When you have John Calipari as head coach, it just comes with it. He is either leaving for the NBA, or he is doing something that is going to put us on probation. If it isn’t the New York Times, it is TMZ. It won’t be long that Women’s Health will be saying the Kentucky program is doing something dirty.
People are going to try and keep the media on us, and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if it is other colleges instigating it all. The Cats have had the top recruiting class the last 2 years, while being primed and ready to make it 3 years in a row in 2011. I have become almost immune to all the talk about Calipari, but it just gets old. If they have something on the program, why not name names? Who are the players and what did they do? I can type out a bunch of bs on Duke, send it to the Washington Post, and no one would think one thing about it.
Kentucky is what college basketball is all about, and with Calipari, the Cats have become a recruiting machine. Do you think other universities like this? No. I know some people out there are thinking they will get us sooner or later, and if that is the case, the University has its own self to blame. Calipari doesn’t just have a red flag, he has a giant red light attached to his name. This is what Lee Todd and Mitch Barnhart signed up for, so now we as fans have to sit back and hope everything the media throws out there is not true. We better get used to it, because this is never going to stop till they find something to put us on the death penalty with.
Now, I have read what all the local media is staying, “Don’t worry about it!” [URL=”http://johnclay.bloginky.com/2010/07/02/musings-on-that-tmz-report-about-uk-basketball/”]John Clay [/URL]has been told that UK has not received anything from the NCAA saying any of its players, past or present, are being investigated. [URL=”http://kentuckysportsradio.com/?p=55219″]Matt Jones has said[/URL], “Until a name is attached, or an investigation from a news entity that has done reporting on the underlying issues comes out, then there isn’t a lot here.”
Well, I am not worried, but sooner or later one of these accusations are going to have enough substance to start digging deeper into the program. I’m not saying there is anything to dig for, but with Coach Cal and the way the media likes to make something out of nothing, that might be all they need to find something to hurt the program.
So, lets just sit back, let the media do their thing. The New York Times story has been quiet for a while and has almost been forgotten. Hopefully the same thing will happen with the TMZ article. In any event, get used to it Big Blue Nation, this is how it is going to be as long as John Calipari is Kentucky’s head coach.
