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ONE AND DONE, Kentucky Basketball and John Calipari

In UK Basketball on February 29, 2012 at 10:16 am

2011-2012 Kentucky Frosh and Sophmores

Understand, we don’t recruit a young player saying that there is no question he’s a one-and-one player. We don’t know! Are you telling me that we knew Eric Bledsoe had a chance out of high school to go in the first round after one year? If they tell you that, they’re lying. Those same people also said our three freshman starters from last season would leave after one year. Two came back because they wanted to win a national championship and the other one that left had a 4.0 grade-point average and 60 credit hours.

I tell every player that we recruit that I don’t have a magic wand. At the end of the year, we’ll see where everything is, we’ll give you the information, and you and your family make a choice to stay or come back. I would love to coach all of these guys for four years and have them earn a college degree in four years, but if they have an opportunity to reach their dreams, I will not be the person to hold them back, nor will I let anybody at this university or in my program do it.

~ John Calipari

I don’t see Cal pushing players out the door.  I see him evaluating their development and their potential earnings and advising them according to the possibilities inherent therein.

Would Knight have gone higher in the draft after one year.  Would Cuz have gone higher with one more year.  Doubtful.

Knight maintained a high GPA throughout High School.  If memory serves, his mother was a teacher.  I doubt he’d have gotten away with slouching off on his studies with such being the case.

The One and Done System is self perpetuating.  In order to get the most talent players, Cal or any coach must exhibit the ability to get these kids to the next level in the most expeditious manner.  Holding them back or being unable to develop their games would be disadvantageous to  Kentucky and Calipari.

Cal misspoke only slightly when he made the statement that the Wall/Cuz/Bledsoe/Orton/PPat Draft Night was the greatest night in Kentucky History.  That night will and has lead to an ongoing influx of talent to Kentucky Basketball that should result in a National Title.  At least one National Title.

Cal does not have to pay players to come to UK.  The most talented, the more diligent and the more intelligent players will come to UK because they know that it is *THE* path to the next level and that hard work will pay off with a greater pay day than any booster could possibly offer them for a one or two year stay at some other school.

With that in mind, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Muhammad and Noel here next year.

The kids that want to play with the best and win are the kids that are going to come to Kentucky.  We’ve seen that in this last class.  These kids came together because they want to win.

Some of these kids will actually stay so as to increase their long term potential.  That is what the intelligent kids will take into consideration.  The selfish, impatient kids should go elsewhere and probably will be encouraged to do so.  Such has been the pattern that I’ve noticed since Calipari has joined the Kentucky family.

Calipari wants to win.  As Wooden and other Coaching Greats have made quite plain in book after book, talent wins.  Well prepared talent wins more.  Experience is good if a coach can get it, but, talent bests experience.  This team is proving that right now.

Cal’s challenge is to ensure that these kids are prepared for the games and prepared for their futures.  If he does that, UK will win and the kids will win which will bring in more and more talent which will bring more and more wins.

 

GO BIG BLUE!!!

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True story ... Thanks Lyle!

Only women of a certain era will fully appreciate this.... True story.

A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England town where Paul Newman and his family often visited.

One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. After a brisk five-mile hike, she decided to treat herself to a double-dip chocolate ice cream cone.

She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village and went straight to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor.

There was only one other patron in the store:
Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee.

The woman's heart skipped a beat as her eyes made contact with those famous baby-blue eyes.

The actor nodded graciously and the star struck woman smiled demurely.

Pull yourself together! She chides herself. You're a happily married woman with three children, you're forty-five years old, not a teenager!

The clerk filled her order and she took the double-dip chocolate ice cream cone in one hand and her change in the other. Then she went out the door, avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman's direction.

When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change but her other hand was empty.

Where's my ice cream cone?? Did I leave it in the store? Back into the shop she went, expecting to see the cone still in the clerk's hand or in a holder on the counter or something! No ice cream cone was in sight…

With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman.
His face broke into his familiar,warm,friendly grin and he said to the woman

'You put it in your purse'

Editorial-Ridiculous spending in primaries

I believe the individual state votes on candidates is ridiculous!  In the election year, there should be one national caucus vote for each major and even for a minor party if they can afford it.  Just reading about the costs of winning the national election this November is staggering.  The silver-spoon rich are not the only capable of running this country.

Not that the primary money would be spent on helping america's poor instead of campaign expenses.  It just wouldn't.

Columbus' Defense Supply Center Columbus had the finest Value Engineering Department in the country and had millions of dollars in savings to lead the Department of Defense each year.  That money didn't reach through the filters of the federal government to get back to us taxpayers.

The system could be a whole lot better- yet I fall back to the famous Winston Churchill quote:  "Democracy is the worst form of government in the world ... except for any other kind."

Term limits in- career politicians out!  We need to spread out the representation so that the politicians may actually represent the constituents.

Please vote obama out!

Bobby Knight - The Hater

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BOBBY KNIGHT, DRUNK, IMBECILE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, SENILE

Bobby Knight ~ THE HATER

In thinking out loud on February 29, 2012 at 12:58 am

BOBBY KNIGHT THROWING ONE OF HIS INFAMOUS TEMPER TANTRUMS. ALL CLASS BOBBY! ALL CLASS!

Pan Am Mishap

In spite of the great academic successes he had at Indiana (and nearly all of his players graduated, far above the national average) the press preferred to highlight the dramatic—and occasionally violent—interactions between Knight on one hand and everyone else on the other. In 1979 at the Pan American Games, Knight, in a confrontation with a Puerto Rican police officer, punched the cop after Knight was ejected from a game on a technical foul. The Puerto Rican government then put out a warrant for Knight’s arrest, but he could not be extradited from the U.S. In the late 1980s Puerto Rico recalled the warrant. Knight, quoted in Sports Illustrated at the time, said of the Puerto Ricans, “F—’em, f—’em all.… The only thing they know how to do is grow bananas.”

This guy should be run off the court.  He’s completely unprofessional.  How do you talk about Player of the Year Candidates in the year 2012 and NOT mention Anthony Davis?

How does anyone take this clown seriously?

I swear BOBBY KNIGHT looks like an old drunk on TV.  Red Face.  Bulbous Nose.  He’s got a constant case of the DTs.  The guy is full of old hates and haunted by the past.  Nothing in the past haunts him more than Kentucky Basketball.  I suppose that’s why he’s always looks three sheets to the wind.  Hate does that to ya.  Eats away at the soul.  Breaks a man down as surely as a 10 year drunk.

The guy is entirely without honor.  He throws fits when he loses.  He curses at kids when he’s not choking them.  He kicks chairs across the court.  He’s supposed to be on ESPN as a Sports Announcer.  Yet, he holds grudges against Kentucky and will not do games involving the Big Blue.  He won’t even say the name.

KENTUCKY WILDCATS, BOBBY KNIGHT!!!

The man spouts erroneous information as if it’s fact such as his statement that Wall, Cousins, et al did not finish their course work and/or failed all of their classes.  Knight will be like Wooden.  It will come out after his death that his players were paid and that cheating went on at the pristine Indiana University.  Everyone will then know that Sampson was not the only cheater at Chair Throwing/Student Choking U.   No one is as clean as this guy pretends to be…no one.  Especially no one who preaches as much as this guy.  He’ll turn out to be to College Basketball what Jimmy Swaggert was to Evangelical Christian TV.  A BIG FAT FRAUD!

How the hell can you take the man seriously when it is so obvious that he is more biased than Hitler?

If you talk about National Player of the Year Candidates in the Year 2012 and you don’t mention Anthony Davis then you are either Senile, Drunk or an imbecile.  Perhaps, Bobby Knight has hit the Trifecta again.

GO BIG BLUE!!!

Indeed, Knight’s list of notable mishaps seemed to get longer and longer, and as his team seemed to make earlier exits, the severity of actions grew in correlation with his team’s failure to win in the NCAA tournament. He stuffed a fan from an opposing team (LSU) into a trash can. He told Connie Chung during an interview, “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it,” though he later said that Chung took the quotation completely out of context. He has told women, in general, “There’s only two things you people are good for: having babies and frying bacon.” He pretended to bullwhip his star player, who happened to be black. He tossed a chair across the court during a game, kicked his own son (a player for him at the time) in the leg, and head-butted a player on the sidelines in a game, later claiming that he slipped as he was approaching the bench.

In 1986 Knight, in an attempt to show the country that he was not as bad as he was made out to be, allowed reporter John Feinstein total access to the Hoosier locker room and practices. This was unprecedented for Knight, who typically closed his practices to the press and the public. When John Feinstein’s tell-all book, A Season on the Brink, came out in 1987, Knight claimed Fienstein distorted the facts.

As the nineties drew to a close, Knight’s position at Indiana grew tenuous in spite of his nearly three decades of success at the school. Though many people would have weathered any turbulence with The General at the helm (and many Indiana fans still remain loyal to Bobby Knight, regardless of the fact that he coaches a thousand miles away in Texas), his questionable actions seemed to grow in intensity. In 1999 he was accused of choking Indiana basketball player Neil Ried in a 1997 practice (the act was caught on videotape). The school investigated and issued Knight a warning, suspended him for three games, and fined him $30,000.

He was also issued what the University referred to as its “zero-tolerance” policy in the spring of 2000. In the media storm that erupted in the fall of that year, it seemed that the reign of Coach Knight would come to an end. But just how it would end, no one knew.

On September 7, 2000, Knight allegedly grabbed Indiana freshman Kent Harvey and screamed profanities at him. Harvey claimed that he’d only said, “Hey, what’s up, Knight?” and then Knight proceeded to berate him for disrespecting his elders. The picture gets blurry, however, and the true story of what happened—whether Knight used force or whether he merely held Harvey by the arm as he berated him—are not known. Knight would not apologize, however.

Indiana University claimed this was the type of incident their zero-tolerance policy was meant to prevent. University officials declared Knight’s behavior unacceptable, and fired their coach on September 10, 2000. The president of Indiana University, Miles Brand, said that no one incident broke the policy; rather, Knight’s continued display of bad behavior was the cause of his dismissal.

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