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"page 25 is 100% confident that it has no fucking clue what will happen"

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4/11/2006 12:30:02 PM

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"I never heard 1.9. Most I heard was 1.7. Link please?"

N&O reports 1.9 million.

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/index.php?title=calipari_watch&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

4/11/2006 12:32:05 PM

sounds like ole Wendell Murphy needs to throw in a signing bonus...

4/11/2006 12:34:09 PM

and a prized hog

4/11/2006 12:34:37 PM

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"rumors and bullshit"

4/11/2006 12:35:13 PM

Lets go still some pigs and have a big ass bbq.

4/11/2006 12:40:08 PM

seriously, all this talk of BBQ is really making me hungry. Who wants to slow cook some pork?

4/11/2006 12:40:57 PM

I don't know, but i'm heading to ole time BBQ on hillsborough

gg, thread, you gave me a BBQ craving!

4/11/2006 12:42:00 PM

wasnt a press conference for 4pm supposed to be announced this morning?

4/11/2006 12:47:34 PM

weren't we supposed to get rick barnes?

4/11/2006 12:48:28 PM

the rumors and bullshit said an announcement would come late morning/early afternoon

that means we're runnin out of time


oo i do like this though http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk
(referring to the pic and LEADER OF THE PACK? headline)

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4/11/2006 12:51:33 PM

does anyone have anything good to say ? please tell me if u do

4/11/2006 12:53:50 PM

^^

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"Calipari may visit N.C. State shortly Story Tools: XML Print Email Blog This Jeff Goodman / FOXSports.com Posted: 15 hours ago "

4/11/2006 12:54:40 PM

article about why cal should come here

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=dw-calipari041106&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

excellent read.

4/11/2006 12:57:01 PM

^^yeah i know, i just like the press on the front page of fox college basketball

it also talks about cal visiting state, which already happened

4/11/2006 12:59:29 PM

^ yes, it would be nice to have a coach with the testicles to take on the refs

4/11/2006 1:00:01 PM

^yeah, like Pat Summitt

4/11/2006 1:00:49 PM

ahahaha

it's summitt.

[Edited on April 11, 2006 at 1:01 PM. Reason : .]

4/11/2006 1:01:16 PM

huh?

4/11/2006 1:02:44 PM

sneaky edit

4/11/2006 1:03:44 PM

thank you tracer for adding something to this thread with that article

4/11/2006 1:04:24 PM

yeah that was a great article

4/11/2006 1:07:03 PM

i'm going to fail my finals if this shit lasts any longer

4/11/2006 1:07:16 PM

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news;_ylt=AnusA1TrdKVYYW20zsmJeKfevbYF?slug=dw-calipari041106&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

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"Cal in the ACC? By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports April 11, 2006 One winter day in 2003, Memphis coach John Calipari called me and asked if I was going to be on that morning's Conference USA media teleconference. I told him hadn't been planning on it. He said I should go on and ask him about the quality of the league's officials, an innocuous question that dripped with possibilities since Memphis was about to play a huge game at Louisville. In terms of journalistic ethics, I wasn't sure where a coach planting a loaded question ranked, but I brushed it aside because I knew he was plotting something deliciously diabolical. So I asked. Cal answered that he was excited that a "Final Four(-caliber) crew" was calling the game, men so good at their job they wouldn't be intimidated by Rick Pitino and allow Calipari's team to get mauled under the basket. "We're not going to have all the hand checking and pushing and shoving," he said. "There's just not going to be shoving in the post for a rebound." A few minutes later Pitino was asked about Cal's loaded comments. Pitino shot back, Cal later returned volley and by tipoff there was all sorts of bickering, all sorts of big headlines in the papers. Then Memphis, in just the closely called game that favored the Tigers, won at Freedom Hall. ADVERTISEMENT That tale, the quintessential John Calipari story, is why he is the perfect coach for North Carolina State, and the Wolfpack know it. It is not because of who he would make happy (State alums), but who he would drive nuts, namely Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams. That has to be what State really wants – to be relevant, to be feared, to matter again to its local rivals, Duke and North Carolina. To get that, it has to have a coach who will get under the big two's skin, wage war in the media, steal recruits and road wins, basically give the Wolfpack both the bark and the bite they've lacked. If it were just about having a winning basketball team that was led by a classy coach who graduated players and steered clear of NCAA investigators, then Herb Sendek still would be in Raleigh. No, State is going all in, and if it can lure Calipari out of Memphis, Tobacco Road instantly will get a whole heck of a lot more interesting. College basketball, too. Calipari would win big at State. He wins big everywhere. An exceptional practice coach and recruiter, he built up Massachusetts, actually got the New Jersey Nets going for the first time in decades and returned Memphis to the national elite. He'd do the same with the Pack. There is a false assumption that State can't win because of its proximity to Duke and Carolina. But the three schools are very different and will recruit, often, from three different talent pools. There are overlaps, sure, but not as many as you'd think. Duke and State almost never knock heads. Carolina and the Pack could, but only on some in-state prospects. Cal will get his guys, tough kids from around the country, some of them arriving with baggage that he quickly will explain away. He would get the kind of exciting, highly touted prospects that State alums could brag about all summer around 19th holes in North Carolina. While that shouldn't matter, the reality is that in a part of the country where college hoops is a 365-day-a-year affair, it does. Give John Calipari the ACC, an NBA-quality arena, a passionate fan base, a strong tradition and a terrific school to recruit with (not to mention the new NBA age minimum), and talent won't be the problem. No, he wouldn't overnight make State a better program than Duke or Carolina because that is nearly impossible. But State shouldn't have to take a back seat to anyone, and he would remind everyone of that. And that is where the planted press conference questions, the not-so-subtle digs in the newspaper and the drop-the-gloves fighting mentality would kick in. In an era when coaches seem to come right off the production line, a bunch of boring clones afraid of upsetting the apple cart, Calipari is a throwback to the old-school days of feuds, rivalries and attention-grabbing antics. You don't have to like him or what he does to appreciate that he is great theater in a day and age when the game needs more, not less, of it. John Calipari loves drama. He lives it, he breathes it, he can't function without it. It is why he would leave Memphis, where he can win forever. Conference USA no longer offers a foil, a rival or much attention. Cal absolutely is at his best when he is battling someone over something. He will look around the block, find the biggest guy and start jabbing his finger in the guy's chest. At UMass it was John Chaney and Jim Calhoun. In Memphis it was Rick Pitino and Bob Huggins. "You just pull that little cord, and the same [comments] come out," a flustered Pitino said after one of their many dust-ups. In the calm, genteel ACC, where negative words aren't supposed to be uttered, where sacred cows still are sacred, where a controversy is to suggest Duke gets a favorable whistle, this would be wild. If he takes the job, soon enough he'll be nose-to-nose with Williams, soon enough he'll have infuriated Krzyzewski, soon enough he'll orchestrate a fight with another ACC school (no doubt with that coach's approval) in an effort to start a hot new rivalry which he'll claim is more intense than Duke-Carolina. Soon enough N.C. State will go from the other school in the Triangle to a brash, badgering, championship-caliber equal, a program that matters, a team to be feared, to be given attention. That's what it wants. That's what he wants. And that, a little spice added to the mix, is what college hoops could use. "

4/11/2006 1:09:08 PM

A+ article. Bring him on.

4/11/2006 1:17:17 PM

damn good article

4/11/2006 1:17:27 PM

Yes, damn good article. The last half gets me fired up!

4/11/2006 1:18:39 PM

^*4 damn that got me goin I don't think i'll be able to contain myself till bball season if Cal comes here

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4/11/2006 1:19:05 PM

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"Calipari also lived in Charlotte for some 15 years according to ESPN radio"

His dad, Vinny, used to work with my dad at US Airways before retiring.

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"I was a big Herb supporter and I couldnt be more excited about landing Calipari"

4/11/2006 1:20:54 PM

that article warms the cockles of my heart.

4/11/2006 1:25:13 PM

Is it weird that I laughed maniacally while reading that and thinking of what it'd be like to have Calpari here?

4/11/2006 1:25:53 PM

if he's coming he needs to hurry up and get here and save Ced from pulling a JP.

4/11/2006 1:29:29 PM

they mentioned the agent's name, he probably already hired him

4/11/2006 1:31:14 PM

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"Is it weird that I laughed maniacally while reading that and thinking of what it'd be like to have Calpari here?"

me too

4/11/2006 1:31:50 PM

yeah, if simmons leaves, I'm going to jump off a bridge.

4/11/2006 1:32:24 PM

i can see this guy poking K in the chest with his finger

4/11/2006 1:33:29 PM

If he leaves i'm going to buy a step ladder climb it and kick if in the nutz!!!!!!!

4/11/2006 1:33:30 PM

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"salary increase from a potential $1.5 million annually to about $1.9 million"

I see that's the potential, assuming all bonuses made--like going all the way, etc...

Her averaged around 1.1 before.

4/11/2006 1:35:24 PM

heh, he got on the wolflink last semster. That bitch is tall. He had to duck to walk and his back was still scrubbing and his legs stuck out to the other side of the aisle.

4/11/2006 1:35:32 PM

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"yeah, if simmons leaves, I'm going to jump off a bridge. "

promise?

4/11/2006 1:37:43 PM

That article gave me chills


I wasnt sure about Calipari....NOW BRING THAT FUCKER ON I WANNA FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4/11/2006 1:39:30 PM

still no press conference

4/11/2006 1:44:58 PM

patience young padawan.

he will come. just give him time to get back to raleigh.

4/11/2006 1:59:53 PM

yeah everyone needs to just chill out wait and watch, because damnit your making me check this thing every 2 mins while i'm at work.

4/11/2006 2:17:18 PM

So, while we are waiting..............................anybody got any cool pics of NCSU/C-F construction or whatever?

4/11/2006 2:31:07 PM

that is a GREAT column

4/11/2006 2:35:18 PM

yeah i dont know what im gonna do if cal doesn't come... i'll probably be too dejected to continue following this coach search like i've been.

4/11/2006 2:37:30 PM

well ok then

more speculation

why do you think we've not heard anything up to now?

4/11/2006 2:38:14 PM

probably because this shit doesn't just happen overnight.

4/11/2006 2:41:12 PM

i hope maugan pwnz in sports talk as much as he does in bf2 rofleeez

b/c i absolutely cannot take a rejection from calipari.

4/11/2006 2:44:51 PM