Deadspin.com takes a shot at Cal and then makes him sound like the best coach in America because they say he gets how college basketball works.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
[I][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Georgia][URL=”http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2012-03-05/kentucky-coach-john-calipari-ive-got-maybe-the-best-job-in-basketball”]Calipari says he could[/URL] “recruit players who aren’t quite as good, who don’t have the opportunity” to leave for the NBA.[/FONT][/COLOR][/I][INDENT][I][COLOR=#333333][FONT=inherit]
“What I see happening around the country is, you lose players when it’s time for these others to step up and be the stars, they’re not good enough. And you end up going to the NIT or worse. You go on losing streaks. How will the fans like that here? They like losing? You can’t do it.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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Well, you could, but then you don’t get $4.5 million a year. You don’t get to be a perennial powerhouse, running deep into March and April and making hundreds of million for the school in donations from engaged alumni and attracting prep schoolers who want to go where they’ll win and be able to show off their skills and not be shamed into postponing their first paydays.
It’s what Calipari talks about when [URL=”http://www.coachcal.com/5051/2011/04/what-it-means-to-be-a-players-first-program/”]he refers to his “players-first program,”[/URL] because he gets that everything comes from the players. The success and the fame and the money and the endowments and the reputation, none of that comes without being able to get the type of players Calipari gets.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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And if that means losing them after one season? So be it:[/FONT][/COLOR][/I][INDENT][I][COLOR=#333333][FONT=inherit]
“I could bulldoze ’em, brainwash ’em and make ’em stay. I will never do it. Get another coach. Because if it were my son, I wouldn’t want my son treated that way.
[URL=”http://deadspin.com/5898339/”]Read the Entire Article Here[/URL]
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