial context, and I am sorry for any pain my remarks have caused.''
Garcia, who has covered the Nets for about a decade, said he has not spoken with Calipari since the incident occurred Thursday afternoon in the Ramapo College parking lot in Mahwah, N.J., after a Nets practice. He got a letter of apology tonight, and although it was not handed to him by Calipari, Garcia said he would accept it.
The public apology came after a day of meetings by the Nets to address the situation. The National Basketball Association was also in contact with the Nets. Part of what came out of those meetings was an agreement by Calipari to issue the apology.
''I think with the fact that Dan accepted the apology, then that's what we had in mind,'' said Terry Lyons, a league spokesman. ''We're glad Calipari apologized.''
No details were announced about the meeting between the team management and Calipari.
However, someone close to the situation said that Calipari had not been fined but that there was a reprimand of sorts and a warning that any similar conduct would not be tolerated. Nets President Michael Rowe would not comment on whether Calipari's contract contained a conduct code.
The Nets signed Calipari, 38, former coach at the University of Massachusetts, to a five-year, $15 million contract last summer as vice president of basketball operations and head coach. He has the final say on all basketball-related decisions.
Nets officials, who issued a public team apology on Sunday, have been clear that Calipari's remarks toward Garcia were viewed as harmful to the image the Nets want to build.
''It's disturbing because it's out of character for both John Calipari and unprecedented for the Nets,'' Rowe said today. ''We've not had a history of this, nor has he. It distracts from the work we're trying to do with this franchise. We're trying to be a community-based, inclusive organization, and remarks like this, while they were given spontaneously and probably in anger, make people think we are not that type of organization.''
Garcia has not commented on the encounter specifically, but he has not denied eyewitness accounts of the incident as follows:
Calipari was having a heated conversation with a New York Post reporter, Fred Kerber, about news media coverage of the Nets. Calipari saw Garcia across the parking lot and yelled in his direction, profanely calling him a ''Mexican idiot.''
Kerber tried to calm Calipari, who yelled, ''He gave me a D,'' referring to a midseason report card Garcia had written about the team. Garcia walked over to Calipari and asked him whether he had a problem with him. The two exchanged words. At one point, Garcia told Calipari he thought he was acting like a ''5-year old.'' Calipari replied, ''If you ever say that again, I will punch you in the face.''
Toward the end of the confrontation, Calipari apologized to Garcia if the ethnic remark had offended him. But Calipari added that if Garcia could not take a joke, he would not talk to him anymore.
Calipari had not commented on the incident publicly until tonight.
''I consider this matter closed,'' he said in ending his statement. ''I will have no further comment.''
BASKETBALL - Calipari Apologizes Publicly for His Slur - NYTimes.com
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WolverineMike
Head Coach
seriously? a 13 year old incident? really?
anyway, my thoughts on Cal are this. Every frigging week there is a new report cropping up about what he did to get this guy and what he didn't do to help this guy, Cal is under the hugest microscope right now with so many people in the media just seemingly wanting to be the one to finally bust HIM on an infraction in which HE can be held accountable, I just find it hard to believe that he's out there offering recruits 200K or paying rent, or fudging test scores to keep players eligible.
Just my opinion though.
anyway, my thoughts on Cal are this. Every frigging week there is a new report cropping up about what he did to get this guy and what he didn't do to help this guy, Cal is under the hugest microscope right now with so many people in the media just seemingly wanting to be the one to finally bust HIM on an infraction in which HE can be held accountable, I just find it hard to believe that he's out there offering recruits 200K or paying rent, or fudging test scores to keep players eligible.
Just my opinion though.
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Sounds like the excuse every fan of a cheating coach uses. I'm guessing you're a Kentucky bball fan?
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