by Kent Sterling Anyone who buys what Kentucky Basketball coach John Calipari has sold for years about his tremendous love for his current employee is a sap. That’s been true from his first day at the school, and will continue to be true until he leaves. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports reported this morning that […]
by Kent Sterling For the majority of college athletes, the NCAA does its job quite nicely. Athletes earn degrees and learn the incredibly important lessons that the adversity of competing provides. The school gets notoriety, a marketing platform, and a campus esprit de corps. Players get education. Nice. But rules aren’t written to provide cover […]
by Kent Sterling “Calipari doesn’t like the (one-and-done) rule anymore than you do!” a relentless wave of Kentucky fans write in their comments to my posts critical of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari. They also write that Calipari just recruits the kids destined for the NBA better than anyone else, and to hate Kentucky for […]
by Kent Sterling You remember George O’Leary, right? In 2001, he left Georgia Tech for his dream job as the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame. A little fact checking was done, and O’Leary was a goner. O’Leary claimed to have received a degree at “SUNY – Stony Brook University” – an […]
by Kent Sterling At Coach Cal dot com, a post went up today that should silence all the people crapping on John Calipari and the University of Kentucky for existing only as a launching pad for NBA bound 18 year olds with no interest in education. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter The Kentucky […]
by Kent Sterling The anti-Kentucky faction that enjoyed watching John Calipari’s Wildcats take a first round NIT beatdown at Robert Morris last March might need to savor that moment for awhile. All five starters and two bench players are projected in the first round of next year’s draft by ESPN expert Chad Ford. Here are […]
by Kent Sterling Kentucky has hired the NCAA managing director of enforcement for development and investigations, and what I smell isn’t the fragrance of Bluegrass, it’s what horses drop on it after they eat that Bluegrass. This isn’t the first school to hire someone who worked in the NCAA’s compliance office. After the fallout of the […]