John Calipari's world is full of coincidences.
Despite never winning a National Championship, Calipari has accomplished something that no other coach has ever done: two vacated Final Four appearances with two different schools! The NCAA ruled today that Memphis had to vacate their 38 wins and Final Four appearance from the 2007-08 season.
There have only been eleven vacated Final Four appearances in NCAA basketball history:
St. Joseph's (1961), Villanova (1971), Western Kentucky (1971), UCLA (1980), Memphis (1985, 2008), Michigan (1992, 1993),
Massachusetts (1996), Minnesota (1997), Ohio State (1999). Between UMass and Memphis, Calipari's only two Final Fours now don't exist - at least according to the NCAA.
To be fair, Calipari was never found of any direct wrongdoing in the 1996 case at UMass. Hey, maybe it was just a coincidence that star forward Marcus Camby (a poor kid from Hartford) showed up at a press conference with enough ice around his neck to make Paris Hilton blush. Of course it was probably yet another coincidence that Memphis' Derrick Rose had a stand-in take his SAT and Calipari had no knowledge of it.
Anyone that thinks that John Calipari's two vacated Final Four at two different schools are merely coincidences rather than blemishes on his record are kidding themselves. Where there's smoke there's usually fire, and there's a whole lot of smoke surrounding Calipari's career. Hell, there's so much smoke that Cheech and Chong, the smoke monster from LOST, and Tony Stewart might as well be following Calipari's every move.
Now John Calipari enters his first year at Kentucky with perhaps the preseason #1 team, fresh off luring the #1 recruiting class in the country to Lexington.
What's that? Preseason #1 team and top recruiting class, you say?
Hmmm, what a coincidence...
Despite never winning a National Championship, Calipari has accomplished something that no other coach has ever done: two vacated Final Four appearances with two different schools! The NCAA ruled today that Memphis had to vacate their 38 wins and Final Four appearance from the 2007-08 season.
There have only been eleven vacated Final Four appearances in NCAA basketball history:
St. Joseph's (1961), Villanova (1971), Western Kentucky (1971), UCLA (1980), Memphis (1985, 2008), Michigan (1992, 1993),
Massachusetts (1996), Minnesota (1997), Ohio State (1999). Between UMass and Memphis, Calipari's only two Final Fours now don't exist - at least according to the NCAA.To be fair, Calipari was never found of any direct wrongdoing in the 1996 case at UMass. Hey, maybe it was just a coincidence that star forward Marcus Camby (a poor kid from Hartford) showed up at a press conference with enough ice around his neck to make Paris Hilton blush. Of course it was probably yet another coincidence that Memphis' Derrick Rose had a stand-in take his SAT and Calipari had no knowledge of it.
Anyone that thinks that John Calipari's two vacated Final Four at two different schools are merely coincidences rather than blemishes on his record are kidding themselves. Where there's smoke there's usually fire, and there's a whole lot of smoke surrounding Calipari's career. Hell, there's so much smoke that Cheech and Chong, the smoke monster from LOST, and Tony Stewart might as well be following Calipari's every move.
Now John Calipari enters his first year at Kentucky with perhaps the preseason #1 team, fresh off luring the #1 recruiting class in the country to Lexington.
What's that? Preseason #1 team and top recruiting class, you say?
Hmmm, what a coincidence...
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