John Calipari

Butch Davis and Worldwide Wes

William “Worldwide Wes” Wesley is best known of late by his uncanny ability to influence John Calipari’s recruiting classes at both Memphis and now at Kentucky. The New York Times has repeatedly reported interesting stories about “Worldwide Wes” or “Uncle Wes”…or, as he’s known on internet sports message boards, simply as “WWW”. In fact, GQ […]

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College Basketball Notes

ESPN has two pieces of note this morning. First, the NCAA alleges that Derrick Rose might not have taken his own SAT (if one reads between the lines). It sounds like the only punishment being discussed is vacating Rose’s Final Four, but even that would suck for Memphis, a program whose best days are behind […]

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Calipari to Kentucky

When a school is committed to winning, they will do what it takes to hire the right coach. When a school has competent leadership, they are prepared to execute their job responsibilities at all times. When a school is competently run – like Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia and others – the hiring of a coach doesn’t […]

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Hook Em!

It is Rick Barnes vs John Calipari. A match-up of two premier coaches that NC State could have hired multiple times since 1995. A match-up designed to highligh Lee Fowler’s incompetence as the two primary coaches on which Fowler should have been able close the deal two years ago match-up for the right to head […]

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