John Calipari and Rick Pitino continue to spar on the “one and done” issue

Usually we look at some prospects that Kentucky and Mark Stoops are pursuing, but it’s always great to get to know the coaches a bit more personally as well. Larry Vaught has a great piece on UK RB coach Chad Scott. Sometimes we all take huge sacrifices in order to pursue a dream job and Scott revealed that while he was a grad assistant at UNC, he actually slept in his car for about seven months:

However, things didn’t go exactly as he planned. He thought he had a place to live, but by the time he got to North Carolina that had changed and led him to do something few would ever do in order for him to pursue his dream of coaching college football.

“I had been living in Morehead for a year or so and not able to find a (college coaching) job. Even though my wife was taking care of me, being a man that was kind of hard to deal with,” Scott said. (North Carolina coach) John Bunting gave me a chance to come back as a video GA and even when living there didn’t work out, I didn’t want to make excuses about it.

“I didn’t want to bring it to anybody’s attention because I didn’t want anybody feeling sorry for me. I just wanted the opportunity to coach and I was going to do whatever it took to do it. The first night I slept in the building in the players’ lounge. One of the janitors turned the vacuum cleaner on and woke me up. I felt kind of embarrassed and that kind of spooked me.

“From that point on, I slept in my car. I would pull it around to the back of the building and sleep in the car. We were in the office all night any way most nights and had to be up early. For about a year I got about three or four hours sleep a night. I would be the last person out of the building and I had to be the first person back. I slept in that car for about seven months Nobody knew it.”

Aug 5, 2011; Lexington, KY USA; Kentucky Wildcats helmet and football sit on the field during media day at Commonwealth Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports

Speaking about football recruits, Kentucky is delving once again into the sunshine state on yet another WR prospect:

"Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Cardinal Gibbons wide receiver George Rushing has a growing offer list. Will Kentucky soon be on it? There’s no doubt that Kentucky is very interested in the 6-foot-1, 180-pound wide receiver. “I’ve been talking to coach Chad Scott and he’s just saying he likes my film a lot. He’s told me to stay in touch with him and they’re going to come down in the spring,” Rushing said. Rushing estimated that he has spoken with Scott three or four times. The Wildcats have offered a good number of receivers so far but almost all of them have national profiles and huge offer lists, so they are aiming high in the early stages of the 2014 recruiting class. Rushing said it’s too early to tell how much interest he has in Kentucky but he’s willing to take a visit to find out. “I want to go wherever I can play early and get the ball,” he said. “I have to see if I can live in the environment and then I’ll be looking at things like the coaching staff, their consistency and things like that.”"