SI: John Calipari's hidden recruiting weapon: ties with Jay-Z, Drake

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From the article: Simply put, Calipari's strength is not his ability as an in-game strategist. It's his ability to connect with kids and attract them to his campus. He understands what these kids want, and he's not afraid to build and promote his program around that. He does things that impress 18 year olds that some of his coaching competition wouldn't even think of doing or have the connections and moxie to pull off. Rubbing elbows with Jay-Z and Drake will have that effect.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...ari-Jay-Z-recruiting/index.html?sct=cb_t11_a2

Go Gophers!!
 

Time to bring college back to college basketball.
 

I disagree with almost everything 19 says usually, but I think he's right on the mark in his post. These "one and dones" are making a mockery of the term inter-collegiate athletics.
 

The Cat fans keep pointing to the GPA of some of their freshmen (notably excluding the 2010 year when the team GPA hovered around 2.0 and a couple frosh were below that), but they probably are taking classes like basket weaving, leisure studies and social dance - classes that keep you eligible but won't lead to a degree, and truthfully the classes are fairly meaningless for these guys who are only biding their time until they can be drafted by the NBA. Wake me up when a 1 & done graduates.

I am sick of the NBA rule pushing kids into college who frankly don't belong there. I believe the NCAA should re-institute the freshman ineligibility rule so basketball players who have their eyes on the pros will just turn pro and forego the charade of being amateur students.
 

OSUfan said:
The Cat fans keep pointing to the GPA of some of their freshmen (notably excluding the 2010 year when the team GPA hovered around 2.0 and a couple frosh were below that), but they probably are taking classes like basket weaving, leisure studies and social dance - classes that keep you eligible but won't lead to a degree, and truthfully the classes are fairly meaningless for these guys who are only biding their time until they can be drafted by the NBA. Wake me up when a 1 & done graduates.

I am sick of the NBA rule pushing kids into college who frankly don't belong there. I believe the NCAA should re-institute the freshman ineligibility rule so basketball players who have their eyes on the pros will just turn pro and forego the charade of being amateur students.
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I have supported this since I was in college in the early 60's, playing baseball, and freshmen were not eligible anywhere, in any sport.

We had a separate Freshman team that played strictly other Freshman teams.

Let's get back to Freshmen ineligible, and then the student athletes have 4 more years to complete their final 3 years of eligibility.

ALL Freshmen are therefore red shirted, in all sports, men's and women's.

Let the ones that want to try go pro out of high school, let them declare, and lose all college eligibility in doing so whether they make it to the pros or not.

Some of THE best former Gopher Footballers and Basketballers that made not only the Pros, but Hall of Fame level, played at the time when Freshmen were NOT eligible.
 


Whine whine whine. Freshman only teams were for a handful of recruits and the rest of the team were hacks!
 



It's already the worst kept secret in college basketball that Calipari will do absolutely anything to get the recruits he wants. And that is quite literal: ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING. In some circles, they call this "connecting" with the kids.
 



MRJ said:
It's already the worst kept secret in college basketball that Calipari will do absolutely anything to get the recruits he wants. And that is quite literal: ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING. In some circles, they call this "connecting" with the kids.
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Secret? Everyone knows he's a cheater.
 

GophersInIowa said:
Secret? Everyone knows he's a cheater.
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I don't know if he CHEATS. You DON'T know if he CHEATS. And its not the blue tinted glasses. It's easy to claim everyone knows he cheats if your get your information while setting in your mothers basement, hiding behind a computer screen.

Take your information to the NCAA. Do your part. Help the NCAA.

UK will suffer a defeat this year. Maybe two or more.

2013 could very well be undefeated.
 

feich101 said:
I don't know if he CHEATS. You DON'T know if he CHEATS. And its not the blue tinted glasses. It's easy to claim everyone knows he cheats if your get your information while setting in your mothers basement, hiding behind a computer screen.

Take your information to the NCAA. Do your part. Help the NCAA.

UK will suffer a defeat this year. Maybe two or more.

2013 could very well be undefeated.
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Give it a rest. Kentucky couldn't care less if he cheats or not. To them, its all about wins and losses regardless of how those wins come. Cal is a slickster, or perhaps you've conveniently forgotten how "clean" his programs at UMass and Memphis were? And stop with the NCAA cleared him nonsense. A coach that "connects" so well with kids knows everything that goes on in his program. You can believe he's clean all you want. The man's history and the programs' histories under his watch tell an entirely different story.
 

John Calipari's UK is the college basketball version of Pete Carroll's USC. Cal will be gone from UK within a decade, but he's going to have some dominant teams while he's there.
 



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