OT: Calipari reached out to Knicks about Job
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It's true that every time he leaves he's one step ahead of the posse. But it's not true that every time he throws his hat in the ring he's planning to leave. Sometimes it's a ploy to get a new contract from the program he's with, like the Cavs offer and UK renegotiation three years ago.
It makes so little sense for Calipari, a man who is in it for the money, would ever leave his situation at Kentucky for the KNICKS(!?!?!?!?). Dolan is universally known as the worst owner in the NBA to work for. The main issue being that you have very little job security. Unless you happen to be old, cenile, Phil Jackson for some reason. Right now, Calipari is making $8 mil/yr I'm pretty sure and has a clause that he gets paid $5 mil/yr for the rest of the contract if he gets let go by Kentucky. That would most likely never happen, but he has an absurd amount of financial stability there and knows he can use the threat of leaving to get them to give him even more whenever jobs like this pop up in the NBA.
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Yeah man, he's been so good because he's been coaching a pro team at the college level. When he coached against other pro teams he didn't do so hot.
I'm a Knicks fan and I'm not convinced this would work. They've had enough failed experiments over the last 17 years that we don't need another one.
Gotta say that I want him to become your guys' GM/Coach. He probably knows nothing about the CBA, would be confused as hell to see the other teams have more talent and athleticism than his players, and still conduct interviews in which he says that there is no way the players should be getting paid. Not only would I get to laugh at James Dolan more(although, I do feel bad for Knicks fans), but I'd get to see Calipari fall flat on his face when he thought he was the best coach around. Also, the idea of GM/coach is absolutely terrible. Doc Rivers has wasted the talent on the Clippers, surrounding them with bad players other than JJ. Also, imagine players hearing their name in trade rumors and then being coached by the guy that is trying to trade them!!! That happens on the Clippers, it's crazy.
Must mean Kentucky is about to get hit with sanctions.
Every single one of his previous stops got hammered.
Even the NJ Nets.
They had to move to Brooklyn and get an owner who knows nothing about basketball and would trade all of his assets away for a dinosaur version of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce.
In reality, neither Calipari, nor the schools he left got hammered. In both instances, individual players were retroactively determined to be ineligible and the schools, programs, and coaches held blameless. Penalties were limited to a stripping of past victories, which are only notable because they include two final four trips. There were no scholarship reductions and no sanctions that extended into the next season. Calipari was never disciplined.
The perception is that the programs got hammered because everyone assumed that Calipari was dirty (perhaps rightfully so), stripping final four appearances is a high profile punishment, and both programs fell off after Calipari left. As to the last point, the programs fell off because Bruiser Flint and Josh Pastner are not in the same stratosphere of coaching ability as John Calipari. And as to the punishment itself, had Calipari stuck around, the program would have been in no worse shape than it was pre-sanctions. This is not getting hammered.
Do I think Calipari is dirty? Probably, but only in the same way I believe the vast majority of high level college basketball coaches are dirty. He's an excellent coach and has proven successful at getting his players to the next level Why does he need to cheat any more than the next guy? I would be shocked if there is any real threat from NCAA investigations coming down the pipe at Kentucky.
Oh man, following the NBA off-season has me like:
Wheels about to come off? What did I miss?
I think he was trying to compare it to how Pete Carroll jumped his sweet gig at USC right before everything hit the fan. If Cal is looking to leave a nice looking gig at UK, maybe some people are sniffing around for violations and he doesn't feel too good about staying there longterm
There's no evidence yet that I know of, but I believe Cal has gotten sanctioned at every school he's been at. It's only a matter of time for UK
Righto. Thanks.
Only the Nets job.
The guy is the worst thing to ever happen to college hoops. Outside of maybe the shoe companies.
John Calipari is the shoe companies personified and endowed with consciousness and will.
What's the new rule going to be? Two and out? HS players will be eligible again?
Yes. Adam Silver is looking into either going straight to the NBA out of high school or a minimum of 2 years in college before turning pro.
I like that rule.
That'd be a major improvement. The guys who don't want to go to college don't have to, and programs can have more stability.
Your response above probably plays a huge role in the decision. But are you suuuurrrrreeeee it has nothing to do with a scandal? Like, 100% sure???
Maybe recruiting guys who would have to pass classes for 3 whole semesters is what worries him.
You really think it would be problematic for any kid to get through three semesters of classes at Kentucky? More so than literally any other school? This is not to insult those with a Kentucky education, but we're not talking about Duke or Stanford here. I'm sure they would find a way to get three semesters full of classes that kids could easily pass with the assistance of tutors, etc.
We might have a winner here.
Calipari's interest may have nothing to do with any imminent scandals at Kentucky.
After all, he's usually gone before stuff blows up. So he may just decide that now's the time to get out, before something pops up. Because we know it will.
It's not that he knows something is about to come out right now; it's that he doesn't want to push his luck.
Kentucky head coach John Calipari reached out to Knicks through intermediaries to express interest in the Knicks presidency, per ESPN league sources. The Knicks do not have interest in Calipari at the moment, per league sources. Presumably, Calipari would want to coach as well if he took over as president.
If it were the case that Calipari would want to coach, then I would wonder if the Knicks took one look at his time with the Nets and thought better of that iteration of any proposal. I don't know that Calipari would translate any better into an NBA coach than he did then, and I can't really picture him as a club president, come to think of it.
Not to worry. He won't.
and coach seems completely idiotic. Dumber even than rehiring Zeke.
Even if he does go to the Knicks... it changes nothing. They are a disaster and will continue to be.
Agreed. Dolan is the nightmare owner, a guy who is incompetent and also extremely unpleasant. And for that fanbase. Terrible.
Sounds like a perfect place for him.
Amazing to me how the New York Knicks can be such a tire fire for so long.
His 30 for 30 changed my view of him; but this job doesn't make sense for either party in this case.
if true, he's doing this to get out of Dodge in advance of the posse from the NCAA.