If you had a chance to watch John Calipari’s interview with Mike Lupica, you might have noticed Cal talk about what coaches should or shouldn’t know what is going on at their campus.
Here are quotes from that exchange:
“All I can tell you is this: If it happens on your campus, and it happens with your assistants and those people, you probably have a pretty good idea of what’s going on. If it happens back in their hometown, it happens back with their family or other ways, there’s no way you can know. You just don’t know. So all I would say is most coaches have an idea if it happened on their campus. You might not be the first to know about it, but you eventually hear about it.”
Pitino has since replied to these comments.
“I don’t have time to figure out what he did or didn’t mean,” Pitino said. “If our paths cross this summer, I’ll ask him.”
Pitino took his own jab at Calipari over another verbal joust aimed at Duke and coach Mike Krzyzewski during the recent recruiting cycle.
“Whether it’s Duke last month now us this month, these types of comments – we’re here to build up the image of college basketball, not tear people down,” Pitino said. “I don’t live in a glass house, and I don’t throw stones. … We have a rule in the ACC amongst the coaches that unless you’re praising each other and building each other up, keep it to yourself and mind your own business.”
Mike Lupica was asked about the interview and the question on Sportscenter:
I love how Coach Cal keeps Kentucky and college basketball in the mainstream media.
