The Sporting News picked up on John Calipari’s jab at “bitter old men” today and they are pretty sure it is Bobby Knight.
[QUOTE][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]“All these are good kids,” Kentucky coach John Calipari [URL=”http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120526/SPORTS12/305260114/1028/sports/The-C-J-s-Sunday-College-Basketball-Notebook-Louisville-distaffers?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Sports|s”]said on the school’s site[/URL]. “We had a GPA as a team for this term with five players who are leaving early, so all this stuff bitter old men say that they don’t go to class, it’s not true.”
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Calipari’s remarks were clearly aimed at Bob Knight, who has criticized Calipari’s methods in recent years.
In April 2011, [URL=”http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2011-04-19/kentucky-fires-back-after-knights-banquet-blast”]speaking at an event in Indiana[/URL], said, “Kentucky, year before last, started five players in the NCAA Tournament games that had not been to class that semester. And that’s that one-and-done philosophy that we have now.”
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Days after he made that remark, Knight apologized.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]Kentucky’s big three freshmen—Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague—combined for a GPA “well above 3.0” the site said, without revealing individual grades[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]
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And I thought he was talking about Jerry Tipton?
Listen starting about the 4 minute mark:
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I guess it could be towards both, because Cal definitely went after Jerry in that press conference.
