Kentucky Wildcat 5 things for Thursday: Coach Cal talks about Enes edition
By Paul Jordan
I really don’t know if John Calipari is a drinking man or not, but I know that if I was head coach of the Wildcats, this whole Enes situation would have me hitting the Makers. Actually it would take less than that for me to hi the Calipari special edition Makers but I digress. One thing we do know is that Calipari has taken some time over at CoachCal.com to expand on his thoughts about the whole Enes Kanter situation.
Larry Vaught has been spending some time talking with new Kentucky assistant Kenny Payne. In this edition, we learn that Payne’s time in the NBA gives him credibility with the recruits that want to play in the NBA. Makes sense.
In case you have not noticed, Randall Cobb and Danny Trevathan are really, really good. And people are starting to take notice. the UKAA has some information on both Cobb’s and Trevathan’s mid season All American Honors.
There is much, much more dirty bird drama going on and while this is a Kentucky site, I find it hard to ignore due to the sheer bizareness of it all. Apparently Terry Meiner is off the Rick Pitino show, and Rick Pitino will not be doing the Rick Pitino show on WHAS. Whaaaaa/ Let’s let Meiner’s Wikipedia (Michael Scott’s favorite resource) attempt to explain some of the madness:
"In 2010, the University of Louisville switched from Freedom Hall to a new downtown arena, tossing out familiar seating assignments for longtime season ticket holders. Meiners publicly criticized school administrators, saying that decades of fan loyalty had been ignored in the re-seating process to accommodate late line jumpers making fresh donations to the athletics department. In a live radio interview, Meiners asked a university fundraising spokesman about the number of prime seats school officials kept for its own use, whether school employees who received those free tickets were allowed to resell them “to enhance their compensation packages,” and about advance block sales of seats to ticket brokers before seats were made available to common fans. Meiners was soon removed from an upcoming charity golf tournament where University of Louisville athletics director Tom Jurich was slated to play in Meiners’ foursome. Meiners responded by offering to buy two foursomes in the charity tournament, stocking the one in front of Jurich with four slow-moving octogenarians and the foursome behind Jurich with four long-hitters having “a delightful day of methodical shot selections.”"
"Shortly thereafter, a university official notified WHAS-TV of changes in the coach’s show show format for the fall of 2010, resulting in Meiners no longer continuing to host the program. WKRD-AM and WHAS-AM sports radio host Drew Deener was selected to replace Meiners on the weekly Pitino television show under whatever format the university approves. Deener’s radio shows are consistently friendly to University of Louisville athletics."
Today is the scaled down SEC Media Days in which John Calipari and Darius Miller will be participating. Coach Cal is scheduled to speak at 3:40PM and Darius Miller is slated at 4:00PM. You can stream all the action live here.
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