*Photo by Regina Rickert
Kentucky Coach John Calipari sat down with CBSSports.com’s Jon Rothstein to discuss the current Cats, the twin’ return and the trials of coaching at Kentucky.
Cal reflects on last season’s roller-coaster ride to the finals:
I think people will look at what that team was able to do — five freshmen, your second-highest potential draft pick in Willie Cauley-Stein is not playing and now you’re playing Marcus Lee — another freshman. Dominique Hawkins, another freshman is playing, too, and you’re in the final game? That’s why after the game a couple of guys cried and I said, ‘Stop the crying.’ I did. I just said stop. I asked them, ‘Do you know what you guys just did?’ I just told them we didn’t have it in the tank.
On NBA Coaching rumors:
Now people are saying that I’ll never leave here. You know what, maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll be in this position every year. I’ll be happy as hell if that happens, because that means my team comes back. And then when you have guys say that I’m going to leave, my thing is, ‘If you were offered X amount of dollars, would you leave?’ And I stayed.
Read the complete interview: John Calipari Q&A
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