Kentucky Sports Radio
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[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
With NBA rumors flying all over Twitter from beat writers most of you have never heard of, there is only one person you need to be listening to on the subject. His name is John Vincent Calipari and he is the head coach of the University of Kentucky Wildcats.
From CoachCal.com:
Big Blue Nation, breathe. Relax. Calm down. Enjoy the championship.
I just talked to Mike DeCourcy and Andy Katz and they asked me if I was going to jump to the NBA. What?! We just won the championship a day and a half ago. The only three things I’m trying to decide on is when I’m going to go see a few recruits, how I’m going to get through all these voicemails and when do I get a chance to get some sleep.
But for those of you that need to hear it again, let me repeat what I told Andy and Mike: I’m not going anywhere. I have the best job in the country. Why would I leave after we’ve just won a national title? We’re trying to catch UCLA, folks. I’ve got more money than I’m ever going to need or my family can spend, so I don’t have to make a decision based on finances.
Let me assure you that you will see me at NBA games this summer … to watch our former players. I’m not going to give up my lifestyle based on a few rumors, and I will continue to go to NBA games to see my family, friends and former players. I’m even going to a game tonight.
But relax, Big Blue Nation. Sit back and enjoy this special time. We’ve waited 14 years for this, so let’s not let anyone ruin this for us. No one’s stealing my joy or my players’ joy. Don’t let them steal yours.
Boom.
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April 4th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
1st?
April 4th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
That is all.
So it is written, so shall it be.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
doh!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
There it is…………..
April 4th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Bang!!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
That. Just. Happened.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Exactly, he probably read my comment on how leaving would be idiotic and was convinced. For real though, he isn’t dumb and the NBA isn’t even a coaching job as much. It’s a marketing/business job with some coaching on the side. He likes to teach and I don’t know that NBA stars really want intense lessons.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Financial comment will come back to haunt him.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Well there you go. It doesn’t get much more clear than that.
Now, let’s hope Calipari has more integrity than Nick Saban who said similar things before he made the jump.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Trying to catch UCLA. I like the sound of that
April 4th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
And there you have it. Can I get an AMEN?!?!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
just remember he said the same thing at memphis
April 4th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Hey Shabazz. Exactly what will you gain by goingto UCLA, not getting any better, and being lucky to make the NCAA tourney only to get bounced by UK in the first or second round?
April 4th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
AMEN!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Damn…
April 4th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
there you have it….this was posted awhile ago….something you gotta know about New York….writers create rumors so people will speculate and the writers name gets mentioned
April 4th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
In Cal We Trust
April 4th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Im in Love
April 4th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
vacate
April 4th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Chicken Littles and Trolls. The only people who believe this shit.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Memphis is not KENTUCKY and Saban wasn’t coaching the KENTUCKY BASKETBALL TEAM. Which is second to none when it comes to BASKETBALL. However if he leaves and I don’t wnat him to Kentucky Basketball was around before he got here and it will be around when he leaves. I mean RETIRES!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Amen.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Darn. Now we are really screwed!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
20- Ha! yeah, that is about as likely to happen as seeing tits on a fish.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
*2012 National Champions
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
HE HAS COACHED MORE TALENT IN 3 YRS. @ KENTUCKY THAN ANYBODY IN BASKETBALL, ANYWHERE.
His legend is growing. This is not lost on this smart man.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
25 – That’s about as likely as you seeing your sister/wife’s tits.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
First it was Cal can’t with one and dones… Don’t go there…… DEBUNKED
Then it was… Can cannot win the big one….. Don’t go there…….. DEBUNKED
Only thing left….. cal to NAB, Cal to NBA, Cal to NBA……. Don’t go there. If they say it enough people will start to believe it. Only time will debunk this one.
Like I said, it’s the only thing left to try and slow him down.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
*Four Final Four appearances
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
28- not before I see your sisters/wife’s tits first. Which I have, and your wife smells like NY city sewer trash. Made me vomit going down on her
April 4th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
As long as Cal is at UK these types of rumors and statements are going to run rampant. Haters gonna hate. Get used to it BBN, this type of stuff is to be expected from the media. Moving on now.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
26 we are ky. you dont have to bend rules when you are at kentucky with the resources we have. we are college basketball. the haters in the media have been searching everyday and cant find anything. WE ARE COLLEGE BB!!!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
*DEBUNKED
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
I think it’s funny that the trolls no longer represent a certain team, because we have the trump card of a National Championship. Now they are all people talking about vacating #8. Cowards. If you are going to be a troll, atleast have some pride and represent your team.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Cal sleeps? Huh, learn something new every day.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
9. On state?
April 4th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
33 dont you mean we “is” ky? that’s what boogie cousins says.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
He won’t leave. UK’s the best job in the nation. That banner will be hanging forever and is a testament to Coach Cal’s coaching ability. UofL, IU, and other fans from other fanbases are just being pouty, whiny, and jealous. I’ve never seen jealousy so transparent in my life. I think it’s time for the haters to grow up and brow down.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
I’m on Team Vacate.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Number one, the haters posting “vacated” are the same clowns that complain that UK has the worst fans in the nation, and they come here and post shit like that.
Number two, I take Cal at his word. We gotta catch UCLA!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
The unibrow will soon be vacated.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
If Cal hadn’t already gone to the NBA I’d be scared, but thank God he has already gotten that out of the way. The NBA isn’t a great coaching job, and Cal has already figured that out, by his words lowest part of his life. UK isn’t a regular coaching job, and when you’re doing the things Cal is doing at UK, going to the NBA is a backwards move.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
*Jorts
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
He’s exactly right. No one is stealing my joy; haters and UL fans can hope he leaves all they want. I hope he stays another 5-6 years, but even if he leaves I’ll still be wearing my 2012 championship shirt and having a good time.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
43: That’s right. It’d be like leaving Arkansas-Pine Bluff to go coach at UofSmell.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Trolls can’t beat Calipari, so they come to UK message boards to try to provoke UK fans. U mad?
April 4th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Let haters come out, the Championship isn’t getting vacated. We don’t have to cheat to get recruits, these kids want to go to the NBA, and the best & fastest way to get there is thru Cal & UK.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
It’s cold up here with no fabric to warm us…
April 4th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
*2012 Championship Shirt
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
45- They have to troll, they got nothing else left. What sucks for them is knowing that they have no chance for a Championship while Cal is at UK. Nada, Nil, Zilch, None. At all.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Why do haters come to a site to post ugly stuff? Do you have a job? Do you have family? What is the point of wasting time like that????? Must be Loserville fans, for real. Team Vacate: Really no one here cares about what you have to say. CoachCal4FinalFours: Go back to the Rick Pitino blog and talk about how you wanted to fire your coach just 4 weeks ago. LOSERS=HATERS
April 4th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
*Your 2012 Championships have a strict no return policy when the title is vacated.
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
*Messages received, dialed, missed
*Vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Jim Rome said it best: why would he leave UK, where he has 4 – 5 first round picks every year for an NBA job where he only gets one first round pick yearly?
April 4th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Oh hell, let the trolls troll. 30 years from now, when the banner is still hanging (along with who knows how many more Cal will win) and they’re still living in their parents’ basements, they’ll still be trolling, still be hoping, still be crying…
April 4th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
*Jim Rome
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I was talking with co-workers yesterday. Some are UK fans and many aren’t. They ALL agree that despite UK fans reputation as worst fans or whatever, it is the haters and the trolls that are the hypocrites. They act ten time worse than UK fans ever do. They antagonize until they get a reaction and then use said reaction to blast the UK fan. If it’s been said once, it’s been said a thousand times – DO NOT REACT TO TROLLS, IGNORE THEM and you rob them of the satisfaction they seek!!!!!!!!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
I love this SO much! Until now, haters had ‘you can’t win the hardware with one-and-dones’
Now, the best they can come up is ‘it’s going to be vacated’….LOVE IT! Hate on, hate on
April 4th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
That is the most definitive denial of these types of rumors he’s ever given. Plus, I’m sure he’s putting this out there as part of the recruiting process, too. Shabazz, Noel, and the rest are much more likely to come if they know Calipari is staying. I can’t help but wonder how much of these rumors are seeded by others in the hopes of getting these kids to other programs.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
“We’re trying to catch UCLA, folks.” KABOOM !
April 4th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Boom shocka locka
April 4th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Haters: The old saying really applies: Wish in one hand and spit in the other hand and see which one gets full first. I spend my time supporting my team rather than putting down another team and their fan base. Really feel sorry for fans that get their kicks putting others down. You must be really miserable.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
*Misery loves company
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
I “Vacated*” myself in 15 secs!!! I vacated* my child for 3 stacks!!! I vacated* Peyton Siva’s career!! #UofLOL
April 4th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
54- Kelvin, how you doing? Remember when you were cheating for those shitstained hoosiers? Remember how you all were on probation for what seemed like an eternity? remember all that cheating that tom crean did while on probation (illegal contact with Gary Harris)? remember that? remember the cheating that iu has done with the current iu commits through bogus aau teams????
April 4th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
DAMN SnNH….I mean why would you even go there? If a woman can smell through a pair of panties, a depends, (or two) and a pair of jeans, she’d be closer to be an onion than a human being. Hell, I would lose the urge if I had to go through all that for something that most likely has an echo ringing out of it anyway. Besides 28′s mother has only 2 clean places on her…..and that would have to be her ta tas….Thats where she lets #8 nurse on before he hits his classes in the morning….
April 4th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
4 more NC’s Coach!!!!
April 4th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
I just want to tell Coach Cal…. “I LOVE YOU MAN!!!” you think he’ll give me his Bud Lite?
April 4th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
I suck donkey balls
April 4th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Besides, who the hell wants to coach the knicks? Everyday saying, “No carmelo, we aren’t going to play a 2-3 zone. You are going to have to guard someone.”
April 4th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
67- hahaha! Classic!! (clap clap)
April 4th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
To think that Cal will stay until Kentucky catches or passes UCLA in championships make me all tingly inside. How wonderful would it be to be sitting in front of a TV on a Monday night in April sometime in the not so long away future and hear the CBS crew say Kentucky wins it’s 12th Nation Championship. Man, would the haters be roasting in the belly of the Sloar that night I tell ya…
April 4th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
73: On behalf of everyone here, thank you for the Ghostbusters reference. Post. Of. The. Day.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
I don’t even need to reply to the trolls SnNH and IndiCats has them in check lol
I would, like to be the first to say this: ” Billy Donovan to The Orlando Magic! Part Deux “
April 4th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Yay! I think 12 is a good number…:)
April 4th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
What is more important to a guy like Cal: surpassing UCLA 11 titles, going down as the coach to surpass UCLA, Cal being able to say to the haters F you, being in a place where he is a king or going to the NBA? The NBA isn’t a great job even if it’s in NY where the media is beyond ridiculous. Pitino leaving UK for the NBA and then being stuck at UL & Cal getting to see how that turns out afterwards may go down as one of the best unnoticed things to ever happen to UK. Once someone leaves UK, you have no where to go but down; Pitino, Tubby, & Billy G are just classic examples. Cal doesn’t want to join that list.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
The march to 12.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
The trolls replying “vacated” are probably the same trolls dressed in UK attire starting choas in the streets Saturday and Monday… just saying
April 4th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
I love the tard trolls and their vacate nonsense. It means they are scared. UK owns their ghetto commuter school and their pitiful existence. While we hang banners their coach pays to abort fetuses.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
*vacation comments
*vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
75- haha, we got these trolls. what these trolls don’t understand, I have more patience than Death. I’ll sit here and haggle with these trolls ALL day long.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Where is Shabaka Lands these days? Is he helping another school cheat like he did for ul in his 3 month stay with them?
April 4th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
to all haters….suck it beeches!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 4th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
EXACTLY 78, When you’re at the TOP of anything, the only other direction is down.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Does anyone think it is Howland, Bo-heem, K, Thompson or whoever the hell coaches Vegas now leaking these rumors?
It is SO nice not to have to worry about recruiting anymore
April 4th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
“…this does not bode well for Kentucky.”
April 4th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
i just woke up. How did we win a title with Dakota Euton, Vinny Zollo, Marshall Tucker, KC-Ross Miller and GJ Villaneuva? Boy that Clyde must be a helluva coach.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Well that makes my decision a no brainer now!
April 4th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
And Bpsycho I’m retired watching grand kids, hell I call wrong numbers 5 times a day just to hear an adult’s voice, so messing with trolls have become somewhat of a hobby.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:16 pm
90- hahaha-
April 4th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Before Cal said he “probably” had the best job…Today he says HE DOES HAVE THE BEST JOB….Getting this first NC is huge and now he wants more…Cal is fired up and ready to GO! Look out college BB, Here we come!
April 4th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
I said it on another thread, but it is worth repeating, a single NBA owner might want Cal, but NBA owners collectively should want him to stay in NCAA and keep developing players quickly and putting them in the draft.
The comment about ‘I have so much money’ is probably true, but you know what they say about how much money is enough money… Just a little bit more. UK could probably out bid several NBA teams because lower level teams wouldn’t pay top NBA $ for an unproven NBA coach. But the Knicks, they don’t care, they would out bid Kentucky.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
88 that’s hilarious
April 4th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
There is one reason the trolls are here:
We. Hang. Banners.
And it pisses them off.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
If Cal leaves it would be for money. But he has already stated that “he has more money than he or his family can spend.” Also consider that coaching the Knicks may not be a pay raise. The cost of living in NYC is a lot higher than the cost of living in Lexington. 5 million in Lexington may go a lot further than 8 million in NYC.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Or does the fact that Pitino left UK for the NBA and came back to the State after a second stint in the NBA enough for me to think that Cal does not want be Rick Pitino’s clone anymore? He’s staying.
April 4th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Cal has Kentucky back where we were when Pitino left for the Celtics. Biggest mistake of his career, according to Pitino himself. Cal will not make that mistake. He is going to stay right here and build a dynsaty. For now, I’m going to enjoy #8. It’s starting to sink in. What a year!
April 4th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
I heard Cal is taking the IU job. Much better fans.
April 4th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
*Vacated (hey, it’s all I got)
April 4th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
*Vacated
April 4th, 2012 at 4:06 pm
When Cal wins his 4th National Championship at UK, I think we should take the Pitino banner down and replace it with a Coach Cal banner! At that point, Rick will be a mere asterisk, anyway
April 4th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
While these morons are saying ‘vacated’ I have something I’ve always wondered. Derek Rose screwed up in high school (not denying that). The NBA rule makes him go to college for a year. NCAA clears him to play 3 times before the year and then he plays and the NCAA reverses itself and vacates that teams season. So no matter what the NCAA would have vacated some teams season, just whichever team he went to. And he had to play for a year because of the NBA rule- it’s insane, they turned a player into a hot potato and people still try and smear programs and a coach about it. I want the NCAA committee to AGAIN come out, and 1 clear Cal and 2- APOLOGIZE because if they had determined he could play they shouldn’t have changed their minds and vacated a season. All of this whiny crap from jealous fans is BECAUSE the NCAA committee was vague and bureaucratic and someone is being slandered repeatably because of it. If they were men of integrity they would do something.
April 4th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Syracuse covered up drug tests 2001 thru 2010 *vacated, Uconn cant graduate anyone 2013 *vacated, UCLA outta control 2009 thru 2012 *vacated, Syracuse changes name from The Orangemen to the Fighting Phedophiles still vacated,
April 4th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
#103–Well, Megan, there’s the problem: The words “integrity” and “NCAA” just don’t go in the same sentence!
April 4th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
That Isola guy from the NY daily news is a whiny bitch. Sorry you made something up and it got shot down really quickly.
Lil bitch.
April 4th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Favorite JVC quote of the day:
“We’re trying to catch UCLA, folks.”
Awesome!
April 4th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
This man deserved the job back when Barnhart and President Todd fell in love with Billy Gillespie, heaven forbid, and both Kentucky and Calipari could be going for number 3 championship by now!
April 4th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
106. I take great joy in calling being a little bitch. Nice work.
April 4th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
109 ment calling people little bitches. Stupid auto correct
April 4th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Can’t they require registration on this site? Too easy to troll.
April 4th, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Thanks Cal. Enjoy the off season
April 4th, 2012 at 7:00 pm
“I dont give a sh!t about North Carolina’
April 4th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
This is for the greatest basketball program of all time. At the moment UNC is leading UK 30% vs. 29%. Go and vote for UK. And, pass it on to all UK fans. Lets go BBN.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/story/2012-04-01/top-college-basketball-programs/53937004/1
April 4th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
I’m gonna cry tears of shear happiness! UCLA, watch you back.