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John Calipari (official thread of impending probation)

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kentuckbuck;1809133; said:
I could paraphrase but the link below says it all...

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebas...t-ruled-permanently-ineligible-by-NCAA-111010
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Kentucky will appeal the decision at the end of the month, according to an NCAA news release.
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I'd expect no less from coach cal. This is unjust!! Just because he received 33k+ more than his "actual and necessary expenses" doesn't mean he should be banned from ever playing for the University of Kentucky!!
 
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Yeah, Kentucky is agreeing with the NCAA findings that Kanter received $33,033 more than the NCAA permits for the '08-'09 season, they just think he should still be eligible anyway. But don't think Kentucky is without standards - anyone receiving $200,000 or less should be eligible - that's the "Kentucky Way."
 
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Looks like the Kentucky AD (Mitch Barnhart) sees "the writing on the wall" and is looking to "bail".

Kentucky?s Barnhart ?Finalist? For Kansas AD Job

Two SEC school administration sources have told me in the past 48 hours that University of Kentucky Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart will interview for the Kansas University Athletic Director position in early December.

Entire article: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/kentuckys-barnhart-finalist-for-kansas-ad-job-29240

Got to love these statements:

Barnhart?s reputation for integrity - in the wake of the Kansas ticket scandal and other impropriety that plagued the late stages of the Perkins? regime.

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Barnhart?s concerned, for obvious reasons, that the recruiting methods of John Calipari may soon begin to reflect poorly on the school and his own reputation.
On the latter point, by no means am I implying that Barnhart is attempting to escape UK before the school?s basketball program encounters NCAA sanctions. That?s not the case.
This is more a function of Barnhart tiring of the constant sparring with the NCAA and negative media coverage that inevitably follows John Calipari wherever he goes. (Ironic though as it was Barnhart who hired Calipari.)
I?d also be remiss if I didn?t note that the man who hired Barnhart at Kentucky, UK President Lee T. Todd, Jr., is stepping down from that post in June. As a staunch supporter of Barnhart, perhaps Todd exiting could be a factor in the current UK AD considering his own departure from Lexington. Though that was not confirmed to me by sources.


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Either he has integrity or he doesn't.
 
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Calipari didn?t say he?s not going to the NBA. He did say that he?s accustomed to job rumors. At Memphis, he was a perpetual candidate for open college jobs."Now it?s only pro jobs," Calipari said. "Part of it is to try to screw up your recruiting. I laughed when they newest rumors came out. I said, ?You?re not going to screw up our recruiting; we?ve already got the kids signed.?"
As for moving on to the NBA: "I?ve got a great job. I?ve got one of the best in our sport. I can?t stop the rumors; I just don?t deal with them.
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As it relates to players who may not jump to the NBA, John Calipari has what one might call uptown problems. Calipari said he's not worried about managing minutes if some players with NBA aspirations choose to return and join a recruiting class considered the nation's best next season. Ideally, Calipari said, he'd like players on next season's team to play fewer minutes than those on this season's team did. He also likes the possibility of employing more full-court pressure with next season's team. And if this year's freshmen should elect to return in 2011-12? "We may be one of the first teams to get six first-round draft picks," Calipari said. "No, we'd be the first. Could happen."

Read more: http://blogs.courier-journal.com/ukbeat/2011/04/13/news-notes-from-calipari-roundtable/
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Seems out football program is no better than Calipari is accused of. I hope Thad Matta has the integrity if anything of improper benefits ever involves a basketball player,that information is turned over to compliance immediately.
 
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facts are facts, John Calipari has never been charged nor found guilty of anything,but the perception is from media and the like who are ignorant of facts. If Calipari wore a blue sweater vest and tried to act holier than thou and got an endorsement for doing it the right way by Bobby "the strangler" Knight, and Cal was found to be a cheat,then the school loses. I happen to think Thad Matta is an excellent coach and a good recruiter,who does it the right way and I would hate for him,the school,or any athletes at tOSU be thought of in a negative way based on JT.
 
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nookam;1932297; said:
facts are facts, John Calipari has never been charged nor found guilty of anything,but the perception is from media and the like who are ignorant of facts. If Calipari wore a blue sweater vest and tried to act holier than thou and got an endorsement for doing it the right way by Bobby "the strangler" Knight, and Cal was found to be a cheat,then the school loses. I happen to think Thad Matta is an excellent coach and a good recruiter,who does it the right way and I would hate for him,the school,or any athletes at tOSU be thought of in a negative way based on JT.
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Bitch please.
 
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nookam;1932297; said:
facts are facts, John Calipari has never been charged nor found guilty of anything,but the perception is from media and the like who are ignorant of facts. If Calipari wore a blue sweater vest and tried to act holier than thou and got an endorsement for doing it the right way by Bobby "the strangler" Knight, and Cal was found to be a cheat,then the school loses. I happen to think Thad Matta is an excellent coach and a good recruiter,who does it the right way and I would hate for him,the school,or any athletes at tOSU be thought of in a negative way based on JT.
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The fact is that he's had two Final Four appearances vacated at schools he just left. That's an incredible coincidence if he had nothing to do with it.
 
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3074326;1932303; said:
The fact is that he's had two Final Four appearances vacated at schools he just left. That's an incredible coincidence if he had nothing to do with it.
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Yeah. OSU has played an ineligible player one time in the history of their basketball program. John Calipari played two different ineligible players in 2 of his 3 Final Four teams, and played another player in Eric Bledsoe who only was eligible because the Birmingham school system refused to do the right thing when they uncovered the academic fraud that got him to be eligible in the first place. Plus, the Kentucky team GPA at the end of the 2010 season was such that multiple players would've been academically ineligible had they returned for the 2010-11 season. And, oh by the way, he once screamed an ethnic slur at a reporter who criticized his coaching (that is, unless you think being called a "f*cking Mexican idiot" is collegial). I'm pretty sure John Calipari exemplifies all that is wrong about college basketball.
 
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http://eye-on-college-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26283066/30965128

The University of Kentucky's basketball program is practically a professional program already, spitting out lottery picks in large quantities year after year.

But some of those lottery picks are coming back home and their presence could take the school's basketball program up another notch.

Kentucky coach John Calipari tweeted on Thursday night that three NBA point guards who played for Kentucky will head back to Lexington if the lockout continues. "John Wall, Rajon Rondo & Eric Bledsoe all plan to enroll in the fall if the lockout continues," Calipari tweeted. "Kaboom!"

Kaboom, indeed.

KentuckySportsRadio.com reported that the move could allow the trio -- point guards for the Washington Wizards, Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Clippers, respectively -- to get some court time in with the current Wildcats. "Calipari announces that John Wall, Eric Bledsoe and Rajon Rondo will all enroll at UK in the fall if lockout proceeds," the site reported. "What does that mean? Well, Wall, Bledsoe and Rondo are all eligible to be "Student Assistant coaches", which means practice with the team... Wall, Rondo and Bledsoe would have to be full-time students to be Student Assistants, but rumor is that is the plan."

A Lex18.com report quotes free agent forward Tayshaun Prince saying other NBA players could be following suit.
"Whether it's mid to late August or early September, I think some guys will start to roll in," he said.

Prince said he plans to spend more time in Lexington later in the summer and in to the fall and winter, if the NBA remains locked out. Brandon Knight - Prince's teammate in Detroit who was at the camp Thursday - said he plans to return to Lexington in late August or September. The two don't figure to be the only pros around campus.

"I think you're going to see over the next few months here that guys are going to start rolling in, doing workouts and things like that just because the relationship [Calipari's] putting out there with guys that he didn't coach but at the same time is building relationships," Prince said.​
There are a lot of winners in this unique situation.

First, any NBA player who goes back to complete work on his degree is automatically a winner. Kudos to Wall, Rondo and Bledsoe for considering that step even after each has banked millions of dollars. That these three have chosen to do that while finding a home to work on their game and stay fit is a no-brainer, win-win.

Calipari, of course, is a winner, as the presence of an All-Star point guard, a Rookie of the Year candidate and a promising future starter on campus and in the gym only raises his already insanely-high profile as a mover and shaker in the basketball world and provides his current roster, which sports four potential first round picks in the 2012 NBA draft, with elite leadership and competition. Kentucky freshman point guard Marquis Teague, in particular, wins here too with three new mentors. Who better to answer his freshman questions than Wall, Rondo and Bledsoe?

The losers here are anyone that still believes in the purity of amateurism as well as any coaches that have to compete with Calipari for NBA-ready recruits. His factory just gets more and more refined by the season. Love him or hate him, his innovations and ability to find a competitive advantage are remarkable.
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wow.......Rondo and Wall as student assistant coaches? what recruit wouldn't jump at the chance to go there for that........crazy
 
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