Video: Calipari on Auburn and Tony Barbee

Posted on January 10, 2011 8:11 pm by John Clay

At today’s press conference, UK coach talked about his former player and assistant, Tony Barbee, now head coach at Auburn, and Tuesday’s game against the Tigers.

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  2. Mark Liptak says:
    January 10, 2011 11:32 pm at 11:32 pm

    Got to love the way Vitale, Bilas and Mike DeCourcey blistered the NCAA President today. Here’s Mike’s story in The Sporting News:

    Amazing stories

    New NCAA president Mark Emmert decided he didn’t wish to be alone in making the organization’s case regarding the ineligibility of Kentucky freshman Enes Kanter. So Emmert brought along a straw man.

    “The facts are utterly unambiguous, the rule is utterly unambiguous, and the intention of the membership is utterly unambiguous,” Emmert told Sports Illustrated’s Seth Davis. “The vast majority of people in collegiate basketball knew that this was an issue with Enes Kanter. Kentucky knew it. Everybody who talked with him knew it. So I’m amazed that people are shocked by the fact that he is ineligible.”

    You’d think someone as educated and erudite as Emmert could have done a better job of rhetoric than deflecting questions of NCAA inconsistency in recent eligibility decisions by conjuring the notion that people are “shocked” by the Kanter ruling. People who followed this case were no more shocked with the result than when a No. 1 seed knocks a No. 16 from the NCAA Tournament.

    Emmert’s hollow argument disintegrates the moment one considers the cases of Kansas guard Josh Selby and Mississippi State forward Renardo Sidney. “Everybody” knew those two had amateurism issues, as well.

    And they’re playing ball.

    Amazing, isn’t it?

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    Coach Cal was right today, you made your decision NCAA now shut the hell up!

    If Auburn wins, I can’t wait to see the ‘excuse’ cooked up by these eggheads in a year or so when they strip them of the championship because of ‘newly discovered facts’ on Newton.

    Mark Liptak