Calipari NBA speculation

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Could make things interesting if he decided after the perfect season to go back to the NBA. According to this guy, not far fetched:

The Nets can be saved by John Calipari.
"He desperately wants it," the front office official said. "He won’t say it out loud. The NBA is the only place he’s ever failed and it drives him nuts. He’s not the same guy he was then. He came to the NBA and he wasn’t ready. He’s ready now."
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http://www.northjersey.com/sports/basketball/calipari-can-save-nets-1.1294851
 
would welcome Briscoe with open arms if he bolts..and would make me feel very confident about diallo!
 
would welcome Briscoe with open arms if he bolts..and would make me feel very confident about diallo!
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Not only that. But when Briscoe committed it looked like both the Harrison twins were lock first rounders. Both are not after poor seasons and will probably stay another year. That means ullis, Aaron, and andrew will all be back.
 
would welcome Briscoe with open arms if he bolts..and would make me feel very confident about diallo!
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Not only that. But when Briscoe committed it looked like both the Harrison twins were lock first rounders. Both are not after poor seasons and will probably stay another year. That means ullis, Aaron, and andrew will all be back.
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Hey I heard Calipari had a terminal illness. Something called Carneseccacinoma
 
Cal to the Lakers is the rumor I keep hearing, and they sign Kevin Love this off season, and go after Westbrook the following year when Kobe hangs em up
 
IMO Cal would be foolish to try the NBA again. He is not a great X & O guy. Hell of a recruiter. Playing field is a lot more even in the NBA.
 
The most likely scenario is Calipari leaves for the NBA amid a trail of violations about to hit his program.

Just a thought. The NCAA should sanction violating coaches, so that if a program is ineligible for the post season for X years, so is the coach. In this way, the guy can't escape to another program and play in the dance. In effect if he is run out of town he'd be ineligible to coach until the sanctions expire.
 
The most likely scenario is Calipari leaves for the NBA amid a trail of violations about to hit his program.

Just a thought. The NCAA should sanction violating coaches, so that if a program is ineligible for the post season for X years, so is the coach. In this way, the guy can't escape to another program and play in the dance. In effect if he is run out of town he'd be ineligible to coach until the sanctions expire.
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This is the only way I see him leaving for the NBA.
 
The most likely scenario is Calipari leaves for the NBA amid a trail of violations about to hit his program.

Just a thought. The NCAA should sanction violating coaches, so that if a program is ineligible for the post season for X years, so is the coach. In this way, the guy can't escape to another program and play in the dance. In effect if he is run out of town he'd be ineligible to coach until the sanctions expire.
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There might be some legal problems with that. Generally speaking the law is resistant to anything that inhibits a person from practicing their profession.
 
The most likely scenario is Calipari leaves for the NBA amid a trail of violations about to hit his program.

Just a thought. The NCAA should sanction violating coaches, so that if a program is ineligible for the post season for X years, so is the coach. In this way, the guy can't escape to another program and play in the dance. In effect if he is run out of town he'd be ineligible to coach until the sanctions expire.
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There might be some legal problems with that. Generally speaking the law is resistant to anything that inhibits a person from practicing their profession.
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Possibly..but governance of the NCAA, much like the Donald Sterling case, is not subject to the same rules as the workplace.
 
Cal would be a fool to leave the college ranks
He is a G-d in Kentucky and makes a ton of money
Cal can pretty much get any kid he wants to come there
Much different story in the pros
He wouldn't be a G-d in the NBA and probably wouldn't last long again
 
IMO Cal would be foolish to try the NBA again. He is not a great X & O guy. Hell of a recruiter. Playing field is a lot more even in the NBA.
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You don't have to be a great x's and o's guy in the NBA. Mark Jackson was announcer with no coaching experience and did well. It's all about the talent and how you manage it.
 
Cal would be a fool to leave the college ranks
He is a G-d in Kentucky and makes a ton of money
Cal can pretty much get any kid he wants to come there
Much different story in the pros
He wouldn't be a G-d in the NBA and probably wouldn't last long again
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What would be left to achieve after a perfect season? Nothing. No matter what he does at Kentucky...all the superlatives they put with his name as a college coach, there will always be that past failure in the NBA and the off court incident that will hang over him.

He seems much more calm and mature...people grow up. He'd have nothing to prove at the college level and everything to prove in the NBA. Plus, sucking up to teenagers to get them to sign has to get old.
 
This is in no way any inside info just from a booster point of view. My clients wife is active with their $$$ boosters and she is a devout kentucky hoops fan and this is the 1st year her and a couple of her booster friends are worried he might leave if they end up going undefeated if they win it all.

Personally I'd love to have that worry.

Her and her friends thinking is if you go undefeated and win it all what else is there to accomplish and he is ultra competitive. He's already mythical status there. He can literally pick his job if he wanted the nba.

I'd be curious what Barksdale thinks on this one
 
It's about feeding his ego! And the Lakers job is what excites a coach. If he knew Lebron was going to Cleveland he would of taken that job
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I'd love for him to go and then welcome Briscoe with open arms. That's why you have avoid absolutes, as in "we have no chance next season."
 
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