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[B]Coach Cal’s Mailbag: Week of November 22[/B]
LIVE Chat with Cal Takes Place Monday, November 29 at noon ET
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FOX Sports South, in conjunction with the University of Kentucky Men’s Basketball Coach John Calipari, presents “Coach Cal’s Mailbag,” an interactive webpage found exclusively on [URL=”http://www.foxsportssouth.com/”]FOXSportsSouth.com[/URL].
“Coach Cal’s Mailbag” features Calipari in video responses to reader-submitted questions every week throughout the 2010-11 college basketball season. Readers can submit questions by visiting [URL=”http://www.foxsportssouth.com/”]FOXSportsSouth.com[/URL].
In addition to the latest Wildcat basketball news and videos, “Coach Cal’s Mailbag” will also feature live monthly chats with Calipari, the first of which will take place next Monday, November 29, at noon ET on [URL=”http://www.foxsportssouth.com/”]FOXSportsSouth.com[/URL].
Upcoming University of Kentucky men’s basketball games on FOX Sports South include:
· November 30 – vs. Boston University Terriers – 7 p.m. ET
· December 22 – vs. Winthrop University Eagles – 1 p.m. ET
· December 28 – vs. Coppin State University Eagles – 7 p.m. ET.
Please check your listings for channel location.
[B]This week in Coach Cal’s Mailbag:[/B]
You’ve had a chance to get to know LeBron James over the past few years. What type of person is he away from the court? – Don, Miami, FL
Coach Cal – “LeBron James is one of the most loyal young people you’ll ever come across. Can you imagine all the adulation that’s been thrown to him, all the money that he’s accumulated at a young age? Yet [he’s] still loyal to his friends – loyal to his family…He’s one of the ‘good guys.’ At the end of the day, he’s one of the competitors that’s willing to defer to win and he wants to do it with a group.”
What is your opinion of the one-and-done rule from the NCAA to the NBA? – Keith, Lincoln, NE
Coach Cal – “I’ve never been in favor of one-and-done. For years I’ve said the same thing: if a young man has the ability to go to the NBA and the NBA wants to draft him, let him go. Let him go. If he goes to college, though, he should stay for two years, maybe three.”
At what point do you get involved during the recruiting process? How do you determine which assistant is the primary recruiter for each player? – Brian, Cincinnati, OH
Coach Cal – “My staff will say, ‘Here are the ten or 15 players we’re looking at – which ones do you like the best?’ and that’s how we do it. Then we take this guy, that guy, that guy…and go after them. The other thing: we don’t put a recruit with a coach. Every one of my coaches recruits every player we’re recruiting. I’ve always done it that way. That’s why our environment is such a family environment.”
You have 12 rings in a case in your office. Would you tell us their story and how you plan on adding one more to it while at KY? – Sheree, Pikeville, KY
Coach Cal – “The ring case has twelve spots, but we’ve got a couple others here too: the University of Kansas, the University of Pittsburgh, one of the first rings we got at the University of Massachusetts, a ring from the University of Memphis… I think it’s important when you’re building a program that you have pride in what you’ve accomplished.”
